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conscience_n	blood_n	spirit_n	spot_n	1,180	5	9.7005	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60234	Freedom from fear of death, through the death of Christ a sermon preached at Guild-Hall-Chappel, on Good-Friday, A.D. 1681 / by William Sill ...	Sill, William, d. 1687.	1681 (1681)	Wing S3787; ESTC R12824	20,138	46

us from the Fear of Death and from the eternal Wrath of God To which we were before Obnoxious and so should have been to all eternity without any Hopes of Deliverance from this dreadful Bondage or without any Possibility that by any thing we could do we should be Accepted of by God and admitted to his Favour If we were not assured from the great Mercy which we this day Commemorate That it is the Blood of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God that doth purge our Conscience from dead works to serve the living God Heb. 9.14 Two things therefore more I shall briefly do 1. I shall give some more particular account from the Scripture of Christs Dying for us And 2. I shall point at some of those Heads from whence your own Thoughts may make a yet farther and a more close Practical Improvement of the whole 1. Some more particular account from the Scripture 1. The Death of Christ is represented to us in the Scripture as a Propitiatory Sacrifice and the Price of our Redemption Rom. 5.11 By him we have now received the Atonement And When we were Enemies we were reconciled to God by the Death of his Son V. 10. V. 1. We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ He hath made peace through the Blood of his Cross Colos 1.20 We have Redemption through his Blood even the forgiveness of sins Colos 1.14 The Chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed Isa 53.5 And this is more apparent because together with the mention of I his there is a manifest Intimation of Gods Acceptance of it in our Stead Christ is said by the Grace of God to have tasted Death for every man Heb. 2.9 In our Stead he suffered Death and Gods Grace and special Favour is acknowledged in all this in that it was For Us that he died that God Accepted it As Such And therefore God's Love did appear to the World in giving his only begotten Son In sending him that the World through him might be saved John 3.16 17. God by all This hath shewed himself so clearly to be for us that the Apostle asks the question Who then can be against us He that spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all How shall he not with him also freely give us all things Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect It is God that justifieth Who is he that condemneth It is Christ that died yea rather that is risen again who is even at the right hand of God who also maketh Intercession for us Rom. 8.31 32 33 34. His Resurrection giving abundant evidence of the Dignity of the Sacrifice of his Death and of Gods gracious Acceptance of it And his Intercession for us making good to us the Effects of it 2. That Gods Favour to us was to be obtained in This Way namely by the Death of Christ is so clearly foretold in Isa 53. that nothing can be more And the same was also Typified by the Paschal Lamb by the Sacrifices and by what the High-Priest did on the great Day of Atonement Thus Christ did put away Sin by the Sacrifice of himself Heb. 9.26 By his own Blood he obtained eternal Redemption for us Ver. 12. 3. That this should be done is represented to us in the Scripture as a gracious and wise Contrivance of God and as an Agreement between God the Father and the Son Thus what was done against Jesus Acts 4.27 28. is said to have been before determined by the Hand and Counsel of God And Act. 2.23 the Jews are said to have taken Jesus and by wicked hands to have crucified and slain him being delivered by the determinate counsel and fore-knowledge of God And as to the Agreement between God the Father and the Son Bp. Pearson on the Creed p. 185. that the Son should do all this on our behalf we read Isa 53.10 11. of the Lords bruising him and putting him to grief and of making his Soul an offering for Sin and that he should bear the Iniquities of many Upon his doing all which it 's said that he shall see his Seed he shall prolong his days and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand Now the Declaration of the Sons Readiness to do all this that so all might be effected that was agreed to by the Father to follow upon it is expressed Heb. 10.5 c. Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not but a Body hast thou prepared me In Burnt-offerings and Sacrifices for Sin thou hast had no pleasure Then said I Lo I come to do thy Will O God And the Apostle adds ver 10. By the which Will we are Sanctified through the offering of the Body of Jesus Christ once for all Than all which nothing can be more clear So that those men must be supposed to Delight in Contradiction that can be bold and forward to object any thing against the manifest Evidence of all this 4thly and lastly The Scripture doth give us some Grounds according to our weak measure of judging of the great and high things of God whereupon we may observe the Fitness of all this and the Suitableness of those Means that have been used to the good and wise Ends for which they were used That an Expiation in general was necessary Mans Weakness to fulfil the Law doth seem to be one Reason Rom. 8.3 What the Law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh Or as the Expression for sin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is otherwise expressed in the Margent of that Place By a Sacrifice for sin he condemned sin in the flesh And many Reasons have been given why a Satisfaction should be made before God would pardon Sin with respect to the Holiness of God and to the securing a due Honour and Regard to his Law and to the expressing how Odious Sin was in the sight of God That so men by having Pardon over-easily granted might not be Encouraged to Sin or at least not so much Deterr'd from it And that we might the better judge of All This by considering at what a heavy Price our Redeemer purchased Pardon for us And the Wisdom of God doth farther appear in this That the Price of our Redemption was to to be paid in Our Nature In which Nature also he was to take Possession of Heaven and therefore a little before he left this World he laid this Consideration before his Sorrowful Disciples to Comfort them Joh. 14.2 3. I go to prepare a Place for you that where I am there ye may be also Other Reasons may also be given in Explication of such Places as these namely That the Captain of our Salvation was to be made perfect through Sufferings Heb. 2.10 Luke 24.26 And That