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Christs love, and saints sacrifice Preached in a sermon at St. Pauls Crosse, on the 23. of August, 1635. By Iames Conyers, Mr. of Arts of Sydney-Sussex in Cambridge, and minister of Stratford-Bow, in Middlesex.
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Conyers, James.
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CHRISTS LOVE AND SAINTS SACRIFICE Preached in a Sermon at St. Pauls Crosse on the 23. of August 1635. BY IAMES CONYERS Mr. of Arts of Sydney-Sussex in Cambridge and Minister of Stratford-Bow in Middlesex CANTIC 2. 12. My wel-beloved is unto me as a bundle of Myrrhe hee shall lye betweene my brests Ambros in 118. Psal Velle Christi commune in omnes est mundari fidei est credentis in Christum LONDON Printed by E. P. for H. Seile dwelling at the Tygers head in St. Pauls Church-yard 1635. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL Sir ROGER NORTH of Milden Hall in SVFFOLKE His truely Religious Lady THOMASIN NORTH Their much honoured Off-spring HENRY NORTH Esquire with his vertuous Spouse Mris SARAH NORTH And Mr. DVDLY NORTH Mris MARY NORTH Collation of Grace and Glory WOrthies your gratious and immerited Favours not onely intended but also extended towards me the meanest of a thousand exact at my hands a more exact Demonstration of gratitude than at this present to present you with a Sermon but having no better Present to offer daign it I pray you your candid aspect and accept it as Artaxerxes did the water at Synataes Aelian hands and expande yours for patronage under which as the Dove in Noahs Arke shall be its best repose and shelter The lines I tender you are a Monument of my sincere and loving affection in themselves mostly lines of Loue not carnall but spirituall being richly in-layd with the loue of Christ that loue out-layd by effusion of his most pretious Blood together with the true felicity and incomparable dignity of Chrtstians wherewith your pious soules have beene daily more and more inamoured and your persons more honoured than Nobilitas sâ—la est atque vinca vertus with any Indian Treasure or the Worlds umbratilous Honour which Worke wheresoever it is wrought there is eminently Digitus Dei the finger of God which finger as did that Starre the Magi guide you to the Starre of Iacob whose loue as a Banner ever over-spread you and the blessings of whose hands compasse you on every side that yee may be able with all Saints to comprehend what is the bredth and length and depth Ephes 3. 17 18 and height and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge and that yee may be filled with all fulnesse of God to the praise of his Glory Yours and the Churches most humble Servant IAMES CONYERS To the Reader CHristian Reader as these lines are writ so reade in love and then thou canst not carpe but cover if therein had escaped even a spectable Error But to put thee out of doubt I will be bold to warrant thee two things first herein is nothing contrary to good Manners neither in the second place opposite to orthodox Theologie therefore lend them thy looke and happily thou wilt like them and the rather if these contents Christ his Love his Blood the price of thy Redemption or thy owne blessed promotion like thee In hope of one and all to thee and me with all that love unfainedly I rest thine in him that lives for ever and ever loves his J. C. CHRISTS LOVE AND SAINTS SACRIFICE Apoc. cap. 1. vers 5 6. Vnto him that loved us and washed us from our sinnes in his blood And made us Kings and Priests vnto God even his Father to him be glory and Dominion for evermore Amen WEre that Quaere put to In vita Budaei idem narratur de Theodoro Goza Sphynx Philos c. 25. mee which once was to Budeus by Francis the first viz. if all the volumes in the world were doomed to the fire what one would he saue as his resolue was Plutarchs Works by reason they had the impression of all Sciences Mine should be Epistolam Creatoris ad Greg Ep. â—d Furiam Creaturas the Epistle of the Creator to the Creature viz. the sacred Scripture And therein this Text a richer Mine than golden Peru affords the Magazine of all true treasure Christ a jemme of invaluable price his love better than Wine his blood one drop whereof more worth than the Luthe in 2. ad galat. whole world two Evangelicall and Angelicall Sacrifices the one expiatorie for sin made by Christ on the Altar of the Crosse who loved us and washed us in his blood and made us Kings and Priests unto our God The other gratulatorie to Christ Iohn 21. 20. presented by the beloved Disciple for that act of meere grace To him be glory and dominion for evermore Amen In the former sacrifice are offered two parts Analysis 1 The Motive thereto 2 The Manifestation thereof Expiatory Sacrifice The Motive is love wherein to shun a deniall discourse I shall confine to these limits 1 The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Christ loved us 2 The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the impulsive cause to love us 3 The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how he loved us 4 The quos whom he loved us Vnto him that loved us The Manifestation of this love appeares two wayes 1. In Christs owne Humiliation viz. he Christs Humiliation washed us from our sinnes in his Blood where are in-laid these 3. particulars 1 The Act he washed 2 The Object us from our sinnes 3 The Organon wherewith his owne blood 2. In our Exaltation in these words and Our Exaltation made us Kings and Priests to God his Father c. whereout springs two branches of honour The first is Regall hee hath crowned us Kings The second is sacerdoticall hee hath consecrated us Priests unto God even his Father In the latter sacrifice which is Eucharisticall Eucharisticall Sacrifice observe first the matter expressed Glory and Dominion secondly the Majestie to whom it is presented viz. the Prince of the Kings of the Earth Thirdly the manner pressed two waies First in regard of cirumstance of time beyond all time for evermore Secondly in regard of the Sacrificer with a good heart and a very good heart couched in this word Amen Vnto him that loved us c. Thus have I taken the Text asunder and now I must take the parts in their order and because they are many I must but touch as the Bee the flower and flie away The first that Method manuducts me to is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mercy-Master Christ Iesus loved us this is true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in word and deed a Truth Tertul. Tanquam radio solis scripta as ingraven with the Sunne-beame behold the manner of the writing The wretched Iewes play'd the Scribes the pens they used were thornes and speares and nayles the inke was purest blood the Volume wherein they writ and that on both sides was the body of all Divinity the capitall letters deepe and wide wounds the testimonies men and Angels Brond in loc the Seale set to it was Christs consummatum est it is finished whereon as an impregnable Arch-jewell I build my faith