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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47210	Christ crucified a sermon preached at Salisbury, August 23, 1691 / by Joseph Kelsey ...	Kelsey, Joseph, d. 1710.	1691 (1691)	Wing K247; ESTC R222	11,678	26

by the effusion of such blood 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 even his own 3. His Merit is founded in the greatness of his Sufferings not excluding the humility and necessities of his Life the poverty and contempt of his low estate That he indeed suffered the pains of the damned or that his descent into Hell imports any such thing is not to be believed by a Christian both because the state of desperation there fills up the meafure of their misery which would be impious to think of Christ as also that satisfaction doth not require that the pains of his Death should be equal to the Eternal punishment of all Men That would have been exact payment of Debt and God in Justice could not have punished any Sinner a second time in his own Person But that his Sufferings were of another nature than we are capable to endure or our Minds to conceive seems to follow from the greatness of that Passion and Symptoms of exquisite torture more than once observed in him which the Evangelists express by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 forcing him to sweat drops of blood to pray though with great submission that the Cup might depart from him and at last to cry out My God why hast thou forsaken me Had there not been some invisible tortures exceeding those inflicted on his Body Celsus his Question in Origen would not seem unreasonable 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 have we not heard of many Martyrs and even others who could receive no Courage from the cause for which they suffered whose Deaths were not only free from the least complaint but accompanied with rejoycings We must believe that the pains of our Saviour were more than we can give any account of or which is Blasphemy to affirm that he had not the fortitude of a Stoick or an ordinary Spartan when even the Thieves themselves who were Crucified with him and died by most of the same external circumstances of Cruelty showed not the signs of so severe a Passion 4. The Innocence of the Person advanced the Merit of his Death As in nature that medium which transmits Colours untainted to the Eye must have no Colour of its own so Christ who was the propitiation for our sins did no sin neither was guile found in him He is called the Lamb without spot As both the Jews and Gentiles were ever careful that the Beast devoted to Sacrifice should be notorious both for the clearness of its colour and beauty of it's bodily shape My righteous Servant shall justify many The rules laid down by the Jews are almost infinite whereby he who was to be accounted a fit High-Priest was to be examined The parts of his Body and qualities of his Mind were exactly surveyed no deformity in either could be excused when he made expiation for sin Such an High-Priest became us who is Holy harmless undefiled separate from Sinners free not only from the commission but inclinations to Vice who neither did nor thought harm The only Person who led a Life conformable to his Doctrine and vindicated simple innocence from the reproach of softness and want of wit He did perfectly fulfil that Christian Proverb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A harmless Prudence aderned every action of his Life as an unparallell'd love was manifest in his Death He lived to teach us how we may be happy and died to expiate not his own but our sins And certainly there is not in the World a more moving Spectacle than to see an innocent Person sore afflicted So sad an effect without an immediate cause Death and Diseases are the undoubted consequents of sin But that our Saviour who with the truest Conscience and strongest assurance challenged his Murderers to accuse him of sin should with so much Patience and Charity subject himself to such exquisite torments this was the accomplishment of his Merit and such satisfaction as infinite Justice knew not how to refuse 3. Thirdly we preach the Universality the unbounded Virtue of his Crucifixion Not as some who making great pretensions to preach Christ preach nothing less or preach him out of envy to all the World but themselves making void his Death by confining the intent of his Sufferings to the little flock upon whom alone as on Gideon's Fleece this Heavenly Dew must fall whilst the rest of the World remains parched and dryed prepared matter for everlasting burnings raising a Monopoly of that blood intended to enliven whole dead Mankind It is a Jewish Principle and fully as opposite to Christianity as the rest of their Religion for any Party or Sect to believe themselves the Elect of God and to allow no hopes or possibility of Salvation to the infinity of Men only to the Inhabitants of a little piece of ground scarce above two hundred Miles in length But God is true He hath told us That Christ gave himself a ransom for all that he tasted death for every man And in the 1 John 2.2 to which place no distinction can give a colourable answer he was the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but for the sins of the whole World So that the death of Christ extends its Virtue 1. To all persons Every Man is bound under the obligation of eternal Death to believe that Christ died for him in particular therefore Christ did die for every Man God obligeth no Man to believe a lye which according to them who confine Christ's Death only to the Elect the far greatest part of Mankind must necessarily do What solid ground of comfort can any sincere Christian find in believing that almost whole Mankind are excluded from the benefits of his Death Will it not breed despair and make Men cast off all Religion or if any one be so hardy as to believe himself is one of those very few whom Christ so loved as to dy for it is indeed like the confidence of those who call themselves Saints But God hath no where made Pride ill Nature and high Presumption to be qualifications for his Salvation 2. It extends to all Ages of the World Hence he is called the Lamb slain from the foundation of the World and a ransom testified in due time That though he dyed not till the fullness of time yet whoever were saved before his appearance were saved by his Merits and by the efficacy of that blood which was figured by all the Sacrifices of the Jews and also of the Gentiles who without question received the rite of Sacrificing by tradition from the first Fathers of the World Moses counted the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt Jesus Christ is the same propitiation in all parts of time yesterday to day and for ever This is one excellency of the Christian Sacrifice above the Levitical that its Virtue diffuses it self throughout all Ages of the World and therefore needed but once to be offered as the Apostle argues Hebr. 9. 25. had not the Gentiles the explicite knowledge of our Saviour neither