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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67286	The preciousness of Christ to the believing-Christian Plainly and briefly set forth for the edification and consolation of believers in, and lovers of the Lord Jesus Christ. In a sermon on I Pet. 2. 7. By William Walker, B.D.	Walker, William, 1623-1684.	1667 (1667)	Wing W432A; ESTC R219919	23,737	44

had the honour done me to bear these bonds for the honour of God Hence their triumphing in that great scandal both to Jews and Pagans the only seeming thing of shame that could be objected to them the Cross of Christ I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and him crucified so St. Paul wrotein his first Epistle to the Corinthians c. 2. v. 2. And in like manner to the Galatians God forbid that I should glory save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ Gal. 6. 14. In so much that to confront those Infidels whether Jews or Pagans that objected it as a reproach unto them that they worshipped a Crucified God it was ancienty an use amongst the Christians of the first and best Ages of the Church and that without incurring thereby any guilt either of Popery or Superstition that I know of however upon that groundless surmise disliked and disused by some of late to apply the sign of the Cross as a Badge of Honour as well as Cognizance to the Foreheads of Persons baptized in token as our Church expounds it that thereafter they should not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified but fight manfully under his Banner against sin the world and the Devil and continue his faithful Soldiers and Servants unto their lives end And thus you see how both in Himself and in those Relations wherein he stands unto Believers and in that Esteem which they have of him Christ Jesus is an Honour unto those that do believe on him Now this consideration of the Honour that Christ is unto those that believe on him may be useful sundry wayes And First It may be a good inducement unto persons of ingenuity to embrace or retain the Faith of Christ Christianity 't is an honourable Religion The Author of it is an Honour to those that profess it and that far beyond what ever the founder of any Sect either amongst Jews or Greeks was to the Sectaries of it It may be a shame to the Followers of Mahomet to have no better than an Epileptical Impostor to be their Leader It may be a shame to Idolatrous Pagans to have the Father of lies to be the Author of their Religions But unto the Believers in Jesus Christ it cannot but be an Honour that in their way they do follow him in the Truth who is the way of Truth to Life yea who is the true God and eternal life 1 Joh. 5. 20. Secondly It might be a good check to our too eager pursuit after wordly honour Do we believe in Christ 'T is honour enough even that for us Christ is an honour to us and what better what greater honour can we have or hope for than what Christ is Why do we then unwisely neglect that which is our chiefest honour and childishly run after gaudy baubles needlesly prosecute insignificant Titles such as a man may carry on his back to Hell with him and perhaps be helpt to be sunk thither by O let us content our selves with that honour which Christ is unto us and never engage our selves into a solicitous pursuit after any honour but that which comes from God and that which tends unto the honour of God rejoycing more to have our names written in heaven than to be assumed unto the highest honours upon earth pleasing our selves better in it to be the servants of Jesus than the Sons of Nobles to be the Members of Christ than to be the Monarchs of the world Thirdly It should be a good Argument to perswade those that believe in Christ to labour to be an Honour unto Him Do ye believe in Christ Christ is an honour unto you gratitude requires that you should mutually be an honour unto him They should honour him that are honoured by him Besides 't is wisdome to be all the honour ye can unto Christ For those that honour him them will he honour and in proportion to that honour that they are unto him the greater that the honour is that ye are unto Christ the greater shall that honour be that ye shall receive from Christ For he will render to every man according to his deeds Rom. 2. 6. Perhaps ye will here ask me how ye shall do to be an Honour unto Christ To this I answer plainly and shortly Lead good lives lives made up of piety and purity like the life of Christ and ye shall thereby be an honour unto Christ Our evil lives are a great dishonour unto Christ De Gub. l. 4. In nobis Christus patitur opprobrium saith Salvian By our means reproach falls upon Christ himself through our evil deeds his name is blasphemed amongst the Infidels abroad and the Atheists at home Ecce quales sunt qui Christum colunt See say they by way of scoff what kind of persons your Christians are 'T were well that they would stop there and that that were all But they go on further to the dishonour of Christ and his Gospel Sancta a Christianis fierent si Christus Sancta docuisset Christians say they would have practiced holiness if Christ had taught it And again A●stimari de cultoribus suis potest ille qui collitur Quomodo enim bonus Magister est cujus tam malos videmus esse discipulos Ye may judge of him that is worshipped by them that are the worshipers of him How can we think the Master good whose Scholars we see to be so bad O whose heart is not ready to run out at his eyes in tears of blood to think that the evil lives of Christians should be such a dishonour unto Christ It is too true they are so and we cannot deny it Pudet haec opprobria nobis dici potuisse non potuisse refelli and a great shame it is unto us that so they are and we must confess it On the contrary therefore lead good lives and ye shall be an honour unto Christ As the goodness of the Scholar is the glory of the Master so the holiness of a Christan is the honour of Christ For our light so to shine before men that they may see our good works that 's the way to bring them to glorifie our Father which is in Heaven Mat. 5. 16. The Subjection of Christians unto the Gospel of Christ is matter of Glorification unto God 2 Cor. 9. 13. How will reason argue from the Life to the Law from the Transcript to the Original If the actions of Christians be so good how good is the Law that guides those actions If the lives of Christians be so holy what holiness was there in the life of Christ which is the Exampler of all that holiness that is in them When the Disciples shine as starrs on earth what shall the glory of the Master be but as that of the Sun in Heaven That that 's the way to honour Christ above other Gods for those that honour him to be holy above other