Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	death_n	know_v	life_n	2,879	5	4.5653	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50426	St. Paul's travailing pangs, with his legal-Galatians, or, A treatise of justification wherein these two dissertions are chiefly evinced viz. 1. That justification is not by the law, but by faith, 2. That yet men are generally prone to seek justification by the law : together with several characters assigned of a legal and evangical spirit : to which is added (by way of appendix) the manner of transferring justification from the law to faith / by Zach. Mayne ...	Mayne, Zachary, 1631-1694.	1662 (1662)	Wing M1485; ESTC R4815	251,017	422

to explain the great term 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he tells us That 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies any virtue or goodness in a man whatsoever and that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is nothing else but to be approved as a good man or A doer of what is righteous and good and that BECAUSE he doth that which is good and righteous Having made this great observation of which I shall make more use anon I shall proceed with my Character That an affected ignorance of Christ is an infallible Character of a Legal Spirit I have given a Scripture for it viz. Phil. 3.7.8 to the 15. upon which I have so long insisted I shall give now the reason of it which is this For that all pardon of sins which is the greatest thing in Gospel-justification was ever by virtue of the death of Christ All the symbolical and vailed-Gospel of the old Testament pointed though darkly unto Christ The rock in the Wilderness was Christ the Serpent was Christ the Manna was Christ the Scape-Goat was Christ the Paschal Lamb was Christ and in the fulness of time Grace and the Truth of these types came by Jesus Christ Therefore those that are affectedly ignorant of Christ are affectedly ignorant of all that looked like Gospel and so of Gospel-Grace it self nothing can be a plainer argument of Legality then this And indeed we may almost adventure to say That most men so far as they are ignorant of Christ in these days of the Gospel they are affectedly ignorant I deferred this Character till the last because I would first put all those Characters together in which the faith of all the Old-Testament-believers and ours did agree All the Old-Testament Saints were more for spiritual heart-worship than for the externals of Religion they were all in their degree humble and patient they were all in their degree quick lively and vigorous they had all a spirit of adoption in their measure they were all of a sweet meek and kind heart and spirit not of a persecuting principle but I cannot say they all knew Christ in his death resurrection ascension and intercession nay I should lye if I should say it these things are peculiar to faith under the dayes of the Gospel St. Peter and the other Apostles were all ignorant of these things Luke 18. from verse 31. to 35. Now I shall shew briefly the peculiar additionals of a Gospel-faith or rather a New-Testament Faith without which ours cannot be Evangelical enough and so not justifying and saving And without performing this part of my Work I should be guilty of a great absurdity for taking up so many pages in describing the Faith of the Old-Testament Saints or of justifying-faith which was common to us and them and in the mean time to pass by that which is proper to our selves and as necessary as any thing which hath been spoken to I affirm therefore that we are to know and believe in Christ as the PROCURING CAUSE of all our mercies and the DISPENSER of all good things to us These are the two great things which we are to know and believe concerning Christ to which we must add the meditation imitation of our Saviour as a pattern in his Life Death Resurrection and Ascension in all which our Faith hath a great usefulness and necessity and unless our Faith hath a great and very considerable respect unto Christ in all these three particulars we cannot justly put on the name of Christians That old Faith of Abraham and all the Saints of the Old-Testament which St. Paul disputes for and proves they were justified by it hath now a further Name and is called the Christian Faith having taken up that great Object Christ more explicitely and plainly then ever they received it I shall say somewhat but as briefly as I may unto all the three generals wherein our Faith is now necessarily to eye Jesus Christ that it may be of a right Gospel strain 1. We must believe in Christ as the great procuring cause of all our mercies 1. By his blood and offering Therefore a right New-Testament Faith eyes Christ as the procuring-cause of all our mercies and this in two respects viz. by his offering up himself a sacrifice and by his intercessions 1. By his dying for us and offering up himself he hath bought us Ye are bought with a price 1 Cor. 6 20. Thou hast redeemed us unto God by thy blood Rev. 5.9 His blood was the price of our redemption by shedding of this and offering it up to God he became a propitiation for our sins and we our selves are the purchase of this Price Acts 20.28 The Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood We are purchased and redeemed from the world Gal. 1.4 From our vain Conversation 1 Pet. 1.18 Yea Heaven it self is purchased by his blood for us for I doubt not but that is it which is called the purchased possession Eph. 1.14 Now see if we have not reason nay if there be not absolute necessity if we would be right Christians to know Christ and believe in him as the procuring-cause of all our Mercies and that by his Death and Blood and offering himself He hath by one offering perfected for ever them that are sanctified Heb. 10.14 Now our Faith as it eyes thus the death of Christ is called faith in his blood and Justification follows upon this Faith onely Rom. 3.24 25. Being justified freely by his Grace THROUGH THE REDEMPTION THAT IS IN CHRIST whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation THROUGH FAITH IN HIS BLOOD to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past through the forbearance of God Rom. 5.8 9. But God commendeth his love towards us in that while we were yet sinners Christ dyed for us much more then BEING NOW JUSTIFIED BY HIS BLOOD we shall be saved from wrath to come I shall mention no more Scriptures to prove that Christ is the procuring-cause of all our mercies by his death and blood only I shall describe what this faith in his blood is and I shall express it thus It is a judging the death and offering of Christ either upon the Cross or in the holy of holies into which he entered by his own blood Heb. 9.12 to be the great propitiation of God who without this offering had decreed no● to pardon sins by which he became propitious and appeased and for it receives all true penitents into his favour that is for the judgement or assent of faith to the dogmatical truth in this matter then for its affiance faith in the blood of Christ it is a not doubting but whilst I have the Gospel-condition of Justification what ever it be this blood will procure my pardon or thus in the way of holiness to rest upon God for pardon for the sake of Christ's blood-shedding and offering it to God Now this faith in the blood of Christ I look upon as an

essential branch of a New-Testament-faith 2ly His Intercession Secondly we are to look upon Christ as the procuring cause of all our mercies by his intercessions whereby he reaps the benefit of the purchase of his blood His Blood was the foundation of all his Intercession and his Intercession is as the harvest to that seed-time when he sowed in tears of blood He entred into the holy of holies by his own blood if he had not had that blood with him I conceive there had been no entrance for him there as a Priest but now that he is there entred and entertained as an High-priest for ever and ever liveth to make intercession for us Heb. 7.25 We are to look upon him as the great procuring-procuring-cause of all our mercies by his intercessions If when we were enemies we were reconciled unto God by the DEATH of his Son much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his LIFE Rom 5.10 1 John 2.1 My little children these things write I unto you that ye sin not and if any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins HE IS to this very day upon occasion of any failing of the Saints he interposeth to make God propitious to them and not onely to them saith the Apostle not onely for our sins who are the Saints of God but for the sins of the whole world He doth now as he did at his death and first entring into Heaven though not in the same form of offering which was but ONCE make use of his blood with his Father to prevail with him that he may be ready to pardon and receive into favour all that come unto God by him all that are come in upon any of their failings and all that shall come in with unfeigned repentance for their wicked lives past And as I shewed in the former particular of his death and blood that he did not onely procure pardon of sin by it but redeemed us from our vain conversation and purchased heaven it self for us so in this particular I might shew that he doth not onely procure pardon of sins for us by his intercession as our Advocate but every thing else that we stand in need of I am going to my Father saith our Saviour when he was leaving the World and there I will povide Mansions for you and whatsoever ye ask the Fther in my Name I will do it Joh. 14.2 3 13. Thus therefore our Faith if we would have it a right New-Testament Faith must eye Christ in his intercession and whatever we desire of God we must ask it in his Name and then believe that Christ as an Advocate with the Father wil take the care of it So much for the first Head or general Rule of a New-Testament-Faith We are to eye Christ as the great procuring cause of all our mercies 2dly 2 Gospel-faith eies Christ as the great d●spenser of all good things to us We are to look upon Christ as the great Dispenser of all our good things to us Our Saviour Christ hath the distribution disposal of all things committed to him as Joseph had in Aegypt The Father judgeth no man but all judgement is committed by the Father to the Son John 5.22 Jesus Christ is not onely represented unto us in the Scripture as standing at the right hand of God Act. 5.55 56. which may signifie his Advocatship and Priestly Office but much oftner as sitting at the right hand of God whch is a sign of his Kingly Office and Authority for this see Heb. 10 11 12 13. where sitting is opposed to standing as Ma●esty is to Ministring And every Priest STANDETH daily MINISTRING and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which can never take away sins But this man after he had offered one Sacrisice for sins for ever SATE DOWN at the right hand of God from henceforth expecting till his Enemies be made his footstool Our Saviour obtained of his Father by his death and offering not onely that sinners might be pardoned but that he might have the gift of pardon yea and of repentance too which is as great a gift as pardon it self Acts 5.30 31 32. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom ye slew and hanged on a Tree him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour for to give repentance to Israel and sorgiveness of sins and we are his witnesses of these things and so is the Holy Ghost whom God hath given to them that obey him In a word Christ hath all power both in heaven and in earth So our Saviour came and told his Disciples after he was risen Matth. 28.18 19. Jesus came and spake unto them the eleven saying All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth Go ye THEREFORE and teach all Nations This is the form of the Commission which makes an Apostle I have received power therefore go teach they are not the Apostles of God immediately but of Jesus Christ by the will of God 1 Cor. 1.1 2 Cor. 1.1 Eph. 1.1 To instance in the several branches of this power in heaven and earth would be too much for me in this place there is the power of pardoning sins raising the dead judging the world destroying the wicked These with many other I could prove by plain Scripture to be all deposited and be-trusted in the hand of Jesus Christ Now what is the Faith that belongs to Christ as the Dispenser of all good things to us for that is my proper business to enquire after Why even the Faith that we place in God the Father This Christ taught his Disciples when he was about to leave them Joh. 14.1 Let not your heart be troubled ye believe in God believe also in me As much as to say Ye have been used hitherto by your Old-Testament-Faith to believe in God and you have found comfort and support in it and yet you do not see that God you believe in Why so now for my self I am going in deed out of your sight and at this you are troubled but believe in me when I am out of your sight as ye have hitherto beheved in an invisible God and ye shall find the same comfort and support in this Faith as ever ye found from Faith in God None so common a New-Testament phrase as believing in Christ He that believeth in me though he weee dead yet shall he live and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never dye Joh. 11.25.26 and our Saviour there giveth a very satisfactory reason The difference betwixt faith in Christ and in God the Father which is this I am the resurrection and the life therefore he that believeth on the Son hath life and shall have a resurrection unto lise Our Faith ought to be the same in the person of Christ as it is in God the Father onely with this difference that it must not be terminated in

spiritual Worship of God by pulling down all the Jewish Ceremonies making Jew and Gentile one and revealing all the mysteries that were concealed in Moses his dispensation nay his very Sacrifice is one of the greatest Mysteries of all by which we are informed of God's performing his threatnings that the threatnings of heaven are not as claps of thunder without a thunder-bolt in them we see God's hatred of sin punishing it so severely in his own Son we see God's love to the world that he would give his Son for the life of it though he gave him up to the death we have in his life a pattern of perfect holiness which is more than all precepts alone and we see in our Saviour an instance of the Resurrection heavenly glory all these things have been of mighty instruction to the Saints of all ages since the death of Christ If this phrase the end of the world should be understood of the end of the Iewish state this will not at all prejudice my ieference from it that Christs death had respect unto the ages before his coming but rather strengthen it will be to all Saints unto the end of the world and therefore I say these other great ends of his coming being considered there is no undecency at all in his coming so early in the end of the world and offering a Sacrifice that should serve for many ages that were then to come It was at the end of the world that he came and therefore might very well serve for those fewer succeeding ages though it had the first respect unto the ages going before In the sixth and last place I shall bring plain Scripture to prove that Christ dyed for the Saints of the ages that were past before his death There are two Scriptures that speak to this purpose the first that I shall name is in that 9th of the Hebrews the chapter out of which I have been arguing ver 15. And for this cause he speaking of Christ is the Mediatour of the New Testament that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the First Testament they which are called c. Here it is said that Christ by the means of his death redeemed or expiated the transgressions that were under the First Testament therefore he dyed for the fins of those that lived under the Old Testament But I shall deal so faithfully with my Reader as to acquaint him with another interpretation which is not contemptible that others give of these words and that is this That our Saviour Christ the Mediator of the New Testament or Covenant by his most excellent Offering redeemed and expiated those sins which could not be expiated by any Sacrifices that were appointed under the First Covenant according to that in Acts 13.39 By him speaking of Christ all that believe are justified from all things from which they could not be justified by the Law of Moses There being in Moses no Sacrifices for adulteries thefts murthers c. whereas in the Christian Religion there is pardon for all sorts of sinners by means of the death of Christ if they have but the Gospel-conditions of pardon So that this interpretation makes the place to speak of the kindes of sins and not of the individual or particular sins which were committed under the first Covenant that Christ by the means of his death hath made redemption of those kinde of fins which there was no redemption for under the first Covenant But I have something to ask of those that make this interpretation yet taking it for passable and it is this I would fain know if any of those sins were pardoned under the Old Testament which here are said to be redeemed by Christ for his followers if they say they were not then all that committed any such kinde of sins were damned for ever which was untrue witness David and Manasseh if they were pardoned as they were then either they were expiated by some Sacrifice or they were not if those that own this interpretation say they were not expiated by some Sacrifice and yet pardoned I oppose not to mention that great argument again That they could not be pardoned without expiation in any consistency with the veracity of God in his threatning this seems a strange rarity in the dealings of God with us that under the New Testament no sin is pardoned but what is expiated by the death of Christ and yet under the Old Testament which was certainly a dispensation more severe than ours there the greatest sins should be pardoned without the intervention of any Sacrifice nay what a strange thing was it in their very dispensation that legal uncleannesses such as Leprosie and Issues c. must be purged by sacrifice See Lev. 14 15. chapters yet the greatest sins of all should be pardoned without a sacrifice if therefore those great sins of Murther Adultery Witchcraft Idolatry c. were pardoned by expiation it must be by this death of Christ to ensue in the end of the world for there was no sacrifice so much as appointed for these sins those that were appointed could never reach to the purging and cleansing of the conscience they only purged the flesh from a fleshly uncleanness Heb 9.13 the blood of Christ alone hitherto hath had a virtue in it to cleanse the conscience therefore I conclude that the blood of Christ made expiation even for those individual sins for which there was no expiatory sacrifice appointed under the Old Testament But to let pass that Scripture what will be said to that in Rom. 3.25 26. where we have these words Whom speaking of Christ God hath set forth or fore-ordained as it is in the margin to be a propitiation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the REMISSION OF SINS THAT ARE PAST through the forbearance of God to declare I say AT THIS TIME his righteousness that he might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus Now I suppose there may be this sense contained in these words That God in the dayes of the Gospel hath set forth clearly what that is by which he was alwayes propitiated and atoned for sins even those sins that were fore-past and fore-committed in the dayes of his forbearance and long-suffering that is the darker times of the world which times we have otherwise expressed in Acts 17.30 to be the dayes of ignorance which God winked at they were the dayes of God's forbearance it was and is the blood of Christ by which God alone alwaies was and still is propitiated for sins only then it was not so well known but now God hath declared 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Acts it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the forepast sins the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as well as these that are committed under the Gospel were all redeemed and expiated by the blood of Christ As for any other sense that is given of