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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26981	A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainess and brevity fitted to the use of religious families, in their daily reading of the Scriptures : and of the younger and poorer sort of scholars and ministers, who want fuller helps : with an advertisement of difficulties in the Revelations / by Richard Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1685 (1685)	Wing B1338; ESTC R231645	1,057,080	615

man on Earth who must all once die and then be doomed to their endless state so Christ was once to die as a Sacrifice for the sins many and to them that wait for him in the prepared state of Faith Hope Obedience and Patience he shall appear again but not any more to bear the punishment of their sins but to justifie them publickly and take them to his glory CHAP. X. 1. FOR the law having a shadow of good things to come and not the very Image of the things can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the commers thereunto perfect 1. For the Law having but in its Ceremonies a shadow of the great heavenly Blessings of the Gospel and not the clear Image or Draught or Map of the things themselves doth shew by the frequent yearly iteration of those Sacrifices that it doth not perfect the Sacrifices 2. For then would they not have ceased to be offered because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins 2. For then they would have ceased to be offered because the Worshippers once pardoned and cleansed should have no more conscience of guilt or remaining pravity 3. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year 4. For it is not possible that the bloud of bulls and of goats should take away sins 3 4. Note 1. This Text doth not deny that the faithful Jews were then forgiven nor that the Law conduced to it as used in subordination to the antecedent Promise and Law of Grace But without this Promise the Law could not do it 2. Nor doth this infer that we may not mention lament and beg pardon for our old sin while we live on Earth Nor that renewed sins have no need of a renewed pardon but no need of a new Sacrifice 5. Wherefore when he cometh into the world he saith Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not but a body hast thou prepared me 6. In burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure 7. Then said I Lo I come in the volume of the book it is written of me to do thy will O God 8. Above when he said Sacrifice and offering and burnt-offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not neither hadst pleasure therein which are offered by the law 9. Then said he Lo I come to do thy will O God He taketh away the first that he may establish the second 5 6 7 8 9. David as a Prophet personating Christ saith c. taking down Sacrifices as insufficient and introducing Christs obedient Sacrifice of himself 10. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all 10. And by this Decree of God giving us a Saviour to be a Sacrifice for our sins we are as far as belongeth to the Expiating Sacrifice made a holy people unto God the sins of the faithful by this price being pardoned and Reconciliation made 11. And every priest standeth daily ministring and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which can never take away sins 11. And the Priests must be still sacrificing the same things never finishing the Expiation 12. But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever sat down on the right hand of God 13. From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool 12 13. But Christ having offered but one Sacrifice for sins as sufficient for ever sate down in the possession of Glory and universal Dominion in the Heavens on the right hand of God where he will reign till he hath subdued all his Enemies even all that opposeth the perfecting of his work of the Salvation and Glory of his Church 14. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified 14. For all the faithful and sanctified are by that one offering as a sufficient Expiatory Sacrifice freed from all guilt and sin now initially and shall be perfectly without any other Expiatory Sacrifice for ever 15 16 17. Whereof the holy Ghost also is a witness to us for after that he had said before This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days saith the Lord I will put my laws into their hearts and in their minds will I write them And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more 18. Now where remission of these is there is no more offering for sin 15 16 17 18. Note here 1. That when the price is given and taken and a free Act of Oblivion made on the bare condition of thankful acceptance the crime is said to be pardoned in the common custom of speech it being done as far as belongeth to the Satisfier and the Rector as such though yet the Resusers be all actually unpardoned For a Conditional Gift puts nothing in act till the Condition be performed 2. That here in the Promise Pardon is not in time before Renovation and so not actually of any Infidels or unconverted though elect thereto 3. That even the pardon of the sanctified is but such as excludeth any more Sacrifice but not any more Faith Repentance Watching Praying c. 19. Having therefore Brethren boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus 20. By a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us through the vail that is to say his flesh 21. And having an high priest over the house of God 19 20 21. And now I come to the Use of all that I have said in all the foregoing Doctrine We are not now deterred from access to God by unexpiated guilt but may come to him as a Father with comfortable reverent boldness and hope as reconciled by Christ even in confidence of the merit of his Righteousness and Sacrifice which is as a new and still effectual living way through the veil of his flesh consecrated for us And we have now in the Heavens a Glorified High Priest who is Head over all things to his Church which is the House of God and ever liveth to do all for us in Heaven which belongeth to a perfected High Priest 22. Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water 22. Let us therefore draw near to God in holy Worship and heavenly Desires and Aspirings with a heart that is sound sincere and true to Christ and our convictions and abounding with full belief and trust in Christ for all that he hath promised having our hearts cleansed by Christ's Blood which the sprinkling figured under the Law from the conscience of guilt and the love and power of sin and our bodily practice purified from uncleanness typified by the washings under the Law and federally signified by our Baptism 23. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for he is faithful that promised 23. Let us against all subtle deceitful Adversaries and against all

he hath raised Christ which would be a most heinous crime 16. For if the dead rise not then is not Christ raised 17 And if Christ be not raised your faith is vain ye are yet in your sins 16 17. If the dead rise not and Christ rose not what hope have you of Salvation from sin and death 18. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished 18. Then dead Christians are perished that is If their Souls live not when the Body is dissolved their Souls perish and if the body rise not that perisheth for ever and the Martyrs would be great losers and martyrdom folly 19. If in this life onely we have hope in Christ we are of all men most miserable 19. And if there be no resurrection or life after this but our hope of benefit by Christ were only in the things and time of this present life none were so miserable as Christians who must forsake all even life it s●lf for Christ Note That the thing denied by the Hereticks was not only the resurrection of the body but also all life after this for Soul or Body And so the Apostle joyneth the confutation of both under the name of Resurrection 20. But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first-fruits of them that slept 20. But we have full proof even from sense that Christ is risen and therefore as the first-fruits consecrate the whole so Christs Resurrection being to purchase ours doth prove to our comfort that the dead shall rise 21. For since by man came death by man came also the resurrection of the dead 22. For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive 21 22. For as by Man came death Corporal as well as Spiritual and Eternal by Man also came our deliverance by a Resurrection For as by Adam's sin the sentence of death came on all his posterity as ●●ch so all that are in Christ shall by him be delivered to everlasting happy life Note That the Resurrection of all Men good and bad is an effect of Christs death and resurrection antecedently to differencing Grace as appeareth John 5.24 25 c. But that it proveth a Resurrection to condemnation is consequently caused by Mens sin and the Apostle here speaketh of the Elects Resurrection to felicity 23. But every man in his own order Christ the first-fruits afterward they that are Christs at his coming 23. But Christ the cause of our Resurrection must rise before us and all Christians at his coming 24. Then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the Kingdom to God even the Father when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power 24. Then cometh the end of his acquired Mediatorial Kingdom when he shall have reduced us perfectly to God his Father and we shall need his reducing healing Government no more and so God shall govern us in the state of perfect innocency and Christ shall have put down all Rebelling Powers Authority and Rule Note This is a sad intimation that so much of Rule Authority and Power as is here called All will be against Christ 25. For he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet 25. For these Powers now mentioned being Enemies to Christ he must reign till they are all subdued 26. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death 26. By Enemies I mean all that resist his saving works And of these death is the last 27. For he hath put all things under his feet But when he saith all things are put under him it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him 27. Only God is evident●y excepted who is he that thus puts all things under him 28. And when all things shall be subdued unto him then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be all in all 28. When Christ hath subdued all that opposeth his saving mediatorial work Christ as a Creature shall be for ever himself subject to the Deity and shall give up his recovering work tho still it will be our Glory to see his Glory So that the pure blessed Deity will be the felicity of Saints and be all in all 29. Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead if the dead rise not at all why are they then baptized for the dead 29. And if the dead rise not to what purpose do we in Baptism profess our belief of the Resurrection and resign our Bodies a living Sacrifice to die when Christ requireth it and this in hope of a resurrection signified by our rising from under the Water 30 31. And why stand we in jeopardy every hour I protest by your rejoycing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord I die daily 30 31. What folly were it in us Christians to choose a Religion and course of life for which we are in continual danger from the malignant World I protest by the joy which I have in your Christianity that I live continually a dying life that is in daily sufferings and danger of death and preparation for it 32. If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus what advantageth it me if the dead rise not let us eat and drink for to morrow we die 32. If as Men Combat one with another I was put at Ephesus to strive with Beasts or Beasts in the shape of Men what get I by such hazzards and sufferings if there be no life to come Then it will follow that those sensual fools are the Wise Men who say Let us eat and drink and take pleasure to the Flesh while we may for we shall shortly die 33. Be not deceived Evil communications corrupt good manners 33. Let not such evil Principles and Proverbs and talk deceive you Ill words deceive many and draw to ill Deeds and Conversations 34. Awake to righteousness and sin not for some have not the knowledge of God I speak this to your shame 34. Such lewd opinions shew that mens Reasons and Consciences are in a sleep and stupidity awake them and they will lead you from sin to righteousness By this it appeareth that some among you that call themselves Christians have not yet the true knowledge of God and his Will which I say to humble you by shame 35. But some man will say How are the dead raised up and with what body do they come 35. But some of you may the hardlier believe the Resurrection because they cannot tell how the dead are raised and with what body they shall rise 36. Thou fool that which thou sowest is not quickened except it die 36. This is the Objection of a Fool For in sowing though a Seed truly dead be unfruitful yet the Seed is buried and by a sort of Rotting or Corruption seemeth as dead before it spring up unto Fruit. 37. And that which thou sowest thou sowest not that body