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A97020	Christian reconcilement or God at peace with man in Christ, delivered in a sermon at St Mary's in Oxford. / By John Wall, Dr in divinity and præbendary of Christ-Church in Oxford.	Wall, John, 1588-1666.	1658 (1658)	Wing W467; Thomason E2120_2; ESTC R210151	17,884	56

them and said of every thing which hee made 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it was good very good the first and the last of Genesis This was our Condition in the sad times of humane defection and thus wee stood at a distance I will not say a defiance with the Lord of hosts and the God of spirits But since the partition wall is broken down and there is an entrance made into the holy place wee have obtained mercy and are received into favour The heat is of the fire is quencht wrath is alaid the strife is ended and he that was most wrong'd is most desirous to bee reconciled Whilst the Angels of God are made the Embassadors of peace and do openly proclaime tidings of good will unto men upon earth As James said of Abraham that hee was termed the friend of God so wee may say of all beleivers the Sonns of Abraham the generations of his Children They are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lovers of God and beloved of him God is their freind and they are Gods freinds by the new Covenant of eternall righteousnesse in the dispensation of Christ and merit of his obedience For as when two men fall out a third coming between makes them freinds and brings them to an amicable condition so Christ being in the nature of God and man hath united both and made them one as well in love as in person by the sweet interposition of his mediatory function If any shall desire to be further satisfyed concerning the nature of this atonement and shall say to me of this spirituall Manna as the Israelites did of their corporall Manna which fell in the Wildernesse full of pleasure and delectable sweetnesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What is this or how doe you Conceive it to be understood Wee are ready to pronounce with learned Zanchius that it is renovatio c. a reinvesting of man with pristine holynesse or a reducing of man to that former interest wee had with God in Christ Jesus from the state of wrath to the state of peace from the state of bondage to the state of liberty from the state of fear to the state of assurance from the state of misery to the state of mercy that we may draw neer with boldnesse to that heavenly throne and having received that spirit of adoption cry Abba father 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 8. as Sonnes and heirs heirs of God and coheires with Christ in the sweet fruition of an everlasting Kingdome The dislike and antipathy the variance and the enmitie which transgression wrought being quite abolished and obliterated by the precious blood of that paschall Lambe sprinkled upon the door posts of our hearts and consciences For to speake in the Words of Salvian Crimen nostrum discrimen gravissimum Our greatest danger is from sin That being cleansed wee are preserved nor only so but graced and honoured embraced and dignify'd with signal ornaments of love and kindnesse by ring and by robe as they are distinctly mentioned by St Luke the Evangelist in that comfortable story of the prodigalls Conversion Hence it is the Apostle doth so much boast of a holy Communion which the saints have with the Father and the Son Our fellowship saith he and that with an Emphasis truely Our fellowship is with the Father and the Son in the 1st and 3d of his First Epist That as he is one with the Father so wee may be one with him of one heart of one mind of one desire of one judgment of one building one Temple one body one spirit which indeed is the height of comfort and doth most eminently represent the wonderfull excellency of Christian atonement St Bernard mentions divers unions in a tract of his stiled Varij Sermones naturall carnall virtuall morall personall substantiall and the like Naturall between the Soul and the body they are one man Carnal between the Man and the Woman they are one Flesh Virtuall in the Consent of our affections they are one harmony morall in the Conjunction of brethren they are one Society personall with the divinity and humanity they are one Christ substantiall in the deep mystery of the blessed Trinity They are are our God our Lord of whom and by whom and through whom all things were made As for the union in the Text it is spirituall whereby wee are not only transformed in our selves and transported out of our selves but engrafted in Christ and made one Spirit with him as it is directly avowed by the Doctor of the Gentiles in the 6 Chapt. and 17. verse of the 1 Ep. to the Corinth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he that is joyned with the Lord is one Spirit with him acted by one Spirit raised by one Spirit sanctified by one Spirit governed by one Spirit the holy ghost moving as it were upon the whole body of the Church and having a gracious influence from the head of Christ to the hearts of men and the secretest juncture of his dearest members For when Christ was gone he sent down a fire on the Earth a Vestal fire a sacred fire a blessed fire a holy fire I mean the Comforter which is the love of God that hee might keep us to to himselfe and abide with us for ever I could fix upon such a meditation as this and dwell in the contemplation of divine peace that great atonement that blessed atonement the atonement with an Emphasis the atonement with an excellence that cleares the minde and cheares the spirit with unimaginable comfort dulcor ejus absorbet conscientiam saith that elegant father the sweetenesse thereof swallowes up my thoughts and puts me into a frame of jubilar excesse O that it were no lesse with men than with God and that wee might see a perfect reconcilement in every condition like that of the disciples who mett together 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Text hath it with one mind in one place in the 2. and 1. of the Acts of Apost But this is more to be prayed for than can easily be expected in Massa and in Meribba at the Waters of strife amidst the divisions of many brethren And yet it is a shame that Christ should dye to make our peace and we should live to make debate amongst our selves striving and strugling like Iacob and Esau in the wombe and bowels of Church and Country not as true Israelites but as vaine Ishmaelites or generations of the Patriarch Dan who was said to be Coluber in viâ a Snake in the path and a Serpent in the way Gen. 49. The Lord grant that at length we may be able to say in a generall sense a sense morall a sense politicall a sense naturall a sense ecclesiasticall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wee have received the atonoment for the honour of God the peace of Sion and the great Security of this Land and Nation But I hasten to my Second observation from the grace to the meanes from the benefit to the Conveyance and

Crosse In death there is misery in blood there is cruelty in a crosse there is shame and notorious infamy All which meet together like three fatall sisters in Conjunction for ill to Christ for good to us the aggravation of his punishments the instauration of our nature that we may be joyned with the Saints above and gathered into the bosome of our heavenly father 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the body of his flesh through death and that with blood the blood of his Crosse the blood of his crosse that hath drowned our iniquities the blood of his crosse that hath purged our Consciences the blood of his Crosse that hath destroyed our enemies the blood of his Crosse that hath justified our persons the blood of his Crosse that hath quenched the violence of that flaming sword that hung at the gate of our celestiall paradise to keep us back from the sight of God and the blessed Communion of his glorious Angells Insomuch that Augustine speaking of Satan hath these words victus in patibulo qui vicerat in par adiso He is now overcome in the blood of his Crosse that did first overcome in the garden of paradise The Apostle affirmes we are bought with a price I confesse we are reconciled with a price a great price the price of blood whilst the chastisement of our peace was laid upon him and his stripes were our healing for it cost him deare and whatsoever he got for us he purchased at a very high rate our peace with his owne travell our freedome with his owne bondage our favour with his owne disgrace our comfort with his owne punishment our welcome and reception with his owne contempt and dereliction a strange dereliction a grievious dereliction that made him cry and lift up his voyce with anguish of heart and agony of Spirit Eli Eli lammasabachthani my God my God why hast thou forsaken me Now me thinkes I stand amazed at the love of God that hath reconciled us with the death of his Sonne the bitter death of his only begotten Son at the love of Christ that hath reconciled us with his blood the voluntary effusion of his owne most pretious blood What shall he not do for us now we are made friends and righteous that did so much for us being enemies and sinners dabit tibi bona sua qui pertulit mala tua saith learned Augustine He must needs bestow his rest upon us that hath taken his burdens upon himselfe The truth is his death is available unto life his life is available unto glory his death plucks us out of Satans hands his life puts us into Gods hand and the protection of his majesty We are absolved by his death we shall be advanced by his life we are saved by his death we shall be kept by his life never to depart from the obedience of his truth when he shall have bound us to himselfe with everlasting mercy in a three-fold cord of faith hope and charity Quem nec satanae ir a nec ignis Nec ferrum potuit nec edax abolexe vetustas as the Poet hath it in another sense which no force shall be able to break no age to consume no power to dissolve nor yet the gates of hell ever to prevaile against It is recorded of St Bernard in his life Guilielmus when Satan came to him in his sicknesse and thought to drive him to despaire with remembrance of his sinnes that he was much troubled at first but afterwards gathering strength said unto him non sum aignus c. I confesse I am not worthy of my selfe neither can I expect to enter heaven by any righteousnesse of my owne but Christ hath a double right unto that glorious kingdome one of inheritance by the father another of purchase by his passion That of inheritance he keeps to himselfe and rests in it that of purchase he gives to me and I lay hold on it with faith and confidence At these words the enemie was confounded and vanished away but the holy father was much comforted and triumph't exceedingly in the merits of his Saviour By this we learne to cast our selves upon God for eternall safety with a perfect abdication of humane infirmity and may justly Condemne the vanity of such as go from the Sunne to the Moone from the lord to our lady from the fountaine of living waters to the broken cisterne of humane emptinesse and from the protection of our Saviour to the mediation of any creature from the temple of God to the temple of idols from the sacrifice of Christ and the satisfaction of his death to the shrines of Diana or the rotten sepulchers of the most holy Martyrs These I might argue and these I might condemne but that indeed they are not so much to be refuted with care and deliberation as to be exploded with scorne and derision The use I shall make of this doctrine is a short expostulation out of St Augustine with à quanta iniquitas quanta perversitas c If the peace of our soules and the reconcilement of our natures be the price of blood the blood of Christ the true Sonne of the everliving God what a pravity what injustice what a phrensy what a madnesse is it to sell againe those soules unto the Divell for a little gaine a little pleasure a little smoke a little honour or any the like shadow of outward meanes and temporall felicity which God hath purchased to himselfe with extreame paine and infinite misery The Argument which the Apostle frames is most considerable and worthy of observation yee are bought with a price and are not your owne Your bodies are his your soules are his that did emancipate and set them free from the strong mans hand and danger of the enemy his by creation his by redemption his in making his in reconciling and therefore he must be glorified in both and loved of both that we may delight in him and he delight in us that we may rejoyce in him and he may rejoyce in us with joy unspeakable and full of glory For if it be life eternall to know God what is it to love God and to have the gracious returnes of love from him againe Without controversy it is the fulnesse of joy and the marrow of blisse as rivers of oyle and floods of peace whereof the Angels drink most plenteously and are continually refresht And therefore saith Chrysostome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To love God and to be loved of God with the sweet reciprocation of mutuall dilection is more then a Kingdome to the Saints the Kingdome of glory the Kingdome of heaven My deare brethren I beseech you with the Apostle or rather I charge you with King Salomon by the hinds and by the roes by the mercies of God and bowels of Christ Jesus by the obedience of his life by the power of his death by his Word and by his Gospel by his Sacraments and by his ordinances by the blood which he shed