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A55750 Plenitudo fontis, or, Christ's fulnesse and man's emptinesse a sermon / preached by Iohn Preston ... Preston, John, 1587-1628. 1645 (1645) Wing P3304A; ESTC R21068 16,290 23

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Plenitudo Fontis OR Christ's Fulnesse and Man's Emptinesse A Sermon Preached by IOHN PRESTON c. 1 Cor. 4. 7. What hast thou that thou hast not received if thou hast received it why dost thou boast as though thou hadst not received it LONDON Printed for Iohn Stafford and are to be sold in Bracke Horse Alley 1645. ❧ To the Anti-Arminian OR To every good Christian Reader Good Reader PLiny the great Naturalist taxeth some of the Greeke and Latin Writers in his time of folly at the least for sending abroad their empty and worthlesse Pamphlets with an over-praise in the Title promising much at the first sight but utterly deceiving the Reader in his further search But he that shal with judgment reade this Sermon will finde somewhat more then a naked title to commend it Sometimes the workman graceth the worke Sometimes the Worke the Worke-man but behold in this Treatise they kisse each other and are joyned together as a white Rose a red Rose in one sweete Posie But that both have beene abused in the first Impression hereof it appeareth as clearely by the Manuscript as the splendant Sun within Earths spangled Canopy for al those Passages which will make the Arminians to stumble and without doubt to fall in some measure are by the Imprimatur-ist deleted as if Arminianisine were Englands true Doctrine But now for thy comfort Dear Christian thou hast the Author's Sermon as it was preached before King Iames without the least diminution And I send it out with that prayer or benediction that Iacob sent with his sonnes into Aegypt God Almighty give thee mercy in the sight of the man In the sight of the great man that thou maist make him humble Of the poore man that thou maist make him content Of the stubborne man that thou maist hammer and supple him Of the penitent man that thou maist bind up his wounds sores Of every man that thou maist touch his conscience and wound his soule Amen Thine in the Lord Iesus P. B. Christ's Fulnesse and Man's Emptinesse c. JOHN 1. 16. Of his Fullnesse we have all received Grace for Grace SAint Augustine in his booke De C●vitate De● seemes to stand amazed at the Majesty which appeares in this first of Iohn above all other passages of Holy writ And Calvine saith he doth in this Chap Detonare ab alto giving it the chiefest instance wherein a divine ●upendious authority appeares beyond all the writing of men Iunius saith that he was uever strucken with an apprehension of the Diety till he read this first Chapter affirming it to be the first and chiefest cause of his conversion from Atheisme to a sincere imbracing of Christianity you may see it in his life written by himselfe And in all this Chapter I finde not a richer and fuller sentence then this which describesto us the fullnesse of Christ The parts of it are three First here is a Fulnesse attributed to Christ Secondly this is not a respective but a diffusive Fulnesse that is Fulnesse not shut up in its owne Bankes but running over for our benefit and use Of his Fulnesse we have all received that is all that ever had any Grace took it from this heap drew it from this fountaine Thirdly these receits are amplified by the variety of them Grace for Grace That is Christ hath given to us for all the Graces which he received of his father for us Graces answerable as the Seal is said to give to the Waxe print for print Character for Character or as a father is said to give to the sonne lymbe for lymbe member for member though not of the same bignesse and measure In the same sense Christ is said to give to us Grace for Grace So that now you see here a full shop many Buyers or Receivers choise of wares or rather to use the Scriptures similitude A full Table many Guests Variety of dishes Of his fulnesse we have all received Grace for Grace We begin with the first This Fulnesse is attributed to Christ in 4. respects 1. In regard of his person So hee was full 1. with an increate Fulnesse for as the glory of God filled the Temple that Moses could not enter in so the humanity of Christ which answered to that type was filled not only with the effects of the Diety as then but with the Diety it selfe which is therefore said to dwell in him corporally or essentially 2. Hee was moreover filled with a Created Fulnesse and so hee was said to be full of all divine good things which Iohn reduces to two heads Grace and Truth Truth which comprehendeth all the vertues of understanding And Grace which comprizeth all beauties and perfections of the will Secondly this Fulnesse is attributed to Christ in regard of his offices 1. as a Prophet He was full of all the Treasures of wisedom and knowledge So that all the Light which the World ever had came from him as a Prophet All the Revelations which Adam Abraham and Noah ever had All the Visions which Esaias Ieremy and the rest of the Prophets ever saw All the mysteries which ever were declared to Paul and Iohn came from him they all received their light from this Sun which from the first morning of time shone to the darke world without setting more or lesse though the darkenesse comprehended it not Secondly hee was ful as a Priest full of fauour with God whence he hath audience alwais full of Compassion to man whence he is ready to entertaine any suits or Suitors full of merit whence sure to prevaile in all his requests and Intercessions 3. He was full as a King full of authority all power was given him in Heaven in Earth full of strength and might to desend his Servants and to resist his enemies till he hath made them his soot-stoole Lastly full of royall Munificence whence ready to supply the wants of his Servants and to give them in the end a large recompence of reward Thirdly this Fulnesse is attributed unto Christ in regard of righteousnesse hee was full of all righteousnesse originall actuall active and passive generall and particular whence we have these b●nifits following 1 That hee who was so full himselfe is able to make us full if we want faith or love or any other grace 2 By this we know what a Mediator we have to deale withal even with one full of love full of patience full of tender compassion which may invite us to come to him Lastly we have this comfort that though our Righteousnesse be very weake and small yet in him we are compleate Coloss. 2. Fourthly this Fullnes is attributed to him in regard of his Effects Scarce was there ever any action that Christ did but you shall see a Fulnes in it At the first Miracle that ever he wrought he filled 6 water-pots with wine afterwards he filled 5 000 guests with 5 loaves and 2