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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10384	A gleaning in Gods harvest Foure choyce handfuls; the gate to happinesse. Wounded saviour. Epicures caution. Generation of seekers. By the late judicious divine, Henry Ramsden, sometime preacher in London.	Ramsden, Henry, d. 1638.; Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1639 (1639)	STC 20660; ESTC S115629	109,922	246

vertue that is derived from the head to the members so in the mysticall body all the spirituall motion it proceeds from the influence of the head Christ is the head and from him as from the head is derived all the vertue to the members of Christ by which the death to sinne and the life of grace is wrought in us likewise Looke as it was in the oyle of Aaron the oyle that was powred on the head of Aaron it stayd not on his head but descended to the skirts of his cloathing So the Spirit of Christ it rests not on Christ onely but from Christ as the head it descends upon all the members of Christ The reason thereof why as our death to sinne so the life of grace proceeds from Christ is because both are the workes of grace according to that of the Evangelist in him dwells all the fulnesse of grace and in Collos the Apostle saith In him dwells the fulnesse of the Godhead bodily For the better and fuller opening of the point give me leave to propose and resolve one question and that is this Quest If our death to sinne and our life of grace both proceede from Christ that Christ is the author of them actions then how is Christ the author of them what kinde of cause is Christ sayd to be both of our death to sinne and of the life of grace I answer briefly Answ Christ may be sayd to be the cause both of our death to sin and of the life of grace in a fourefold respect or hee is a fourefold kind of cause Christ is the 1 meritorious 2 exemplary 3 morall 4 efficient Cause as of our death to sin so likewise of our life to grace First Christ is the meritorious cause for Christ did by his death and obedience not onely purchase for us a release and freedome from hell and consequently title to heaven but Christ merited for us the donation of the Spirit of God whereby we are made fit for and capable of that inheritance Christ not onely purchased a right to heaven but grace holines whereby we might come at last to jus in●re For as I sayd before by the righteousnes of Christ onely we come to have right to heaven but it is our owne righteousnesse whereby we come to be made capable of that right to heaven for saith the Apostle flesh and blood shal not enter into the kingdome of heaven Flesh and blood that is nature uncorrected unsanctified and uncontrolled it shall not inherit the kingdome of God therefore Christ hath purchased not onely redemption from hell and title to heaven but the donation of the Spirit of God whereby we are made fit and capable of heaven whereby wee are made meete as the Apostle saith to be partakers of the inheritance with the Saints in light Ioh. 17.19 So saith the Evangelist Ioh. 17.19 For their sakes saith our Saviour I sanctifie my selfe that they also may be sanctified through the truth Christ sanctified himselfe not onely to redeeme us from hell and to procure title to heaven but he sanctified himselfe that his members might bee sanctified that by the merit and vertue of Christs sanctification we might be sanctified So saith the Apostle to Titus he hath bestowed on us the spirit through Christ Tit. 3.5 Tit. 3.5 not by the workes of rightcousnesse that wee had done but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing if the holy Ghost which he shed on us abundantly through Iesus Christ our Saviour It is through Christ onely as through the meritorious cause by whom wee obtaine the Spirit of God by which Spirit our sinfull lusts are mortified in us and by which we are quickned and revived to the life of grace so Christ is the meritorious cause hee deserved the donation of the Spirit from his Father Secondly Christ as hee is the meritorious so he is the exemplary cause as of death to sinne so of our life to grace Christ in dying to sinne he set himselfe as a patterne to us to teach as also that wee should dye to sinne Christ in rising from the grave hee set himself a patterne to us to teach us to rise from sinne so he is the exemplary cause For Christ is a patterne for our immitation in his morall actions and wee must resemble after a sort some of his Mediatorious actions also not onely in the good duties that are commanded in the Law but in those that he performed for our redemption It is true in a different manner Christ is a patterne to us in actions morall that is in the good things that he performed that are commanded in the Law he is our patterne to be imitated in the same kinde As Christ was gracious to the poore so should wee to them that are poore and in distresse in the same kind as he was temperate so may wee imitate him in the same kinde though not in the same degree But for his actions Mediatorious we are to resemble some of them too though not in the same kinde yet in some way of use As hee died for sinne so wee should dye to sinne as he rose from the grave so wee should rise from sinne to newnesse of life so still Christ is our patterne As Saint Austin saith Christ came not onely to helpe us and to performe the things that wee ought to have done but he came to teach us by his example what we ought to do And he teacheth us he is our Schoolemaster not only in his actions morall but in his actions mediatorious ous in the former we may imitate him in the same kind though we cannot in the same degree in the latter wee cannot imitate him in the same kinde yet in some sort wee may We should be as the Heletropium that opens and shuts with the Sunne so wee may follow the lambe wheresoever he goeth as hee dyed for sinne so we must dye to sinne as hee rose from the grave so we must rise from the death of sinne to newnesse of life so Christ is the exemplary cause of our death to sinne and the life of grace Thirdly Christ is the morall moving perswading cause of both That the Apostle wills Timothy to remember 2 Tim. 2.8 Remember saith hee that Iesus Christ of the seede of David was raised from the dead according to my Gospel he bids him remember it why remember it because the very thought and remembrance that Christ dyed and rose againe it cannot chuse but be a powerful motive to holinesse for it makes men conclude argue with themselves what did Christ lay downe his life for us and shall not wee lay downe our lusts for him Did Christ arise againe the third day from the Grave and shall not wee rise from the death of sinne to newnesse of life Doe wee professe our selves to bee members of Christ and not indeavour conformitie with our head Christ Shall wee be like the

these premises they concluded presently that he was an hypocrite Thus it was with the barbarous people Act. 23. Act. 23. when they saw a Viper fastned upon Saint Pauls hand presently the Viper strongly indited him a murtherer Nay Christs Disciples did so Joh. 9.29 Ioh. 9.29 no sooner did they see a man that was borne blind but they they questioned with our Saviour Who sinned this man or his parents that he was borne blind implying that it must needs bee that this man must sinne himselfe blinde So it was with the Iewes in this Chapter Vers 3. they saw Christ despised and rejected of men and presently they inferre that he was rejected of God smitten of God and humbled for his owne sinnes but such men must thinke that even Christ himselfe who like Absalom from the crowne of his head to the sole of his foote had no stayne or blemish of sinne in him yet hee tasted as deepe of the cup of Gods wrath and more than any mortal man besides he that stood highest in his Fathers favour was most low and despicable in the eyes of the world he that was the favourite of his Father in whom his Father was well pleased yet hee was not exempt from that scourge wherewith God chasteneth every Sonne that he receiveth Fourthly if Christ suffered not for his owne sinnes This read●s us a Lecture of patience to put up injurice though they bee not deserved in the world It is the plea of some men when they are injured it would not trouble me if I deserved i● thinke what Christ deserved at the hands of the Iewes what hee had done that hee was so us●d In 2 Pet. 4 21. Christ dyed 2 Pet. 4.21 and hath left us an example to follow his steps What example but an example of patience that we should follow him when wee suffer underserving Seneca gives that advise in his 69. Epistle as if hee had beene a Disciple of Christ 2. Pet. 3.21 We should labour to imitate Cor●st in this in putting up and digesting injuries though on our part they be causelesse and undeserved In 2. Pet. 3.21 What glory is it if when yee be buffeted for your faults yee take it patiently what great matter is it but if when you doe well and suffer for it then you beare it patiently this is acceptable to God It is true it is acceptable to God that wee suffer punishment patiently when wee have deserved it but when wee are patient and have not deserved it it is highly acceptable as the word imparts Fiftly and lastly Christ dyed not for his owne sinnes then here is Balme in Gilead comfort for wounded and distressed consciences that faint under the weight and burden of their sinnes It is true indeede if Christ had dyed for his owne sinnes then our estate had beene woefull and lamentable then hee had quit scores only with God for himselfe but we should still have remayned as deepely ingaged as ever and have beene cast into utter darkenesse and have beene reserved in chaynes till we had payd the utmost farthing but now Christ hath suffered for us Then as the Apostle inferres Rom. 8.34 Rom. 8.34 Who shall condemne Let Sathan the accuser of the brethren bring what objections hee will this one plea will answer all Christ dyed if he dyed then he hath appeased the wrath of God to us and payd the debt of the Law and the punishment of the Law and fulfilled obedience and given satisfaction to God Christ had no sinne of his owne therefore what hee suffered it was for our sinnes and transgressions This shall suffice to bee spoken of the negative part from this particular But that carries the force of a negation That Christ was affirmed to suffer for his owne sinne We judged him smitten of God and humbled But. The affirmative part followes to be handled But He was wounded for our transgres●ions Where I shall not neede to tell you that by being wounded in this place wee are not to understand onely nor principally as some Popish writers doe the bodily torments and tortures of Christ that hee as this day indured on the Crosse but withall and especially those secret agonies and conflicts of soule that he felt that were caused out of a deeper apprehension of the greatnesse of our sinnes that hee suffered for and the sense of the greatnesse of Gods wrath that hee then sustained which being so the conclusion from this affirmitive part is this that Christ Iesus suffered ex●reame torments in his body and sad and amazing agonies in his soule for our sinnes and trangressions He was wounded for our transgressions c. For the proofe of it I neede not range far from the Text. In the fourth verse of this Chapter surely saith the Prophet hee hath borne our grief●s and sorrowes In the fifth vers hee was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was on him by his stripes wee are healed In the sixth vers The Lord hath layd upon him the iniquitie of us all In the eighth vers For the transgression of my people was he stricken In vers 10. He made his soule an offering for sinne In the 12. vers he poured out his soule to death Wee see he was broken for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was on him and this not onely in body but in soule too be poured out his soule to death he made his soule an offering for sinne If you aske the reason why I answer first It is a rule of the Schooles where the gift is free and undeserved without merit or desert on our part there the best if not the onely reason that can bee assigned of that gift is the free grace and love of the doner So this gift is freely from Christs love to us so saith the Apostle Eph. 5.2 Eph. 5.2 Let us love one a other as Christ hath loved us and given himselfe a ransome for us where hee shewes not only the manner how wee should love one another As Christ hath loved us but the motive how he loved us hee suffered for us he loved us and gave himselfe a ransome for us Secondly as it was the love of Christ to give himselfe so it was the love of God that gave Christ as Christ saith it of himselfe so hee speakes it likewise of his Father Ioh. 3.16 God so loved the world Joh. 3.16 that hee gave his only begotten Sonne c. Wee must not thinke that God then begins to love us when God is actually reconciled to us in his Sonne so some conceive but amisse if I be not deceived and mistaken for saith the Apostle Rom. 5.18 Rom. 5.18 Hee loved us when wee were enemies God loves us not only when wee are friends when wee are actually reconciled by the death of his Sonne but when wee were enemies S. Aug. Psal 113. So saith S. Austin upon Psal 110. God loves us when hee hates us hee loves us