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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01531	The decease of Lazarus Christ's friend A funerall sermon on Iohn. chap. 11. vers. 11. preached at the buriall of Mr. John Parker merchant and citizen of London. By Tho. Gataker B. of D. and rector of Rotherhith.	Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1640 (1640)	STC 11656; ESTC R212839	51,622	56

some that so walk and of professed Christians he speaketh that they are enemies to Christs Crosse and to Christ himselfe consequently If thou beest a Lazarus one that makest t God not the World thine aide and thy stay If thou beest an Abraham or u a childe at least of Abraham one that x walkest in the steps of the faith of Abraham y who is the father of all the faithfull But these things you will say are too generall We will descend therefore to some particular notes in our ensuing discourse And so passe we to the sixth and last Vse of this Point which shall be for Admonition to admonish us of the duties required of all those that professe or pretend to be in friendship and amity with Christ x He that hath a friend saith Solomon must carry himselfe friendly If thou wilt therefore have a friend of Christ thou must be Christs friend for friend and friend are Correlatives thou must carry thy selfe as a friend unto Christ How is that you will say First thou must be faithfull and loyall to Christ For y faithfulnesse is especially required of friends and regarded in friendship z Be thou faithfull saith he unto death Nor speaketh he of the faith that we * repose and put in him but of the faith that we * yeeld and performe unto him But when are we faithfull unto Christ I answer First when we keep our heart and affections loyall and true to him not suffering a this wicked world or any sinfull lust for these be the b Absoloms that filch our hearts from this our David to sway in our soules nor our affections to be so set upon any outward thing even such as we may lawfully love c father or mother husband or wife childe friend or acquaintance or ought else whatsoever that it should either d withdraw our affection from Christ or minish our love unto Christ or e that we should not be willing to relinquish it for Christ if either f it shall stand betweene Christ and us or he shall be pleased to require it from us Secondly then are we faithfull to Christ when we are affected as he is when we love what he loveth and hate what he hateth For g what is true friendship but when men will and nill the same things h Ye that love the Lord saith the Psalmist hate that that is evill Whereupon Augustine i Doest thou love the Lord thou must hate what he hateth So art thou or wouldest thou be Christs friend thou must love what he loveth and hate what he hateth And what loveth he k He loveth piety purity mercy charity humility sobriety upright dealing and the like And on the other side l he hateth prophanenesse uncleannesse unmercifulnesse uncharitablenesse haughtinesse drunkennesse intemperance falshood unjust dealing and the like If then thou m lovest affectest and labourest in the former not so much because they conduce and are consentaneous to humane society for so one may do that is no friend to Christ or Christianity as because Christ n liketh and loveth them and they make thee o like unto him and p hatest the latter not so much because they are contrary to civill society as because Christ q hateth them and they make unlike unto him r whom thou desirest to please and to approve thy selfe unto yea whom thou endeavourest s to imitate and strivest to be t like unto knowing that u likenesse breedeth further liking and love thou art then a true friend to Christ indeed But on the other side if thou canst not brook or abide but hatest the former which he loveth and lovest and delightest in the latter which he hateth and abhorreth it is certaine there is u no friendship betweene Christ and thee whatsoever thou maist professe or pretend to the contrary Secondly if thou wilt shew thy selfe a friend to Christ thou must diligently observe him Friends we see are carefull to observe either other Especially if a meaner person have some great man to friend how carefull and sedulous will he be to observe and attend upon such an one And it is expected he should so do So we finde in story that it was the manner of those among the Romans that enjoyed the favour of any great ones a to repaire to them every morning that was b the first work they did and c strived who should first do it attend upon them so soone as they came forth and tender themselves and their service unto them In like manner doest thou desire to maintaine friendship with Christ thou must diligently and constantly attend upon him in his ordinances in publick in private d repaire frequently to his house attend at his threshold e he is a blessed man that so doth f invite him oft to thine house g he is not dainty of repaire to the meanest of his h he is willing to be entertained of us and i delighteth in such invitements especially take heed how when k he knocks at the door of thine heart by the ministery of his Word or the motions of his Spirit thou either refuse or neglect to open unto him l Such an oversight the Spouse committed and she smarted for it it cost her full deere And m such unkindnesses oft make shrewd breaches betweene friends Yea take heed of intermitting and letting fall thine usuall and wonted resorts n Intermission of entercourse breedeth strangenesse betweene friends And such intermission of spirituall entercourse may though not cut off all amity yet breed no small strangenesse between Christ and thy soule Thirdly our friendship with Christ must appeare as by our diligent observance of him so by our constant obedience to him o If a man love me saith our Saviour hee will shew his love to mee by keeping my Commandements And p you are then my friends and manifest your selves so to be when you do what I enjoyne you Yea then indeed do we shew our selves to esteeme Christ our friend and carry our selves towards him as towards a friend q when his Commandements seeme not harsh and grievous unto us when r with heart and goodwill we serve the Lord Iesus either in that we do for him or for others at his request That which a man doth lumpishly and heavily for a meere stranger the same yet he doth readily and s cheerefully for a friend And that is it that maketh t Christs yoake seeme so easie and his loade so light to his that u seeme so unweldy and so unsupportable to others Lastly it must appeare as in matter of Obedience so in matter of Patience as in constant doing so in patient enduring any thing whatsoever for him even a to losse of liberty limme livelyhood and life