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A35325	The three last sermons preached by the late Reverend Mr. Timothy Cruso, who dyed Novem. 26, 1697 to which is added his sermon on the 5th Nov. 1697.	Cruso, Timothy, 1656?-1697.; Fuller, Francis, 1637?-1701.	1698 (1698)	Wing C7444; ESTC R31349	39,661	90

Let your Ends and Motives be right Cleave to the Lord for his own sake follow him not for the Loaves of temporal Advantages lest they should abate and vanish The Purity of our Aims will conduce to the Stability of our Purposes 3. Keep up an high Valuation and Esteem of Christ spiritual Beings are cemented by Love so as to be inseparable 1 Sam. 18.1 The Soul of Jonathan was knit to the Soul of David c. Shechems Soul clave to Dinah so that he would agree to any Terms upon her Account Gen. 34.3 with 12. 4. Labour after an encreased Sense of the odiousness of Sin Rom. 12.9 Abbor that which is Evil cleave to that which is good They are well coupled for the more loathsome the one is that more Tenacious shall we be of the other 5. Sit loose from the World and its entangling Enjoyments The greater hold they take of us the more apt and liable are we to be removed from Christ Solomon clave to strange Women in Love and they turned away his Heart from God 1 Kings 11.2 3. 6. Let no Example have any influence upon you which is against the Rule When every Man of Israel went up from after David and followed Sheba the Men of Judah still clave to their King 2 Sam. 20.2 If you could suppose Christ universally renounc't and your selves left alone in adherence to him it would be your Glory to be Singular and to abide Faithful SERMON III. Of Consolation MAT. XXVIII 5. And the Angel answered and said unto the Women Fear not ye For I know that ye seek JESVS which was Crucified THE foregoing Chapter gives us a large Account of the Death and Burial of Jesus Christ and of the Care which his Enemies took to keep him fast in the Prison of the Grave but this could not be done for the Morning of the third Day after his Decease which was the first Day of the Week was the appointed Time of his Resurrection Accordingly when this Morning came the Earth was shaken and gave up its Dead and an Angel was dispatcht from Heaven to roll away the Stone from the Door of the Sepulchre ver 2 of this Chap. This Angel when he had removed the Stone had not done all his Business but went and sat upon it and appeared in such an awful manner that the Keepers who were set to watch trembled at the sight of him like Men amazed and utterly dispirited ver 3 4. Yea it seems that not only they but the Holy Women also mentioned ver 1. who came with a better design to see the Sepulchre assoon as the Jewish Sabbath was over were through the Infirmity of their Flesh though not like the Keepers through guilt of Conscience under some discomposing Terror As the Disciples themselves when they heard the Voice out of the Cloud in the Mount of Transfiguration were sore afraid Mat. 17.6 So if these Women had not been exercised with timorous uneasie Apprehensions now those comfortable Words which are spoken to them here in the Text would have been altogether needless Which I have the rather chosen at this Time to Discourse on not only because they may seem to have some Reference to the Ordinance of the Lord Supper which is to follow but also as the fittest I know of to Connect with my two Last Discourses the First was on Conversion the Second on Establishment therefore I shall now add a Third on Consolation and if I do by the Blessing of God obtain my End in these Sermons I need Preach no more In these Words we may consider these four Things 1. The Person speaking And the Angel answered and said those ministring Spirits are very ready to deliver any reviving Messages to the Heirs of Salvation that wherein they can they may be the helpers of their Joy as to Zacharias Luke 1.13 to Paul Acts 27.24 2. The Persons applied to to the Women who signalized their Affection to Christ by attending his Last Sufferings and by preparing Oyntments and Spices for his Dead Body and by their early Visits at his Grave As they loved more than others so they 're favour'd more than others with the first joyful Tidings of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ 3. The encouraging Matter Fear not Ye There is a special Emphasis upon that word Ye q. d. Let the Centinels whose work it is to Guard the Sepulchre be affrighted if they will but there is no such Cause for your being so I have no Consolation to impart to them but to you I have 4. The satisfying Reason For I know that ye seek Jesus who was Crucified Though it be Gods peculiar Perfection to know the Hearts of his Creatures 1 Kings 8.39 Yet we may know very much of the Thoughts and Intentions of others by their Actions and Deportments and so the Angel might be able to say he knew by the Circumstances of the Womens coming hither what it was they came about and whom they enquired after Obs Where any Souls do truly design the seeking of a Crucified Jesus all disquieting fear must needs be groundless and not a Duty but a Fault 't is not that they are call'd to but warned against Here 1. I shall shew Who they are that truly design the seeking of a Crucified Jesus 2. Why all disquieting Fears in such must be groundless 3. Whence these Fears arise 4. Vse I. Who they are that truly design the seeking of a Crucified Jesus Answer in six Things 1. They that seriously look upon Christ as most worthy to be sought and necessary to be found and are therefore willing to neglect or abandon all other Things whatsoever for the sake of him There are none that seek him in good Earnest but such as this Character is applicable to we must be 1. Deeply convinc't that nothing else doth so well deserve our Pains in seeking it nor is there such an absolute and indispensible Necessity of finding it We may be possest of all other Things without Christ and yet be miserable we may miss or fail of all other Things and yet be Happy in Christ Whoso findeth him findeth Life c. Prov. 8.35 He is the one Thing needful and the one Thing to be desired unless there be a sound and setled Conviction of this there can be no Sincerity 2. We must be fully resolved to pass over and to relinquish every Thing in the World for Christs sake They that choose rather to omit a season of Converse with Christ than the Prosecution of a secular Affair have Reason to be Jealous of their own Hypocrisie Martha had a sharp rebuke for spending her Time about the Entertainment of Christ when she should with her Sister have been hearing of him Christ must be diligently sought though all be forsaken in Order to it 2. They that make use of all the appointed Means and providential Opportunities of finding Christ which are put into their Hands He that conscientiously uses any one will thankfully embrace them