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A02260	The happines of enjoying, and making a true and speedie use of Christ Setting forth, first, the fulnesse of Christ. Secondly, the danger of neglecting Christ, and the opportunity of grace. Thirdly, the Lord Jesus the soules last refuge. Whereunto is added, St. Pauls legacie, or farewell to the men of Corinth. By Alexander Grosse B.D. Minister of the Gospel, and pastour of Bridford.	Grosse, Alexander, 1596?-1654.	1640 (1640)	STC 12395; ESTC S103450	151,344	397

Psa 63.3 above wine which maketh glad the heart above the increase of corne and wine the joy of the rich above life the choycest pearle and deerest treasure in natures closet If the dawning of the day bee so joyous how much more pleasant is the Sunne rising If the first fruits be so acceptable how much more abundantly joyful● is the full vintage If the glimpse of Gods face bee so much desired how much more desireable is the fulnesse of Gods countenance reserved for us in the heavens which the Psalmist doth illustrate by a similitude taken from the chased Hart Psa 42.1 2. As the Hart the Hart chased heated affrighted and vexed by the hounds and hunters doth pant after the water brookes so doth my soule pant after thee O God my soule thirsteth for God for the living God when shall I come and appeare before God before God in his holy Temple in the assembly of his Saints and servants in the use of his ordinances in the sense of his loving kindnesse and in the full fruition of his face in the highest heavens And this the Apostle expresseth by a Metaphor taken from the naked 2 Cor. 5.2 who have no garment to cover them no house to hide them as they with great diligence seeke and much earnestnesse long for a covering so doe the faithfull servants of God long for heaven their house and habitation and for the full fruition of Jesus Christ whose righteousnesse is their rich and royall robe their pure and spotlesse garment to cover them In this saith the Apostle wee groane ●arnestly desiring to bee clothed upon with our house which is from heaven As he that is in darkness longeth for the light so the soules of Gods children in the darknesse of this world doe long for Jesus Christ and heaven the Sunne of righteousnesse and that heavenly Citie which God hath provided for them Rev. 21.23 Where there is no need neither of the Sunne nor of the Moone to shine in it because the glory of God doth lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof As the Bride doth long for the comming of the Bridegroome so the spirituall Bride longeth for the comming of the heavenly Bridegroome Christ Jesus being sicke of love Cant. 5.6 8. and full of longings after him As the mother of Sisera looked out through the window and cried through the lattesse Iudg. 5.28 Why is his Chariot so long in comming why tarry the wheeles of his Chariots so doth the Spouse of Christ here in this life looke forth through the window of Gods ordinances and through the lattesse of her faith and cry How long Lord Jesus Rev. 6.10 how long Thou art my helpe and my deliverer make no tarrying O my God And the Apostle for the mitigating of their sorrowes asswaging of their troubles quieting of their consciences and the better staying of their soules perswades them to waite assures them of the speedy comming of Christ saying Psa 40.17 Cast not away your confidence which hath great recompence of reward for yee have need of patience that after yee have done the will of God yee might receive the promise For yet a little while and hee that shall come will come Heb. 10.35 36 37. and will not tarry And thus have Gods servants expressed their desires Phil. 1.23 I desire saith Saint Paul to be dissolved as a prisoner from his fetters as a captive from his bondage and to bee with Christ which is farre better And wee groane saith hee speaking in the name of all the faithfull to be cloathed upon 2 Cor. 5.4 8. that mortality might bee swallowed up of immortality And wee are willing to bee absent from the body and present with the Lord And this the Apostle commended in the Thessalonians 1 Thess 1.9 10. that they were turned to God from Idols to serve the living and true God and to wait for his Sonne from heaven as servants wait for the comming of their Lord and Master And this Saint Peter termes a looking for 2 Pet. 3.12 and hastening unto the comming of the day of God The reason whereof is In regard of their remaining sinne and Reason 1 corruption This is to them as a disease to the sicke as fetters to the prisoner as a burthen to the traveller as a mote to the eye as manacles to the hands as chaines to the feet as aches to the bones as the sons of Zervia unto David they were adversaries to him too strong for him 2 Sam 19.22 so are their corruptions adversaries to their soules to their peace to their communion with God to their present and everlasting welfare Somtimes they are too strong for them leading them captive Rom. 7.23 as a tyrant the souldier whom he hath taken in the battle 1 Pet. 2.11 2 Sam. 3.1 making continuall warre against them as the house of Saul did against the house of David being as prickes in their eyes and thornes in their sides Iudg. 2.2 as the Canaanites were to Israel as heavie burthens to their backes Psa 38.4 burthens too heavie for them to beare as dead members in their body Rom. 7.24 very cumbersome and occasions of great trouble And therefore as the noble man went unto Christ and besought him Ioh. 4.47 that he would come downe and heale his sonne because hee was at the poynt of death so doe the faithfull servants of God go to Christ and say Come Lord Iesus that there may bee a thorough healing of all their infirmities In regard of Satans subtile assiduous and violent temptations Ios 10. As the Amoritish Princes besieged Gibeon so doth the prince of darknesse besiege the soules of Gods people As Pharaoh imposed heavie burthens upon the children of Israel set cruell task-masters over them and when they were going forth of Egypt raised an army and pursued them so doth Satan lay heavie burthens upon great and grievous things to the charge of Gods people set many mercilesse and bloudy minded man against them and raiseth an armie of evill thoughts within to distract them and an army of afflictions without to molest them being as a roaring Lyon to Gods flocke 1 Pet. 5.8 as a man of warre to the Citie of their soules making their passage very stormy and tempestuous Luk. 11.21 and therefore as the woman of Canaan came to our Saviour and cryed to him Mat. 15.22 25. saying Have mercie on mee O Lord thou Sonne of David my daughter is grievously vexed with a Divell Lord helpe mee so doe Gods children addresse themselves to Christ and cry Have mercie upon us thou Sonne of David for our soules are sore vexed with the Divell Lord helpe us O come Lord Jesus and bring us a full and finall deliverance from all infernall adversaries In regard of the evill and offensive conversation of ungracious men their language their practice their profanenesse their troublesomnesse is to

Gods children a great griefe a meanes of very much disquiet as the daughters of Heth to Sarah Gen. 27.46 made her life a burthen and the presence of disobedient Ionah made the sea tempestuous the navigation very perillous to the Mariners This hath filled them full of complaints Psa 120.5 Woe is me saith David that I sojourne in Mesech that I dwell in the Tents of Kedar Psa 119.136 Mine eyes gush out with rivers of tears because men keepe not thy law saith David And Lot was vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked 2 Pet. 2.7 That righteous man saith S. Peter dwelling among them in seeing and hearing vexed his righteous soule from day to day with their unlawfull deeds And therefore as he that dwells among thornes briars and scorpions Ezek. 2.6 desires to change his dwelling so doe Gods servants say Come Lord Jesus that they may have full freedome from the conversation of sinfull men In regard of love to Christ their love to him 2 Sam. 1.26 like the love of Jonathan to David is wonderfull they love him with all manner of love with a creatures love as he is their maker with a servants love as hee is their Lord and Master with a subjects love as he is their King and Ruler with a ransomed mans love as hee is their Redeemer with a friends love as hee is their Comforter with a childs love as he is their everlasting Father with a kinsmans love as hee is their Brother and with a Brides love as hee is the Bridegroome of their soules Can. 2.5 They are sicke of love and love breeds longing and longing breeds desire of fruition And as love constraines the wife to desire the presence of the husband so doth love cause the spouse of Christ to long for the presence of Christ to say Tit. 2.13 Come Lord Iesus to looke for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Iesus Christ In regard of the plenary and perfect restauration of Gods image in their soules The day of Christs comming shall bee the day of their full freedome and perfect redemption wherein they shal be a garden without weeds a tree without barren branch superfluous bough or fading leafe As Absolon 2 Sam. 15. in respect of bodily perfection was without blemish from the crowne of the head unto the sole of the foot so shall Gods servants upon the comming of Christ be free from all blemish and glorious in soule and body Mat. 13.43 Luk. 21.28 like the Sun in the firmament This is called the day of their redemption And as the captive desireth the comming of the ransomer so doe they the comming of Christ our blessed Redeemer and therfore they say Come Lord Iesus that they may have the full possession of all joy and glory in heaven This openeth and unfoldeth the estate and condition of man Use even of the holiest and best men in this life even an estate of distance separation in part from Christ their desire of him their longing after him their crying Come Lord Iesus shewes they doe not enjoy Christ now in his greatest fulnesse Here Numb 13 23. like Israel in the way to Canaan they have a few grapes a little taste of the goodnesse of the land of heaven but the full vintage is reserved till their bodily dissolution till Christs second comming Now they are absent from the Lord they behold him as a friend a farre off While wee are at home in the body 2 Cor. 5.6 wee are absent from the Lord saith the Apostle Absent from the perfection of Gods Image from the fulnesse of the light of Gods countenance from the perfect and complete fruition of his presence and the glory he hath provided for us 1 Cor. 13.12 Now we see as through a glasse darkly in the workes of God as in a glasse wee see the generall wisedome power and goodnesse of God In the Word and Sacraments wee see as in a glasse the command and precept the will and counsell the love and mercie of God in Christ Jesus Hereafter wee shall see face to face truly without errour conspicuously without darknesse and fully without the mixture of all imperfections Now we are as runners in a race the price is not yet wonne 1 Cor. 9.24 therefore so runne that yee may obtaine saith S. Paul Now we are as Souldiers in the battle fighting the victory is not yet fully gotten Rev. 2.10 therefore be thou faithful saith our Saviour to the death and I will give thee a crowne of life Wee are now travellers our journey is not yet ended Psa 84.7 therefore we must go from strength to strength untill wee doe appeare before the Lord in Sion Matth. 24.13 For hee that continueth to the end shall be saved Now we are as pilgrimes and strangers we have not yet the possession of our heavenly dwelling and therefore as pilgrimes strangers 1 Pet. 2.11 let us abstaine from fleshly lusts which warre against the soule we halt like Iacob in our walking our goings are not absolutely perfect Gen. 32.31.35 our lives like Iacobs flock are spotty coloured a mixture of grace vice is in them our souls Gen. 25.24 like Rebecca's womb carry in them an Esau a Iacob the flesh lusting against the spirit the spirit against the flesh as Esau against Iacob Iacob against Esau In the Common-wealth of Israel 2 Sam. 3.1 there was continuall war between the house of Saul David in the common-weale of a regenerate soule there is continuall warre between God Satan between grace and corruption and therfore we must labour in the worke of grace like the house of David to grow stronger stronger to make sin like the house of Saul grow weaker weaker still pressing to more perfection ever saying with the Evangelist Come Lord Iesus as a guide to direct us a Physician to heale us and a man of warre to overcome for us This should wonderfully endeare unto us the Lord Jesus He is the desire of the soules of all beleevers to him we must go to him we must seek on him we must call When distresse commeth when sicknesse visiteth when death approacheth then we shall bee constrained to cry Come Lord Iesus then as the woman of Tekoah in a pretended distresse came to David and cried 2 Sam. 14.4 Help O King so shall we in the reall distresse of our soules bee constrained to cry Help O Christ When wee shall see Satan casting all his fiery darts at us setting with all his forces like an armed man upon us bringing all our sinnes like a subtile accuser against us when wee shall apprehend death as a Serjeant arresting hurrying and drawing us before the Lords tribunall and shall see the armes of all earthly helpers broken the lamp of all worldly lights put out and the tongues

of administration and government of all things the judgement of ruling and guiding his chosen in absolving their sinnes in inspiring all his graces into them that hee may live in them and they in him preserving them safe to life eternall God hath made him the great and high Steward and the Church his House to whom Christ like a Steward or rather Sonne dispenseth all the fulnesse which his Father hath committed unto him being e Heb. 3.6 1 Cor. 1.30 faithfull as a Sonne over his house And as God dispenseth all fulnesse by him so of necessity all fulnesse must bee placed in him accorcording to that of Ambrose Christus omnibus omnia factus est Christ is made all things to all men In regard of Christs office and undertaking in the behalfe of Gods Church and chosen an undertaking so difficult that without the fulnesse of God it cannot bee accomplished For first such is the disease and maladie of the soules of men that without the fulnesse of the God-head Christ cannot cure them they are so dead in sinne that without an almighty power hee cannot raise them Were hee not the Lord of life hee could not quicken them had he not f Ioh. 5.26 life in himselfe originally absolutely infinitely hee could not minister life unto them Christ shewes no lesse power in raising the soules of men then hee did in raising the body of g Ioh. 11.44 Lazarus Such is their blindnesse that were not Christ the true h Ioh. 1.9 light that commeth from above hee could never shine into their hearts had he not the treasures of all wisedome hee could never make them wise unto salvation had hee not the i Rev. 3.7 keyes of David which open and no man shutteth hee could never open the eyes of their understanding Such is the obstinacie and hardnesse of their hearts that the hammer of the Word without the almighty hand of God can never breake nor bruise them Such is the distance and difference between God and the soules of men that were not Christ a person of infinite worth hee could never make any satisfaction never work a reconciliation No hand can cure mans miseries but that which hath an infinite fulnesse Secondly such is the opposition made by Satan against this office and undertaking of Christ that without the fulnesse of the God-head there could be no conquest Hee is a Lyon so strong and so greedily set upon his prey that were not Christ a Shepheard infinitely strong hee could not deliver the soules of men as David k 1 Sam. 17.34 delivered the sheepe from the Lyon Hee is a man of l Luk. 11.21 warre so potent and politick and so fortifying his holds in the hearts of men that were not the power of Christ almighty hee could never vanquish and cast him out Liberty from Satans bondage and temptations comes altogether from Christs fulnesse Thirdly such is the profundity and depth of the mysteries of godlinesse that had not Christ a spirituall and heavenly fulnesse were hee not in the m Ioh. 1.18 bosome of the Father and knew all things hee could never shew us the Father hee could never n Rev. 5.8 open the Booke sealed with seven Seales which no creature can open hee could never open our hearts and fill us who are o Ephes 5.8 darknesse with a marvellous light the inlightning of mans understanding is an almighty worke hee can bee no lesse then God that gives us the Spirit of wisedome and revelation to know God and the riches of his goodnesse towards the Saints Fourthly such are the afflictions of Christs members Satan doth so besiege assault them as sometimes the Amoritish Princes did the p Ios 10.6 Gibeonites that were not Christ filled with the fulnesse of all power hee could never give them deliverance Freedome commeth to Gods children from the assaults of their enemies onely by the mighty power of Christ Jesus hee is the Arke that keepes them from drowning in the deluge of affliction it is hee that walkes with them and keepes them that the fiery fornace of trouble doth not burne and consume them as hee sometime q Dan. 3. walked with the three children and preserved them Fifthly such is the perfection that God requires in his people that were not the fulnesse of the God-head in Christ hee could not cloath them with his righteousnesse hee could not purge out their corruptions as Iordan purged Naaman hee could not r Ephes 5.26 present them without spot and blemish in Gods presence It is the mighty power of Christ that prepares and keepes Gods children unto salvation And thus you see the necessity and verity of the being of all divine and heavenly fulnesse in Christ Jesus CHAP. V. Setting forth the folly of neglecting Christ and seeking fulnesse elsewhere THis discovers the folly of such as neglect Christ leave Christ step out Use and goe aside from Christ and seeke for fulnesse else-where These are like the men of Shechem in Iotham's Parable Å¿ Iudg. 9.9 leaving the Vine the Olive and the Figge-tree addressing themselves unto the Bramble and hiding themselves under the shadow thereof All that is without and beside Christ is but a Bramble in comparison of Christ ministring no safety no defence no sure and comfortable shadow of refreshment to them that have recourse unto it It is our greatest foolishnesse to leave the Lord Jesus to seeke out other proppes and pillars to support us an evill very common and incident to the soules of men an evill of which our Saviour doth complain t Joh. 5.40 Yee will not come to mee that yee might have life yee will not come to mee yee will not beleeve in mee yee will not love and embrace mee yee will not rest and relye on mee yee will not subject your selves to mee yee will not solace and delight your selves in mee yee will not quiet and content your selves with mee yee will not come to mee as Schollers to their Teacher to bee taught of me to u Ephes 4.22 learne mee as the truth is in mee yee will not come to me as sicke men to their Physician to bee healed and cured by mee as they that sit in darknesse come to the light to bee ruled guided by me who am the true light ye will not come to mee as the poore to the rich to bee fed and cloathed by mee as the thirsty to the fountaine to be refreshed and filled by mee as the servant to his Lord to feare and serve mee to honour and exalt mee yee will not thus come to mee There is in the soules of men a very strong and wonderfull backwardnesse to come to the Lord Jesus to come fully and freely off from the creature unto Christ as the wife commeth off from her w Psa 45.10 owne people and her fathers house to live and abide with her husband to set her love on him to quiet her selfe