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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82320	The stumbling-stone, or, A discourse touching that offence which the world and worldly church do take against 1. Christ himself. 2. His true word. 3. His true worship. 4. His true church. 5. His true government. 6. His true ministry. Wherein the University is reproved by the Word of God. Delivered partly to the University-congregation in Cambridge, partly to another in the same town. Together with a brief touch in the epistle (for the present) on the late quarrelsom, weak, and erroneous Animadversions of one Mr. Chambers, called Doctor in Divinity, and Pastor of Pewsy in Wiltshire. By William Dell minister of the Gospel, and Master of Gonvil and Cains Colledge in Cambridge.	Dell, William, d. 1664.	1653 (1653)	Wing D930; Thomason E692_1; ESTC R206987	41,191	48

sweet Saviour that in him is nothing but love and mercy and goodness and compassion and kindness to such as are in distress and in grievous fears and agonies from the sense of sin and wrath and from the presence of Death and Hell working in them And we must believe Christ to be such an one as the Gospel represents him that we may come to him with comfort and put our whole trust in him in all times of sin and sorrow and in all hours of darkness and temptation and let us never entertain any other thoughts of Christ then these but let us hold him unchangeably for such an one as the Gospel reveals him what ever the Law or our evil consciences or the Devil shall suggest to the contrary and then in all our distresses we shall not be affraid of Christ as of a severe Lawgiver and an unexorable Iudge but may run to him as to our mercifull and powerfull Saviour whose proper Office is among the afflicted And thus we see that Christ is known by his Works and what kinde of works they are Secondly Christ would be known by his Word 2. Christ known by his Word And as Christ is known by his Works so also by his Word and therefore he saith Go shew Iohn the things you see and hear and the things you hear as well as the things you see and that is that the poor have the Gospel preached to them For Christs works and Christs Word do alwayes go together Christs works and word go always together Christs Life is alwayes accompanied with Christs Doctrine and his works with his Word The best works that any man can do without the word of the Gospel accompanying them are not Christs Works and the most glorius word that any man can hold forth without the works of Christ accompanying it is not Christs word but Christs works and Christs word go alwayes together both in himself the Head and in the true Church his body Wherefore Christ saith Go shew to Iohn the things you see and hear the things you see the blind receive their sight c. the things you hear and the poor have the Gospel preached to them Now the Gospel is the free promise of God in which nothing The Gospel what it is but meer love mercy and grace is offered in Iesus Christ to them that believe though they be never so great and grievous Sinners in themselves And nothing is more joyfull then this to the soul that is under the sense of Sin and wrath and he that receives this Word of Grace by true faith doth not weigh a feather all the terrors of the Law Sin Death and Hell So that all the outward works of Christ are a small matter if compared to the Gospel Now this Gospel is preached to the Poor that is to the Poor in It is preached to the poor Spirit and these are such who do not love nor desire nor delight in present things but are so afflicted and oppressed in their heart consciences with the sense of sin and wrath that they regard not the world nor the Riches Pleasures and Honors of it but all they mind or care for is Iesus Christ and in Him the love of God and the Remission of sin and the gift of the Spirit These are the Poor to whom Christ Preaches the Gospel and they only regard and entertain the Gospel whil'st the Lovers of this world and the Lovers of themselves and this present life care not for it And thus is Christ known by preaching the Gospel to the poor Christ known by the Gospel as Moses by the Law Moses his Ministry was full of wrath terror and death to sinners but Christs ministry holds forth nothing to the greatest sinners in the world that are sensible of sin but the free Grace and Mercy of God to them even to them in pardoning their sin and Christ known by the Word in the Church his body aswel as in himself the Head giving them righteousness and by this word Christ is well known to the whole true Church of God And as Christ is known by his Word in himself the Head so also in the Church his Body for whereever Christ is present there is his Word aswell as his works and where Christs true Word is not neither is his presence there Wherefore all the faithfull as they have received the Gospel themselves so they hold forth the same Gospel to others upon all opportunities according to the Covenant which God made with Christ touching his Seed which is mentioned Isa 51. ver 21. As for me this is my Covenant with them saith the Lord my Spirit which is upon thee and the words which I have put into thy mouth that is the Gospel shall never depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy seed nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed from henceforth and for ever By which Scripture we may learn that the Ministry of the New-Testament is a common Ministry belonging equally and alike to all the seed of Christ that is to all true believers for when Christ dwells in their hearts by faith who shall hinder Christ in them from speaking the Word of God by them For God doth not consider men as the World doth to wit as they are Tradesmen or Gentlemen or Schollars or Clergy-men but God considers men either as Believers or Unbelievers he considers men as Believers or Vnbelievers And if they be Vnbelievers then are they destitute of the true presence of Christ and of the true Word of Christ what ever their outward condition be in the World yea though they be Schollars and Clergy-men and if they are Believers then have they Christs true presence and word with them what ever their outward condition is in the world yea though they be Gentlemen or Tradesmen and every one of them saith with David and with Paul I believed therefore have I spoken So that we are not to conceive of the spiritual Church according The true Ministry is only of Believers to any outward state or condition in the world but according to Faith through which Christ dwells in the hearts of believers and if Christ the living word of God dwel in them he will not keep silence And this confession of the word before the world Christ requires of all believers alike saying He that confesseth me before men him will I confess before my father and before his Angels and there is no true and right confessing Christ without holding forth the word and Doctrine of the Gospel So then every one that is of God speaks Gods word and he that speaks it not is not of God for in all the true children of God the Spirit of their father speaks in them And thus the true presence of Christ is known by the word of the Gospel in the Church his body and in every one of his Members aswell as in himself the head This

of the world as I am not of the world Wherefore every true Christian who speaks and professes the VVord of Faith the VVord which exalts Christ alone and his things and throws down all other things of the VVorld though in the highest esteem with men must needs meet with his enemies and avengers his Scribes and Pharisees his Herods and Pilates And now when the carnal Church which hath the favor and countenance of the State sees poor Christians for the VVords sake suffering all the hatred malice and rage of the world and worldly Church they are greatly offended at them and in being offended at them they are offended at Christ Himself for it is his cause in which they suffer and not their own and it is he who suffers in his cause more then they as is evident by that complaint of his Saul Saul why persecutest thou me I say as it is Christ that is and doth all in his true Saints so also it is he that suffers all in them and they who are offended at these Sufferings of Believers which they suffer in and for Christ are offended at Christ himself And in these three regards it doth plainly appear that many who pretend to honor the outward Name of Christ are yet indeed grievously offended at Him Vse 2 2. The second Vse is another Caution to warn all men to take heed as not to be offended themselves at Christ so also not to be Caution not to be offended through the offences of others by considering 1. That it is no new thing for men to be offended at Christ troubled nor offended with the offences of Others But when we see the whole world and worldly Church offended at Christ and his things let us take care that we be not therefore offended also but let us consider 1. That it is no new thing that Christ and his Gospel should be stumbled at and contradicted by the World and worldly Church For thus it was foretold by the Prophets and thus it hath been done ever since Christ was manifested in the flesh In the days of his Ministry his Doctrine was so contrary to carnal reason and the humane apprehensions of men in matters of Religion that many of his Disciples said This is a hard saying who can bear it Joh 6. Yea many of his Disciples murmured at his Doctrine and went back and walked no more with him And all along during Christs Ministry many were snared and stumbled and fell and were broken thereby and he that is troubled and offended at this must get him another Christ and another Gospel For the true Christ is set for a sign to be spoken against the true Gospel is set for a Word of contention and contradiction to the carnal Christians to the whole VVorld Wherefore when we see in our time the VVorld and worldly Church offended at Christ and his Gospel let us know that thus it hath been from the beginning and let u● know that as Christ and his Gospel are the same now as they were then so the VVorld and Antichrist and the Devil the Head of both are the same also and therefore it cannot be but Christ and his Gospel must suffer the same 2. Christ and his Word are not the worse for the offence of the World contradiction in our time as they have done in all former times 2. That we may not be offended with the common and general offence of others let us consider that Christ and his Gospel are never the worse for the offence which the World takes at them but Christ is still the Son of the living God and the Gospel is still the Power of God to Salvation to every one that believes and Christ and his Word do still remain a sure foundation for the true Church of God That Christ crucified which is to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness is notwithstanding to them who believe Christ the Power of God and Christ the Wisdom of God 1 Cor. 1. So that Christ is not the worse for the Worlds being offended at Him neither do the faithfull think him the worse Nay the more vile he is to others he is still the more precius to them 3. Let us consider that notwithstanding all the offence of men Christ and his Gospel still remain and continue what they are and 3. Christ still remains for al such offence cannot be prevailed against Men may be offended at Christ and his Word but they canot destroy and extinguish them but they still remain and do alwayes prevail against all things that oppose them Wherefore to deliver us from the scandal of all Mens being offended against Christ we are to consider that as all the World have been are and will be against Christ so Christ and his Kingdom shall rise up and increase against all the World and against all their thoughts and endeavours And all their Councels Contrivances and industrious Actings shall not be able to hinder the Kingdom of Christ from prospering and growing great But it shall arise and stand up in all its Glory out of the midst of all the offences and contradictions in the world Wherefore Christ and his Kingdom are called a Tried stone for he hath long ago indured whatever the World and worldly Church could do against Him and whatever the might and malice of men and Devils could do against him and yet hath overcome all All that have opposed Him have been dashed in pieces by him in the several Ages of the World and He and his Kingdom still remain and shall remain for ever For He is a sure tried stone And they in this Town and Vniversity who are the most grievously offended at the Word shall not by all their subtilty Malice Slanders evil speaking nor by any thing they can say or do design or undertake be able to prevail against it but they must shortly die and depart out of the World and in despite of them leave this Word of God behind them to live and flourish and overspread the World And these considerations if entertained by Faith may keep us from being offended at the offence of the whole World And this for the second Use Vse 3 3. In the third place I shall shew you how believers ought to Direction how to carry our selves in the midst of offences 1. To abide in Christ carry themselves in the midst of those offences that are taken against Christ and against themselves for Christs sake that is for his Life and Doctrines sake 1. First then We ought to be careful to abide in Christ and to walk in Christ To speak all our words and to do all our works and to live our whole life in Christ and in his Spirit that so the World may not be offended at Vs who are nothing and do nothing in our selves but at Christ in Us who is and doth all in us And then as we shall certainly be established and preserved in