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A92857	The riches of grace displayed in the offer and tender of salvation to poor sinners. Wherein is set out, the gracious behaviour of Christ, standing at the door and knocking for entrance. The dutiful behaviour of sinners in hearing Christs voice and opening to him. And the comfortable event upon them both. / By Obadiah Sedgwick. B.D. and late minister of the Gospel in Covent-Garden.	Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.	1657 (1657)	Wing S2379; Thomason E1683_2; ESTC R209163	87,999	316

the Application of all his benefits and vertues also unto us He becomes one with us for this very end that partaking of himself we might partake of all good by him 2. And the end of all his offices viz. His Office 1. Regal to rule us 2. Prophetical to teach and guide us 3. Priestly to expiate our sinne 3. And the end of his great works 1. He died to pay our debts 2. Rose to give us the acquittance and discharge 3. Ascended to give us gifts 4. Sits at Gods right hand to appear for us 5. Intercedes to compleat and apply all for us 2. Jesus Christ is ordained to invest beleevers with as good nay with a better estate then men had in Adam He is to repaire their lost condition he is to atone them with God and to fit them for a glorious fruition of him but this cannot be without a manifold communication of good unto them Of necessity he must impart unto them the vertue of his blood for this and the power of his Spirit for this and the arme of his alsufficiency and strength for this Ephes 5. 25. Christ loved the Church and gave himself for it Verse 26. That he might sanctifie and cleanse it Ver. 27. And that he might present it to himself glorious Our union with Christ is called a Marriage will Christ bring no portion with himself Divines do think that there was a necessity to impart some of his vertues for confirmation unto the Elect Angels And then surely much more must be imparted to sinful men for their Reconcil●ation and Reparation 3. All the promises of God are Yea and Amen in Christ that is they are to be fulfilled and made good to beleevers I say all the promises which are rich veines and full veines the store-houses of all mercy and grace and good These are to be made good unto us by Christ Not onely in a way of stability but likewise in a way of efficacy which could never be without a communication of the good things promised unto beleevers Christ hath the key of all these in his hands These therefore are in his dispose he is the Master to dispense them to his family the houshold of faith 4. Jesus Christ is filled with goodnesse in himself and with love also to his members who are beleevers Now although all goodnesse ex natura rei be deffusive of it self yet is it most communicating when either it is seated in a relation or engraven in an affection A good father will impart more good then a good man a loving husband will do more good then a meere husband The goodnesse in Christ is a goodnesse both wayes It is a goodnesse in relation that is in one who stands to beleevers as an head doth to its members and a goodness in affection that is in one who loves beleevers above all the people in the world and certainly love is bountiful it is an easie key to open and a liberal hand to bestow Fifthly What should Christ do with himself and with all his benefits God at the first contented not himself if I may so speak with himself and therefore created man to communicate some of his goodnesse to him And when Christ redeemed man he contents not himself with the perfecting of the work of redemption but he must communicate the vertue and fruit of it unto men unlesse we will say he lived in vaine or died in vaine or rose in vaine he died not for himself nor rose for himself But who shall partake of this purchased good shall enemies or friends shall they enjoy it who will not enjoy him shall they enjoy sweetnesse of his communion who shut their doors and hearts against him and abhor the union of his person O no we cannot sup together if we will not come together But as he wrote upon his book mihi meis this book is for me and for my friends or as we write in our Leases for us and our heirs so saith Christ of all his goodnesse this is for me and my members this is for me and beleevers I may look on others but I will live with them I may speak to others but I will sup with them others may have a call from me but these onely shall have communion with me 6. Beleevers have much work lying upon them for Christ active and passive ordinary and extraordinary none of which can be done without communication from Christ Christs works and Christs help are paralel The hand can do nothing for the head but by an influence imparted to it from the head Without me ye can do nothing John 15. 5. 7. All the good we do is done by the strength of communion The nerves or liguments of union import this For On Christs part it is the Spirit which is compared to fire and water that are diffusive and spreading and to oyntment the unction of the Spirit which spreds its savour and to light which is diffusive On our part it is faith and faith is a 1. Depending eye 2. Drawing mouth 3. Receiving hand 8. He glorifies himself in it His glory as Mediatour is enlarged by giving grace to his members by filling them with more grace he fills himself with more glory Though the glory of his person be full yet the glory of his office of Mediatourship and of headship to his Church this hath another additional fulness of glory from the good and happinesse of his members All the useful Application which I intend at this time to make shall be reduced unto 1. Consolation 2. Exhortation partly to persons 1. In this communion 1. Hold it fast 2. Improve it 2. As yet out of this communion by all meanes get into it Vse 1. The first Use shall be for comfort to all beleeving persons to all whose hearts have been opened to let in Christ twixt whom and them there is this high and glorious communion You have enough and unless you were in heaven it selfe you cannot have more As David spake of the sword of Goliah none like that the same I affirm of communion with Christ none like this It surpasseth all communions in the world in six respects 1. For dignity there is a communion 'twixt a sinner and lust 6. Respects this is of all the basest There is a communion 'twixt man and the creatures this is of all the poorest A fellowship with sinne makes up perfect misery a fellowship with the world makes up perfect vanity But the communion 'twixt Christ and a Beleever is truly solid and unspeakably eminent The Sonne of God with the sonnes of God the chiefest in heaven with the chiefest in earth the most excellent agents in heaven and earth by the most excellent meanes the Spirit and Faith This fellowship is more then Angelical It is a divine fellowship with the whole Trinity Our fellowship is with the Father and the Son saith ●aint John The communion of the Holy Ghest be with you saith Saint Paul 2. For

comodity the things imparted in this communion any one of them nay the least of them is of more value and benefit then all the world There was more in the kisse which a Prince gave to one then in a cup of gold which he gave to another The Phylosophers hold that the lowest degree of life exceeds the highest degree of inanimate perfection A living dog is better then a dead lion a living fly doth in this overmatch all the stars The blood of Christ the righteousnesse of Christ the love of Christ the graces communicated from Christ the lowest spark of any of them doth elevate the soule and addes more perfection of good then all the good which can be drawn out of all the creatures in the world The least good in genere moris out-weighs all the good in genere fortunae and the least good in genere spiritualis or Gratiae is of more value and consequence then all other good whatsoever one pearle is better then a million of stones or a mountaine of dirt 3. For priviledge were you cloathed with all the moral abilities whereof nature is capable were you endowed with all the confluences of the earth to the utmost receptions or extensions of sensual imaginations and desires yet by none of these are you brought in a neernesse of relation to God or any jot advantaged for any spiritual interests or infranchized thereby with any soul-helping liberties still you are forreiners and strangers and stand at distance with God you cannot call God Father yet till communion with Christ be enjoyed and when this is enjoyed your priviledges immediately become wonderful Now you may look on God and say Thou art my portion Now you may go to God and say Thou art my Father Now you may behold the love of God and say this is my treasure and the Covenant of God and say this is my store-house and the providence of God and say this is my Shield Now you may look on Christ and say This is my Redeemer he is mine and I am his He lives in me and I live in him He dwells with me and I dwell with him He sups with me and I feed on him His blood is my refuge and my heart is his Mansion He doth graciously traffique in my heart by his Spirit and I can as freely traffique with heaven by his intercession 4. For pleasure One day in Gods house was more to David then a thousand elsewhere Psalme 84. 10. One dayes communion with Christ did I say one dayes nay one houres nay one minutes communion with Christ is of more true satisfaction and soul-delighting pleasures then all the bathes and rivers of Joy in the world Saint Austine delivers a high Dic animae meae salus tua ego sum Curram post istam vocom N●li absconderc faci●m tuam moriar ut cam videam request to God O Lord say unto my soul I am thy salvation That one word O I will runne to heare it Hide not thy face from me Let me die so I may see thy favour Moses was a while with God upon the mount and what a heaven was it for him to see God and converse with him Peter was a while with Christ upon the Mount O what a ●aciety was it to him to be with his Christ in that glimpse of excellent glory and to heare that heavenly voice This is my beloved Sonne 2 Pet. 1. 19. well might Peter say it is good to be here Why Sirs who can describe unto you the sweetnesse of this communion I never Meditate but I meet with Christ what a blessed contemplation is this I never hear but I meet with Christ what a blessed hour is this I never receive of the Sacrament but I meet with Christ O what a blessed feast is this I never bow my soul in prayer but I meet with Christ when I go and heare I hear his voice when I go and pray he hears my voice O what a heaven is this I commend that speech of Nunquam abs te absque te recedo Bern. Ep. 116. Bernard if the soul can speak its of Christ I never come to thee but by thee I never come from thee without thee 5. For sufficiency shew us the Father said Philip and it sufficeth Hast thou communion with Christ it is sufficient let thy condition for other things be what it may be You know the answer of the King of France to the Herauld of him of Spaine who varnished his Master with many empty titles of being King of Naples King of the Indies c. He only proclaimed himselfe King of France as if that alone weighed down all the rest O ye beleevers there is so much in this one communion with Christ as answers to all other communions nay as infinitely overtops them One man hath communion with profits but he hath no pleasure another sucks at the flower of pleasure but he hath no profit one outward good or other is still wanting and if all were enjoyed there were not enough to satisfie the vast soul of man But communion with Christ brings sufficiency with it There is if I may so phrase it an aggregation of all good in Christ for the parts of satisfying good and likewise an intension of all good for the degrees of it There is mercy enough in Christ to pardon holinesse enough in Christ to heal peace enough in Christ to quiet joy enough in Christ to refresh dignity enough in Christ to honour wisdom enough in Christ to direct readinesse enough in Christ to help strength enough in Christ to uphold goodnesse enough in Christ to blesse thy soul happinesse enough in Christ to save and crown thy soul Let our condition be never so great it is but a hell without Christ let it be never so flat it is heaven sufficient if we enjoy Christ Who can say he wants nothing who wants Christ who can say he wants any thing who wants not a Christ 6. For duration all other communions are in hazard and receive their period The communion 'twixt man and wife hath this inscription upon it yours for life The communion 'twixt a man and his friend hath this subscription to it yours till death the communion that a man hath with the creatures hath this motto on it yours till trouble the communion that a man hath with the pleasures of sin hath this character on it yours till conscience awakes or at least till hell follows the communion that Adam had with God in Paradise had this Epitaph on it yours till temptation Either that moth of death or that wave of trouble or that flash in conscience or that decreed period to all creatures crack asunder all these communions and in a moment make their graves so that we do many times scarse taste the sweetnesse of them in fruition before we are swallowed up with bitternesse for the losse of them But the communion 'twixt Christ and the beleever is begun in mercy is