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A33454	Methodus Evangelica, or, The gospel method of Gods saving sinners by Jesus Christ practically explained in XII propositions / by Abraham Clifford ; to which is prefixed a preface by Dr. Manton, and Rich. Baxter.	Clifford, Abraham.; Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1676 (1676)	Wing C4701; ESTC R23890	95,942	214

as were most requisite for the People of Israel and the succeeding Generations to be acquainted with Besides 't is impossible that the particularities of all transactions for so many hundreds of years should all be recounted and summed up in so short an History as that of Genesis Yet this we find that the Sons of Adam immediately upon the giving out of this gracious promise offer Sacrifice to the Lord which is a sufficient testimony 1. Of their own guilt that they had sinned and deserved to dye acknowledged in the death of the Sacrifice 2. Of their Faith in a Messiah and expectation of salvation by his death and sufferings typified in those of the Beasts they offered For as the Apostle argues in his Epistle to the Hebrews chap. 10.4 'T is impossible that the Blood of Bulls and Goats should take away sin And yet without shedding of blood he also tells us there is no remission chap. 9.22 and therefore by necessary consequence only by the blood of Jesus Christ which he also infers chap. 9. v. 10.14 3. Of their obedience and entire resignation of themselves to the Divine Will And in these three you have the substance of all that the Covenant requires on the Creatures part to be performed But what ever were the methods not particularly made known to us in which God treated the first Ages of the World yet so soon as ever he began to frame a peculiar People to himself and to make any inclosures wherein to plant an holy Seed he then more expresly engageth them to himself and makes them his by way of Covenant Thus he treats with Abraham Gen. 15.18 And afterwards with the Israelites the multiplyed Seed of Abraham Exod. 24. And because there were certain Shadows and temporal Appendices annext to this Covenant which were only suited to the infancy of the Church the present State of the Jews and therefore to be abolished at the appearance of the promised Messiah he further declares by his Prophets that when this should be done away he would yet make another Covenant with them and all his Saints comprehended under the name of Israel Jer. 31 32 33 c. Ezek. 34.25 and 37.26 which the Author to the Hebrews applies expresly to the Gospel times Heb. 10.16.8.9 10 11 12 13. As all our Mercies are purchased for us by the blood of Christ so they are given and conveighed to us only by the Covenant founded in his blood From first to last all 's by Covenant Doth he give Adam an earthly Paradise Abraham a blessed Seed Israel the Land of Canaan and the Saints in all ages a Crown and Kingdom of Life and Glory 't is still by Covenant Yea our very temporal Blessings become ours not by virtue of any absolute grant and donation but by a federal right 1 Tim. 4.8 And therefore 't is no good plea to argue thus Jesus Christ hath given full satisfaction to the Father and fulfilled all righteousness and purchased eternal life and glory and therefore there 's no doubt but our sins will be pardoned and our Souls saved No Whatever Jesus Christ hath done and suffered or purchased by either we for our parts can expect no more advantage by it than what the new Covenant makes over to us nor upon any other terms than what are therein propounded nor yet without presumption lay claim to any right or propriety in any of the benefits resulting from it unless we can first prove our selves to be within the Bond of the Covenant For though the satisfaction that Jesus Christ hath made be the foundation of our general hopes in God and incouragement in our addresses to him for mercy yet 't is the Covenant only that gives us interest and propriety PROPOS VIII Of the Nature of the New Covenant THIS New Covenant or Gospel Conveyance by which pardon of sin and eternal life the fruits of Christ's Purchase are dispensed to sinners 't is not a meer Will and Testament as some have imagined but in the true and proper sense of the word a formal Covenant By Covenant I mean a mutual agreement and stipulation betwixt God and the Creature whereby as he freely engageth himself to us to be our God i. e. to do us good and bless us and give us an everlasting happiness so we also on the other hand oblige our selves to God to be his People i. e. his Subjects to pay him as far as in us lyes that homage and observance which he requires of us that we may be partakers of the mercies promised This is properly a Covenant which will yet further appear when we come to speak of the terms of it But a Will or Testament is the act or instrument of some one single person whereby he gives according to the pleasure of his own will certain Boons and Legacies to some particular persons to be enjoyed after his decease without any stipulation made or required on their part in order to their having a right to or their receiving of them By this you see there 's a vast difference betwixt a Covenant and a Testament both in regard of the subject and terms and formal notion of both That 's the joint act of two or more This only of some one single person That stands upon certain terms and conditions to be performed This is at least may be absolute without any terms at all That is by mutual consent and stipulation This requires neither at least they are not necessary and essential to its Being No Goods or Lands we know are given at will and therefore called a Will without the consent of the Legatee thereto required nay many times without his knowledge And the Donations of the Testator however makes them his and gives him an undoubted right to them nay though he should despise them and ever after hate and revile the name of him that gave them But who will say that the great blessings of the Gospel pardon of sin and the favour of God and eternal happiness are thus dispensed to sinners That the Grant which God hath made of them is so wholly absolute as that it admits of no terms but that they may become ours without our knowledge or consent or professed willingness to accept them nay though we should hate and blaspheme that God that bequeathed them to us It 's true the Covenant it self was first framed by Divine Wisdom and Goodness before we had any intimations of it God did not ask the Creature whether he were willing that he should make a Covenant with him or how it should be made or what the terms should be No but being thus made and propounded to us we are now bound to give our own personal consents to the terms of it or else the blessings of this Covenant can never actually become ours I know no such Grant in Scripture made to any that whether they are willing or not to accept it and to promise obedience to their Maker he will yet remit their

give a Bill of divorce to many of the grand Articles of our Faith But whether it be not exprest by such terms and phrases as do necessarily signifie and import all that which is essential to and is commonly meant and understood by the word Covenant For the proof of which two things we learn from the Scriptures before mentioned that are naked and open to every observan● eye First That Jesus Christ engageth in the behalf of those whom the Father had given to him to take their Nature to bear their Infirmities to be wounded for their transgressions and make his Soul an Offering for their sins c. And on the other hand that the Father thereupon promiseth to him by way of reward that he should see of the fruit of his soul and be satisfied that he would divide him a portion with the great and the spoil with the strong and that he would exalt him and make him head over all Principalities and Power and give him a Name above every Name that every knee should bow and every tongue confess him to the glory of God the Father c. And as upon this consideration he was comfortably supported under and joyfully triumphed over all his sufferings Heb. 12.2 So likewise having perfectly accomplish●● the work he undertook upon these terms he pleads it with his Father as the reason why he should be exalted and reassumed to Glory Joh. 17.4 5. And what can all this signifie less than what we commonly understand and express by the word Covenant And when the thing it self is so evidently declared in Scripture why should we scruple to call it by that name any more than we do to call that original sin which we derived from Adam or the Law given to him the natural Covenant or the union of the Divine and Humane Nature in the person of Christ the Hypostatical Union or the three Persons in the Godhead the Trinity or the Lords Supper a Sacrament c. which are words no where to be found in Scriprure Yet since the things themselves which ar● signified by them may be found there 't is thought sufficient to justifie the use of them I have the rather insisted upon this Argument because the confounding of these two Covenants this I mean of Redemption with that of the Gospel and making them but one which as will afterwards be made more fully to appear are vastly different and consequently to be distinguisht hath been the fundamental cause of those several Controversies and Mistakes that have been concerning the Gospel Covenant PROPOS IV. Of Christ's actual Satisfaction by his Obedience and Sufferings JEsus Christ according to the tenour of this Eternal Covenant did in time assume the Humane Nature and therein as Man's Surety actually do and perform all that the Law of Righteousness required at the hands of the guil●y Creature and consequently all that was any way requisite either to the repairing of his Fathers Honour or effecting the Creatures Redemption and Happiness Psal 40.6 7 8. God had for some while taken his Sons word and saved souls upon his single promise of making satisfaction in their behalf and in the interim accepted of typical Sacrifices and O●lations the blood of Bulls and Goats as daily memorials of what he expect●d from the hands of h●s own Son though not as things pleasing and acc●pt●ble in themselves Yea but now God will no longer admit of these Shadows or be satisfied with Bonds or Promises but requires the actual payment of the Debt and therefore now Christ comes according to his engagement to discharge it Then said I that is Christ Lo I come in the Volume of thy Book it is written of me I delight to do thy will O my God! And for the full accomplishment of this great Undertaking he cloaths his Divinity with the Humane Nature A body hast thou prepared me for so the Author to the Hebrews chap. 10.5 renders those words of the Psalmist ver 6. Mine ears hast thou digged as was before observed or as the Apostle expresseth it Gal. 4.4 He was made of a Woman made under the Law Yea and being found in fashion as a Man and in the form of a Servant subject to the Law of a Creature he also humbled himself and became obedient saith the same Apostle Phil. 2.8 and that not only in some more signal and momentous instances of Obedience but even to the least tittle and Iota commanded by the Law Math. 5.17 18. He fulfilled all Righteousness and he tells you it behov●d him so to do Mat. 3.5 Nor yet did he only thus render himself subject to the Commands of the Law and pay a perfect active obedience to them but he also undertook and suffered the most rigorous penalties that were therein threatned against sinners He was a man of sorrows and acquainted with our griefs He was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities and the chastisement of our peace was upon him Esa 53.3 4 5. He was in all things tempted or afflicted even as we are tempted sin only excepted Heb. 4.15 He loved us and gave himself for us an Offering and a Sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour Ephes 5.2 He humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the Cross Phil. 2.8 He was made sin for us who knew no sin c. 2 Cor. 4.18 19. Yea a Curse that we might be blessed Gal. 3.13 And all this that he might ransom our souls Math. 20.28 and propitiate God to sinners 1 Joh. 2.2 and vindicate his Fathers Authority Law and Justice his Truth and Holiness that he might consistent with his honour pardon the guilty Creature and reaccept him into favour Rom. 3.25 26. And thus Jesus Christ by his active and passive Obedience which here are not to be separate or distinguished since both were paid solely upon the sinners account finished the whole work which his Father gave him to do in order to Man's recovery Joh. 17.4 and so being made perfect through sufferings he became the Author of eternal salvation to all them that obey him Heb. 5.9 PROPOS V. Of the application of Christ's Merits to sinners THE saving fruits and benefits intended to sinners by the Obedience and Sufferings of Jesus Christ they do not actually and of necessity become theirs immediately upon the Satisfaction thereby given and the Purchase made in their behalf But before they can be admitted to any actual interest in or reap any comfortable advantage from either there is yet somewhat further on their part to be done and performed by them The Merits of Christ in dying for sinners do not necessarily save any but only as God the Father Son and Spirit shall think meet to communicate and dispense with the issues of them to the Vessels of Mercy For all that properly results from the satisfaction of Christ is only this that the grand obstacle which stood in the way of Mercy and obstructed its communications to