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B36556	The spouse raised from under the apple-tree, or, The way by which children of wrath come to be made the children of grace opening the doctrine of our redemption by the Lord Jesus Christ, both in respect to the purchase and application / by John Collings ...	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.	1650 (1650)		31,472	83

THE SPOVSE Raised FROM Vnder the APPLE-TREE OR The way by which Children of Wrath come to be made the Children of Grace Opening the Doctrine of our Redemption by the Lord Jesus Christ both in respect to the Purchase and Application By JOHN COLLINGS M. A. Isa 63.5 And I looked and there was none to help and I wondred that there was none to uphold therefore my owne arme brought salvation unto me LONDON Printed for Rich Tomlins 1649. The Spouse raised from under the APPLE-TREE CANT 8. ver 5. I raised thee up under the Apple-tree there thy mother brought thee forth there she brought thee forth that bare thee I Have now done with my first general Doctrine containing Mans misery Hee was brought forth under the Apple-tree there his mother brought him forth there she brought him forth that bare him I am now come to the second Generall part expressing Gods mercy to poore man fallen and undone in this condition expressed in those words I raised thee you may observe 1. The Agent I. 2. The Act Raised 3. The Object Thee I thy Bridegroome the Lord Jesus Christ raised It presupposes a fall I helped up thee My Spouse being in a sad and undone condition The Doctrine is shortly this Doct. 2. That it is the Lord Jesus Christ that helpeth his redeemed ones out of their undone condition 1. I shall inlarge and prove this truth in the generall In these particulars 1. He was designed to doe it 2. He can doe it 3. He must doe it for none else could 4. He hath done it 5. He will doe it After this I shall explicate to you the manner how the Lord Christ raised up his servants under the Apple-tree then thirdly I shall give you the reasons and lastly I shall come to Application First in regard that the Doctrine is propounded indefinitely I shall prove it to you in severall particulars which possibly may some of them beare the force of Reasons too 1. He was designed to doe it It was a designe of Eternity that Jesus Christ should step out of heaven and raise up his elected ones from their lost condition therefore Christ is said by the Apostle to the Hebrewes chap. 3. ver 2. To be an High-Priest faithfull to him that appointed him The businesse from Eternity lay thus Here is man lost and here are those amongst others lost saith God the Father to his Sonne that I have given thee for a portion what shall be done for man Well yet I will study to doe good to a wretched creature Thou shalt in the fulnesse of time goe and bee borne of flesh and bloud and dye for them and satisfie my justice and they shall be thine for a portion therefore they are called the Lords Redeemed ones Isa 35.9 The holy People the redeemed of the Lord. Isa 62.12 This thou shalt do saith the Father and upon these termes they shall live believing in thee This was Gods Covenant with the Sonne of his love for us For it is worth the noting that though the Covenant of Works was made betwixt the Lord and Adam personally yet the Covenant was made with Christ and all us in him mystically this the Apostle largely proves Gal. 3.26 The promises were made to Abraham and his seed hee saies not to seeds as of many but as of one And to thy seed which was Christ The Covenant was made then betwixt God and our representative The Lord Jesus Christ God sayes thou shalt goe and dye for them and I will yet save them believing in thee Content saith the Lord Jesus Christ I will goe and fulfill thy pleasure and they shall bee mine for ever I will in the fulnesse of time dye for them and they shall live in me Psalme 40. verse 6. Burnt-offering and Sinne-offering thou hast not required no it was Self-offering Then said I Loe I come in the Volume of thy booke it is written of mee to doe thy will O my God Hebr. 10. verse 5 6. In what Booke was it written that Christ should come to doe the will of God It was written in Cyphers in the Ceremoniall Law it was written in plainer English in the Prophets But it was written in the Book of Gods Decrees in this sense the Lord Jesus Christ is called Rev. 13. verse 8. The Lamb slain before the beginning of the World And in regard of Gods Decree we may say the Saints were redeemed pardoned Justified from eternity His Father from before all time appointed him to be our High-Priest and hee from before all Eternity subscribed to his Fathers pleasure in it Thus from Eternity he raised us up Secondly as he was designed to doe it so it was not a worke beyond the greatnesse of his strength God in doing it laid help on one that was mighty There was power enough in his mercy price enough in his merits to have bought more than the handfull of his redeemed ones out of the hands of the Devill had they beene to bee sold It is a slandering thought of infinite mercy for me to thinke there is no balme in Gilead there is no Physitian there though our sinnes be mighty yet hee that hath helpe laid upon him is mighty too and the might of our sinnes is nothing to the power of his mercies He was God as well as man his manhood made him our helper his Godhead made him a Mighty helper able to pardon all the sinnes of his Saints and to furnish all their soules with long white Robes of his Righteousnesse Yea thirdly Such a worke it was to raise us that it was hee alone that could doe it all heaven and earth had been at a losse for a satisfaction for divine Justice if it had not satisfied it selfe upon it self See it in Gods word Isaiah 63. verse 5. And I looked and there was none to helpe and I wondred that there was none to uphold therefore mine owne arme brought salvation to them And so Isaiah 59. verse 16. And he saw there was no man and wondred that there was no intercessor therefore his arme brought salvation unto him and his righteousnesse sustained him He saw none would And no wonder at that for none could but if they could they would not All creatures would have been like the Priest and Levite Luke 10. verse 31 32. they would have passed by on the other side Christ was he that was the good Samaritane onely that had compassion on us Ez. 16. verse 5. None eye pittied us to doe any thing to us that might doe us any good wee were cast out in the open yield to the loathing of our person in the day wherein we were borne But if they would yet none could Alas they had been all Physitians of no value man had beene past their cure Here was the state of a poore Creature An infinite debt was due to infinite justice for mans offence Alas where shall it be had as Job said concerning wisedome Job 28.13 14. Man knoweth not the