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A80611 Christ the fountaine of life: or, Sundry choyce sermons on part of the fift chapter of the first Epistle of St. John. Preached by that learned judicious divine, and faithfull minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. John Cotton B.D. now preacher at Boston in New-England. Published according to Order. Cotton, John, 1584-1652. 1651 (1651) Wing C6418; Thomason E630_1; ESTC R206444 209,049 264

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comparison of Christ he thinkes himselfe unworthy to loose his shooe latchet No mortall man but hee may bee worthy to loose any mans shooe latchet if he be but worthy to live but this is the honour and worship of Christ that when thy soule looks upon Christ he is so highly to be preferred before him as that he thinkes himselfe not worthy to untie his shooe Now when a man is framed to these thoughts in his minde as that he looks at Christ as the chiefest of all the blessings of God as the greatest mercy that ever could befall a poor soule and in respect of Christ he looks at himselfe as an unworthy creature most unworthy of Christ most unworthy to come in his presence and much more unworthy to be made partaker of so glorious a match as the Lord Jesus is or to have his part in his body and blood the very worship of Christ in truth the having of Christ if we have such a singular esteem of him we may be sure we could never have thus prized him but that he first prized us Christians worship Christ in their minds For further opening this worship of Christ in our minds because it is of singular importance and may helpe and stay a poore Christian when his heart may be most dead and all other things fail him yet this high esteem of Christ in his mind is never wanting to an honest hearted Christian but he ever hath occasion to looke at Christ as most glorious and at himselfe in comparison of Christ as unworthy to loose his shooe latchet Moses honors the reproaches of Christ Let us therefore consider a little further of it you may the read the like gracious disposition in Moses he so prizes Christ that every thing belonging to Christ seems honourable to him he esteemed the very reproaches of Christ above all the treasures of Egypt and those are lesse then a shooe latchet Hebr. 11.26 in untying a shooe latchet there is neither shame nor pain but for a man to be reproached for Christ if any thing be base and dishonourable sure it is that For a man that was taken to be the sonne of Pharoahs daughter and for him not to be ashamed of the people of God nor of being reproached with them yea so far from being ashamed as to think it greater riches then the treasures of Egypt he was sure gone far in his esteem of Christ that man truly worships Christ that honors the reproaches of Christ above al other things But yet there is something more in it then this in this worship of Christ in our minds We honour or worship Christ in our minds when we make him the cheifest and esteem nothing more worthy to be knowne then to know the Lord Jesus Christ John 17.3 This is life eternall to know thee the onely true God and Iesus Christ whom thou hast sent Now when the soul esteemes nothing more worth the knowing then Jesus Christ this is an honouring of him 1 Cor. 2.2 I determined not to know any thing among you save Christ and him crucified and Phil. 3 7 8 9 10. He lookes at all things as losse and drosse and dung that he might be found in Christ not having his owne righteousnesse but might know the power and vertue of his resurrection This is that which the Apostle did prize in his Judgment as more honourable and comfortable then any thing under the Sun and this was an evident signe that Paul had Christ for this is an ordinary experiment in nature no man hath any blessing Naturally men desire to know the worth of blessings but he would know the worth of it if a man have a Farme or a yoak of Oxen he will prove them Luke 14.19 a man will know aforehand if he can but when he hath it then he will prove it and truely so is it with every one that hath the Lord Jesus he is desirous to prove Christ he would know by experience what the vertue and power of his death is how it pardons his sin and mortifies his corruptions and he would know the power of his resurrection strengthening and quickning grace in him and the power of Christs ascension He that hath Christ is inquisitive to know all the vertue that is in Christ assending into the presence of his Father and sitting at the right hand of God to rule all Creatures in heaven and in earth for the Churches good and subduing our enemies and bringing us to glory in the end A man that hath Jesus Christ he is inquisitive to know all the vertue that is in Christ he thinks in his mind there is nothing better worth the knowings then to know and feel the vertue and power of Christ Jesus in his heart And this is the first part of the worship of Christ though we be yet doubtfull whether we have Christ or no Yet it is an evidence to the soul that thou hast him because thou dost worship him and so highly prize him in thy minde and if thou couldest but know him and thy part in him this is the chiefest comfort thou canst pitch thy minde upon certainly he is thy beloved since he is to thee the chiefest of ten thousand Secondly a man worships Christ Two parts of the worship of Christ is in the wil affections not only by an act of his mind but a man hath Christ likewise when he hath him in the deep affection of his heart when he deeply affects him in his heart as his chiefest good The former was an act of the Judgment and understanding this belongs to the heart will and affections Plal. 73.25 Whom have I in heaven but thee or in earth in comparison of thee and Psal 42 1● my soul pants or breathes after thee my God He was then a banished man from the congregation and it was a weary sad time to him his soul panted like a chased Deare for the rivers of water his soul was athirst for God! Oh when shall I come and appeare before him this is such a longing desire when a man wants Christ As that it is called hunger and thirst Matth. 5. such a desire as cannot be satisfied but with meeting with that which the soul doth hunger and thirst for give an hungry man a house full of gold and he is hungry still but give him meate and then you satisfy him So in this case the soul that hungers after Christ give him profit and pleasure and you give him nothing but his soul is fit to perish for want of Christ Deep measure of worshiping of Christ this is a deep worship we put upon Christ and in so affecting of him we have him when the soul hath the Lord Jesus the highest and chiefest cause of rejoycing it hath is only its having of Christ Gal. 6.14 if he have his part in Christ that is his Crown and his Portion he counts it a goodly portion his lot is falne into