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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29252	Diatribae, or, Discourses upon select texts wherein several weighty truths are handled and applyed against the papist and the Socinian / by Henry Bagshaw.	Bagshaw, Henry, 1632-1709.	1680 (1680)	Wing B429; ESTC R25261	55,475	208

it was necessary to our recovery one should undertake for us that could answer the rigour of the Decree by his Sufferings and supply the defects both of Men and Angels by the Innocence and Worth of a Sacrifice Innocence to prepare and Worth to crown the Oblation Now that Christ was thus qualified to appear in our stead may be easily evinc'd if we will but consider either the purity of his Humane nature which was without spot 1 Pet. 1.19 Rom. 9.5 or the Majesty of his Person who is God blessed for ever The first of these would serve to make his Offering holy the latter would give it infinite value by both which he was fitted to pay our debt and bear all the wrath of his Father due to our sins And that He actually did what He was so qualified to perform we have the like evidence from Scripture The whole Oeconomy of the Jews and the strain of the Gospel confirms it The Sacrifices of the Old Law were Types and dark Images of this Great one that was once to be offered for the sins of the people The Gospel-phrase points altogether to this Truth and therefore when it speaks of Christ Mat. 20.28 it calls him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a price of ransome nay 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is a price by way of exchange 1 Tim. 2.6 in supplying our place again we are said to be justified by his Blood reconciled through his Death and to have redemption by his Sufferings all which expressions signifie the proper effect of his Death was the remission of our sins This He himself testifies how that his Blood was shed for the remission of sins Matt. 26.28 whence we may take comfort in his Death and rejoyce in the vertue of his Attonement whereby our pardon is obtain'd Should we now with the Socinian make plain words that express all this to be meer Metaphors and Figures we may as well joyn with the old Hereticks the Valentinians that made a Figure of his Living Dying and Rising in that they denied the reality of his Flesh nor can their Opinion be more contrary to the Faith than this For as to hold He was but the Image of a Man destroys a Christ so to hold He was but the Image of a Priest destroys a Saviour Thus to wrest the Scripture is to wrest it to our destruction for what follows upon it If he be not in a true sense offer'd for us we are still in our sins the Curse of the Law yet abides and his Death becomes altogether unprofitable when it brings us deliverance but in shadow I might add how his suffering upon any other account than in our stead to redeem us has nothing of justice in it and therefore cannot demonstrate the justice of another whereas his Blood and the declaring of Gods righteousness are joyned together Rom. 3.25 but if He who was all innocence in himself did not bear our guilt when He suffer'd the Death He underwent being properly a punishment because sins wages would be so far from declaring Gods righteousness that it could onely manifest the Tyranny of the Inflicter Yet these kind of men are the great pretenders to Reason who reject the Doctrine of Satisfaction but cannot maintain what they deliver without laying their ground-work in impiety which is to assert He was no God that suffer'd where how grosly they renounce their reason will appear in this that denying him to be God they deny themselves to be True Worshippers and proclaim to the world their Idolatry in adoring Man But their absurdity farther appears when denying the Meritoriousness of his Satisfaction they can yet make his Sufferings to be meritorious of Divine Power as if there were any proportion betwixt meer humane actions and so high a reward Now what Merit is this that could raise him to be the Head of Angels and Governour of all created Beings nay to be adored and worshipped equally with the Father which Honours the collected services of the whole Creation cannot reach to May not the Heathens scoff at their Idolatry who pretending to Christianity set up a made God to pray to and expect Salvation from One who is exalted for the vertue of his sufferings in maintaining his Religion as they consecrated theirs for the Gallantry of publick actions Behold this is onely to refine but not to change the nature of Gentilism as likewise it utterly overthrows the Mystery of Godliness and destroys the Greatness of Divine Love which consisted chiefly in abasing the Deity for Mans sake whereas this makes it ridiculous and dishonourable in thus exalting the Humanity But I leave them to their Judg above and their Books to Judges below I shall now onely briefly inquire into Two things for the better opening this Point and so proceed to my Second Observable 1. How Christs Death is the Cause of the remission of our sins 2. From what Time we should date the Benefit of that remission as it is made ours 1. How Christs Death is the Cause c. I answer thus God the Father was mov'd for that price his Son layd down which was his precious Blood to free us from that punishment we deserved in our own persons and to enter into a New Covenant with us offering us Pardon of sin and Eternal Life upon new easie terms of faith and sincere obedience whereas before rigorous Justice bore the sway and shut us all up under a a sentence of condemnation without hope of mercy Therefore He is called the Mediator of a better Covenant and whereas in the old League we were used as Gibeonites and made slaves in this New one procured by Christ we are treated as a free People and made capable of the Privileges of his Kingdome This He ratified in his own Blood whence his Blood is called the Blood of the New Testament wherein all his promises of Grace are confirm'd and the Legal Curse done away See here the Love of a Saviour that would thus die to restore us buy our peace at the price of himself and bring us terms of salvation so dearly purchased which before we could not hope for This shows the wretchedness of our state and the need we stood in of such an Expiation when He who could create us at first with the ease of a word is not allowed to create us anew but with the pain of suffering The Cross upon which He did this work is a sad spectacle to Sense but a glad object of Faith the one presents him naked in our Flesh but the other covered with our Sins the one shows him in his Blood but the other in our Guilt the burden of which He carried up thither encountred his Fathers wrath and at the very point of death proclaimed his Victory It is finished which is all one with this The Attonement is wrought because the Victim is slain 2. From what time we should date the Benefit of that Remission when it is made ours