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A09967	The fulnesse of Christ for vs A sermon preached at the court before King James of blessed memory. By Iohn Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Majestie, Master of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes Inne.	Preston, John, 1587-1628.	1639 (1639)	STC 20224; ESTC S111967	15,862	70

The true Picture of Iohn Preston Dr. in Diuinity and sometimes 〈◊〉 of Lincolnes-Inn THE FVLNESSE OF CHRIST FOR VS A Sermon preached at the Court before King JAMES of blessed memory By IOHN PRESTON Dr. in Divinity Chaplaine in Ordinary to his Majestie Master of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge and sometimes Preacher of Lincolnes Inne Offendunt homines non cum Christi multa dicurt sed cum addunt sua sic quippe incidunt ex multiloquio in falsiloquium Ambr. LONDON Printed by M. P. for Iohn Stafford dwelling in Blake-horse-Alley neere Fleetstreet 1639. THE BOOKE-SELLER to the learned and godly Reader COurteous Reader you know better then I that the Church hath beene pestered with writings falsly fathered upon men of renowne There is scarce an Age in which many instances are not given Not onely Fathers and Councels but Historians have beene stuffed from other mens Pennes with adulterine conceits The Divell knowes that as Labans sheepe have conceived by the eye so men have been apt peremptorily to conclude from the opinions of their great Masters And men have so cleaved to the persons of men that they have catched up all shreds that have fallen from them with admiration and resolution to follow them This hath been very offensive it hath stayned the dead and corrupted the living It is not therefore alwayes safe to trust posthume writings and to say This such a man held because we finde it in the Books published under his name when hee is dead Yet is there an excellent use of such Workes of good men as may truely be affirmed to be theirs though time have brought them forth when their owners have inhabited their eternity Now Bookes are of excellent worth not to satisfie some greedy Tradesmen who know how to value them for themselves though otherwise they care not two pence for the Author when their own turne is served but to take up and gaine the eyes hearts and times of many who would reade none except they can reade new ones This here presented is certainly the Authors pretended though not for every word for I cannot promise that from a Copy which hath passed through many hands yet for the fu●●●●stance and sense and it is as certaine that it is new and so apt to invite unto it as a new fashion It is wondred that it is so new when many of the same Authors are so old It surely might have beene set in the front both for age and worth It was preached before many of the rest and savours of the Authours learning modesty piety and affection to Iesus Christ and his Church with us But though it hath beene formerly neglected yet now it is tendered in the Authors owne words and hearty affections so neare as I could You may see in it a glimpse of the full glory of Christ and of that use which we make of him as we must receive him to salvation If it may doe any service in the Church I into whose hands it hath fallen am glad If not yet I beseech you accept of my good meaning and be to me as I am to you a Christian ayming more at the glory of Christ and peace of the Church then at my owne profit Farewell Iohn Stafford The summe of this Sermon is this 1 It propounds the fulnesse of Christ. 1 In respect of his person 2 In respect of his Offices uncreated created 1 As a Prophet 2 As a Priest 3 As a King 3 In respect of his righteousnesse 4 In respect of his effects 2 It maintains it above the fulnes in the Saints 3 It applies it by foure Corrallaries Therefore 1 We must be invited to come to him 2 We must answer it with full affections 3 We must be satisfied with full Christ. 4 We must comfort our selves with the fulnesse of Christ against the fulnes of sin 4 It propounds this fulnesse of Christ for us Which we must receive if ever we have it 5 It applies it for direction of 1 Iudgements about the receit of Grace 2 Practise 1 In not deferring our repentance 2 In not being idle though we are receivers 3 In going to him from whom wee receive 4 In being affected as receivers 1 With thankfulnes for all receits 2 With humility because wee are receivers 3 With begging grace by prayers both Private Publike wherof Liturgies Setformes Esteeme of them THE FVLNESSE OF CHRIST FOR VS Or a Sermon upon JOHN 1. 16. Of his fulnesse we have all received grace for grace SAint Augustine seemes to stand amazed at the mystery which appeares in this Chapter Calvine saith that God doth heare Thunder from on high Iunius saith that hee was never strucke with an apprehension of the Deity till he read this Chapter affirming it to be the first and chiefest cause of his conversion from Atheisme to a sincere imbracing of Christianity And in all this Chapter I find no richer and fuller sentence then this which describes Christs fulnesse for us Of his fulnesse we have all received grace for grace You may be pleased to observe with mee three parts 1 A fulnesse given to Christ. 2 Not a repletive fulnesse here but a diffusive fulnesse that is not shut up in his owne banks but running over for our benefit and use 3 These receits are amplified from the variety of them Grace for grace That is Christ hath given us for all the graces which he received of his Father for us graces answerable As the Seale is said to give to the Waxe Print for Print Character for Character or as the father is said to give to the child limbe for limbe member for member though not of the same bignesse and proportion so doth Christ to us in grace and truth So that here is a full shop and many buyers and receivers choyce of Wares and precious Commodities or rather to use the Scriptures phrase a full Table many Guests and variety of Dishes of his fulnesse have wee all received grace for grace Note first that fulnesse is given to Christ and that in foure respects In regard of his person of his offices of his righteousnesse and of his effects In regard of his person he is full with an uncreated fulnesse Moses could have no communion with this fulnesse but with his back 〈◊〉 the effects of 〈◊〉 Deity 〈◊〉 in him are not onely the effects of his Deity as then but the Deity it selfe which is said to dwell in him corporally or personally in his incarnation He is full with a created fulnesse with all created and excellent good things wch St. Iohn reduceth to two heads first grace which comprehendeth all the beauties and perfections of the will secondly truth which comprehendeth all the vertues of the understanding In regard of his offices as a Prophet he is full of all treasures of wisedome and knowledge So that all light that the world ever had came from him as a Prophet All the mysteries that ever were declared to Saint

Paul and Saint Iohn came from him All the revelations of Adam Noah Abraham came from him Thus all received their light from this Sunne which from the very first moment of time shone to the darke world without setting more or lesse though the darkenesse comprehend it not As a Priest hee is full of favour with God whereby he hath audience alwayes full of compassion to men wherby he is ready to entertaine any suite or suiters full of merit by which he is able to prevaile in all his requests and intercession As a King he is full of authority All power is given him both in heaven and earth He is full of strength to defend his servants and resist his enemies till he hath made them his footstoole Lastly he is full of royall munificence wherby he is ready to supply to the wants of all his servants and to give them in the end a full recompence of reward In regard of his righteousnesse this fulnesse is attributed to him he is full of all righteousnesse originall actuall active passive generall and particular in all habits whereby we have this benefit first that he that was so full himselfe is able to helpe us if we want love faith or any other grace Secondly by this we know what a mediatour wee have to deale with even with one full of love patience compassion which may invite us to come unto him Thirdly that though our righteousnesse be weake and small yet in him we are compleate In regard of his effects and workes this fulnesse is given to him that there is scarce any action which Christ ever did but you shall find a fulnesse in it At the first miracle hee ever wrought he filled sixe water pots with Wine Afterwards hee filled five thousand Guests with five loaves and two fishes So he filled the nets with fishes so as they were ready to breake and which is the best fulnesse he filled his Disciples with the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost and after when they were said to be full of the Holy Ghost Thus is there a fulnesse given to Christ and there is reason for it both in respect of himselfe and in respect of us chiefly In respect of Christ himselfe he was the chiefe corner stone and therefore reason good that he should bee the fairest of the building He was the Prince of our salvation therefore meet it was he should be like Saul higher by the head and shoulders yea fully exalted above all Principalities and Powers In respect of us chiefly our emptinesse that with his fulnesse hee might replenish us and our vacuity Otherwise we could neither have seene nor received it of him Not have seene for the glorious beauty of the Divinity was too bright for us to behold Therefore it is reason that it should be put in the Lanthorn and vaile of Christs humanity that wee might behold it Neither could wee have received it for the Deity is an unaccessible fountaine therefore it is reason that Christs humanity should be a Cisterne to receive it for our use model It may be you will say that S. Stephē other Saints are said to be full of the Holy Ghost as well as Christ How then do these two fulnesses differ I answer that they differ three wayes First others are said to be full according to their measure but Christ above measure As a little dish may bee said to be full as well as the Ocean so they are filled according to the narrownesse of their present capacity Christ was full according to all dimensions length depth bredth and height of fulnes Secondly there was in them a fulnesse of the vessell but in Christ a fulnesse of the Spring In them was a derived and participated fulnesse in Christ a fulnesse of a fountaine proceeding from himselfe This is well expressed by the Schoolmen when they say that Christs the Saints fulnesse differ as fire and things set on fire The fulnesse of the Ocean is too little to expresse it for if you take a drop or two from it it is so much the lesse but the fulnesse of fire is such as though you light a thousand Torches at it it is not diminished Thirdly their fulnesse was in them comparatively Saint Stephen was full in comparison of other lesser Saints but in Christ it is an absolute fulnesse without limits or comparisons What shall we now deduce from hence for our benefit Foure consequences First that we ought to be invited to come to Christ to take of his full heape This Incentive Saint Paul often useth to inflame the desires of the Gentiles to come to CHRIST even the riches of that fulnesse which is in him which in the fulnesse of time was exposed to all commers which was hidden before but now as hee saith fully revealed seene before but in types and shadowes now with open face before preached to a few now to every creature under heaven before given by his Spirit by drops but now he that ascended up on high and led captivity captive hath so received for given gifts unto mē that he hath filled all things Let us therfore be exhorted when we heare of such a fulnesse not to take the grace of God in vaine but labour to have our parts therein that with the Corinthians we may be made rich in Christ filled with all knowledge and every grace Content we not our selves to know this onely for that is our common fault to rest in the notion of such things without practise but goe to Christ as Bees to a Meddow full of flowers as Merchants to the Indies that are full of Wines and Spices that you may experimentally feele your selves return from him full fraught with treasures of truth and grace In other things fulnes invites us much Iosephs full Barnes drew Iacob and his sonnes downe into Egypt Canaan was a land full of milke and honey that invited the Israelites to seeke it Solomons aboundance and fulnesse of wisedome invited the Queen of Sheba to come out of the South to his Court. In every thing fulnesse doth much allure and affect The Covetous man though he spend but a little yet he delights to take it from a full heape How much more then should the fulnesse of Christ worke in us seeing there is in him not onely a repletive but a diffusive fulnesse not only plenty but bounty But alas if we looke to the actions and lives of men we shall finde that they seek a fulnesse in every thing else almost A fulnesse in pleasure and delight a fulnesse in honour and preferment a fulnesse in profit and worldly incomes but this full hony-combe is almost every where despised But happy is he the bent of whose heart God hath turned the right way to seeke a fulnesse of faith and wisedome a fulnesse of the holy Ghost Happy he who cares not to be