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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46734	The excellency of Christ, or, The rose of Sharon shewing the art of taking Christ as the onely soveraign medicine of a sin-sick soul : accomodated both for those that are without and for those that are in Christ who are thereby instructed how they must be fitted to apply Christ unto themselves in 25 cases thereby instructed how they must be fitted to apply Christ unto themselves in 25 cases upon that excellent text in Cant. 2:1 ... / by Christopher Jelinger.	Jelinger, Christopher.	1641 (1641)	Wing J542; ESTC R29877	111,385	294

able to penetrate and reach to the soule For the operation of roses is but physicall and not metaphysicall corporall and not spirituall but Christ the rose of Sharon comforteth the very soule of a man as you may see Psal 103.3 where David communs with his soul saying Who healeth all thy diseases mark all thy diseases O my soule and in Esa 66.13 where God and so consequently Christ also who is God promiseth us most graciously that he will comfort us as one whom his mother comforteth marke as a f Quae amore liberos in sinu nutriens omnem superat charitatem H●yme in loc mother who most affectionately comforteth the very soule of her childe whereas the rose doth but comfort the body and therefore how ravishing and how great must needs be that comfortablenesse which is in the Lord Christ the comforts of a mother we know are exceeding great and sweet and doe a childe more good then honey or sugar And such are Christs nay I dare say as insinitely greater as himselfe being an infinite God is infinitely greater in compassion then any mother See Esa 49.15 Can a woman forget her sucking childe that she should not have compassion on the son of her wombe yea they may forget yet will not I forget thee 4. 4 Disproportion And though roses do sometimes revive men being faint yet can they not take away the sting of death it selfe nor comfort us after death though many doe bestrow the dead with roses but Christ can doe both 1. He can nay he hath taken away the sting of death as it is written O death I will be thy plague Hos 13.14 O grave I will be thy destruction repentance shall be hid from mine eyes or though comfort be now hid from mine eyes saith the * Lyra in loc Prophet for the Hebrew is Nocham which signifieth comfort as well as repentance and therefore it is so translated both by Saint Ierome and Doctor Luther And hence it was that Bainham that blessed Martyr uttered those most comfortable words in the midst of the fire * O ye papists M Foxe behold you looke for miracles and here you may see a miracle for in this fire I feele no more paine then if I were in a bed of Downe but it is unto me as a bed of roses This he speakes when his legs and armes were halfe burnt 2. But especially after death Christ doth comfort the precious soules of his giving unto them the crowne of life Rev. 2.10 and comforting them in Abrahams bosome Luke 16.25 which is a place of blisse and everlasting wealth and of g Cyril Alex hom pasc 11 unexpected delights even h Origen Dial 2 contra Marcion heaven it selfe 5. 5 Disproportion Other roses can doe us no good in losses and reproaches and in other externall afflictions though they may comfort our heatts in some diseases but Christ can and doth solace his then too as you may read Acts 5.41 how the blessed Apostles did even rejoyce when they were most reproachfully used and shamefully beaten because they were worthy to suffer shame for Christs name So Heb. 10.34 you may note how those beleeving Hebrewes did even joyfully endure the spoiling of their goods The like is reported of Paulinus Bishop of Nola that having lost all at the taking of Nola he uttered these words Let me not be afflicted and vexed O Lord for gold or silver for thou art all in all unto me and of the people of i Aug. de Civ Dei l. 1. c. 10. k M. Foxe in his Acts and Monuments Merindol that when they saw their houses burnt before their eyes they rejoyced at it greatly being honoured so highly as to suffer that losse for Christ his sake who inabled and caused them so to doe If any of you that are held to be of the number of Gods people shall object Obiect 1 that say you can find no such comfortablenesse in Christ as is spoken of here I answer Answ That such as are held to be of the number of Gods people are of two sorts 1. Some are Christians in shew 2. some in deed The former are such as have a form of godlinesse 1 Christiās in sh●w and deny the power thereof loving their pleasures sports lusts pride money friends or belly more then God 2 Tim. 3.4 Now if some of you be such then never complaine or wonder that you can find no such comfortablenesse in Christ for you are dead like the widow 1 Tim. 5.6 which living in pleasures is dead while she liveth and as the Rev. 3.1 Angell of the Church of Sardis So you have a name that you live being called Professors of the Gospell but you are dead Now though one should even fill the mouth of a dead corps and cover it all over with roses yet can that same take no comfort in them because it selfe is void of life So you what comfort can you take in Christ the rose of Sharon though we doe even fill your eares with the preaching of Christ seeing that you be dead and destitute of the life of Christ and that Christ himselfe hath said that whosoever loveth father and mother more then him is not worthy of him and that he that loveth sonne or daughter more then him is not worthy of him Matt. 10.37 Whereupon it followeth that all you who love worse things then father and mother sonne or daughter even base and filthy lusts and bosome sinnes more then Christ must needs be unworthy also of Christ himselfe and so consequently of the comforts of Christ which he never can or will throw away and bestow on such unworthy hypocrites and selfe-lovers as you are who have nothing but a meer forme and shadow of piety without any substance or reality and therefore my advise and counsell is that you do labour for the power and life of godlinesse and prefer the love of Christ before all things if you desire to finde that comfortablenesse which is in Christ or else never look for it 2. 2 Christiās indeed As for Christians indeed they are of 2. sorts againe 1. some somewhat carelesse 2. others very carefull 1. 1 Carelesse Christians Some are somewhat carelesse sometimes I meane 1. of their dyet wherein they doe not keep a golden meane and 2. of their apparell wherein they shew too much conformity to the monstrous fashions of this world and 3. of their sleep wherein they take up too much time and 4. of their worldly cares unto which they give too much way and 5. of their company which they doe not so distinguish as to avoid those which are most dangerous enemies to their poore foules and 6. of their duties which they doe not so heedfully performe as they ought daily prayer I meane and holy meditations and deep humiliations for daily sins and continuall applyings of Christ and the like Such carelesse Christians were the Corinthians once 2