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Sichah: or, A continued tract of meditation Being a discussion of the depth of God. Methodized, legible, and intelligible, in the idea of the book. By R.M. Philopolites. The second part.; Sichah. Part 2.
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Mayhew, R. (Richard).
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Of Sorrow to a Tune of Joy and sing HOSANNA unto Christ the Churches King 'T is not Pope Joan nor John can thus forgive But JESUS that Man may not die but live Let all forgiven ones herein accord Forgiveness is a TITLE of the Lord. Oh chiefest Christ with both Eyes do I see Like to three MITES three MILLIONS are to Thee And freely Thou hast now forgiven Me. Oh! to the Root of this accursed Tree Lay now thine AXE I beg on bended Knee For greatly long I sinless now to be SATISFACTION Satisfaction that 's one of the Depths of God Is there any constant Satisfaction in this Region of Vicissitude If any ask saith Caryl what Satisfaction is it is to have our Fill Is not this then one of the Depths of God ALEXANDER M. had the World for his Empire yet not satisfied for he thirsted after another world to conquer Is not Satisfaction now one of the Depths of God There is a twofold Satisfaction as to God and as to Man As to GOD. 'T is not Man that satisfieth God Quoad Deum The Papists say but they are Liars and given up to believe a Lie which borders upon Hel that We by our Sufferings in some part satisfie the Justice of God But Man cannot satisfie God That there is a Deficiency in all that Man doth in order to the Pacification of infinite IRE and Satisfaction of infinite JUSTICE is evident and easily evinced by these three Reasons Because whatsoever Man doth is a Debt before he doth it All our Duties are Debts before we perform them Thus Luke 17.10 When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you say We are unprofitable servants We have done that which was our duty to do This doth not assert a Possibility of compleat fulfilling the Law as some Popish Expositors abuse the TEXT but Christ speaks it by way of Confession Can we pay the Debt of Sin by those Duties which were due though Sin had never been committed Let those that dream of meriting renounce their Interest in and Claim unto Grace for Grace and Merit are incompatible Because all is imperfect and impure that Man doth Thus Exo. 28.38 Aaron must bear the iniquity of the holy things Holy things yet iniquity in them There is a considerable difference between a sinful Action and SIN in an Action Here were holy things in the Matter of them yet iniquity in the Manner of performing them The Services of Man smel of the Vessel thorough which they pass and tast of the Cask into which they are put There is a Stamp of our Sinfulness even upon our holy things and can that which is sinful satissie for Sin Because the Works of Man want the STAMP of divine Designation for that purpose God hath no where set up the Righteouness of Man as Satisfaction for the Vnrighteousness of Man The Crucifiction of Christ had not delivered from Damnation had it not been written in the Volume of the Book Thus Heb. 10.7.10 Then said I Lo I come in the Volume of the book it is written of me to do thy Will oh God! By the which will of the Father we are sanctified thorough the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all Sanctification here may be taken for Salvation and all in a Tendency unto Salvation The Obligation of the SON could not have saved us without the Ordination of the FATHER There is nothing satisfactory but what the Law or the Will of the Lawgiver makes or agrees to accept as satisfactory In the Volume of the Book saith Caryl there is nothing written which appoints Man such a Work and therefore he cannot do it Had Man performed perfect righteousness he could not have satisfied infinite justice unless God had said he would accept that way of Satisfaction The highest and holiest CEDAR upon Earth by all his Actions and Passions cannot satisfy the Justice of God for one Sin This person of greatest Grace and Gifts may say as he did Job 7.20 I have sinned what shal I do unto thee I cannot satisfie thy Justice I cannot pacifie thine Ire nor can I evade thy Power I cannot get away from thee I cannot rescue my self from under thy hand As to MAN 'T is not Man but God-Man who satisfieth God and Man 'T is God-Man that satisfieth God The Socinians among many notorious and prodigious Errors have this Capital and Cardinal one denying the Deity of Christ and Satisfaction by Christ Theanthropos Though God wil not be satisfied by Man yet he wil be satisfied for Man thorough that Christ who is GOD-MAN If the true meaning of giving Satisfaction to God be to do or suffer so much as may be justly sufficient to the Vengeance of him that is angry then who below Christ God-Man can satisfie God for Man Is not Satisfaction now one of the Depths of God If Satisfaction to God be the Effect of Action or Passion or both required for the answering of Sins by him who had Right Authority and Power to require exact and inflict Punishments for them then who below a Christ God-Man can satisfie God for Man Is not now Satisfaction one of the Depths of God If CHRIST made Satisfaction for Sin he did it either as God or Man or as God and Man Now he made Satisfaction as God and Man Thus Acts 20.28 Feed the church of God Here is the Divinity of Christ Which he hath purchased with his own blood Here is the Humanity of Christ That which appertaineth to Christ's Humanity is here attributed to his Divinity because of the Vnion of the two Natures in one Person and Communion of Properties So 1 Jo. 3.16 Hereby perceive we the love of God Here is the Divinity of Christ Because he laid down his life for us Here is the the Humanity of Christ Christ was GOD that he might Satisfie and MAN that he might Suffer As Man had sinned so God was offended Now Christ was God and Man to satisfie God for Man Though the word Satisfaction be not Syllabically legible in the sacred Scripture save in this onely one place Num. 35.31 32. Ye shal take no satisfaction for the life of a Murderer which is guilty of death but he shal be surely put to death And ye shal take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge that he should come again to dwel in the land until the death of the priest Yet there are some words which amount to a SATISFACTION Thus Eze. 16.63 That thou mayest remember and be confounded and never open thy mouth more because of thy shame when I am pacified towards thee for all that thou hast done saith Jehovah God Now if God may be pacified then he may be satisfied But God may be pacified So Col. 1.20 21 22. And by him having made peace thorough the blood of his Cross to reconcile all things to himself whether they be things in earth or things in
Defect makes one sinful but many good Actions cannot make one righteous He is just not only that hath no Sin but He also who is acquitted from his Sin or to whom his Sin is not imputed Is not Justification then one of the Depths of God To justifie our selves that we are righteous is worse than all our Vnrighteousness JAH hath no Respect to our Righteousness in the business of Justification is not this then one of the Depths of God 'T is said of Christ 1 Jo. 5.6 that he came by Water and Blood To intimate and indicate that no more are justified by his MERIT than are sanctified by his SPIRIT It is Christ who takes from Man Vnrighteousness and gives unto Man his own Righteousness Is not Justification now one of the Depths of God Aug. One saith that Marcellina hung the Picture of Christ and the Picture of Pythagoras together Are there not many not only in ITALY but also in ENGLAND who join Christ and their Works together Christ and their Prayers together Christ and their Tears together Christ and their Teachers together Christ and their Alms together In the Law Deu. 22.11 God commands not to wear a garment mingled of linnen and woolen This Law was figurative and teacheth that in the case of our Justification Acceptation and Salvation we are not to join our Services and Sacrifices to the Righteousness of Christ Is not Justification then one the Depths of God The Object of Worship God abominates a LINSEY-WOOLSEY Righteousness The Glosse of the Scoolmen is flagitious who say that Faith adorned with Charity justifieth The Romanists condemned in Councils the Doctrine of Justification by the Imputation of the Righteousness of Christ which is not in us but in him The Rhemists call it a fantastical Justice a new-no Justice But Luther saith whosoever rightly esteemeth of the Vtility and Majesty of Justification to him all things should seem vile and worthless For what is Paul what is Peter what is an Angel from Heaven what are all other Creatures to the ARTICLE of Justification Is not this then one of the Depths of God I cannot but mention the Tutissimum of Bellarmine who having written 5 Books against Justification by Faith gives a Defeat to his whole Design in concluding the Controversie with a Confutation of all that he had written of it in these words Tutissimum est Fiduciam totam in Dei sola Misericordia et Benignitate reponere 'T is safest to put the whole Confidence in the Mercy and Benignity of God Is not Justification now one of the Depths of God The Justification of one Sinner is a far greater Work than the Creation of all the WORLD is it not then one of the Depths of God They justifie themselves sinfully who say they are justified by Christ from their Sins and yet continue in their Sins and hold fast their iniquities Is not Justification then one of the Depths of God What Righteousness saith Farnworth Christ performed without Me was not my Justification neither was I saved by it May not this be beleived of this man himself if he died in the same mind Ob. Do men say that Justification is by Grace and not by Works The Scripture saith it is by Works and not by Grace only and who is most authentick God or Man Resp There 's a two-fold Justification before God and before Man Before GOD. Thus Works cannot justifie No righteousness can stand before God but the Righteousness of Christ only Thus Rom. 3.20 Therefore by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 No flesh all flesh so the Greek All flesh shall not But the meaning is no flesh shall Metonymia Materiae Flesh by a double Figure is put for a Man 'T is put for the Body it being the Matter of it Synecdoche Membri 'T is also put as a part for the whole man Here the word ALL joyned with the Negative is often according to the Hebrew phrase put for none All flesh that is no flesh All Men that is no Man No man how great soever how good soever can be justified by Works before God So Rom. 4.2 If Abraham were justified by works he hath whereof to glory but not before God If Abraham were justified by the Works of the Law or Nature apart from faith so Estius He hath whereof to glory but not before God Not in Scriptures of God where God speaketh so Vatablus Not before God because such a Righteousness cannot free from Sin nor reconcile to God so Toletus Before MAN Thus Mat. 7.20 By their works ye shall know them So Jam. 2.26 As the body without the Soul is dead so faith without works is dead As the Body is Lifeless if Soul-less so the Soul is Faithless if Workless Though a man be justified without the Righteousness of Works yet that MAN who is without Works of Righteousness is not justified Is not Justification now one of the Depths of God As it is true Grace is ever alone in justifying before God it is as true Grace is never alone in the person justified by God Is not Justification then one of the Depths of God Grace and Works dwell under the same Roof JUSTIFICATION is the Thesis next An Act of Grace according to the Text Most absolute Can ISH in his own Dress Be just with JAH No 't is the Right'ousness Of JESUS intervening with the Flag Mans Right'ousness is but a filthy Rag. God had for Sin with Man a certain Duel Justification is the Christ'ans Jewel Where is the Man but for a BANKRUPT went This is unto his Ear an Ornament Yea Golden-Chain this is unto his Neck And doth indeed a BLACK most rarely deck No more are justified by the Merit Than also sanctified by the Spirit The Spirit of th' Almighty gave me Breath Lord Jesus me acquit from Sin and Death I thorough Grace delight in sacred Story Lord right'ous me account to Life and Glory Oh dearest JESUS is my Sin made Thine Then is thy Right'ousness made also Mine SANCTIFICATION Sanctification that 's one of the Depths of God For the Heart of Enosh that was black with sin to be beautified with Grace and for Him who was a BLACK by Nature to be a BEAUTY by Grace is not this one of the Depths of God That there is such a thing as Sanctification is evident that this according to the Greek is a Sanctification of Spirit and belief of Truth is as evident Thus 2 Thes 2.13 But c because God hath from the beginning chosen you From the beginning of Evangelical preaching so Cajetan From the beginning of your Vocation so Vorstius From Eternity so Beza Before the foundations of the world were laid Et Animae Corporis so Piscator But unto what are these chosen Vnto Salvation Eternal so Grotius Both of Soul and Body so Gomarus Then followeth in sanctification of Spirit Of a divine