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A50488 A funeral sermon preached upon the sad occasion of the death of that emiment and faithful servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Rosewell who departed this life February the 4th : and whose remains were interred February th 19th. 1691/2 / by Mathew Mead. Mead, Matthew, 1630?-1699. 1692 (1692) Wing M1554; ESTC R20429 28,985 38

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Meditation of it refresh yea nourish our hearts What Balaam says by way of admiration of the works of God for Israel Numb 23 23. What hath the Lord wrought the same we may say of the undertaking of Christ for his People What hath Christ purchased what a ransom what a salvation what a deliverance what an inheritance what mercy for the present what glory for the future O how precious is the blood of Christ there is an infinite value in the price of it So that if there were as many worlds of men as there are men in the world it would be a ransom sufficient for them all Quest 4. But inasmuch as this Ransom is here said to be found It will be queried Who found it Not Man Man is found ransomed but Man did not find the ransom I am found of them that sought me not Isa 65.1 The Grace of God sinds it Then he is gracious and says Deliver him I have found a ransom But where did he sind it It was not to be found any where out of himself It was found in his own bosom Jesus Christ came out of the bosom of the Father John 1.18 This is the Lord 's doing and therefore should be marvellous in our eyes Psal 118.23 I have found a ransom The manner of Expression implies in it three things 1. The weakness and utter impotency of the Creature to have found out a way for its own ransom If all the Men on Earth had sat in counsel from the Fall to this day to have found out a way how sinning Man might be redeemed from the condemning Sentence of the Law without damage to the Justice of God all their Wisdom would have proved Foolishness in this matter They could never have found it out In Rev. 5.1 you read of a Book in the right hand of him that sat on the Throne and in the next verse there is an Angel makes a challenge who is worthy to open the Book and to loose the seals thereof and it is said v. 3. no man in heaven or earth was able to open the Book nor look thereon Much less could they have found out a remedy against the damning mischief of sin 2. This finding a ransom implies that God the Father was the first Author and Inventer of this blessed project of Redemption Tho it was wrought out by Christ yet it was contrived by the Father For 1. It was he who first summoned that great Counsel held by all the Persons in Elohim when neither Men nor Angels existed Then did God sit in Consultation with his Wisdom and Love his Word and Spirit about the great business of redeeming Man Isa 40.13 14. God the Father was first in it 2. It was he that first pitched upon the Son and laid him as the foundation of the whole structure of Salvation I have laid help upon one that is mighty Psal 89.19 Our help is in Christ to him we must look but it is God that made him a help He is a ransom to redeem us but it is God who found him for us I have found a ransom It is the Lord's doings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 meeth Jehovah this is from the Lord Psal 118.23 The whole Model of Redemption from first to last is said to be proposed from Eternity in Jesus Christ Eph. 3.11 because God chose him out to bottom all his Counsels and Purposes upon in the whole of the work Christ's Merits had no hand in his being made a Redeemer tho they are the price of redemption He was a Redeemer by Election and choice not by merit and price Some things are the fruits of his Merit as Justification Adoption Sanctification c. But some things were purely God's act without any merit of Christ And such was Election both Christ's and ours Christ neither merited our Election nor his own mission and incarnation Election is the proper act of the Father and all those means which were appointed for the accomplishing the ends of it are of the Father's contrivance and so was the Mediator himself So says the Holy Ghost in 1 Pet. 1.20 Who verily was fore-ordained before the foundation of the World Fore-ordained for what to be a ransom so it is said in the two former Verses So that Christ is the Elect of God as well as you Behold mine Elect in whom my Soul delighteth Isa 42.1 Our Redeemer came out of the Womb of the Virgin in the fulness of time Gal 4.4 but he came out of the womb of the Decree long before that even from Eternity He is not elected to be a Son but a ransom He is a Son by eternal generation but a Redeemer by election And therefore tho both are eternal acts of the Father yet his being a Son is in order of nature before his being a Redeemer For his being a Son is from God's nature and therefore he is so necessarily but his being made a Redeemer is from God's will and pleasure and therefore that is arbitrary he was a Son before he was a Redeemer and he had been a Son tho he had never been a Redeemer For the one was necessary the other was arbitrary Begotten as a Son but elect as a Saviour Christ was first chosen as the Well-head of Grace and Glory and then God chose out such on whom by and through Christ these blessings should be conferred And therefore the Scripture speaks of the undertaking of Christ in such a manner as fully attests the priority of the Father in the work I was set up from everlasting Prov. 8.23 And Isa 42.6 I the Lord have called thee in righteousness and will give thee for a Covenant of the People for a Light of the Gentiles To open the blind eyes to bring out the Prisoners from the prison and them that sit in darkness out of the Prison-house This is the very same language which the Text speaks Deliver him from going down to the pit I have found a ransom All those Scriptures prove this where Christ is said to be sent of God and the gift of God John 6.38 John 4.10 Isa 43.1 John 14.31 John 10.7 and the servant of God and to observe the commands of God and coming to do the will of God And so where he is said to be made of God to us wisdom righteousness sanctification and redemption 1 Cor. 1.30 He is our wisdom but God made him so He is our righteousness but God made him so He is sanctification to us but God made him so He is our redemption but God made him so i. e. he found the ransom And therefore the Holy Ghost distinguishes the Father from the Son by this Character The Father of whom are all things and Jesus Christ by whom are all things 1 Cor. 8.6 All things are of the Father in point of invention and by the Son in point of execution The Father is the first contriver and Christ is the great undertaker The whole model of mercies
its true Basis The more we come to live by Faith the more secure and quiet will our lives be What sad Complaints and desponding Out-cries are often heard out of the Mouths of good men enough to make such as judge according to outward appearance to take them for Reprobates and Castaways whereas these for the most part are nothing but the pinings of spiritual sense cut short of it wonted Meals and so crying for lack of Bread This was the reason of Job's complaining Chap. 29. O that I were as in Months past as in the days when God preserved me when by his light I walked through darkness A Soul that hath once enjoyed the comfort and sweetness of this light cannot bear it to have his Spirit benighted by the hidings of God from him But to be brief 6. God doth some times deal thus with his own Children in Judgment to the Children of this World that they that will not be convinced of the goodness and excellency of the ways of God by the light of the word of God may never be drawn by the comforts of the Children of God As there are Mysteries in the Word of God so there are also the Works of God 2 Cor. 4 3. Psal 83.3 As his Gospel is to some a hidden Gospel so are his People a hidden People Their Graces are hidden under many Infirmities their Beauty is hidden under mean outward Appearances their Comforts are hidden under much spiritual darkness and this is in Judgment to the World As Christ's coming in such a poor and low condition was John 9.39 For Judgment I am come into this World 7. These dealings of God are suitable to their present state which is a state of conflict This Life is a season of manifold Temptations 1 Pet. 1.6 and therefore we should be so far from wondering that any are tempted so much that it should rather be matter of wonder that all are not tempted more only the wise God knows what kind of temptation is needful and how much and how long and debates in measure Who wonders to see Storms and Tempests Frosts and Snows and lowring Heavens in Winter Is it not the proper Season Tho the day be more pleasant than the night yet the night is as useful as the day Books sold by John Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultry GEll's Remains being sundry pious and learned Notes on the New Testament opening and explaining it In Folio The Jesuites Catechism according to St. Ignatius Loyola wherein the Impiety of their Principles Perniciousness of their Doctrines and Iniquity of their Practices are declared 4o. Several excellent Discourses viz. 1. Of Purity and Charity 2. Of Repentance 3. Of seeking first the Kingdom of God By Hezekiah Burton D. D. Published by the most Reverend Father in God John Lord Archbishop of Canterbury 8o. Man's whole Duty and God's wonderful Intreaty of him thereunto set forth from 2 Cor. 5.20 By Daniel Burgess Minister of the Gospel In 12o. Advice to Parents and Children The sum of a few Sermons contracted and published at the request of many pious Hearers By the same Author In 12o. The Triumph of Grace or the last Words and edifying Death of the Lady Margaret de la Musse a noble French Lady who died in May 1681. Aged but sixteen years In 12o. The Map of Man's Misery or the Poor Man's Pocket Book being a perpetual Almanack of Spiritual Meditations or a Compleat Directory for one endless Week 12o. A Help to true Spelling or Reading or a very easie Method for the teaching of Children or elder Persons rightly to spell and exactly to read English By William Scoffin Minister of the Gospel In 8o. Institutio Grammaticae ad Juventutis Captum summo studio artificio concinnata Inqua certi● Ratio genuina Noteo accurati disquiritur atque enucleatino enodatur In 8o. Lately published The Death and Rest Resurrection and Portion of the Saints in a Discourse on Dan. 12.13 on occasion of the Funeral of the Reverend Dr. Dan. Rolles Together with the work of the Redeemer and work of the Redeemed By Dan. Burgess Minister of the Gospel 12o. Miscellanca Sacra Containing Scriptural Meditations Divine Ineathings Occasional Reflections and Sacred Poems In 12o.