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A81101 The Christian laver. Or, a discourse opening the nature of participation with, and demonstrating the necessity of purification by Christ By T. Cruso. Cruso, Timothy, 1656?-1697. 1690 (1690) Wing C7434; ESTC R225717 25,680 95

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considering its Infinite value may well be represented as a Sea deep enough to drown all our guilt in according to that Promise in the Prophet Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the Sea Micah 7.19 Christ's Blood is to our sins as the Red Sea was to the Egyptians a perpetual Grave from which they can never be raised again Now that Blood which stifles the Guilt even in so doing washes the Person Jer. 33.8 I will cleanse them says God from all their Iniquity and I will pardon all their Iniquities Pardoning and cleansing are the same thing and the Blood of the Cross is the only consideration with God upon which 't is done If that had not been pour'd out Isa 1.18 the Dye of Scarlet and Crimson sins could never have been turn'd into the whiteness of Wool and Snow All things by the Law says the great Apostle are purged with Blood Heb. 9.22 and without shedding of Blood is no remission The same Method holds under the Gospel as before under the Law so that there is neither Real nor Typical neither Ceremonial nor Spiritual remission or purgation but by Blood shed Typical and Ceremonial by the Blood of Calves and Goats c. Real and Spiritual by the Blood of Christ. Secondly By the sprinkling of Christs ' Blood upon the Conscience of every Believer they come to be actually washt For there must be a particular application of the Merit of that Blood to every one by Faith or else no one can have any advantage by it We must through the operations of Gods Grace in and upon us positively concur to the sprinkling of Christs Blood upon our hearts though the shedding of it upon the Tree was wholy without us That great multitude of whom John speaks Rev. 7.14 are said to have washed their own Robes and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb. This intimates a Believers betaking of himself and flying for refuge to the satisfaction of Jesus Christ for till then sin is not actually remitted nor the preson justified If this were not a necessary antecedent qualification for Actual forgiveness how is it to be understood that God hath set forth Christ to be a propitiation through faith in his Blood Rom. 3.25 And that we are justified by Faith c. 5.1 We are therefore commanded to draw near to God Heb. 10.22 having our Hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience i.e. not only having a pardon procur'd and prepar'd for us by Christ but brought home to us by believing in him And the Blood of Jesus thus apprehended and laid hold of by Faith is called the Blood of sprinkling c. 12.24 Hence it is that we read of our being Elected through the sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1.2 as a means to attain the end of Election It is one of the excellent Characters given to Moses Heb. 11.28 that by faith he kept the Passeover and sprinkling of Bolld For after the Sacrifices were offered he took of the Blood Exod. 24.8 and sprinkled it upon the people David very plainly alludes to this in that famous Penitential Pasalm Isal 31.7 Purge me with Hyssop and I shall be clean because that was used by Gods appointment in the cleansing of the Leper Levit. 24.47 to sprinkle the Blood upon him All this signifies the particular exercises and actings of Faith upon Christ as the Lamb slain and so our washing of Justification is compleated Secondly There is a washing of Sanctification which is also the work of Christ 1 Joh. 5.6 This is he says the Beloved Bisciple whocame by water as well as by blood A lively Emblem whereof was the water which came out with the Blood Joh. 19.34 when the Souldier pierc'd his side with a Spear Therefore the Prophet describes him by a Fountain opened to the House of David Zech. 13.1 and to the Inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness He cleanses us not only from our Guilt but from our Corruption too This he does principally by his Spirit and instrumentally by his Word and Providences First Christs washing of us as it respects Sanctification is principally performed by the Spirit It was promised under the Old Testament Ezek. 36.25 Then will I sprinkle water upon you c. This is expresly interpreted in the New Testament Joh. 7.33 39. of the Effusion of the Spirit He is the great Operator employed by our Lord Jesus in the purifying of defiled Souls According to his mercy he saved us by the washing of Regeneration Tit. 3.5 6. and renewing of the Holy Ghost which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour Nature in its present depraved state neither can nor will ever purge it self Solomons Challenge is not to be answer'd Prov. 20.9 Who can say I have made my heart clean He that first made the heart must now make it clean We are no more able to be our own Cleansers than our own Creators for this is such a kind of work Psal 51.10 Create in me a clean heart oh God was Davids earnest request after his Fall Gen. 1.2 It was the Spirits moving upon the face of the waters which produc'd this beautiful World 'T is the influence of the same Spirit which must produce an holy Comeliness in us Job 26.13 God by his Spirit garnisht the vifible Heavens and Christ by his Spirit must fit us to inhabit the Invisible Nor does the Merit of Christs bloud appear more in our forgiveness than its vertue and efficacy does in our renovation Secondly Christ washes us instrumentally by his Word and Providences 1. By his Word This is a Divine Instrument consecrated by a Divine Authority to this very purpose Psul 12.6 The words of the Lord are not onely pure words in themselves but are often blest and succeeded for the working of purity in us So our Lord tells his Disciples sciples Joh. 15.3 Now ye are clean through the word that I have spoken unto you he does not onely tell them that they were clean but by what means they came to be so Thus the Apostle Paul says that Christ gave himself for the Church Eph. 5.25 26. that he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word Two great Truths are evidently contained in this Text 1. That our Sanctification is the price of Blood Our Living to God is the effect of Christs dying for us if he had not given himself the Spirit had not been given 2. That the word of Christ is ordinarily made use of by him in the cleansing of those whom he designs to save It hath his special Institution for this end these waters of the Sanctuary are the pool which we must come to and where we must wait to be heal'd of our Impurities This is Gods way for the cleansing of our own way Psal 119.9 Not