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A81056	Samson a type of Christ in a sermon preached at Mr. Pomfret's meeting-house in Gravel-lane near Hounds-ditch, London: at the morning-lecture, on July 22. 1691. from Judg. xiv.5. Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Tunnath; and came to the vineyards of Timnath; and behold, a young lion roared against him. Wherein is shewed, I. In six particulars, how clearly Samson doth type forth Jesus Christ, ... II. With respect unto Samsons marriage, ... III. As Samson loved and married an uncircumcised woman, ... IV. As Samson did overcome the young lion which opposed him: so Jesus Christ doth overcome and destroy that roaring lion, the Devil, that opposeth him. Published at the request of the Congregation, for Publick Good. By D.C. an unworthy servant of Christ.	Crosley, David, 1670-1744.	1691 (1691)	Wing C7247A; ESTC R232725	34,097	40

Faith to lay hold on Jesus Christ in Sincerity fear not but it shall be well with you to Eternity And in your turning to God beware of this That your outward Appearance as to Lives and Conversations do not go before or without your Hearts and inward Inclinations And further have a care of seeking after God in another way than he himself hath appointed Consider that not in the way of Works but in the way of Faith we are to meet with live and walk with Jesus Christ for the Just shall live by Faith And pray note it it is not every one that cryes Lord Lord that shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven because all that profess the Name of Christ have not Hearts endued with sincere Love to Christ and I must tell you that a sanctified Heart is better than a Silver Tongue and a heart full of Grace is much better than a head full of Notion Ard certain it is that you may pretend to be Gods Servants when you are not his Sons but undoubtedly if you be his Sons you will be his Servants not by constraint or for Rewards but most freely and with a ready mind And one word further I desire to commend to you and I desire you to observe it A Man may seem a Christian and not be so but if a Man be a Christian he must of necessity seem so AND so I come to the last Use which is a word of Comfort to all such as apprehending themselves to live in the Land of the Philistines I mean afar off from God do long breath groan pray and most earnestly desire to be brought nearer to yea and wholly to be joyned with Jesus Christ as their Lord and Husband And to all such I would say fear not for your Redeemer liveth and the most holy One of Israel will be your Refuge He that is the God of Glory and that inhabits Eternity can and will help all that love him fear him trust in him and depend upon him OBJ. But perhaps thou wilt say True I desire yea and that with all my Heart so far as I know it to be made one with and Married unto Jesus Christ But the Devil this roaring Lyon of whom you have spoken doth so withstand and oppose me herein that I am afraid that what I desire herein can never be effected Surely never poor Soul was so tempted with and oppressed by Satan as I am TO which I Answer Poor Soul thou feelest no Mans burthen but thy own neither doth Satans Temptations to another trouble thee but do but thou ask another in thy Condition and he will tell thee that he is tempted even by Satan as thou But may be thou wilt say But I think there is none in such a Condition as I am To which I answer Why what a State art thou in Well perhaps thou wilt say First I am full of Sin and sinful pollutions and so consequently more abominable in my self than a Toad So that when I come before Christ Jesus to beg Mercy and Acceptance alas I see that I deserve none And besides when I come I have almost always the Devil to bear me Company on purpose to prevent my embracing of and being joyned unto Jesus Christ and therefore surely never Person was in my Condition To which I answer Alas poor Soul thou art quite mistaken for there is not a true Christian but is in the same Condition less or more yea I my self could tell thee the same Story and much more yea and that by woful Experience But however for thy better satisfaction I shall commend to thee an Example from the Scripture See Zech. 3.1 2 3. and note it well saith the Prophet there He speaking of God shewed me Joshua the High Priest standing before the Angel of the Lord and Satan stood at his right hand to resist him And saith the Text Joshua was cloathed with filthy Garments and stood before the Angel Now Joshua in this place is a Figure of the Church and the Angel of Christ The Text therefore teacheth us thus much That when the whole Church in general or any Member in particular do come before Jesus Christ in order to Justification and Salvation in and by him then and at that time they come clad with filthy Garments so undeserving of acceptance and also have the Devil to bear them company in order to the preventing of their either joyning with or confiding in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Husband accordingly as thou sayst of thy self so thou art not alone in this Condition But pray mind how Joshuah in this Estate was freed rescued and delivered both from his filthy Garments and also from the Devil See the third and fourth verses Christ first rebuked Satan and then caused Joshua's filthy Garments to be taken away cloathing him himself with changes of Raiment and as he did to Joshua so will he do to thee if thou believe but in him But perhaps thou wilt say Nay but I am Poor Barren and Unfruitful I answer Even so do all God's People judge themselves to be they are crying out of their Leanness daily and hourly and think with and of themselves That they do nothing for God but though they think thus of themselves yet God thinks otherwise And indeed this I have observed over and over That the Godly have still such low Thoughts of themselves and are base in their own Eyes whereas the wicked on the other hand are proud and lifted up and have high thoughts of themselves and it seems by our Saviours Words That both the Righteous and the Wicked will have the same thoughts each of themselves at the Judgment-day See Mat. 25. from 31. to the end where first he tells the Righteous That they had fed him cloathed and visited him c. But they cry out Lord when did we so and so Alas they took no notice of their good doings Well but Christ did Oh blessed Professors it is to be feared there is too few such at this day for most are looking upon what they are have know and do and Oh! this spoils Religion puffs up with Pride and undoes the Soul But the Righteous cry out When saw we thee hungry sick or in Prison and did these things unto thee But now mark when he turns him to the Wicked saying I was so and so and yet ye did not such and such things unto me They answer Lord when saw we thee so and so and did not these things unto thee Alas Blind Souls they had deluded themselves with the doing of this and that all their Life time when as they had done nothing in God's account forasmuch as they had not Believed on the only begotten Son of God for not Doing but Believing brings the Soul to Jesus and so to Truth and Holiness in and by him Oh that Professors would seriously weigh these things But alas few do But however when the Lord shall pour forth more of his Spirit

his Father and Mother and Wife and Children and Brethren and Sisters yea and his own Life also he cannot be my Disciple That is Whosoever pretendeth to come to Christ and hateth not all these things with what else can be named besides Christ in comparison of or in competition with Christ cannot be his Disciple and then for certain not his Spouse Oh Beloved many keep a great stir about Sin being the main Let in the way of Union betwixt Christ and a poor Soul but I tell you it is not Sin but the Love of Sin that separateth betwixt Christ and the Soul See Rev. 22.15 Whosoever loveth and maketh a Lye is cast out of the Holy City not he that barely maketh a Lye through weakness or by reason of Temptation but he that not only doth so but also loveth to do so this is the Man of the Lord's Anger Therefore saith David If I delight in Sin God will not hear my voice This therefore is the main Let in our way of Union with Christ because we Love Sin and love the World together with the Pleasures and Profits thereof we love the Flesh and we love our Lusts our Selves our Works and our own Righteousness and therefore we cannot love Christ And further provided that we should hate Swearing and Drunkenness and yet love Pride and Covetousness this is nothing or if we should hate Pride and Covetousness and yet love Deceit and Hypocrysie we are still no better This is but as it were to change one Devil for another and so keep a Devil still But I cannot enlarge THE Third Let in our way of Union with Christ which I shall now mention is want of Faith in Christ And truly Beloved this is a great Mountain in our way indeed this is the Hydra the Monster-Sin Vnbelief for as there is nothing impossible to him that believes so there is nothing possible to him that believes not For as Faith hath the preheminence above all other Graces so Unbelief hath the preheminence of all other Vices And how many a poor Soul is there that is both sensible of troubled for and burthened with Sin and also sees a want of longs for and desires to be with Christ and yet hath little or no Union with Christ by reason of Unbelief Yea there are many that are weary of the World weary of Sin weary of the Devil and of themselves too accounting in their very hearts all things nothing in comparison of Christ and yet for all this have little or no Fellowship with Christ because of the want of Faith Oh therefore this want of Faith is a great Soul-plague it is as the Devil's Castle and Tower of Defence from whence he shooteth so many Darts at the Souls of the Afflicted The Lord in Mercy arm us all against this Unbelief And truly my Friends there is no reason for the persons before spoken of to doubt of God's favour of all persons in the World for all the free and blessed Promises in the Gospel run with a direct tendency to and upon them I beseech you therefore if there be any such here this day that you would take courage trust in God and doubt no more and the Lord give and grant you Hearts thus to do for I know there is no such precious Herb as Faith is grows in the corrupted Garden of Mans Heart by Nature But oh you proud obdurate and hard-hearted ones whose hearts the Lord never yet touched nor who never yet trembled at Gods Words to you be it spoken the Dread ought to lie at your doors for there is not a Curse written in all Gods Book but it runs with a direct tendency to and upon you as little as you fear it think of it or are troubled for it now yet the Day is a coming even at the Door when you shall be made to know it The Lord God give you hearts to see it in due time before it be too late and the Offers of Grace be hid from your Fyes But there is at this day a sort of Professors of Christianity in the world who pretend to Faith and a holy Life or rather first a holy Life and then Faith as they suppose and these are still crying Do do do and upon doing they pronounce Men blessed happy and safe not regarding in the mean while whether such have any Faith or no or if they have whether it be rightly founded upon Christ or no without leaning to or depending upon any thing else especially in point of Justification But oh that such Persons would seriously consider 1. That Man as Man and whilst cut of Christ can do nothing So saith Christ himself Without me ye can do nothing John 14.5 But the strongest Argument that ever I met with to convince me of the truth of this is recorded in John 5.30 Where Christ saith thus I can of mine own self do nothing And from hence I infer That if the sinless spotless and only Son of God did acknowledge That he could of his own self do nothing that is as he was Man c. then is it most high Presumption for a poor mortal sinful wretched Creature Dust and Ashes to say or think that of himself as separate from the Grace Power and Goodness of God in Christ he can do any thing that is any thing acceptable or well-pleasing to God 2. Let them consider that whatsoever is not of Faith is Sin Rom. 14.23 And also that without Faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 11.6 And lastly Let them consider that Faith is the Gift of God Eph. 2.8 and a Fruit of the Spirit Gal. 5.22 And if so then pray what is sinful Man in and of himself but a poor lost helpless nothing undone Creature And this must man be made to see before ever he can truly close with Christ Jesus in Truth and Sincerity And when once he comes thus to be stript of all and made nothing in himself then is he a fit Object of Mercy in which God once coming to work Faith in the heart in order to an embracing of Christ then a blessed Union betwixt Christ and the Soul is immedily brought forth BUT Fourthly and lastly For I cannot stand to mention any more Particulars Another dreadful and most mighty Let in this way of Union betwixt Christ and his Church is the Devil of whom it is said in another case and may accordingly be said in this He that now letteth will let until he be taken out of the way 2 Thes 2.7 And indeed it is him which the young Lion in our Text doth most directly point at for as the young Lion roared against Samson when he came down to Timnath to take this Daughter of the Philistines to Wife so the Devil roared against Christ both when he came in the Flesh to purchase and redeem his Church and also as he cometh in the Spirit to call and sanctifie his Church in order to the betrothing of her unto himself

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