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A81890	Christ crucified, or, The marrow of the gospel, evidently holden forth in LXXII sermons, on the whole 53. chapter of Isaiah wherein the text is clearly and judiciously opened up ... / by ... James Durham.	Durham, James, 1622-1658.	1683 (1683)	Wing D2799; ESTC R229132	829,417	572

blackest hour pleasantly sweetly and submissively subjoyned and said to his Father Luk. 22.42 Mat. 26.32 Nevertheless not my will but thine be done Not as I will but as thou wilt Twelfthly and finally If it be considered That when the whole contexture and web of Providences and more especially about the Catholick visible militant Church and every individual Member thereof shall be wrought out and in its full length and breadth as it were spread forth in the midst of all the redeemed perfected glorified and triumphant company of Saints standing round about and with admiration beholding it there will not be found to say so one misplaced threed nor one wrong set colour in it all but every thing will be found to have fallen in in the fittest place and in the most beautiful season and order thereof O! so rare so remarkable so renowned and so ravishing a piece as it will by them all unanimously and with one voice be judged and declared to be even worthy of the most exquisite Art and infinite Skill of the great Worker thereof the severest Criticks and most difficultly satisfiable of them all while here below about more publick and more particular Cross-providences will then fully and to the height be satisfied and will all without any the least hesitation or jarring readily and chearfully bear him this concordant testimony Mark 7.37 that he hath done all things well every thing in particular and all things in the general though when he was a doing of them they often presumptuously took on them rashly to censure and to offer their impertinent and crabbed Animadversions on and their Amendations and Alterations of several of them and will most cordially bless him that he wrought on in his own way about his Church and each of themselves without consulting them or following their way which would have quite marred the beauty and darkned the lustre and splendour of that most close and curious divine contexture Every one of these Considerations hath much reason in it to perswade to this intire and absolute submission to God's will and pleasure in what is cross to you afflicted and sorrowful Christians but O! how much weight and strength of sound spiritual reason is there in them all united together beside the many other excellent Considerations dispersed up and down these choice Sermons stuffed full with strong Cordials fitted both to recover and to preserve you from fainting under your many several Afflictions powerfully to perswade and prevail with you even the most averse untoward way ward and cross-gained to say so of you all without further debate demur or delay in these things that are most afflicting to you and do most thwart your inclination to come in his will and pleasantly without any the least allowed reluctancy or gainsaying to submit to him how might ye thus possess your Souls in patience and how quiet calm sedate and composed might ye be more especially in troublesome Times amidst these things wherewith others are keeped in a continual hurry almost to the hazard of being distracted by them Let them all my Noble Lord prevail with your Lordship in particular reverently to adore silently to stoop unto and sweetly to acquiesce in the Lord 's soveraign holy and wise ordering your many and various complicated Trials and more especially his late removing your excellent Lady the desire of your Eyes the Christian and comfortable Companion of your Youth by his stroak As indeed all the tyes of nearest and dearest Relations betwixt Husbands and Wives Parents and Children Brothers and Sisters c. are capable of dissolution and will all ere long by Death be actually dissolved there being but one tye and knot of Marriage-union betwixt precious Jesus Christ and the Believer that by divine ordination is eternally incapable of any dissolution even by Death it self which though it dissolve the strait-union that is betwixt the Soul and the Body yet doth not at all loose the straiter bond of Union that is betwixt him and both of them but it remains still inviolable and by vertue thereof the Believers vile dead Body shall be raised again at the last Day conform to his own glorious Body and be reunited to the perfected-soul which two old Intimats will then meet in far better case then when they were parted and pulled asunder for he is an Husband that cannot grow old sick or weak neither can he die he is an Husband whose Bride and Spouse is never a Widow neither hath he any Relicts The drawing on of which matchless Match and marvellous Marriage is one great design of these sweet Sermons wherein pregnant reasons are adduced by this friend of the Bridegroom to perswade Sinners to embrace the offer thereof made to them in the Gospel and to make them who by his own gracious and powerful insinuations on their Hearts have entertained his Proposal towards making up and final closing of the Match to bless themselves in their choice and to bless him that ever he vvas pleased to stoop so very lovv as to become a Suiter to them vvith a peremptory resolution to admit of no refusal but infrustrably to carry their Hearts consent to take him for their Lord Head and Husband to be to them a Saviour a Physician and Treasure even their All in all their All above all which day of Espousals as it was the day of the gladness of his heart so it will never be any grief of heart to them Let all mutinous thoughts about his dealings with you be silenced with It 's the Lord let not too much dwelling on the thoughts of your Affliction to the filling of your heart still with Sorrow incapacitate you for nor divert you from humble asking the Lord what he aims at by all these Dispensations what he would have you to learn out of them what he reproveth and contends for what he would have you amending your hand in and what he would have you more weaned self-denied and mortified in and what he would have you a further length and a greater proficient in He hath told you the truth that these things are expedient for you study to find them to be so in your own experience Sure he hath by them written in great legible and capital Characters yea even as with a Sun-beam Vanity Emptiness Uncertainty Mutability Unsatisfactoriness and Disappointment upon the forehead of all Creature-Comforts and with a loud voice called your Lordship yet more seriously then ever to seek after solid Soul-satisfaction in his own blessed and all-sufficient Self where it is most certainly to be found without all peradventure or possibility of misgiving make haste my Lord yet to come by a more closs confining of all your desires and expectations of Happiness and Satisfaction to your Soul to God only contracting and gathering them in from the vast and wearisome circumference of earthly Comforts and concentering them all in himself as their point study through Grace in a sweet Soliloque to bespeak

the mutualnesse of the Terms of it and that though as to our conceiving and up-taking of it there be something first and something last yet with God there is no such thing but it is one present Act. Th● promises made to the Mediator are in two expr●ssi●●s with an inference in the Word Ther●fore knitting this to what went before I will divide him a portion with the great and he shall divide the spoil with the strong In short the similitudes here used are taken from Conquerours and Victors who having been in a War and fight and having defeat and routted all their Enemies and put them off the Field have a notable Out-gate Victory and Triumph and a great Spoil as the F●●i● of the War And so the meaning is That the M●diator by His undertaking to S●t● fie for the Elect should have a great F●ght and Combat with many Enemies but He should losse nothing by it He shou d have a notable Our gate an excellent Victory and glorious Triumph great glory and spoil So that as there was never War like H●s nor Enemies like these that He had to encounter with so there should never be such Victory Triumph and Spoil as our Lord Jesus should have The word Portion is not in the Original bu● well supplied It is only I will divide him many as the Word is often used and He shall divide the spoil with the strong That is He shall i● dividing the Spoil be above the strongest The Words infer and take in these Three 1. A great defeat of and Victory over all the Mediators Enemies the Devil Death and the Curse He gets a great victory over them and gives them a great defeat so that they are quite beat off the Field as dividing the spoil imports Psal 68.12 She that remained at home divided the spoil and Isa 9.3 As men rejoyce when they divide the spoil 2. The great number of Captives that our Lord in His Victory and Triumph takes and brings off that is He gets a great bootie which is that spoken of in the words before By his knowledge shall many be justified and it 's that which is exprest in that Psal 68.18 Thou hast ascended on high thou hast led captivity captive that is these that were formerly captives thou hast redeemed from their capivity and led them captive that carried others captive as the people of God pray Psal 126.4 Turn again our captivity 3. It takes in the excellent Victory the great Triumph and Glory that the Mediator should have by this means He is exalted above every name that is named that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of thinge in heaven of things in earth and of things under the earth For further clearing of it we shall recommend to you Two or Three places in which it 's like there is an allusion to this as that Col. 2.14 15. Blotting out the hand writing of ordinances that was against us and contrary to us taking it out of the way and nailling it to his cross tearing as it were the Obligation that the Law had over the Elect by His paying of their Debt And having spoiled principalities and powers he made a shew of them openly triumphing over them in it There is His Victory and Triumph He combats with subdues and trods under foot all His and His peoples Enemies by satisfying the Justice of God for the Elects Debt and spoils them of many Souls that were led captive by them and triumphed openly over them declaring Himself to have gotten the Victory in a most Majestick manner A 2d place is Phil. 2.8 9. Being found in fash●on as a man he humbled himself and became obedient unto the death even to the death of the cross wherefore God hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above eve●y name that at the name of J●sus every knee should bow of things in heaven in earth and under the earth and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father This is His Victory Triumph and Glory such as none in Heaven or Earth ever had or shall have the like A 3d. Place is that Ephes 2.21 H●●al●ed him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places far above all principalities and powers and might and dominion and every name that is named not only in this world but in that which is to come and hath put all things under his feet and given him to be head over all things to the church Whether they be Devils or good Angels or Men S●ints militant or triumphant He is above them all all are made subject to Him and He is the head of His Church The expressions run in different Persons The first is in the First Person I will divide him a portion It 's a Promise of God the Father to the Mediator for His attaining the Victory as it 's said Ephes 1.20 God raised him from the dead The 2d Expression is in the 3d. Person He shall divide the spoil To shew that the Mediator God man concurred in the attaining the Victory Therefore Rom. 1.4 He is said to raise himself and in th●t it 's said I will divide and He shall divide It is to hold out the Mediator His attaining and possessing of what was promised and to shew that there is nothing promised to the Mediator but actually He is and shall be put in the full possession of it The last part of the Words holds out the conditions on the Mediators side in Four Expressions 1. Because he hath poured out his soul unto death That is because He willingly condescended to die He yetted or poured out His Soul to death 2. He was numbred with the transgressours He had a reproached and shameful Life and a reproached and cursed Death He was thought the worst of the World so that Barrabas a murtherer was preferred unto Him It also points out the respect that His Death had to a Satisfaction for the Sins of the Elect He was legally numbred and counted amongst transgressours though He was no Transgressour 3. He bare the sins of many which expones the former and sayes this much That no● only He simply died and died a sh●meful Death but that He died for this end to bear and by His bearing to remove the Sins of the Elect for it relates to the many that in the former Words are said to be justified by his knowledge And it cannot be but these many shall be Justified because He did bear their Sins as to the Punishment and Curse due to them and whosoever Sins are born by Christ these are and shall be Justified and therefore He must be Victorious and have a glorious triumph and out-gate because He layes down His Life for His Sheep as it is John 10.17 Therefore doth my Father love me because I lay down my life and take it up again And by the way it is a strange