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A13809	A sermon preached the 26. day of May. 1584. in S. Maries Church in Shrewesbury before the right honorable the Earle of Leicester, accompanied with the Earle of Essex, the Lorde North, diuers knightes, gentle-men of worshypfull callyng, the worshipfull bayliues, aldermen and burgesses of the towne of Salop. By Iohn Tomkys publick preacher of Gods word there: now first published by the authour. Seen, perused, and allowed accordyng to her Maiesties iniunctions.	Tomkys, John.	1586 (1586)	STC 24110; ESTC S118479	38,851	98

be offered by the priest vnto god for the sines of the people Mat. 27.35 Hereby was signified n Ioh. 19.34 the suffering of Christ o 33 the sheddyng of his bloud p 30. his death vppon the Crosse whereby hee might become q, 30. a propitiatorie sacrifice for the takyng away of the sinnes of the world The Patriarches the Prophetes and all the children of God from Adam to Christ as they set the eyes of their bodies in the exercise of religion vppon these sacrifices and oblations so dyd they set the eyes of their mindes vpon Christ then to come Thus did Esay interprete these ceremonies when he foreshewed that t Esa 53 3 Christ shoulde be such a man as shoulde haue a good experience of sorrowes and infirmities 4 that Christ onely should take on him our infirmitie and beare our payns 5 that Christ should be wounded for our offences and smitten for our wickednesse that the payne of our punishment might be layd vpon him and that with his stripes we might be healed That the Lorde would throw vppon Christ all our sinnes 6 7 That Christ should suffer violence and be euill intreated and should not open hys mouth That christ should be led as a sheepe to be slayne and yet should be as still as a lambe before the shearer and not open his mouth That christ should be ●aken from the prison and iudgement 8 ●hat he should be cut off from the ground ●f the liuing which punishement should ●oe vpō him for the transgressiō of gods ●eople That christ should haue his graue ●iuen him with the condempned 9 with ●he riche man at his death whereas hee ●●ould neuer doe violence nor vnright ●either should there be anie deceiptfulnes 〈◊〉 his mouth Neuerthelesse 10 that it should please the Lord to smite Christ with in●●●mitie that when he had made his soule an offering for sinne hee might see long lasting seede 11 That Christ should see the fruite and labour of his soule and be satisfied who being the righteous seruaunt of the Lorde with his knowledge shoulde iustifie the multitude for he should bear their sinnes 12 And that therefore the Lord would giue him his part among the great ones and that he should deuide the spoyle with the mightie because he hadde giuen ouer his soule to death and was reckoned among the transgressours which neuerthelesse should take away the sinnes of the multitude and make intercession for the misdoers And that I hold you not longer dearely beloued either in the figures or prophecies of the old Testament whiche concerne christes suffering whereby he became * Eph 5 2 a slayne sacrifice for sine let vs call to minde what thereof is reported in the New a Ioh 4.6 Then shall wee finde that christes whole life was a perpetuall suffering where in he was a wearied b mat 21.18 hungred and c Io 19.28 thirsted wherein hee was d 2.13 bannished e Mat 11 18. slandered and f 22 46 Luc. 3 29 persecuted wherein hee was g 4 1 tempted h Mat. 5 2 fasted and i 26 40. watched wherein hee laboured a Luc. 4.31 preached and b 22.44 prayed wherein hee c Mat. 26 38 sorowed d Mar. 14 33 greeued and e Luc. 22 44 swette water and bloud wherein he was f Mat. 29.49 betraied by Iudas g Mar. 14.50 sorsaken by his Apostles and h Mat 26.57 apprehended by the souldiours wherein he was without cause i 27 40. exclamed against wrongfully k Mat. 26.60 accused and vniustly l 27 24 condemned wherein hee was m 27.28 stripped n Mat. 27.30 buffeted and o 27.30 spitte vpon wherein he was p Luc. 23.64 blinde-folded q Luc. 23 29 mocked and disdainefully r 23 29 crowned with thorns wherin he was ſ Mat. 27.35 crucified t Mat 27.29 tormented and u Io 18 25 wounded wherein he became x Gal. 3 13 accurssed of God y Mat. 27.46 susteined his wrath and a Phil. 2.8 died a most shamfull death But what was the cause that Christ the b 1. Pet. 1 19 innocent lambe of god should thus suffer for our redemption verily to pacifie Gods wrath and to satisfie his iustice who would not suffer the sinne of man-kind vnpunished in mankind Therfore it was expedient that c 1. Pet 3 18. the iust should suffer for the d Ioh. 10.11 vniust that the shepherd should giue his life for his sheep that the Lord should redeem his people * In the sacrifice christ shineth as in a merror Gods wisdome extendyng his mercy maintainyng his iustice O the vnsearchable wisdome of God our gracious Lorde whiche by the holines and suffering of Christ his Sonne hath both extended his mercy and maintained his iustice Extended his mercy * 1. Gods mercy extended in forgiuing his elect their sinnes and that through Christs Holines * 2. Gods iustice m●intained Mainteined his iustice in punishing the nature of man for the sinnes of men that through christs suffryng And thus much concerning the Second qualitie of the Sacrificer which is the suffering of Christe our Lorde * 4 The sacrifice was offered for vs. The fourth circumstane in our redemption to bee obserued is Who they are for whom this Sacrifice was offered Paule layeth that downe when hee vseth these wordes a Eph 5.2 For vs. In the wordes before the Apostle exhorting the Ephesians to leade a godlie life speaketh vnto them in this manner b Eph. 5 1 Bee yee folowers of God as Children and walke yee in loue but describing the manner of loue wherein we should walke by the example of Christ he altereth the person ioyning himselfe which wrote with the Ephesians to whome hee wrote and addeth c. 5.2 Euen as christ hath loued vs and giuen himselfe for vs. Hereby we learne that the beleeuing Iwes as was the writer and the beleuing Gentiles as were they to whome the Epistle was written are they for whom Christ offered himself * Christ offered for the beleeuyng 1 Iewes 2. Gentiles But here more deepely must bee considered the state and condition of both And that shall we finde when by Gods word we learne what wee are by nature * we are by nature the children of wrath a Luc. 6.44 the lances must bee such as is the tree b Iam. 3.11.6 the surges must be such as is the fountaine But Adam c Gen. 3.6 fallen from god by transgression is the tree from whence wee spring Adam d 3 7. stayned with sinne is the fountayne from whence wee slowe So are wee by our parentage alienated from God and stayned with sinne e Gen. 5.3 being descended from Adam after his fall Suche were wee for whome Christ gaue himselfe So many Sacrifices

being all figures of the sacrifice of Christ ordeined of god to bee f Leu. 4.2 offered for the sinnes of the people do euidenly prooue that Gods people for whome Christ was offered are all polluted with sinne It is true that the auncient Israelites were greuously a Exo. 1.11 c oppressed in Aegipt by the tiranny of Pharao from thence b Exod. 14.1 deliuered by the commaundement of God through the conduction of Moses but with all therby is prefigured that we bee all through sinne became slaues to Satan in this world and through the wil of God by the power of Christ deliuered from that spirituall captiuitie The Prophets Christ and the Apostles teache that they for whome Christ died are c Rom. 5.8 steined with sinne d 1. Tim. 1 15 transgressours of Gods lawe e Gal. 3 13. and subiect to his curse Esaye propheciyng of our redemption calleth vs f Esa 53 4. weake g 53.5 wounded and sinfull h 53.6 Christ speaking of the same matter pronounceth i Mat 9 12 That the whole need not a phisition but they that are sicke k Mat. 9.13 And that hee came not to call the righteous but the sinners to repentance And Paule speaking of the accomplishment of oure saluation leaueth it thus recorded l 1. Tim 1 15 This is a true saying and by all means worthy to be receaued that Christ Iesus came into the world to saue sinners * That christ saueth sinners teacheh vs two things our owne misery 2 gods mercye It may be the some wil demaund why I vrge so greatly thys point I answere Chiefly for two causes * 1. our own misery First to teach vs by acknowledging of our sinnes a Mat 23 12 to humble oure selues vnder the mightie hand of god that hee may aduaunce vs b Ioh. 3.16 and to seeke vnto christ by fayth that hee may deliuer vs knowing that c 11 32 God hath shut vppe all in vnbeliefe that hee might haue mercy on all And to this ende doth Paule dispute mightily in the Epistle to the Romaines prouing that d Rom 3 20 by the vvorkes of the law no flesh can be iustified in the sight of God But that e 24 wee are iustified freely by grace through the redemption that is in Christ concluding that f 28. a man is iustified by fayth without the workes of the law * 2 Gods mercy Then to sette before the eyes of our mindes the exceeding measure of the loue of God towardes vs g Io. 3 16 which so loued the world that he hath giuen his onely begotten Sonne that whosoeuer beleueth in him shuld not perish but haue eternall life But seeing h Rom 5 10 God hath thus loued vs when we were hys enimies that he reconciled vs vnto himself by the death of his Sonne ought not we then a Eph 5 1 to be followers of god as deare children 2. and to walk in loue as Christ hath loued vs and giuen himselfe for vs to be an offering and a sacrifice of a sweete smelling sauour to god Hetherto concerning the persons for whome christ died euen for vs miserable sinners * 5 This sacrifice was offered to God The fifth circumstance in our redemption diligently to bee considered is vnto whome this holy sacrifice was offered by Christ for our reconciliation This doth Paule in this text euidently shewe when as hee teacheth that it was offered b Eph 5 2 to god When parties at vnitie growe to discorde then is there occasion offered of reconciliation whiche cannot be accomplished but by the good discretion of a dayes-man by whose meanes the partie offending is reconciled to the party offended So stoode the case betweene god and man continued in that perfection c Gen 1 26. wherein God had created him 5.27 But when Man had transgressed the lawes of his God d Gen 3 6.7 by eating of the forbidden fruite then grew there discorde betweene God and Man Man the creature Man the party offending God offended became the partie offending and God the creator the partie offended But such was the peril of this falling out a Gen 2 17 that Man became subiect to gods wrath and iudgment Hence grewe the occasion of an holy reconciliation wherein the fauour of God onely which was offended was to be obtayned for Man onely whiche had offended Christ the Dayesman But what fit days-man could than be found to reconcile man vnto God Onely Christ both God mā as more at large before I shewed And how then God woulde not that this reconciliation should be wrought by diminishing the least iote of his iustice * The iustice of God considered in two pointes 1 obedience punishment Heerein standeth the iustice of God vrged by him in this reconciliation 1. That mankinde keepe the lawe giuen 2. That man-kinde be punished for the law broken And thus was hee affected vnto whome the sacrifice of pacification was to be offered Marke now the discretion of christ our dayes-man In his Manhead hee b 2 Cor. 5 21 obeyeth Gods lawes In his man-head hee is c Pet 2 22 punished for the breache of Gods lawes hee obeyeth Gods law by his innocent life * Obedience yelded by Christs innocent life He is punished for the breache of Gods lawe by his dolorous death By his obedience he satisfieth Gods iustice By his suffering * punishmēt sustained by Christs dolourous death he pacifieth Gods wrath Thus did Christ our dayes-man offer himself obedient and patient to God the partie offended so to winne his fauour to Man the partie offending By thys meanes Christ a 2 Cor 5 21 which neuer committed sinne made himselfe to be reputed a sinner for vs that we which are ful of sin should be reputed in him righteous before God That b Gal 3.13 he becomming accursed for vs 14 we might become blessed thorough him So was it necessary that vnto God this sacrifice shoulde be offered that we therby vnto god might be recōciled Of this point this much may suffice * 6 This sacrifice wrought our full redemption The sixt and last circumstance of our redemption proposed by Paule in this text to oure consideration sheweth vvhat effect this sacrifice wrought and vvhat successe Christ had in this his attempt thus to recōcile mankinde vnto god This point is therfore the more deepely to bee considered because therein eyther is the rising againe into consolation or the downfall into desperation For if Christ preuailed in this his mediation then are wee saued but if hee fayled then are wee damned Paule therefore to heale the wounde of the conscience pearced with sin concludeth that this Sacrifice thus offered by Christ yeelded a Eph. 5 2 as a sweete smelling sauoure in the nose-therles of God By this metaphoricall speach borrowed from the manner of offering