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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85175	The genealogie of Christianity and of Christians. Declared in a sermon at Mercers Chappel before the Right Honourable the Lord Maior of the City of London, April 28. 1650 and now thus published for the undeceiving of those, who say they are Christians, and are not, but do lie; and for the establishment and encouragement of those, who having named the name of Christ, do indeed depart (even in this hour of apostacy) from all iniquity, by C.F. one of the servants of the Lord Jesus Christ in the ministery of the new Testament.	Feake, Christopher, fl. 1645-1660.	1650 (1650)	Wing F570; Thomason E599_2; ESTC R202091	31,190	41

of the unbeleeving lews Behold thou art called a Jew and restest in the Law and mak●st thy beast of God Rom. 2.17 the most bloody and cruel minded men of all the Sects of the Papists Now it will be a sad case at the last day for thee to be ranked with these men these men they have as good a Name as thou hast and as famous and as honourable a Name as Chrysostome saith of the Name Christian Yea but it is not what thou art called but what thou art that will be enquired into at the last day however thou carriest it now * Behold thou art called a Christian and restest in that Name and makest thy boast of Christ but thou hast eyes full of Adulterie and thy heart is full of coverous practises and thou canst not cease to sin when thou sinnest thou rejoycest and then thou art most merry and jovial when there is the greatest cause that thon shouldest be most sad and disconsolate Now what art thou the better for the Name of a Christian and Beleever and a Protestant no Papist and the like if thou be such a base wretch and so continuest to the end And therefore you had need seriously to consider this mistake and the sad consequences of that mistake when you stile your selves Christians and are not so when you are accounted so by others and are not so indeed But especially I would speak to those that have professed themselves Christians and so have been taken to be upon a better account than others in regard of a form of Godliness and now are fallen off what a sad condition are these men in who have rejected the word of Christ despised the Spirit of Christ speak evil of the Wayes of Christ account the Ordinances of christ vain things in a word have renounced the whole new Testament Unction and being possessed by an unclean blasphemous Spirit account it and call it their Glory and their perfection to perpetrate the vilest abominations without the reluctancy of their own Spirit what will be the end of these men the Apostle declares in Heb. 10.26 F●r if we sin willingly after that we have received the know edge of the Truth there remaineth no more Sacrifice for sin but a certain fearfull looking for and expectation of judgement fiery indignation which shal devour the adversaries Give them a portion with Hypocrites noting to us that Hypocrites they are the first born of Hell they have the right of Primo-geniture a double portion as it were give him his portion with Hypocrites Vse 3 Now thirdly Here all men may discern as in a Glasse how to judge of themselves and what to set down by way of account concerning their estate if so be that the question be thus put among you from the greatest to the least in this Assembly Art thou a Christian Yes But art thou assured of it in the power and light of truth How knowest thou thou art a christian Why now here is a glasse whereby thou maiest discern whereby thou art enabled to enquire and examine out the truth Why you see plainly that originally those were called christians who were indeed Disciples The Disciples were called Christians first in Antioch So that now if thou art indeed and in truth a Disciple of Jesus Christ thou art a christian But if thou art none of christs Disciples but either Moses Disciple or Mammons Disciple if thou art a servant to the God of this world thon art an enemy to christ instead of being a Disciple an enemy to his Interest secretly wishing and desiring that this Interest that is now setting up in the world might be undermined and brought to Inought And if thou hast not the self-same Spirit dweling in thee that dwelt in Jesus Christ If thon art acted by a Spirit of self-love a Spirit of vain Glory thou art none of Christs his glorious unction is not yet poured upon thee Hast thou learned and walked in the way of the Lord for he that saith he abideth in him ought so to walk even as he walked if not with what face canst thou challenge to thy self the the name of his Disciple Oh consider I say again what little cause thou hast to assume to thy self the name of a christian If so be that you should see a man with his face and his feet contrary each to other his face looking upward forward and upward unto Heaven and his feet directly turned backward carrying him backward downward toward a steep precipice under which is a pit of destruction First you would say this is a Monster this is a Monster his face one way and his feet walking another and leading him backward And then secondly you would pity him he is going to destruction and sees it not sees not the precipice he sees not the pit the Gulf of destruction underneath at the bottom of that precipice you would say he is a Monster and you would pity him My Brethren this is directly the Description of a Counterfeit Christian here is a Character now of abundance of persons in the world and I fear of many here present It is true your faces are fixed upwards and toward heaven towards Christ towards God happiness salvation you look that way you profess that way look in your face it is a beautifull face and it is set the right way towards Heaven and salvation towards God and his Glory this is your pretence but look down now upon your feet and observe your walking your fect are turned clean contrary to your face and these feet carrying the body face and pretence and all to Hell and utter ruine and destruction such a man is a Monster amongst men and not a kindly Christian that is rightly born rightly begotten of the immortal seed of the Word born of God and not of man he is not such a man but a Monster amongst Christians And ah poor Monster whither art thou going walking carrying and drawing thy very face thy presence and pretence and demeanour together with thee down that precipice to eternall destruction Now although it is true I cannot determine which are these in this Assembly yet he that sits in heaven and observes all your down-lyings and uprisings and understands your thoughts a farre off he sees how many monstrous Christians there are in the world and here with their faces towards Heaven and their feet turned and distorted directly contrary to them And therefore it is that in the Ministery of the word this day he calls out to those Monsters of Christianity that have a beautifull face a fair pretence and their actions contrary Take heed whither are you going and look after the Precipice the downfall the gulf of ruine that is behind you and that you are going to and therefore now remember this truth this glass shews to you who are Christians who are not who are Monsters who have neither the face nor any thing no not any proportion of a Christian and who they

whole religion is a Miscelany made up partly of the Jewish Doctrines and practises and partly of the heathenish doctrine and practises and partly of the doctrines and practises of Christians but that is the least part it being composed chiefly of Mosaicall and heathenish institutions unwritten traditions and many ridiculous ceremonies and the more any shall indeavour the introduction of those doctrines which are not taught by the Lord Jesus and his Apostles the more improbable is it they should be esteemed the disciples of Jesus Christ and consequently Christians at the last day for as you see he that is a true Christian understands the truth as it is in Iesus and receives it and cleaves unto it according to the a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mary sate at Jesus feet to hear his word Luc. 10.39 measure of faith given unto him and as the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith sitting at Iesus his feet to hear his word as the manner of Disciples was of old time b Paul brought up at the feet of Gamaliel and taught c. Acts 22 3. and is unto this day Secondly Christians are so called from Christ in congruity of reason in this respect because so soon as they are Christians there is such a sweet similitude between Christ and them in point of conversation that they mutually and reciprocally resemble each other to the observation of the Angels and discerning men where there is a great dissimilitude betwixt the Lord Jesus Christ and the children of men there is wanting a ground in reason to call such men Christians As it is an utter absurdity to call the Jews or Turks or wicked persons Christians because no similitude in them because utterly unlike to Jesus Christ so on the other side where any are found beleeving as Christ teacherh and walking as he walked observed to be in the world as he was in the world it is most proper to call and account such as these are Christians and disciples and when beleevers grow up to eminency in faith and practise reflecting much of the glory of Christ upon the world in these two Oh then how fitly may they receive this honourable appellation Christians Disciples of the highest form their Profiting appearing unto all This part of their discipleship is properly called imitation or following of the Lord. Be ye followers of me as I am of Christ the words are * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 11.1 be ye imitators of me 1 Cor. 11.1 and so 1 Thes 1. Ye became followers of us and of the Lord * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 imitators of us and of the Lord. And saith Paul thou hast ●ully known my doctrine manner of life In the margin of some of your Bibles it is * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Tim. 3.12 thou hast been a diligent follower of my manner of life Now this imitating and following of Christ in the manner of his life consists in these three particulars first in being second in doing third in suffering after the manner that Iesus Christ was and did do and suffer in the world * A Christians conversation in point of demeanour in the world is like Christs demeanour First of all they are in the world as Christ was in the world not of it while they are in it you may know what was the frame and temper and as I may so say the d●vine Genius of the spirit of Jesus Christ in regard of his father how he delighted to converse with God in prayer and communion with him that way by meditation and the like And you know the genius and property and the frame of the heart of Jesus Christ towards his Disciples that had received the same spirit how much love and delight in their company to teach them and to reveal to them the great things of God that they might grow in grace c. You know his demeanour and carriage while he was in the world to Publicans and sinners how he did reveal the love of God to them in the world and tels them that * John 3.16 God so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Son that whosoever beleeveth on him should not perish but have everlasting life And I am he that God the father hath appointed and sealed and sent into the world He did not lift up his voice in the streets he was not tumultuous nor turbulent but there was abundance of sweetnesse meeknesse and gentlenesse thus he was in the world and we should be so in the world and by how much the more Christians are like unto Jesus Christ by so much the lesse they are of the world as it is in the 17th of Iohn in the midst of that chapter twice repeated by Christ to the father Father saith he they are not of the world as I am not of the world And then secondly 2 In respect of their doings their actions and transactions in the world they are followers of Christ For their actings Jesus christ did not keep al his goodnesse to himself while he lived and make others the better for him when he died as the custome of rich men is they will keep their estates close while they live and do little or no good * That is comparatively or in any proportion to ability and opportunity in the place of their abode they dy there is a resurrection of their estates when they themselves go down to the grave then their estates shall rise up in their stead but oftentimes it attains not the end which they propounded But now from the time that Jesus christ was anointed at his Baptism and the holy Ghost came down upon him in the shape of a Dove and a voice was heard saying This is my wel beloved son in whom I am wel pleased which voice we heard saith Peter from that time forth for three years and a half the whole space of his life * Acts 10.38 he went up and down doing good preaching the Gospel of the Kingdome healing sicknesses and performing all duties and offices that belonged to him as he was the Son of Man the Man Christ Iesus so ought Christians in conformity to him to have their conversation here in the world to be willing to distribute ready to communicate * Christianns popullus per omnia sanctus est et non in templis tantum et ritibus Ecclesiasticis sed in omni vita omnitempore omnibus in rebus omnibus factis ac studiis nomins gloriae Christi consecratus Musc to order their whole conversation aright doing what the wil of the Lord is as Christ said I come to do thy will O God and so to be imitators or followers of him not onely in outward demeanour and behaviour which yet is exceeding comely and commendable viz. to be in behaviour as it becommeth Saints but also more especially in our actions practises and whole course of life And moreover

are that have any part No more Christians in this congregation than Disciples and so many of you as are indeed the Disciples of Jesus Christ so many may deservedly challenge the Title the Name and honourable Appellation of Christians But I must draw to a conclusion Vse 4 In the last place therefore Fourthly It is a word of Exhortation to those that are Christians indeed as you know there were Iews or Israelites indeed it concerns you and it concerns your Head your high Priest as Christ is called the Apostle and the high Priest of our profession in the third of the Hebrews and the first Wherefore holy Brethren partakers of the heavenly calling consider the Apostle and high-Priest of our Profession Christ Iesus Why now it concerns you to be Christians indeed and to purpose not onely to be so but to be so in the sight of men as wel as in the sight of God that tries the hearts Art thou a Christian cordially cordially ingaged into the interest of Jesus Christ Hast thou received this truth Desirest to be in the world as Christ was in the world and not to be of the world any more then Christ was of the world dost thou act from the same principles from the same Spirit in all thy carriage and conversation ●●en Christians live like your selves Be in behaviour as it becometh the Disciples of Jesus Christ for the time is comming that those that are true Christians shall lift up their Heads when the rest of the world shal hide theirs and hang them down There were four Monarchies and all of them are distinguished by their severall titles ending like unto this Caldeans and Babylonians Persians Grecians Romans why now the second extinguished the first and swallowed up the very name of it the third Daniel a● 34.44 extinguished the second and the fourth the third and so they have supplanted each other Now comes the fifth Monarch the Lord Iesus Christ with his Christians his Disciples and Followers and sets up a new-Government in the world makes a new Heaven and a new Earth reforms all things and then as the name of the Romans was honourable in their time so shall the name of Christians be the honourablest name that ever was upon earth since the first Monarchy before and all other Honour shal be but Infamy in respect of the Honour that shal rest upon Jesus Christ his Christians in the world that upon a voluntary acknowledgment confession of many of the Nations of the Earth those that refuse to set up this Kingdom shal be made Tributaries to it at least Nay Isaiah 60.12 that Nation and Kingdome that will not serve Christ and Christians shall perish yea those people shall be utterly wasted All the Dominions under the whole Heaven shall be given to the Saints of the most high and even now the time Daniel 7.27 and times and half a time is almost finished as it is in the 10th of the Revel Time shal be no longer then the beginning of the sound of the seveneth Angell Rev. 11.15 and then the Kingdomes of the world shall become the Lords and his Christs and his Saints even theirs that are with him chosen and called and faithfull and they shall walk with him in white for they are worthy and who then but Christ and his people in the world Now is the beginning of the dawning of that glorious day and therefore Christians lift up your Heads fear not all the Invasions Insurrections and Machinations of Antichrist against Christ they are as nothing they are but as ropes of sand all their Counsels shal come to nought and whatsoever they agree on in their Councill Chambers they shal never perform in the field And therefore ye Christians stand fast in that liberty with which Christ hath made you free cleave close to that glorious truth of the Gospell 2 Cor. 5. vlt. He made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousnesse of God in him and walk in holinesse without which no man shall see the Lord. Remember whatever the Spirit said to any of the Churches Rev. 2 3. he saith to all the Saints He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith to the Churches To him that overcommeth and holdeth out to the end shal be given a Crown of life and thus and thus he shall be rewarded And therefore now upon the defection and Apostacy of others do you approve your selves unto Christ and not onely so but approve your selves in the world like the Sons of God and daughters of God and like the anointed of the Lord as having received a great measure of that Anointing the Spirit being poured out richly upon you even the Spirit of Jesus Christ All other Spirits and Interests will be ashamed and go out like as the lesser stars go out and hide themselves from the rising Sun and the name of Christ and his Disciples shall be famous from the rising of the Sun to the going down of the same and such honour shall Christ and all his Saints have when he comes Amen come Lord Jesus come quickly But this shall suffice for this time FINIS To prevent errors in reading the Evrrata's in Printing are thus to be rectified ERRATA IN the sheet of B page 8. line 14. for weie tead were C p. 3. l. 4. for tween r. between D p. 2. l. 26. for abode they die r. abode and when they die p. 7. l. 3. for richest r. rich p. 8. l. 5. for whereever r. where ever E p. 1. l. 37. for Altheists r Atheists P. 4. l. 11. for soor r. so or As for literal faults in Printing the favour and help of the Reader is requested according to custome of courteous dealing in such cases