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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29252	Diatribae, or, Discourses upon select texts wherein several weighty truths are handled and applyed against the papist and the Socinian / by Henry Bagshaw.	Bagshaw, Henry, 1632-1709.	1680 (1680)	Wing B429; ESTC R25261	55,475	208

expecting a reward so that to deny him our hearts is to joyn Sacrilege and folly together when we rob God and impoverish our selves We are all covetous of Life and of Life too in its best estate For though sin has corrupted mens choice of the way yet it has not blasted their desires of the end But our Lord has farther provided those desires should not be frustrated if we follow his rule and strictly adhere to his Commands in mortifying our affections and lusts and as it were spirituallizing the whole man to be thereby fitted for his Kingdom It is from us he expects this work should be performed and not from age Age may indeed prove the mortifier of a Lust but withall it kills the service Little is the glory of overcoming the Tempter when he does not assault us but to break fleshly motions in all their strength this is a true Conquest Neither should it be thought strange for any Disciple to deny thus self in Christianity for Heaven being the object of that work will easily destroy the Miracle of doing it How can any of us contemplate the happiness above and yet not be willing to forsake his proper sins sins how colour'd soever yet in the midst of their Varnish deform'd Where is true beauty but that of Life which only in the Counterfeit we admire where is true wealth but that of Immortality which only in the Glitter we esteem since then such a fair and substantial Treasure is there offer'd us we ought like wise-men to determine our choice and forsaking the vanities of other objects become fixt and settled in our endeavours that we may obtain and compass that Good which yields so bright so weighty so glorious a recompence to the Pursuer The Fourth Discourse Rom. 8.34 Who is he that condemneth It is Christ that died yea rather that is risen again THe Justification of a Sinner and the way God has prescribed to save men by is so mistaken in the world that no Point has begot more disputes nor is there any Theme wherein Scripture has more suffer'd Yet this quarrel amongst men cannot be charg'd upon any want of evidence in this particular but either an humour of pride to contradict or the interest of a Party to pursue or the prejudice of Opinion to defend have been the main cause of that contention Would we come with a sincere mind to the reading of the Word especially the Writings of this Apostle we should find the difficulty of that Truth clear'd and the glorious effects of Christs Mediatorship laid open upon which our Justifying does depend Now for the better handling this Text which I have here chosen to discuss I shall a little explain the verse before it by reason of their necessary connexion together In which verse we may observe 1. The Triumphant Challenge he makes summoning any Adversary to appear in Court 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Who will charge or accuse 2. The Ground of his confidence how little that Accusation would avail because of the mercy of the Judge that acquits the offendor It is God that justifies 3. The limitation of the Charge in respect of the party against whom it is drawn and the limitation of the act of Justifying Grace in respect of the party to whom it belongs Who will lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect It is God that justifies that is those Elect where by Gods Elect he means the same that are spoken of in the first verse of the Chapter namely such as are in Christ Jesus that walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit that is who perform all the conditions required in the New Covenant For these alone are the chosen of God whom He has decreed to reward with Eternal Life But because the grace of Justification does necessarily suppose a work of Satisfaction since the goodness of God could have no place for justifying a sinner were not the way first made by attoning his Justice he therefore proceeds in my Text to clear that point and show whence Pardoning Mercy springs namely from Christs undertaking our Cause and reconciling us to his Father by the vertue of his Mediatorship Acts 4.11 12. He indeed is the Stone upon which all our salvation is built so that without him there neither is nor can be given either Pardon of sin here or Glory hereafter Hence the Apostle with regard to his satisfaction does further urge and more strongly confirm what he laid down in the former verse Who is he that condemneth it is Christ that died yea rather that is risen again The words contain in them a True Believers full discharge and the Reason or Ground of it The fulness of the discharge is held forth in that Question Who is he that condemneth The reason of it is exprest in that double work of our Redeemer but one of them more dignified than the other It is Christ that died yea rather is risen again The sense of the whole may be resolv'd into these Three Propositions 1. That there is a Proper and Peculiar Vertue to be ascribed to Christs Death in the act of redeeming us 2. That there are Proper and Peculiar Advantages in Christs Rising above that Death 3. That Christs Death in particular but more eminently his Rising has procur'd the Saints freedom from Condemnation 1. That there is a Proper and Peculiar Vertue to be ascribed to Christs Death in the act of Redeeming us In the handling of it I shall premise some Truths First I take for granted what Scripture so clearly reveals that the breach of a Positive Law which was given to Adam in Paradise did not onely involve him but his Posterity too in the Curse there threatned so that the propagation of Mankind from him was but the propagation of persons condemn'd all of us being lyable thereby to Death Temporal and Eternal Secondly though God considered in his Absolute Power could forgive Man the sin he had committed yet considered in the Decree he had made of punishing his Sin and as a Governour bound to maintain it so he was hindred from the exercise of that power Thirdly No creature could possibly reverse that Decree nor expiate the violation of this Governours Authority for want of a Satisfaction which He demanded For where was the Creature that could give it Angels withdraw from the brightness of Gods Glory how then would they flee from the Fire of his wrath Man cannot bear the punishment due to one of his own how then would he sustain the sins of a World Had either of them been deputed to this Task they had sunk under it poor Mankind had been lost and God still unreconcil'd For to the work of Satisfying him Srength as well as Innocence is required but the Creature at best is too weak to intercede the price of its suffering too mean the merit of which cannot extend to another and so Divine Justice instead of accepting would quite devour the Sacrifice Therefore