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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57805	A sermon preached before the right honourable the Lord mayor and the court of alderman at Gvild-Hill-Chappel upon Good-Friday the 29th of March, 1689 by George Royse ...	Royse, George, 1708.	1689 (1689)	Wing R2162; ESTC R13852	12,398	35

was this day punctually accomplish'd Thus it was written says St. Luke and thus it behoved Christ to suffer Luke 24.46 And thus When we were yet without strength Rom. 5.6 in due time Christ died for the ungodly Not only his Disciples do testifie these things but the most senseless part of the Creation was both a Witness and a joint Sufferer under them Nature it self felt the Agonies of the day and gave publick Testimony to them by its trembling and Convulsion The Sun fell into an unnatural labour at the setting of this glorious Sun of Righteousness the veil of the Temple was rent in peices and the Rocks gave out that their Great Shepherd was Dead And as 't is certain that he died so 't is no less evident that he suffered for us Men and for our Redemption By the same Authority we believe that he laid down his Life we must believe too that he gave it as a Price or Ransom for us We live indeed as if we had been redeemed with Silver and Gold or at the small expence of the Bloud of Bulls and Goats but the Apostle assures us that we were not redeem'd with those corruptible things 1 Pet. 1.18 but with the precious bloud of Christ. Which expression as 't is a just Comment upon my Text so it informs us that what Silver and Gold is in a civil Contract and Purchase the same was the Bloud of Christ in this spiritual one and as the former is usually laid down for the release of a party that stands bound and obliged so the latter was no less design'd for the discharge of our Guilt This was the great end of his coming into the World as St. Matthew assures us Matt. 20.28 to give his life a ransom for many By which 't is intimated to us that as our Saviour's Life was given in exchange and commutation for ours so the great end of laying it down was that he might buy off the Punishment of our Transgressions with the price of his Bloud agreeable to that of the Apostle who tells us that he died for the redemption of transgressions Heb. 9.15 Every one knows that a Ransom is nothing else but a price paid down to discharge the personal obligation of another and therefore if the Life of Christ was a Ransom for us it must be given in lieu of ours and substituted as much in our stead as the life of the Beast under the Law was in the room of the Offerer Had I no other Authority for this yet what we read of the Jewish Sacrifices will sufficiently warrant the Interpretation for 't is most certain that the Bloud of the Sacrifices amongst them was nothing less than a stated price for the Redemption of the Offeuder And I may as well question whether there were any such Sacrifices at all as whether they were a Ransom for him that offer'd them And consequently if all those Sacrifices were prefigurative only of our Saviours as the Apostle makes them If there was such an exact congruity and correspondence betwixt both we may rationally conclude that what was intended there by the Bloud of the Beast was more effectually accomplished by that more excellent Sacrifice the Bloud of Jesus This is the easiest and most natural Construction of all those places wherein he is said to die for our Sins to bear our Iniquities to be made a Curse a Sacrifice and Sin for us The sense of all which is so clear and obvious that you may justly wonder why I should insist on them But you cannot be ignorant that there are many in the World that take up with a quite different sense of them who deal with Scripture as some do with Witnesses torture them so and force them till they speak what they themselves please and being not willing to stretch their Faith beyond their own Reason are resolved to shape all mysteries to it They allow indeed that Christ's Bloud was shed for us that is in a large sense for our Good and Benefit but not as a proper Ransom and Offering to God for us that he laid down his Life to seal the truth of his Doctrin and to be an Example to us of suffering for the same but they will not grant that he parted with it by way of compensation and satisfaction to Divine Justice And whether those Expressions before mentioned do import no more I leave it to you to Judge 'T is true indeed that where 't is said he laid down his Life for us it may be interpreted in their sense for our good and benefit only without making any attonement or satisfaction for our Sins But when the sacred Writings do assure me 1 Pet. 2.24 That he did bear our sins in his own body so as to feel the Chastisement of our peace upon him Isa 53.5 that he so far endured the Punishment of our Sins as to have his Soul made an Offering for them that he suffered so in our stead as to be made Sin for us What else can I conclude but this that his Bloud was a true Sacrifice to turn God's Wrath from us and a valuable Price offered in our behalf to propitiate Heaven That his Bloud was shed for the Remission of our Sins may be wrested to signifie what these men would have it that 't was shed only to give us assurance of Pardon and Remission but when the Scripture is so express that now in the end of the World he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself Heb. 9.26 and since the Apostle by telling us Heb. 10.4 That the bloud of bulls and goats could not take away sins does plainly insinuate that the Bloud of Christ was therefore shed to supply that defect of the legal Sacrifices What other sense can I fix on it but this that his sacred Bloud was poured out to make an attonement for our Souls and to procure the expiation of our Guilt It seems strange indeed that God should exact the Bloud of his own Son when being a free Sovereign Power he might have released the Sinner without any price or satisfaction at all For so far it must be granted that every supreme Independent Governour may discharge an Offender at pleasure without any Compensation And therefore there is no such vindictive Justice in God as to determine him necessarily to punish the Guilty either in his own Person or his Undertaker But then we must remember that could we assign no Reasons for God Almighty's proceedings yet our Faith ought to remove those Mountains which our Reason cannot his Judgments are unsearchable and his ways past finding out But yet there are very good Reasons why he should require the Price of Bloud for had he quitted the Offender without some reasonable satisfaction he could neither have vindicated his own Honour nor secured the Authority of his Laws and Government For he that pardons the Guilty without a valuable Consideration does but expose his

Justice by an indiscreet Mercy and invite new Provocations by giving impunity to the old Whereas now by executing the Punishment upon Christ our Undertaker he has contrived such an admirable Method of our Deliverance as might at once preserve his own Authority as well as the Souls of the Offenders But not to dwell too long on this let us all fix our Meditations on that Bloud of Jesus and humble our selves rather under a deep sense of his Sufferings than contest about the Merits of them And here I need not use any Artifice to excite your Affections the subject itself is all Passion and the very naming of the Bloud of Jesus is enough to fetch the same drops of Bloud from us if we bear the same nature with him for who can reflect upon the Bloud that was shed this day without being as much concern'd in the Sufferings as our Sins were in the occasioning them How strongly should we be affected when we look back upon Innocence bleeding under unjust Violence strugling with the Pain as well as infamy of a Cross and bearing the Iniquity no less than the contradiction of Sinners What deep Impressions should this work upon us when by a lively representation we can view that Lamb stretch'd on an accursed Tree labouring under the Vengeance due to our Crimes and healing us with those stripes which we our selves laid upon him What a stupendious Mystery is this that the sufferings of the Son should be a Ransom for the professed Rebels to the Father That the bloud of God Acts 20.28 as the Apostle calls it should be laid down as the Price of an accursed Slave and that he who from Heaven might have been the revenger of our Crimes should now be the only undertaker for them 'T was a strange surprise to the Heathens as we read in the Acts of the holy Apostles when they fancied that their Gods were come down Acts 14.11 and appeared in the likeness of men But what would they have said then if they had seen them die like men too and fall not like one of the Princes but like Slaves What an amazing thought is this that he who was infinitely exalted far above all our Sacrifice and Praise should now be not only the Votary but the Sacrifice himself and be brought as a Lamb to the Altar from whence he might have commanded all our Worship This is such a wonderful Scene as seems as much above our wonder as our Faith as far above the understanding of a Man as it was beneath the Majesty of a God. Instead therefore of a further discourse we shall do much better by falling low upon our Knees and silently adoring what we can never express But however this Mistery may stagger our belief yet so much we may understand of it that as the Son of God could never condescend so low but for the highest ends and purposes so his Bloud was effectual for the accomplishment of them and since the great end of his undertaking was to deliver us both from the Guilt and Dominion of our Sin and we may therefore conclude that 't was available for the cancelling the Obligation of the one as well as conquering the prevailing Power of the other which brings me to the third General Head viz. The Effects and Benefits of Christ's Bloud in reference to the Guilt and dominion of Sin and in what condition it has instated us As we are assured that Christ died for us so likewise that he bought us it being equally certain that the Price was accepted as that it was offer'd For as that Bloud was infinitely valuable so it could not fail of being effectual Agreeably we find that it not only seald but procur'd a new Covenant of Grace and Mercy For which reason 't is call'd by the Apostle The bloud of the everlasting covenant Heb. 13.20 Heb. 12.24 The bloud of sprinkling because those overtures of Mercy and Pardon which are offer'd to us were both ratified and confirmed by his Bloud as well as purchased by its Merits To understand therefore what are the benefits of that Bloud we must first know what are the terms and proposals of this new Covevenant because all the Acts of Grace and Favour that are contain'd and promulged in the one are the pure Results and Effects of the other And consequently since the Gospel Covenant does on one side promise greater helps and assistance for the discharge of our Duty and on the other pardon and remission for the Defects of it we may be assured by the former that he has deliver'd us from the Dominion of Sin and by the latter from the Guilt of it By providing such Helps and Abilities he has subdued its Power by opening a Fountain of Pardon he has cancell'd its Obligation Hence on one side we are said to be reconcil'd to God through the death of his Son to have redemption through his bloud even the remission of sins Colos 1.14 Tit. 2.14 1 Pet. 1.18 on the other hand we are said to be redeem'd from all iniquity from a vain conversation from the present evil world This referring to the Dominion of Sin the other to the Guilt of it But because the Gospel being a mutual Covenant betwixt God and Man does contain certain conditions to be perform'd on our parts too and since the Grace and Pardon therein promised is dispensed agreeably to the performance of those Conditions therefore the Bloud of Christ thô infinitely meritorious can be no further beneficial to us than as we apply those benefits by a discharge of those conditions of Faith and Repentance Hence is it that we find Repentance and Remission of Sins so often linkt together the one as the indispensable condition of the Gospel the other as the inseparable Blessing annext to it by vertue of Christ's Bloud For the same reason when he is stiled a Propitiation for us Rom. 3.25 the Apostle adds through faith in his bloud Would you be resolv'd therefore how you are bought or redeem'd with this price the Answer is obvious that Christ has not so redeem'd us as actually to instate us in Salvation without a possibility of a miscarriage but that by opening a Fountain of Mercy and providing us means by which our Salvation may be accomplish'd he has put us all in a glorious condition and capacity of attaining it Thus has the Lord visited and redeemed his People and rais'd up a mighty Salvation in the house of his servant David he has broken the gates of Brass and cut the bars of Iron asunder he has struck off our Fetters and cancell'd our Obligations upon the reasonable terms of Faith and Penitence And being thus set free 't is in your power now by the merits of Christ's Bloud to work out your own Salvation Life and Death are fairly set before you if Iniquity be your ruin 't is your choice too and if you perish in your Sins your destruction is from your selves A