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A77515	Two treatises the one, handling the doctrine of Christ's mediatorship : wherein the great Gospel-mystery of reconciliation betwixt God and man is opened, vindicated, and applyed. The other, of mystical implantation : wherein the Christian's union and communion with, and conformity to Jesus Christ, both in his death and resurrection, is opened, and applyed. / As they were lately delivered to the church of God at Great Yarmouth, by John Brinsley, minister of the Gospel, and preacher to that incorporation.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.; Ashe, Simeon, d. 1662.	1652 (1652)	Wing B4737; Thomason E1223_1; ESTC R22919	314,532	569

appeared to him would teach him another lesson and effectually teach it him viz. to deny ungodlinesse and worldy lusts Tit. 2.12 and to live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world Every of us put our selves upon the triall and passe sentence according to evidence Vse By way of Exhortation Evidence our ingrafting into Christ by our fruitfulnesse in the second place As many of us as perswade our selves of an interest in this priviledge that we are thus planted together with Christ see that we evidence it to our own souls and to the world by bringing forth fruits worthy of such a Stock So the Apostle presseth it upon his Colossians Col. 1.10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 worthy of the Lord that is so as becometh those who have so near a relation to Jesus Christ those who have union and communion with him All of us who lay claim to this Priviledge this Dignity let us so walk And how shall we do it why Being fruitfull in every good work So it followeth 1. Being fruitfull in good works which 1. Being fruitfull in good works 1. This is the end of this mysticall Insition viz. Fructification Wherefore doth the Planter put Grafts into a Stock 1. Is God's end in our Ingrafting but for Fructification Multiplication Melioration that they may bring forth fruit and much fruit and good fruit This is God's end in engrafting men into this noble Stock the Lord Jesus that they might bring forth such fruit in him Ye are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works 2. This he expects and will require Ephes 2.10 2. This being God's end he expects it and will require it The Husbandman having planted his Vine in a fruitfull hill he looked that it should bring forth grapes Isai 5.2 And the Owner in the Gospell having let out his vineyard he sends his servants to demand the fruits thereof Luke 20.10 When our Saviour came to the fig-tree he came looking for fruit Mat. 21.19 And John the Baptist preaching to the Pharisees and Sadduces he cals upon them to bring forth fruits meet for repentance Mat. 3.8 3. To this end it is that God exerciseth such long-suffering and patience towards the sons of men 3. To this end he exerciseth patience that they might have time to bring forth fruit The Husbandman Luke 13.6 came year after year 4. Barren trees shall be cut down three years succesively to his fig-tree still waiting for fruit 4. Which not finding he ordereth it to be cut down Cut it down why cumbreth it the ground ver 7. Barren Christians are but a cumber to the grond that bears them a burden to the earth they tread upon And still remaining unfruitfull and that under the means of fruitfulnesse they have just cause to look for the Axe Now is the axe laid to the root of the trees Every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewen down Mat. 3.10 Every branch in me which beareth not fruit my Father taketh away John 15.2 5. Whereas fruit-bearing Grafts 5. Fruit-bearing Grafts shall want nothing to make them more fruitfull being an honour both to the Planter and the Stock they shall be pruned they shall be manured they shall want nothing to make them more fruitfull So shall it be with fruit-bearing Christians They being an honour to their God Herein is my Father glorified that ye bear much fruit John 15.8 And an honour unto Christ their Head their Root their Stock they shall want nothing to make them more fruitfull Every branch that beareth fruit my Father purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit John 15.2 And 6. Having their fruit unto holinesse here 6. They shall have their fruit unto happiness they shall have their fruit unto happinesse hereafter Now being mde free from sin and become servants unto God ye have your fruit unto holinesse and the end everlasting life Rom. 6.22 Let these motive be to us effectuall perswasions to take out this lesson Be we fruitfull in good works 2. And secondly In every good work 2. In every good work Other Trees bare but one kind of fruit these Trees of Righteousnesse must bear many That Tree of life in the midst of the Paradise of God spoken of Revel 22.1 2. is said to bear twelve manner of fruits Such should these Trees of Righteousnesse be fruitfull in all kinds of good works not only in works of Piety towards God but also of Charity and Mercy towards men The Exhortation pressed upon young and old Be fruitfull And this let me in the Name of God presse upon every soul here present both young and old Let not the one say it is too soon The time of fruit is not yet It is noted in the Gospel by Saint Mark and it is worth our noting that when Christ came to the fig-tree it is said The time of figs was not yet yet he cursed it because it had deceived him with a flourishing show making shew of bearing fruit sooner then ordinary but yet was barren Christians none of us know how soon Christ may come unto us in the way of generall or particular Judgment looking for fruit Let none therefore say The time of fruit is not yet nor let any say It is past The Trees of God's planting Trees of Righteousnesse are never superannated never past bearing so long as they stand They that are planted in the House of the Lord c they shall bring forth fruit in their age Psal 92.12 13 Be we fruitfull then and at all times fruitfull Like that Tree in the Revelation which brings forth fruit every moneth Or like the Lemmon and some other trees of like nature which bear fruit all the year long 1. Now that we may do so Direction 1. Make sure our Insition into Christ Let our first work be let me presse that again which can never be pressed too much to make sure our Insition that we are engrafted into Christ united to him by faith Till this be done it is but a preposterous course to think of doing any other good work So much our Saviour insinuateth in that answer which he returned to some of the Jews John 6.28 29. when they demanded of him What shall we do that we might work the works of God Why saith he This is the work of God that ye believe on him whom he hath sent This is that first work and the great work without which it is in vain to go about any other work In as much as Without faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 11.6 The Graft may as soon bear fruit out of the Stock as the Christian out of Christ Ye are created in Christ Jesus unto good works saith the Apostle Ephes 2.10 A Virgine must be married before she can bring forth children to the joy of her Parents So must Christians be

deadly wound and it begins to die It hath already lost much of that power and strength which it had And in this respect it may be said to be dead to him and he to it Even as a man that is in a consumption having lost his bodily strength and his radicall moisture being in great measure exhausted and spent such a one may be said to be a dead man dead whilest he liveth So though sin do still live in a regenerate person yet in as much as it is in a consumption the power and strength of it gone it may be said to be dead It lieth a dying Now we say of a man in that case a man that is drawing home that he is a dead man He hath begun to die 3. In respect of Assurance 3. In respect of Assurance Sin in a regenerate person having begun to die it shall certainly die it shall speedily die Certainly The wound which it hath received is incurable a deadly wound so as though it may live for a time yet it shall languish and decay more and more till it be utterly extinct which it shall be and that speedily The death of sin is not far off to such a one The story in the Gospel tels us of a certain Disciple who asked leave of his Master Christ that before such time as he followed him he might first go and bury his Father Mat. 8.21 Now here some move the question What was his Father dead that he would go bury him Most probably he was not onely he was very aged having one foot in the grave so as in course of nature he could not live long and in that regard he looketh upon him and speaketh of him as a dead man ready for the grave So is it with the body of sin in a regenerate person It is dying and cannot live long It is much infeebled already and by death which is not far off from any it shall utterly be extinguished and abolished Death separating the soul from the body shall separate sin from both He that is dead is freed from sin saith the Apostle ver 7. of this Chapter which is true as to the regenerate in a literall as well as a mysticall sense Thus you see the former of these Propositions briefly opened and cleared All that are Christs are dead to sin as he died for sin As briefly of the later Doct. 3. The Believer death to sin is from the death of Christ D. 3. This their death to sin is from the death of Christ for sin So much the Metaphor in the Text imports Believers are planted together with Christ in the likenesse of his death that is they are made conformable to Christ in his death and that by a vertue flowing from his death Thus the Graft dieth with the Stock it dieth in it and by it The death of the one is the cause of death in the other Thus is the believer said to be engrafted with Christ in the likenesse of his death he dieth with Christ and the death of Christ is the cause of that death in him This is that which the Apostle saith of himselfe Gal. 6.14 God forbid that I should glory save in the Crosse of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom the world is crucified to me and I unto the world Paul was a mortified man dead to the world and dead to sin But how came he so to be why this he attributes to the Crosse of Jesus Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by whom or by which it may be referred to either The death of Christ the cause of this death It was the Crosse of Christ the Death of Jesus Christ which was the cause of this death in him And so is it in all other believers The Cause of it And that not only Not onely 1. Meritorious 1. The Meritorious Cause True so it is This is one of the benefits which Jesus Christ merited and purchased for his Elect by his death that they might die unto sin He bare our sins in his own body upon the tree that we being dead unto sin should live unto righteousnesse 1 Pet. 2.24 Christ by his death merited for his people not only a deliverance from the guilt but also from the power of sin But not only so 2. Nor yet onely the Exemplsry 2. Exemplary Cause of it as Pelagians of old and Socinians at this day would have it True it is so also Christ was a pattern and example to the Christian as in his life so in his death He suffered for us leaving us an example that we should follow his steps 1 Pet. 2.21 He died for us leaving us an example that we should die to sin as he died for sin But this is not all 3. In the third place then 3. But also Efficient it is the Efficient Cause working this death in the believer by a secret vertue issuing from it Thus are Christians here said to be engrafted with Christ in the likenesse of his death Non tantùm imitatione Beza Gr. Annot in Text. sed virtute as Beza rightly not only by way of Imitation conforming themselves unto his death as the pattern of their Mortification but also by way of Efficacy being conformed thereunto by a vertue flowing from Christ and his death And so much the word in the Text as Beza notes upon it doth here insinuate which is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. a word saith he of passive signification importing not barely a conformity Conformatione mortis ejus Beza but a conformation as he renders it not only a being like but being made like and that by a power and vertue out of themselves viz. the power and vertue of Christ and his death working an answerable death in them And so much that word used by the Apostle to the same purpose Phil. 3.10 implies Being made conformable unto his death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 conformis factus or configuratus not conforming my selfe viz. by way of Imitation but being made conformable viz. by a power out of my selfe the power and vertue of Christ's death And this is that which the Authour to the Hebrews plainely asserts Heb. 9.14 where he layeth down this as one of the fruits of Christ's death The blood of Jesus Christ purgeth our consciences from dead works to serve the living God Dead works So he calleth sinfull lusts not formally as if they had no life no activity in them but effectively because they are deadly works bringing death upon the sinner that liveth in them Now from these saith the Apostle the Blood of Christ cleanseth the conscience of the sinner and so it doth not only in respect of the guilt of sin in Justification but also the power of it in Sanctification from which it so freeth the sinner as that he may now serve the living God The former of these is done by the merit the later by the vertue of