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A79435	Yahweh Tsidkenu or The plain doctrin of the justification of a sinner in the sight of God; justified by the God of truth in his holy word, and the cloud of witnesses in all ages. Wherein are handled the causes of the sinners justification. Explained and applied in six and twenty sermons, in a plain, doctrinal and familiar way, for the capacity, and understanding of the weak and ignorant. By Charles Chauncy president of Harvard Colledge in Cambridge in New-England.	Chauncy, Charles, 1592-1672.	1659 (1659)	Wing C3739; Thomason E979_11; ESTC R222074	232,660	312

have destroyed Christ had not the sins of the elect met on him 2 The killing Christ is a farre fouler bloud-guiltinesse than ever David incurred than to kill an only Son or to murther a Josiah a King a godly King for this is the crucifying the Lord of glory 1 Cor. 2.8 and may therefore well be lamented 3 The love we owe and bear to Christ for his unparallel'd condescentions to make us heirs of glory should engage our hearts to weep for his death as he did for Lazarus's death Joh. 11.35 56. which the Jewes took notice of to be the probate of his love Behold how he loved him Thus Christ imputes the repenting tears of that sinful woman Luke 7.47 to love Christs great graciousnesse makes the most stony heart to lament its provocations 4 The sense of our dreadful and undone estate that needed the death of Christ to establish a Covenant of Grace with us should provoke us to bee in bitternesse as God expects Ezeck 16.62 63. And I will establish my Covenant with thee and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. That thou mayest remember and be confounded and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done saith the Lord. 5 The Spirit of grace and supplication is now poured forth into the soul and that Spirit is a spirit of Lamentation and works and continues a broken and contrite spirit in all that receive it as it did in those Converts Acts 2.37 Pricking them to the heart for all their wrongs and injuries put upon Christ for embruing their hands in his precious bloud Look back therefore upon thy pleasure that thou hast taken in sin and with what greedinesse thou hast committed it and compare them with Christs sufferings and what hee deserved at thy hands that it may break thy heart as it did Davids 2 Sam. 12.7 8. when hee had long lain in a slumbering condition and God told him how much he had done for him wondring that after so much love he should despise his Commandements and make so wretched a requital How doth he cry out upon his sins vers 13. and loathes himself Obj. But a Christian should rejoyce in the Crosse of Christ how then comes it to be the object of sorrow Sure Paul thought otherwise Gal. 6.14 Sol. How the Crosse is a ground of rejoycing as well as of mourning It is true Christs Crosse is a ground of rejoycing as well as a ground of sorrow Of sorrow in respect of that hand we had in his death the wounds which our sins gave him the hard dealing and unkind requital he hath received for all his love Of joy in respect of the benefits and good we receive by his death Let us therefore maintain a spring of godly sorrow for our sins and streams of joy for the blessings we receive by him which is the true eating the Passeover with bitter Herbs Exod. 12.8 Also making confession of their sins Levit. 16.21 The Papists have a seeming practice of this duty keeping Good-friday in penance and lamentation setting up a Crucifix before them and zealously hating the Jewes for putting Christ to death but think not of their own sins that they had a hand in it To whom Christ might justly say as to the Women weeping at his Crosse Luk. 23 28. O yee daughters of Jerusalem weep not for me but weep for your selves for your sins whereby you have wounded me which is the duty of every Christian 2 Upon the consideration of Christs extream sufferings for Sin the Members of Christ are pressed hard Christs members should hate sin to hate every evil way and to shun all sin for ever 1 Because it was one end of Christs crucifying To hate sin is the end of Christs death that sin and the flesh should be crucified Gal. 5.24 that They that are Christs have crucified the flesh understanding by the flesh the corruption of Nature with the affections and lusts of it Christs members should pluck up the very roots of sin the very inward lusts that grow in the heart Rom. 6.6 Knowing this that our Old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might bee destroyed that is the whole corruption of Nature may be killed by the death of Christ yet not so farre as to free us from all sin but that we might not serve sin or obey it in the lusts thereof For this cause did Christ bear our sin upon the Crosse That we being dead unto sin might live unto righteousnesse 1 Pet. 2.24 That is that we should behave our selves like dead men not to be moved nor inticed to sin For first this was the end which God propounded to himself in his Sons death to destroy sin Wee must be very careful how we frustrate the end of God in our giving way to sin Secondly Christ hath by his death merited the death of sin and so we are said to dye with Christ and so bee freed from sin Rom. 6.7 Thirdly adde to this the efficacy of Christs death which works the ruine of sin in all his members Hence Phil. 3.10 wee read of a power and force in the death of Christ to make us conformable to his death while his Spirit is killing sin in us So that Christs death hath no comfort for them that hate not sin 2 Our sin killed Christ We must hate sin because it killed Christ if then wee have any love to Christ wee must needs kill sin Psal 97.10 Yee that l ve the Lord hate evil The Love of Christ constraineth us to it 2 Cor. 5.14 The law of Nature makes a man that hee cannot indure the sight of one that hath killed his father or his dear Friend but his very heart will rise against him and hee cannot choose but follow the Law upon him to the utmost to hang him if all the law in the World will do it And can wee bee so unnatural that sin should destroy our dearest Saviour and we not be avenged upon it How should wee bee transported with Indignation at sin that brought on our Redeemer the pains both of the first and second death Then let us pursue our sins with all possible detestations if wee let them go wee are no Friends to Christ Let us stab them to the heart till they bleed their last that drew the blood of Christ Let them never come to any Sanctuary or City of refuge but as Avengers of that precious blood let us leave sin no shift no way to escape Let us say to them as David to the young man that told him hee had slain Saul 2 Sam. 1.14 How wast thou not afraid to stretch out thy hand to destroy the Lords annointed and David commanded him strait to bee slain do thou likewise Reason thus also against all temptations these sins were the death of my Saviour and why should they bee my delight They pierced his hands and feet

are all equal and infinite in him pag. 254 B. BEleeving the only way to make our election and redemption sure pag. 79 Weakest Beleever justified as well as the strongest pag. 48 All beleevers and only such are partakers of Gods imputed righteousness pag. 229 It is imputed to them all indifferently pag. 230 236 Benevolence of God and his beneficence distinguished pag. 91 Bloud put for all the Sufferings of Christ pag. 51 How it sets forth the glory of Gods justice in several respects pag. 292 None of it could be abated pag. 70 It is the most special object of justifying faith pag. 155 Boasting excluded by free justification pag. 14 Boldness of the redeemed in approaching to God pag. 277 Bondage of the unregenerate pag. 25 26 27 How discerned pag. 169. 30 C. CAreless persons their dangerous estate pag. 42 Cautions about the trial of faith and to prevent deceit and presumption pag. 237 Certainty of the object and of the subject Children of godly Parents in bondage to sin as well as others pag. 28 Rash judging of the Children of God reproved pag. 95 Christs redemption 23. and satisfaction 36. His sufferings 52. seq he is a full and real Redeemer 25. the Surety of the elect 39. He is our propitiation 90. his being proposed as such 108 109 116. how wee may set him forth before God and unto men 119. Hee is the object of justifying faith 136. especially as crucified 155. Christ the only way to satisfie Gods Justice 272 275. how hee was made a curse for us 254. he is to be received wholly and unlimitedly 47. He is compared to the Mercy-seat under the Law 90. Motives to come to him pag. 141 Comfort manifold to the justified upon several grounds pag. 8 17 29 33 64 48 112 129 201 268. Conscience a light to discover our Spiritual estate 100. Vide Direction D. DAnger of refusing Christs redemption pag. 33 Pains of the first and second Death suffered by Christ 53. The large extent of Christs death 78 104. Death vanquished by Christ and beleevers delivered from it Why Christ could not be holden by the pains of death pag. 56 Several deceits of men to keep them from Christ reproved pag. 57 Declaration of Gods Justice in Justification pag. 291 Decree of God concerning Christ pag. 109 Deliberation in choyce of means in many cases excluded as vain and noxious pag. 274 Desertions how expedient pag. 66. The end of God in them pag. 67. Directions for such an estate pag. 68 95 Devices of the Devil to deceive men in sin pag. 261 Diligence will bee used by all that are real with God and their own souls pag. 111 Direction to troubled Consciences in seeking justification pag. 9 19 E. ELection of beleevers is made in Christ 231. It is not from faith or works fore-seen 234 109. Faith gives the sense and the enjoyment of it pag. 91 The Doctrin of Election doth not prejudice the outward call pag. 117 Evil day to be seriously thought of and provided for pag. 103 Evil of sin how great it is pag. 256. 257 303 The duty of the examination of our Spiritual estate 97 98 99. How it may be known pag. 100 101 Exhortation to persons unjustified 18 130 c. to the justified pag. 18 104 118 F. FAith in what sort it works in Justification 49. How it is said to justify and its special properties therein 121 122 123. It s object is Christ pag. 137. Faith as taken passively is that which justifies 229. Justification before faith refelled 233. Excellency of faith 144 Signs of true faith 125 126 127 140. How it is obtained 132 133 145. Hinderances of its exercise 150. Directions about it 152. Faith in Christs bloud to bee strengthned 118. It is of constant use in justification 134 The degrees of faith 127. Faith of Jesus what it is pag. 304 God the Father the fountain of Justification 2 3. proved by reasons 5. and the particulars whereby it further appears pag. 115 301 Forgiveness could not bee without satisfaction pag. 245 246 273 Free Grace vide Grace We are freed from the power but not from the molestation of sin pag. 36 The term freely explained pag. 11 12 Freenesse of Justification notwithstanding its being purchased by Christ 13 14. this freenesse manifested in four particulars with the reasons of it 14. Hence an encouragement to seek the favour of God pag. 18 G. GOd only doth justifie 4. Hee is just as well as merciful in a Sinners Justification 243. proved by reasons ibid. He is true and unchangeable in his Word 259. God to be justified in all his dealings pag. 76 264 Gospel manifests the Justice of God more than doth the Law 298. It sets forth sin in its deepest dye pag. 60 Government or judiciary power of God a cause why he will punish sin pag. 247 Grace what it is 12. Not to bee turned into wantonnesse 17. We must adventure our souls upon it 77. Free Grace asserted its abuse to licentiousness repressed 172 214. Despisers of grace their sin and danger and who they are 199. Riches of grace singularly manifested in justification of sinners pag. 295 H. HAtred of God against every sin pag. 253 Hatred that is in sin and sinners against God 257. Hatred against sin should bee in every Childe of God 35 83 84 85. how gotten into the heart pag. 267 Holiness of God ingageth him to hate and punish sin 246. It is eminently manifested in a sinners justification pag. 296 Holiness of life vid. works Vain hopes of carnal persons pag. 57 58 59 248 Our duty to humble our selves under Gods hand pag. 76 I. IMputation of righteousness to us what it is 207. Objections against it answered 209. Reasons for it 211. How wee may bee assured that this righteousness is imputed to us in particular 218. Motives to seek it 223. How attained 224. Comforts flowing from it to the partakers thereof 220. It is alike to all beleevers pag. 230 Inexcusablenesse of infidelity pag. 16 Inherent righteousness not to be trusted in 112. It is accepted through the imputed righteousness of Christ pag. 222. v. works Insufficiency of mans righteousnesse to justifie pag. 197 False Judges set up over our Spiritual estate pag. 9 Rash judging reproved pag. 95 Judgements threatned are to prevent sin 265. they begin at the House of God pag. 87 Justice of God to bee acknowledged and adored in all his wayes pag. 278 Its eminently set forth in Christs Sufferings 292. the reasons of it pag. 293 It concurreth with Gods truth and grace in our Justification pag. 242 It s the terrour of sinners and the comfort of beleevers 270. Justice must have its course in every sin 252. The Doctrin of Gods Justice most agreeable to the Gospel 298. which answereth all cavils of Satan c. 271. why it is so manifested in the times of the Gospel and considerations thereupon pag. 302 303 Justification what it is 4. It s necessity

was and confessed them as Saul and Pharaoh did and a while abstained from them as Simon Magus from his Sorcery and making restitution of their ill gotten goods In the mean time not seeking with diligence the Pearl of price but putting off all upon Christ and his grace hoping that they shall find mercy though they fly not to this satisfaction as the Man-slayer with fears terrours and restlesse speed from the Avenger of bloud to the City of refuge forgetting that God will make us know the worth of a Redeemer and of satisfaction by Christ before wee shall have it Psal 107.12 13. Hee brought down their strength with labour they fell down and there was none to help Then they cried unto the Lord c. Let all such carelesse wretches know That if justification be a state of Blessednesse Psal 32.1 2. then their state is a state of cursednesse And though they sleep in that estate their damnation slumbereth not but may come on them in a night and stop their breath while they lye sleeping Vse 2. Faln mans misery Let us hereby bee convinced of the misery of faln man whose state is not only dangerous but desperate without this satisfaction And yet alas how little is it considered by wretched Sinners our days are like those Matth. 24.39 We have many Noahs preachers of righteousnesse to warn us of the evil to come but no man takes warning Wee are singing and chanting to the sound of the Viol while God sounds an alarum by the trumpet of warre Wee are dancing in jollity while God is marching in Battalia We are drinking in the Wine and strong Drink while God is letting out our Blood Wee are devouring the Creatures while wee are devoured of the Creator Wee are joyning Sexes in Marriage while God is separating soul from body Swimming in pleasures till we are drowned in the floud and no man takes warning as if there were no danger in the matter wherefore to give you ataste of it 1 Consider that all have sinned Rom. 3.23 All without exception have been in an estate of sin and in want of that righteousnesse that should stand before God for acceptation And though education or a better nature should stop sin in some from bringing forth so early or breaking out so foulely as it doth in others yet there is no difference there lyes a hidden Spring-head in all both Jewes and Gentiles circumcised and uncircumcised binding them over to the Wrath of God And least you should therefore say you shall escape as well and your condition is as good as others 2 Consider we all are come short of the glory of God Rom. 3.23 come short of his grace by the losse of original righteousnesse and of his glory by the separation which our sins have made The fruition of God is the Goal of our race wee run to obtain our sins have cast us behind in this race as the Greek word there sounds Justification by Christs satisfaction is the only way now left to attain the end of our race which whosoever wants must never hope to enjoy God 3 Nothing in the Creature can justifie Good Works Duties Services Prayers Tears Groans are all too mean to make God to account him righteous no nor to give all his estate to the poor and his body to bee burnt for Religion for the Law required that God should bee served with all our might and all our power and ability but by the works of the law can no flesh bee justified Rom. 3.20 Moreover by the Law sin is known and manifested but what makes known sin cannot justify from it for 't is madnesse for a Traytor when hee is convicted of Treason by some Statute to expect an acquittance by that Statute that condemned his Crime to Death so 't is in man to expect Absolution by the Law which condemns his sin to death The Law therefore leaves man without all hope 4 The grace of God cannot justify any soul without Christs satisfaction Men may hope to bee saved by Gods Grace and Mercy but without Christs satisfaction their hope is meerly groundlesse Paul names Gods grace in the Text but addes through the Redemption which is in Christ Jesus not by grace without it The Devil would plead Gods grace to get out of his misery if that would do it as well as you Every carnal wretch would plead it 'T is a pretious Plea to flye to Gods grace yet none is welcome but hee that hath a High-Priest Heb. 4.15 16. Let us come boldly to the throne of Grace what may any poor soul come Surely no unlesse hee hath the Therefore to the Wherefore Unless hee hath a High Priest that was tempted in all points like unto us Else hee 'le finde the throne of Grace to bee a Judgement Seat and may call to the mountains to fall upon him Revel 6.16 to save him from the wrath of him that sits upon the Throne when hee comes to beg for grace Nothing but the redemption that is in Christ Jesus can procure the souls welcome No gift of man can appease God Prov. 6.34 35. The jealous God will not spare in the day of vengeance hee will not regard a ransome neither will hee rest contented though thou givest many gifts God-man in one person is alone the accepted price The Father would not take a farthing more than his justice did exact nor a farthing less than what was due As where ten pound is due the Creditor exacts not twenty and where twenty pounds are due hee will not accept often so the father required Christ for satisfaction being the exact return according to the fathers Justice For Job 34.23 God will not lay upon man more than is right And Paul clears him Rom. 3.5 6. what shall wee say then Is there unrighteousness with God God forbid Hee is no Extortioner to take more nor could take less than his due He doth not willingly afflict the children of men Lam. 3.34 35. much lesse doth hee exceed in the affliction of his own Son Now therefore if God required his Son as an infinite price for the satisfaction of his infinite wrongs to become a ransome for lost man surely man was faln into a most woful estate Beware therefore O sinful wretch that sleepest in thy security least God cause his consuming fire to fall on thee this moment as it did on Sodom O what a remediless what a helpless estate is thy soul fallen into Let thy tears run down like a river day and night give God no rest cease not to complain to him Let thine heart like Noahs Dove find no place to rest on till thou hast gotten Christs satisfaction to bee thy souls Ransome Use 3. Of Instruction and Exhortation to every man Instruction to take the right way to justification to take the right way for Justification The world hath been tampering about it ever since Adams fall and the Devil hath so much over-clouded it That the greatest