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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49515	Three sermons preached at Sherborne in Dorsetshire by William Lyford ... being his last sermons ...; Sermons. Selections	Lyford, William, 1598-1653.	1654 (1654)	Wing L3557; ESTC R3029	24,872	37

THREE SERMONS PREACHED AT SHERBORNE IN DORSETSHIRE By WILLIAM LYFORD B. D. Being his last SERMONS Upon these words 2 Cor. 2.15 16. For we are unto God a sweet savour c. ACADEMIA OXONIESIS OXFORD Printed by H. HALL Printer to the University for EDVVARD FORREST 1654. 2. COR. 2.15 16. For we are unto God a sweet savour c. TWo parts of Chap. 1. Shewing the causes of his Indulgence towards that excommunicate person giving order for his reception into Fellowship upon his repentance testified 2. The successe of his Ministry v. 14. Now thanks be to God c. The praise and glory of the successe of our Ministrie is to be ascribed to God alone he causeth us to triumph q. d. notwithstanding al the oppositiōs we meet with all yet God giveth us the conquest where-ever we preach the Gospel all Countries are brought into subjection to the obedience of the faith he manifesteth the savour q. d. the doctrine of the Gospell is a sweet perfume blowne about with the Breath of the Apostles preaching into all parts of the world and doth sweeten and season them with saving knowledge q. d. God never placeth the faithful ministry of the Gospell in any place but he useth to make it savorie and fruitfull unto some in every place some were seasoned with it Ob. If so why then doe so many in every place reject the Gospell as an odious thing You stinke in the nostrills of some and are counted as the filth of the world Sol True unto some men we are so but yet unto God in his esteeme and account of us we are a sweet savour of Christ the knowledge of Jesus Christ spread abroad by us is pleasing to God though not salvificall to all q. d. we are a sweet savour of Christ we are pleasing gratefull and delightfull to God because by us is sent abroad the sweet savour of Christ the knowledge of his sweet mercy and grace to the corrupt world to save filthy sinners that lay rotting and stinking in their sinnes v. 16. This sweet doctrine is indifferently preacht to all but it worketh in a very different manner for as much as being received by beleevers it produceth in them life and salvation but being rejected by unbeleevers it sealeth up their condemnation it is a killing word to them Wee preach Christ a Saviour for to know him it is eternall life but to them that disobey him a Judge To some Christ preached is the power of God and the wisdome of God To others he is foolish nesse his Gospell is unsavorie a dead thing To the one sort he is a savour of life i. a vitall savour of spirituall life to life eternall of spirituall death unto death eternall to the other In the words 3. 1. the nature of the Gospell a sweet savour 2. The esteem that God hath of his Ministerie they are unto him a sweet savour for their works sake 3. The power of the Gospell it is unto life or unto death the one is effectus per se that which comes from it in its own nature the other per accidens that which follows upon the neglect contempt of 4. The difficultie of this calling who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sufficient he remoues from himselfe the suspicion of arrogancie for neither he nor they are sufficient Foure doctrines First a sound Ministerie is a savorie Ministerie it sends forth a sweet savour of Christ to perfume the world or The Gospell Purely preached brings with it a sweet smell savour to the soules of God's elect Second doctrine The faithfull Ministers of Christ are well pleasing as a sweet smelling savour unto God both in them that be saved in them that perish God esteemes so of them however the successe be Third doctrine The same Ministery and the same doctrine preacht indifferently to all hath not the same effects in all It is to some a doctrine of life and salvation it hath â spirituall savour and rellish but to others it is a deadly savour it does thē no good Fourth doctrine Men are to be reckned in a state of life or death of perishing or being saved according as they doe or doe not receive the savour and rellish the doctrine of our ministerie of the Gospell for so the persons are here distributed I made choyce of this Text because from hence ariseth the fountaine of your everlasting weale or woe from peoples respect or disrespect to this ordinance I thinke you are glad to see me now But your aymes upon me should be spirituall for spirituall good What the issue will be God knowes if he hath more work for me he will restore me to his house and make you more diligent hearers that so both may rejoyce together First doctrine A sound Ministrie sends forth a sweet savour The Breath of the Gospell is a sweet odour or smell and God's faithfull Ministers are they that carry it blow it abroad to perfume season the soules of sinners that ly stinking in their sins and in a state of condemnation Ministers are in regard of their necessitie and utilitie or benefit to the world compared to light to shine to them that fit in darknesse to salt to season and preserve from putrifying and in this place to a sweet perfume to make the men of earth to savour of Christ of Religion of Heaven And that for two Reasons First Reason Because they open the mystery and riches of God's grace in Christ to lost and undone mankinde Mary Magdalen brought a Box of ointment of Spiknard very pretious And she brake the Box and poured it on Christ's head and the house was filled Mark 14.3 Joh 12.3 Christ himselfe is like that Box the Ministers open it the Treasures of wisdome and mercy that be in Christ and poure it on your heads the whole house where they preach is filled with the odour thereof you carry the sent of it upon you all the weeke after yea as long as you live Thus Cant. 1.3 Christ is compared to rich oyntments because of the savour of thy good ointments Christ was filled with all Graces anointed with the holy Ghost and Power the savour of these ointments is smelt when the Gospell preached is perceived by sense or judgement for by smell or savours is meant knowledge by sense and feeling It followes Thy name is as ointment powred forth Christ's name is by interpretation Anointed By his name is meant the doctrine of his grace the law of faith and the preaching of that grace is called the Bearing of Christ's name before the Gentiles Acts 9.15 That 's the pouring forth of that ointment Therefore doe the Virgins love thee that is They that bee chosen of God and faithfull who serve God with chast and pure mindes and are not tainted with the common pollutions of the world These love Christ they follow him they are taken with the odour of his pretious ointments which they perceive sensible to revive