god SO to love the World as to send his Son For God SO to commend his love to the World as to send it to them in the Blood of his Son Amazing Love John 3. 16. Rom. 5. 8. 3dly It is the greatest discovery of the Condescention of Christ that ever the World had 1. That he should not come to be ministred unto but to minister and to give his Life a Ransom for many Mat. 20. 28. 2. That he should be manifest for this purpose that he might destroy the works of the Devil 1 John 3. 8. 3. That he should come that we might have life and that we might have it more abundantly John 10. 10. 4. That the Son of God should come to seek and to save that which was lost Luk. 19. 10. 5. That he should not come to judg the World to but to save the World John 12. 47. 6. That Christ Jesus should come into the World save Sinners of whom I am chief 1. Tim. 1. 15. 7. That he should love us and wash us from our Sins in his own Blood Revel 1. 5. What amazing Condescention and Humility is this Phil. 2. 6 7 8 9. How Jesus Christ addressed himself to the Work of our Redemption I Come then in the next place to shew you HOW Jesus Christ addressed himself to the Work of mans Redemption The Scripture saith he became poor That he made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a Servant that he humbled himself unto death even the Death of the Cross. But particularly 1. He took upon him our Flesh. 2. He was made under the Law 3. He took upon him our Sins 4. He bore the Curse due to our Sins First He took upon him our Flesh. I shewed you before that he came in our Flesh and now I must shew you the Reason of it namely Because That was the way to address himself to the Work of our Redemption Wherefore when the Apostle treated of the Incarnation of Christ he addeth withal the reason to wit That he might be capable to work out the Redemption of men There are three things to be considered in this 1st Head 1. that he took our Flesh for this Reason That he might be a Saviour 2. How he took flesh that he might be our Saviour 2. That it was necessary that he should take our Flesh if indeed he will be our Saviour For the First That he took our Flesh for this Reason That he might be a Saviour For 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 Rom. 8. 3 4. The Sum of the Words is forasmuch as the Law could do us no good by reason of the inability that is in our flesh to do it for the Law can do us no good until it be fulfilled and because God had a desire that good should come to us therefore did he send his Son in our likeness clothed with flesh to destroy by his doing the Law the tendency of the Sin that dwells in our flesh He therefore took our flesh that our Sin with its effects might by him be condemned and overcome The Reason therefore why he took flesh is Because he would be our Saviour For asmuch then as the Children are Partakers of Flesh and blood he also likewise took part of the same that through death he might destroy him that had the Power of Death that is the Devil and deliver them who through fear of death were all their life-time subject to bondage Heb. 2. 14 15. In these words it is asserted that he took our flesh for certain Reasons 1. Because the Children the Heirs of Heaven are Partakers of Flesh and Blood For asmuch then as the Children are Partakers of Flesh and Blood he also himself took part of the same Had the Children the Heirs been without flesh he himself had not taken it upon him had the Children been Angels he had taken upon him the Nature of Angels but because the Children were Partakers of Flesh therefore leaving Angels or refusing to take hold of Angels he took Flesh and Blood the Nature of the Children that he might put himself into a capacity to save and deliver the Children Therefore it follows That through death he might destroy him that had the Power of Death that is the Devil This therefore was another Reason that he might destroy the Devil The Devil had bent himself against the Children he is their Adversary and goeth forth to make war with them The Devil your Adversary And he went to make war with the Remnant of her Seed 1 Pet. 5. 8. Revel 12. Now the Children could not destroy him because he had already cast them into sin defiled their Nature and laid them under the Wrath of God Therefore Christ puts himself among the Children and into the Nature of the Children that he might by means of his Dying in their Flesh destroy the Devil that is take away Sin his Work that he might destroy the Works of the Devil for sin is the great Engine of Hell by which he overthroweth all that perish Now this did Christ destroy by taking on him the similitude of Sinful Flesh of which more anon That he might destroy him that had the Power of Death that is the Devil and deliver them This was the thing in chief intended that he might deliver the Children that he might deliver them from death the Fruit of their Sin and from Sin the Sting of that Death That he might deliver them who through the Fear of Death were all their Life-time subject to bondage He took flesh therefore because the Children had it he took it that he might die for the Children he took it that he might deliver the Children from the Works of the Devil that he might deliver them No Deliverance had come to the Children if the Son of God had not taken their Flesh and Blood Therefore he took our Flesh that he might be our Saviour Again In a Saviour there must be not only Merit but Compassion and Sympathy because the Children are yet to live by Faith are not yet come to the Inheritance It behoved him therefore in all things to be made like unto his Brethren that he might be a Merciful and Faithful High-Priest in things pertaining to God to make Reconciliation for the Sins of the People Heb. 2. 17 18. Two Reasons are rendred in this Text why he must take Flesh namely that he might be their Priest to offer Sacrifice to wit his Body and Blood for them and that he might be merciful and faithful to pitty and preserve them unto the Kingdom appointed for them Mark you therefore how the Apostle when he asserteth that the Lord Jesus took our Flesh urgeth the reason why he took our Flesh. THAT he might destroy the Devil and Death THAT he might deliver them It behoved him to be made
53. Not for that he hated him considering him in his own harmless innocent and blessed Person for he was daily hid Delight but by an act of grace to usward were our Iniquities laid upon him and he in our stead bruised and chastised for them God loved us and made him a Curse for us He was made a Curse for us That the Blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Faith in Jesus Christ Gal. 3. 13 14 15. Further Demonstration of this Truth BEfore I pass this Truth I will present thee Courteous Reader with two or three Demonstrations for its further confirmation First That Christ did bear our Sin and Curse is clear because he died and that without a Mediator 1. He died Death is the Wages of Sin Rom. 6. 23. Now if death be the Wages of sin and that be true that Christ did die and not sin either the Course of Justice is perverted or else he died for our Sins there was no cause of death in him yet he died Act. 13. 28. He did no Evil Guile was not found in his Mouth yet he received the Wages of Sin Sin therefore though not of his own was found upon him and laid to his Charge because he died Christ died for our Sins Christ gave himself for our Sins 1 Cor. 15. 1 2 3. Gal. 1. 4. 1 Pet. 2. 22. He then that will conclude that Christ did not bear our Sin chargeth God foolishly for delivering him up to death for laying on him the Wages when in no sence he deserved the same Yea he overthroweth the whole Gospel for that hangeth on THIS hinge Christ died for our Sins Object But all that die do not bear the Curse of God for Sin Ans. But all that die without a Mediator do Angels died the Cursed Death because Christ took not hold of them and they for whom Christ never prayeth they die the Cursed Death for they perish everlastingly in the unutterable Torments of Hell Christ too died that Death which is the Proper Wages of Sin for he had none to stand for him I looked saith he and there was none to help and I wondred that there was none to uphold therefore mine own Arm brought Salvation unto me And he saw that there was no man and he wondered that there was no Intercessor therefore his Arm brought Salvation unto him and his Righteousness sustained him Isa. 63. 5. Isa. 59. 16. Christ then died or endured the Wages of Sin and that without an Intercessor without one between God and he He grappled immediatly with the Eternal Justice of God who inflicted on him Death the Wages of Sin there was no man to hold off the Hand of God Justice had his full blow at him and made him a Curse for Sin He died for sin without a Mediator he died the Cursed Death Secondly A Second thing that Demonstrateth that Christ died the Cursed Death for Sin It is the Frame of Spirit that he was in at the time that he was to be taken Never was poor mortal so beset with the apprehensions of approaching death as was this Lord Jesus Christ Amazement beyond measuâ—e Sorrow that exceeded seized upon his Soul My Soul saith he is exceeding sorrowful even unto Death And he began saith Mark to be sore amazed and to be very heavy Mat. 26. 38. Mar. 14. 33. Add to this That Jesus Christ was better able to grapple with death even better able to do it alone than the whole World joyn'd altogether 1. He was anointed with the Spirit without Measure Joh. 3. 34. 2. He had all Grace perfect in him John 1. 16. 3. Never none so soaked in the Bosom of his Fathers Love as himself Prov. 8. 23 30. 4. Never none so harmless and without sin as he and consequently never man had so good a Conscience as he Heb. 7. 26. 5. Never none prepared such a stock of good Works to bear him company at the Hour of Death as he 6. Never none had greater assurance of being with the Father Eternally in the Heavens than he And yet behold when HE comes to die how weak is he how amazed at death how heavy how exceeding sorrowful and I say no cause assigned but the Approach of Death Alas How often is it seen that we Poor Sinners can laugh at destruction when it cometh yea and rejoice exceedingly when we find the Grave Job 3. 22. looking upon death as a part of our Portion yea as that which will be a means of our present relief and help 1 Cor. 3. 22. This Jesus Christ couldnot do considered as dying for our Sin but the nearer death the more heavy oppressed with the thoughts of the Revenging Hand of God Wherefore he falls into an Agony and Sweats not after the common rate as we do when death is severing Body and Soul His Sweat was as it were great drops Clodders of Blood falling down to the Ground Luk. 22. 44. What I say should be the Reason but that death assaulted him with his Sting If Jesus Christ had been to die for his Vertues only doubtless he would have born it lightly and so he did as he died bearing witness to the Truth He endured the Cross and despised the Shame Heb. 12. 1 2 How have the Martyrs despised death and as it were not been careful of that having peace with God by Jesus Christ scorning the most Cruel Torments that Hell and Men could devise and invent but Jesus Christ could not do so as he was a Sacrifice for sin he died for sin he was made a Curse for us O my Brethren Christ died many deaths at once he made his Grave with the Wicked and with the Rich in his Deaths Look how many thousands shall be saved so many deaths did Jesus die yet it was but once he died He died thy death and my death and so many deaths as all our Sins deserved who shall be saved from the Wrath to come Now to feign that these Sorrows and this Bloody Agony was not real but in shew only What greater Condemnation can be passed upon Jesus Christ who loved to do all things in the most feigned Simplicity It was therefore because of sin the Sin that was put into the Death he died and the Curse of God that was due to Sin That That made death so bitter to Jesus Christ 't is Christ that died The Apostle speaks as if never any died but Christ nor indeed did there so wonderful a Death as he Rom. 8. Death considered simply as it is a deprivation of natural life could not have these Effects in a Person personally more Righteous than an Angel Yea even Carnal Wicked Men not awakened in their Conscience how securely can they die It must therefore also be concluded that the Sorrows and Agony of Jesus Christ came from a higher cause even from the Guilt of sin and from the Curse of God that was now approaching for that Sin It cannot be attributed to the Fear of
as he suffered from Men so he suffered for righteousness sake Observe then That as he suffered for sin so no MAN took away his Life but as he suffered for righteousness so THEY slew him by wicked hands What is it then Christ must needs have suffered and the Wisdom of God had so ordained That those things which God before had shewed by the Mouth of all his Prophets that Christ should suffer he hath so fulfilled Acts 3. 18. Thus therefore we ought to distinguish of the Causes and Ends of the Death of Christ. Again As Christ suffered for sin so he would neither be taken at mans pleasure nor die at mans time 1. Not at mans pleasure and hence it was that they so often sought his Life in vain for his Hour was not yet come to wit the Hour in which he was to be made a Sacrifice for our Sin John 13. Chap. 17. 1 2. Chap. 18. 1 2. 2. Not at their Time but contrary to all expectation when the due time was come he bowed his Head and gave up the Ghost John 19. 30. And for this last work he had power given him of God that is power to die when he would I have power said he to lay down my Life and I have power to take it again This Power never man had before This made the Centurion wonder and made Pontius Pilat marvel And indeed well they might for it was as great a Miracle as any he wrought in his Life It demonstrated him to be the Son of God Mar. 15. 38 39. The Centurion knowing that according to nature he might have lived longer concluded therefore that his dying at that instant was not but miraculously And when he saw that he so cried out and gave up the Ghost he said Truly this Man was the Son of God And the Reason why he had power to die was That he might offer his Offering willingly and at the Season 1. Willingly If his Offering be a Burnt-Sacrifice of the Lord let him offer a Male without blemish he shall offer it of his own voluntary Will at the Door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation before the Lord Levit. 1. 3. 2. He must offer it at the Season Thou shalt keep this Ordinance the Passeover in his Season Exod. 13. 10. Now both these Offerings having immediate respect to the Offering of the Body of Christ for sin for he came in the room of all burnt-Sacrifices the Passeover also was a Type of him Heb. 10. 3 4 5 6. 1 Cor. 5. 7 8. Therefore he being now the Priest as well as Sacrifice must have Power and Will to offer his Sacrifice with acceptation and this the Scripture testifieth he did where it saith In due time Christ died for the Ungodly Rom. 5. 8 9. In due time that is at the time appointed at the acceptable time Thou must therefore unless thou art willing to be deceived look upon the Sufferings of Christ under a double Consideration and distinguish between his Sufferings as our Example and his Suffering for our Sins And know that as he suffered as our Example so he suffered only for righteousness sake from the Hands of wicked Men but as he suffered for our Sins so he suffered as being by God reputed wicked the Punishment that was due to sin even the dreadful Curse of God Not that Christ died two deaths one after another but he died at the same time upon a double account for his Righteousness sake from Men for our sins from the Hand of God And as I said before had he only suffered for righteousness sake death had not so amazed him nor had he been so exceeding heavy in the Thoughts of it that had never put him into an Agony nor made him Sweat as it were great drops of Blood Besides When men suffer only for righteousness sake God doth not use to hide his Face from them to forsake them and make them accursed But Christ hath delivered us from the Curse of the Law being made a Curse for us Object But if indeed Christ hath paid the full price for us by his Death in suffering the Punishment that we should have done wherefore is the Scripture so silent as not to declare that by his Death he hath made satisfaction Ans. No Man may teach God Knowledg he knoweth best how to deliver his Mind in such words and terms as best agree with his Eternal Wisdom and the Consciences of these that are truly desirous of Salvation being over-burdened with the guilt of Sin Perhaps the Word Satisfaction will hardly be found in the Bible and where is it said in so many words God is dissatisfied with our Sins Yet 't is sufficiently manifest that there is nothing that God hateth but sin and Sinners for the Sake of sin What meant he by turning Adam out of Paradise by drowning the Old World by burning up Sodom with Fire and Brimstone from Heaven What meant he by drowning of Pharaoh by causing the Ground to swallow up Corah and his Company and by his destroying Israel in the Wilderness if not to shew that he was dissatisfied with Sin That God is also satisfied yea more than satisfied by Christ's Sufferings for our Sins is apparent For granting that he died for them as these Scriptures declare Isa. 53. 1 Cor 15. 1 2 3 4. Gal. 1. 4. 1 Cor. 5. 8. 2 Cor. 5. 21. Gal. 3. 13. 1 Pet. 2. 24. Chap. 3. 18. 1 Joh. 2. 2. Chap. 3. 16. Chap. 4. 14. Revel 1. 5. Chap. 5. 9. Isa. 49. 4 5 6. 1. It is apparent because it is said That God smelled in that Offering of the Body of Christ for our Sins a Sweet-smelling Savor He gave himself for us an Offering and a Sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling Savor Ephes. 5. 2. 2. It is apparent because it is said expresly That God for Christ's Sake doth now forgive Be ye kind one to another tender-hearted forgiving one another even as God for Christ's Sake bath forgiven you Ephes. 4. 32. 3. It is apparent that God is satisfied with Christ's Blood for our Sins because he hath declared that he can justifie those that believe in or rely upon that Blood for Life in a way of Justice and Righteousness Being justified freely by his Grace through the Redemption that is in Jesus Christ whom God hath set forth to be a Propitiation through faith in his Blood to declare his Righteousness for the Remission of sins that are past through the forbearance of God To declare I say at this time his Righteousness that he might be just and the Justifier of him that believeth in Jesus Rom. 3. 24 25 26. Now I say to object against such plain Testimonies what is it but 1. To deny that Christ died for Sin or to conclude 2. That having so done he is still in the Grave Or 3. That there is no such thing as Sin Or 4. No such thing as Revenging Justice in God against it Or 5. That we must
die our selves for our Sins Or 6. That sin may be pardoned without a satisfaction Or 7. That every man may merit his own Salvation But without shedding of Blood there is no Remission Heb. 9. 22. To avoid therefore these cursed Absurdities it must be granted that Jesus Christ by his Death did make satisfaction for sin But the word Satisfaction may not be used by the Holy Ghost perhaps for that it is too short and scanty a Word to express the Blessedness that comes to Sinners by the Blood of Christ. 1. To make satisfaction amounts to no more than compleatly to answer a legal Demand for harms and injuries done Now this when done to the full leaveth the Offender there where he was before he committed the Injury Now if Christ had done no more than this he had only paid our debt but had not obtained eternal redemption for us 2. For a full Satisfaction given by this Man for harms done by another may neither obtain the Love of the Person offended nor the smallest Gift which the Person offending hath not deserved Suppose I owe to this Man ten thousand Talents and another should pay him every Farthing there remaineth over and above by that compleat Satisfaction not one single half-Penny for me Christ hath therefore done more than to make satisfaction for sin by his Blood He hath also made us Kings and Priests to God and his Father and we shall reign with him for ever and ever Revel 1. 5 6. Chap. 22. 5. But take a few more Scriptures for the Proof of the Doctrine before asserted First We have redemption through his Blood Col. 1. 14. 1. Redemption from Sin Ephes. 1. 7. 2. Redemption from Death Heb. 2. 14 15. Hos. 13. 14. 3. Redemption from Satan Heb. 2. 15. 4. Redemption from the World Gal. 1. 4. 5. Redemption to God Revel 5. 9. 6. Eternal Redemption Neither by the Blood of Goats and Calves but by his own Blood he entered in once into the Holy Place having obtained Eternal Redemption for us Heb. 9. 12. Secondly We are said also to be washed in his Blood 1. Our Persons are washed He loved US and washed US from our Sins in his own Blood Rev. 1. 5. 2. His Blood washeth also our Performances Our Robes are washed and made white in the Blood of the Lamb Revel 7. 14. Thirdly We are said to be purged by his Blood 1. Purged from Sin before God When he had by himself purged our Sins he sat down on the Right Hand of God Heb. 1. 3. 2. Purged from evil Consciences How much more shall the Blood of Christ who through the Eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God purge your Conscience from dead works to serve the Living God Heb. 9. 14. Fourthly We are said to be made nigh to God by his Blood But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were afar off are made nigh by the Blood of Christ Ephes. 2. 13. Fifthly Peace is said to be made by his Blood 1. Peace with God Col. 1. 20. 2. Peace of Conscience Heb. 10. 19 20 21 22. 3. Peace one with another Ephes. 2. 14. Sixthly We are said to be justified by his Blood Much more being now justified by his Blood we shall be saved from wrath through him Rom. 5. 9. Justified that is acquitted 1. Acquitted before God Ephes. 5. 25 26. 2. Acquitted before Angels Mat. 28. 5. 3. Acquitted by the Law Rom. 3. 21 22 23. 4. Acquitted in the Court of Conscience Heb. 9. 14. Seventhly We are said to be saved by his Blood Rom. 5. 8 9. Eightly We are said to be reconciled by his Blood Col. 1. 2◠21 22. Ninthly We are said to be sanctified by his Blood Heb. 13. 12. Tenthly We are said to be admitted into the Holiest by his Blood Heb. 10. 19. Eleventhly We are said to have Eternal Redemption by his Blood Heb. 9. 12. Yea Lastly This Blood which was once spilt upon the Cross will be the burden of our Song in Heaven it self for ever and ever Revel 5. 9. Now if we be redeemed washed purged made nigh to God have peace with God if we stand just before God are saved reconciled sanctified admitted into the Holiest if we have eternal Redemption by his Blood and if his Blood will be the burden of our Song for ever then hath Christ paid the full price for us by his Death then hath he done more than made satisfaction for our Sins Several Demonstrations more proving the former Doctrine BUt before I conclude this Answer I will give you nine or ten more undeniable Demonstrations to satisfie you if God will bless them to you in the Truth of this great Doctrine to wit That Jesus Christ by what he hath done hath paid the full Price to God for the Souls of Sinners and obtained Eternal Redemption for them The first Demonstration ANd First I begin with his Resurrection THAT God that delivered him up unto death and that made him a Curse for Sin THAT God raised him up from the dead But God raised him from the Dead Act. 3. 15. Chap. 13. 30. Now considering that at his Death he was charged with our Sins and accursed to death for our Sins That Justice that delivered him up for them must have amends made to him before he acquit him from them for there can be no change in Justice Had he found him in 〈◊〉 Sins in the Grave as he found him in them upon the Tree for he had them in his Body on the Tree 1 Pet. 2. 24. he had left him there as he left him upon the Tree yea he had as surely rotted in the Grave as ever he died on the Tree But when he visited Christ in the Grave he found him a Holy Harmless Undefiled and Spotless Christ and therefore he raised him up from the Dead He raised him up from the dead having loosed the Pains of Death because it was not possible that he should be helden of it Act. 2. 24. Quest. But why not possible now to be helden of death Ans. Because the Cause was removed Sin was the Cause he died for our Sins he gave himself for our Sins 1 Cor. 15. 1 2 3. Gal. 1. 4. These Sins brought him to death But when God that had made him a Curse for us looked upon him into the Grave he found him there without sin and therefore loosed the Pains of Death for Justice saith This is not possible because not lawful that he who lieth sinless before God should be swallowed up of death therefore he raised him up Quest. But what did he do with our Sins for he had them upon his Back Ans. 'T is said he TOOK them away Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the World 'T is said he PUT them away Now once in the End of the World hath he appeared to put away sin by the Sacrifice of himself Joh. 1. 29. Heb. 9. 26. That is by the Merit of his undertaking he
all which as naturally purifie the Heart from wickedness as Sope or Niter cleanseth the Cloath He purified their Hearts by Faith by Faith in Christ's Blood And everyone that hath this Hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure And also Love you shall see what that doth if you look into the Text Act. 15. 9. 1 Joh. 3. 3 4. 1 Cor. 13. Now I say this Faith groundeth it self in the Blood of Christ Hope waiteth for the full enjoyments of the Purchase of it in another world and love is begot and worketh by the Love that Christ hath expressed by his Death and by the Kindness he presenteth us with in his Heart-Blood Rom. 3. 24. 1 Cor. 15. 19. 2 Cor. 5. 14. Besides what arguments so prevailing as such as are purely Gospel To instance a few 1. What stronger than a free forgiveness of Sins A certain Man had two Debtors the one owed him five Hundred Pence and the other Fifty and when they had nothing to pay he frankly forgave them both tell me therefore which of them will love him most Luk. 7. 41 42 47. 2. What stronger argument to holiness than to see that though forgiveness comes free to us yet it cost Christ Jesus Heart-Blood to obtain it for us Herein is love not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the Propitiation for our Sins And this Love of God in giving his Christ and of Christ in dying for us there is no argument stronger to prevail with a sensible and awakened Sinner to judg he should live to him that died for him and rose again 2 Cor. 5. 14. 3. What stronger argument to holiness than this If any man sins we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous 1 Joh. 2. 1 2. Unsanctified and graceless wretches know not how to use these Words of God the Hypocrites also fly in our faces because we thus urge them but a Heart that is possessed with Gospel-ingenuity or to speak more properly that is possessed with Gospel-Grace and with Divine Considerations cries if it be thus O let me never sin against God! for the Love of Christ constrains me 2 Cor. 5. 14. 4. What greater argument to holiness than to see the Holy Scriptures so furnished with promises of Grace and Salvation by Christ that a Man can hardly cast his Eye into the Bible but he espieth one or another of them who would not live in such an House or be servant to such a Prince who besides his exceeding in good Conditions hath Gold and Silver as common in his Palace as stones are by the High-way side Having therefore these Promises dearly beloved let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit perfecting holiness in the Fear of God 2 Cor. 7. 1. 5. What greater argument to holiness than to have our Performances though weak and infirm from us yet accepted of God in Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 2. 4 5 6. 6. What greater argument to holiness than to have our Soul our Body our Life hid and secured with Christ in God Mortifie therefore your Members that are upon the Earth fornication uncleanness inordinate affection evil concupiscence and covetousness which is idolatry Col. 3. 1 2 3 4 5 6. What greater argument to holiness than to be made the Members of the Body of the Flesh and of the Bones of Jesus Christ Shall I take the Members of Christ and make them the Members of an harlot God forbid Ephes. 5. 30. 1 Cor. 6. 15. Now all these and five times as many more having their foundation in the Love Blood and Righteousness of Christ and operating in the Soul by Faith are the great Argument unto that Holiness to which is annexed eternal Life 'T is worth our observing that in Act. 26 at the 18. The Inheritance belongs to them that are sanctified by Faith in Jesus Christ For all other pretences to holiness they are but a stollen semblance of that which is true and acceptable though 't is common for even that which is counterfeit to be called by the deluded the True and to be reckoned to be in them that are utter strangers to Faith and the Holiness that comes by Faith But whosoever compoundeth any like it or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger shall even be cut off from his People Exod. 30. 33. God knoweth which is holiness that comes by Faith in forgiveness of Sins and acceptance with God through Christ and God knows which is only such feignedly and accordingly will he deal with Sinners in that great Day of God Almighty The Sixth Demonstration THat Jesus Christ by what he hath done hath paid full price to God for Sinners and obtained Eternal Redemption for them is evident because Prayers are accepted of God only upon the account and for the sake of the Name of Jesus Christ Verily verily I say unto you whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my Name he will give it you Joh. 16. 23. In my Name in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth in the Name of him that came into the World to save Sinners by dying for them a grievous bloody Death in his Name that hath by himself put away sin and brought unto God acceptable Righteousness for Sinners in his Name why in his Name if he be not accepted of God why in his Name if his undertakings for us are not well-pleasing to God But by these Words in my Name are insinuated that his Person and performances as our undertaker is accepted by the Father of Spirits We may not go in our own names because we are Sinners not in the Name of one another because all are Sinners but why not in the Name of an Angel Because they are not those that did undertake for us or had they they could not have done our work for us He putteth no trust in his Saints yea the Heavens are not clean in his Sight Job 4. 18. Chap. 15. 15. It may further be objected Since Jesus Christ is God equal with the Father and so hath naturally the same Power to give as the Father why should the Father rather than the Son be the great Giver to the Sinners of the World and why may we not go to Christ in the Name of the Father as well as to the Father in the Name of Christ I say how can these things be salved but by considering that sin and justice put a NECESSITY upon it that thus must our Salvation be obtained Sin and Justice could not reconcile nor could a means be found out to bring the Sinner and an Holy God together but by the Intercepting of the Son who must take upon him to answer Justice and that by taking our Sins from before the Face of God by bloody Sacrifice not by Blood of others as the High-Priests under the Law For as every High-Priest is ordained to offer Gifts and Sacrifices it is of necessity that this Man have somewhat also
to offer Heb. 8. 3. which Offering and Sacrifice of his being able to perfect for ever them that are sanctified and set apart for Eternal Life Therefore the name of the Person that offered even Jesus made of God an High-Priest is acceptable with God yea therefore is he made for ever by his doing for us the Appeaser of the Justice of God and the Reconciler of Sinners to him Hence it is that HIS Name is that which it behoveth us to mention when we come before God for what God hath determined in his Counsels of Grace to bestow upon Sinners because for his Name sake he forgiveth them I write to you little Children because your Sins are forgiven you for his Name sake To him give all the Prephets witness that through his Name whosoever believeth in him shall receive Remission of Sins 1. Joh. 2. 14. Act. 10. 43. They therefore that would obtain the forgiveness of Sins must ask it of God through the Name of Jesus and he that shall sensibly and unteignedly do it he shall receive the forgiveness of them Whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my Name he will give it you Hence it is evident that he hath not only paid full price to God for them but also obtained Eternal Redemption for them And it is observable the Lord Jesus would have his Disciples make a Proof of this and promiseth that if they do they shall experimentally find it so Hitherto saith he ye have asked nothing in my NAME ask and ye shall receive that your joy may be full Joh. 16. 24. As who should say O my Disciples you have heard what I have promised to you even that my Father shall do for you whatsoever ye shall ask him in my Name Ask now therefore and prove me if I shall not make my Words good Ask I say what you need and see if you do not receive it to the Joying of your Hearts At that day ye shall ask in my Name and I say not unto you that I will pray the Father for you I do not bid you ask in my Name as if the Father was yet hard to be reconciled or unwilling to accept you to mercy my Coming into the World was the Design of my Father and the Effect of his Love to Sinners but there is sin in you and justice in God therefore that you to him might be reconciled I am made of my Father Mediator wherefore ask in my Name for there is none other name given under the Heavens among Men whereby they must be saved Act. 4. 12. Ask in my Name love is let out to you through me it is let out to you by me in a way of Justice which is the only secure way for you Ask in my Name and my Father will love you The Father himself loveth you because you have loved me and have believed that I came out from God Joh. 16. 27. My Fathers Love is set first upon me for my Name is chief in his Heart and all that love me are beloved of my Father and shall have what they need if ye ask in my Name But I say what cause would there be to ask in his Name more than in the Name of some other since justice was provoked by our Sin if he had not undertook to make up the difference that by Sin was made betwixt justice and us For though there be in this Jesus infinite worth infinite righteousness infinite merit yet if he make not with these interest for us we get no more benefit thereby than if there were no Mediator But this Worth and Merit is in him for us for he undertook to reconcile us to God it is therefore that his Name is with God so prevailing for us poor Sinners and therefore that we ought to go to God in his Name Hence therefore it is evident that Jesus Christ hath paid full price to God for Sinners and obtained Eternal Redemption for them The Seventh Demonstration THat Jesus Christ by what he hath done hath paid full price to God for Sinners c. is evident because we are commanded also to give God thanks in his Name By him therefore let us offer the Sacrifice of Praise continually that is the Fruit of our Lips giving thanks in his Name Heb. 13. 15. By him therefore wherefore because he also that he might sanctifie us with his own Blood suffered without the Gate ver 12. He sanctified us with his Blood but why should the Father have thanks for this even because the Father gave him for us that he might die to sanctifie us with his Blood Giving thanks to the Father which hath made us meet to be Partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light who hath delivered us from the Power of Darkness and hath translated us into the Kingdom of his dear Son in whom we have redemption through his Blood even the forgiveness of Sins Col. 1. 12 13 14. The Father is to be thanked for the contrivance was also his but the Blood the Righteousness or that worthiness for the Sake of which we are accepted of God is the Worthiness of his own dear Son as it is meet therefore that God should have thanks so it is necessary that he have it in his Name for whose sake we indeed are accepted of him Let us therefore by him offer Praise First For the Gift of his Son and for that we stand quit through him in his Sight and that in despite of all inward weakness and that in despite of all outward enemies When the Apostle had taken such a view of himself as to put himself into a maze with an out-cry also who shall deliver me he quiets himself with this sweet conclusion I thank God through Jesus Christ Rom. 7. 24. He found more in the Blood of Christ to save him than he found in his own Corruptions to damn him but that could not be had he not paid full price for him had he not obtained Eternal Redemption for him And can an Holy and Just God require that we give thanks to him in his Name if it was not effectually done for us by him Further when the Apostle looks upon Death and the Grave and strengtheneth them by adding to them Sin and the Law saying The Sting of Death is sin and the Strength of Sin is the Law he presently addeth but thanks be to God which giveth us the Victory through Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 15. The Victory over Sin Death and the Law the Victory over these through our Lord Jesus Christ but God hath given us the Victory but it is through our Lord Jesus Christ through his fulfilling the Law through his destroying Death and through his bringing in Everlasting Righteousness Elisha said to the King of Israel that had it not been that he regarded the Person of Jehoshaphat he would not look to him nor regard him 2 Kin. 3. 14. nor would God at all have looked to or regarded thee but that he respected
is of Wonderful Price when the Son of God will not stick to spill his Blood for it O Sinners you that will venture your Souls for a little pleasure surely you know not the worth of your Souls Now if you would know what your Souls are worth and the Price which God sets them at read that Price by the Blood of Christ. The Blood of Christ was spilt to save Souls For ye are bought with a Price and that Price none other than the Blood of Christ wherefore glorify God in your Bodies and in your Spirits which are Gods 1 Cor. 6. 20. Sinners you have Souls can you behold a Crucified Christ and not Bleed and not Mourn and not fall in Love with him The third Use. By this Doctrine Sinners as Sinners are encouraged to come to God for mercy for the Curse due to Sin is taken out of the way I speak now to Sinners that are awake and see themselves Sinners There are two things in special when Men begin to be awakened that kill their thoughts of being saved 1. A Sense of sin 2. The Wages due thereto These kill the Heart for who can bear up under the guilt of Sin If our Sins be upon us and we pine away in them how can we THEN live Ezek. 33. 10. How indeed it is impossible So neither can Man grapple with the Justice of God Can thine Heart endure or can thine Hands be strong they cannot A wounded Spirit who can bear Men cannot Angels cannot wherefore if now Christ be hid and the blessing of Faith in his Blood denied wo be to them such go after Saul and Judas one to the Sword and the other to the Halter Ezek. 22. 14. Prov. 18. 14. and so miserably end their days for come to God they dare not the thoughts of that Eternal Majesty strikes them through But now present such Poor dejected Sinners with a Crucified Christ and perswade them that the Sins under which they shake and tremble was long ago laid upon the Back of Christ and the Noise and Sense and Fear of damning begins to cease depart and fly away Dolours and Terrours fade and vanish and that Soul conceiveth hopes of Life For thus the Soul argueth is this indeed the Truth of God that Christ was made to be Sin for me was made the Curse of God for me Hath he indeed born all my Sins and spilt his Blood for my Redemption O blessed Tidings O welcome Grace Bless the Lord O my Soul and all that is within me bless his Holy Name Now is peace come now the Face of Heaven is altered Behold all things are become new Now the Sinner can abide Gods Presence yea sees unutterable Glory and Beauty in him For here he sees Justice smite While Jacob was afraid of Esau how heavily did he drive even towards the Promised Land but when killing thoughts were turned into kissing and the fears of the Swords Point turned into Brotherly Embraces what says he I have seen thy Face as though it had been the Face of God and thou wast pleased with me Gen. 33. 10. So and far better is it with a poor distressed Sinner at the Revelation of the Grace of God through Jesus Christ. God was in Christ reconciling the World unto himself not imputing their Trespasses to them O! what work will such a word make upon a wounded Conscience especially when the next words follow For he hath made him to be Sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the Righteousness of God in him Now the Soul sees qualifications able to set him quit in the Sight of God Qualifications prepared already Prepared I say already and that by God through Christ even such as can perfectly answer the Law What doth the Law require If Obedience here it is if Bloody Sacrifice here it is if infinite Righteousness here it is Now then the Law condemns him that Believes before God no more for all its Demands are answered all its Curses are swallowed up in the Death and Curse Christ underwent Object But reason saith since Personal Sin brought the Death surely Personal Obedience must bring us Life and Glory Ans. True Reason saith so and so doth the Law it self Rom. 10. 5. but God we know is above them both and he in the Covenant of Grace saith otherwise to wit That if thou shalt confess with thy Mouth the Lord Jesus and shall believe in thine Heart that God hath raised him from the Dead thou shalt be saved Rom. 10. 6 7 8 9. Let Reason then hold his tongue yea let the Law with all his Wisdom subject it self to him that made it let it look for sin where God hath laid it let it approve the Righteousness which God approveth yea though it be not that of the Law but that by Faith of Jesus Christ. God hath made him our Righteousness God hath made him our Sin God hath made him our Curse God hath made him our Blessing Methinks this word God hath made it so should silence all the World The fourth use Fourthly By this Doctrine sufficiency of argument is ministred to the tempted to withstand thereby the assaults of the Devil When the Souls begin to seek after the Lord Jesus then Satan begins to afflict and distress as the Canaanites did the Gibeonites for making Peace with Jehoshuah Jos. 10. 1 6. There are three things that do usually afflict the Soul that is earnestly looking after Jesus Christ. 1. Dreadful accusations from Satan 2. Grievous defiling and infectious thoughts 3. A strange readiness in our Nature to fall in with both By the first of these the Heart is made continually to tremble Hence his Temptations are compared to the roaring of a Lyon 1 Pet. 5. 8. For as the Lyon by roaring killeth the Heart of his Prey so doth Satan kill the Spirit of these that hearken to him For when he tempteth especially by way of accusation he doth to us as Rabshakeh did to the Jews He speaks to us in our own Language He speaks our Sin at every word our guilty Conscience knows it he speaks our Death at every word our doubting Conscience feels it Secondly Besides this there doth now arise even in the Heart such defiling and soul infectious thoughts that putteth the Tempted to their wits end for now it seems to the Soul that the very flood-Gates of the Flesh are opened and that to sin there is no stop at all now the Air seems to be covered with darkness and the Man is as if he was changed into the nature of a Devil Now if ignorance and unbelief prevail he concludeth that he is reprobate made to be taken and destroyed Thirdly Now also he feeleth in him a readiness to fall in with every temptation a readiness I say continually present Rom. 7. 21. This throws all down now despair begins to swallow it up now it can neither pray nor read nor hear nor meditate on God but Fire and Smoke continually bursteth
was for Jesus to be raised up unto them This word raised up is diversly taken in the Scripture 1. It is taken for sending as when he saith he raised them up Judges Saviours and Prophets he means he sent them such Judges 2. 16 18. Chap. 3. 9 15. Amos 2. 11. and thus he raised up Jesus that is he sent him I came not saith he of my self but he sent me But the Father which sent me gave me a commandment Jo. 12. 2. To be raised up intimateth one invested with power and authority Thus he raised up David to be the King of Israel he anointed him invested him with Kingly Power 1 Sam. 16. 13. Acts 13. 22. And thus was Jesus Christ raised up Hence he is called the Horn of Salvation He hath raised up for us an Horn of Salvation in the House of his Servant David Luk. 2. 69. 3. To be raised up intimateth quickning and strengthening to oppose and overcome all opposition Thus was Jesus raised up from under Sin Death the rage of the World and Hell that day that God raised him out of the Grave Thus therefore was Jesus raised up to Israel that is he was sent authorized and strengthned to and in the work of their Salvation to the compleating of it The words thus opened do lay before us these two Observations First That in all Ages God gave his People a Promise and so ground for a believing remembrance that he would one day send them a Saviour Secondly That when Jesus was come into the World then was that Promise of God fulfilled To begin with the First That in all Ages God gave his People a Promise and so ground for a believing remembrance that he would one day send them a Saviour This Zacharias testifies when he was filled with the Holy Ghost for speaking of the Messias or the Saviour he saith That God spake of him by the mouth of all the Prophets which have been since the World began To which I will add that of Peter Yea and all the Prophets from Samuel and these that follow after as many as have spoken have likewise foretold of these days Luk. 2. 69 70. Acts 3. 24. From these Texts it is evident that in every Generation or Age of the World God did give his People a Promise and so ground for a believing-remembrance that he would one day send them a Saviour for indeed the Promise is not only a ground for a remembrance but for a believing-remembrance what God saith is sufficient ground for Faith because he is Truth and cannot lye or repent But that is not all his Heart was engaged yea all his Heart in the Promise which he spoke of sending us a Saviour From this Observation I shall make inquiry into these three things 1. What it is to be a Saviour 2. How it appears that God in all Ages gave his People a Promise that he would one day send them a Saviour 3. That this was ground for a believing remembrance that a Saviour should one day come First What it is to be a Saviour This word Saviour is easie to be understood it being all one with Deliverer Redeemer c. A Saviour Jesus both words are of the same signification and are doubled perhaps to teach us that the Person mentioned in the Text is not called Jesus only to distinguish him from other Men for names are given to distinguish but also and especially to specifie his Office his Name is Saviour because it was to be his Work his Office his Business in the World His Name shall be called Jesus for he shall save his People from their sins Matt. 1. 21. Secondly This word Saviour is a word so large that it hath place in all the undertakings of Christ for whatever he doth in his Mediation he doth as a Saviour He interposeth between God and Man as a Saviour He engageth against Sin the Devil Death and Hell as a Saviour and triumphed over them by himself as a Saviour Thirdly The word Saviour as I said is all one with Redeemer Deliverer Reconciler Peace-maker or the like for though there be variation in the terms yet Saviour is the intendment of them all By Redeeming he becoms a Saviour by Delivering he becomes a Saviour by Reconciling he becomes a Saviour and by making Peace he becometh a Saviour But I pass this now intending to speak more to the same question afterwards Secondly How it appears that God in all Ages gave his People a Promise that he would one day send them a Saviour It appears evidently for so soon as man had sinned God came to him with an heart full of Promise and continued to renew and renew till the time of the promised Messias to be revealed was come He promised him under the name of the Seed of the Woman after our first Father had sinned I will put enmity between thee and the Woman and between thy Seed and her Seed it shall break thy Head and thou shalt bruise his Heel Gen. 3. 15. This the Apostle hath his eye upon when he saith When the fulness of the time was come God sent forth his Son made of a Woman made under the Law to Redeem them that were under the Law Gal. 4. 4. 2. God renewed this Promise to Abraham and there tells him Christ should be his Seed saying In thy Seed shall all Families of the Earth be blessed Gen. 12. 3. Now saith Paul To Abraham and his Seed was the Promise made He saith not unto Seeds as of many but as of one and to thy Seed which is Christ Gal. 3. 16. 3. He was promised in the time of Moses under the name of a Prophet I will raise them up saith God to him a Prophet of their Brethren like unto thee This Peter expounds of Christ for Moses truly said unto the Fathers A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your Brethren like unto me him shall you hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you Deut. 18. 18. Acts. 3. 22. 4. He promised him to David under the Title of a Son saying I will be to him a Father and he shall be to me a Son For this the Apostle expounded of the Saviour saying Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee and again I will be to him a Father and he shall be to me a Son 2 Sam. 7. 14. Heb. 1. 5. 5. He was promised in the days of Uzziah Jotham Ahaz and Hezekiah Kings of Judah 1. By the name of a Branch In that day shall the Branch of the Lord be Beautiful and Glorious Isa. 4. 2. 2. Under the name of the Son of a Virgin Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a Sign Behold a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son thou shalt call his Name Emmanuel This Matthew expounds of Christ Isa. 7. 14. Matt. 1. 22. 3. He was promised under the name of a Rod. Then shall come forth a Rod out of the Stem
forth of the Heart against him now sin and great confusion puts forth it self in all yea the more the Sinner desireth to do a duty sincerely the further off it always finds it self For by how much the Soul struggleth under these distresses by so much the more doth Satan put forth himself to resist still infusing more poison that if possible it might never struggle more for strugglings are also us poison to Satan The Fly in the Spider's Webb is an emblem of the Soul in such a condition the Fly is entangled in the Webb at this the Spider shews himself if the Fly stir again down comes the Spider to her and claps a Foot upon her if yet the Fly makes a noise then with poisoned Mouth the Spider lays hold upon her if the Fly struggle still then he poisons her more and more what shall the Fly do now why she dies if some-body does not quickly release her This is the case of the Tempted they are entangled in the Webb their Feet and Wings are entangled now Satan shews himself if the Soul now struggleth Satan laboureth to hold it down if it now shall make a noise then be bites with blasphemous Mouth more poisonous than the Gall of a Serpent If it struggle again then he poisoneth more and more infomuch that it needs at last must die in the Net if the Man the Lord Jesus helps not out The afflicted Couscience understands my words Further though the Fly in the Webb is altogether uncapable of looking for relief yet this awakened tempted Christian is not what must he do therefore how should he contain hopes of life If he looks to his Heart there is Blasphemy if he looks to his duties there is Sin if he strives to mourn and lament perhaps he cannot unbelief and hardness hinder shall this Man lie down in despair No shall he trust to his duties No shall he stay from Christ till his Heart is better No What then Let him NOW look to Jesus Christ Crucified then shall he see his Sins answered for then shall he see Death a-dying then shall he see Guilt born by another and there shall he see the Devil overcome This sight destroys the Power of the first Temptation purifies the Heart and inclines the Mind to all good things And to encourage thee tempted Creature to this most Gospel-Duty Consider that when Jesus Christ read his Commission upon the entering into his Ministry he proclaimed The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the Poor he hath sent me to heal the broken-Hearted to preach deliverance to the Captives and recovering of sight to the Blind to set at liberty them that are bruised to preach the acceptable Year of the Lord Luk. 4. 18 19. These things therefore should the Tempted believe but believing is now sweating-work for Satan will hold as long as possible and only stedfast Faith can make him fly But O! the Toyl of a truly gracious Heart in this Combate if Faith be weak he can scarce get higher than his Knees Lord help Lord save and then down again till an Arm from Heaven takes him up until Jesus Christ be evidently set forth Crucified for him and Cursed for his Sin for then and not till then the Temptation rightly ceaseth at leastwise for a Season Now the Soul can tend to look about it and thus consider with it self If Christ hath bora my Sin and Curse then 't is taken away from me and seeing thus to take away sin was the Contrivance of the God of Heaven I will bless his Name hope in his Mercy and look upon Death and Hell with Comfort Thine Heart shall meditate terrour thou shalt see the Land that is very far off Isa. 33. 16 17 18. The fifth use Fifthly This Doctrine makes Christ precious to the Believers Unto you therefore which believe he is precious 1 Pet. 2. 5. This Head might be greatly enlarged upon and branched out into a Thousand particulars each one full of weight and glory 1. By considering what Sin is 2. By considering what Hell is 3. By considering what Wrath is 4. By considering what Eternity is 5. By considering what the loss of a Soul is 6. What the loss of God is 7. What the loss of Heaven is 8. And what it is to be in utter Darkness with Devils and damned Souls for ever and ever And after all to conclude from all these Miserie 's the Lord Jesus delivered me Further This makes Christ precious if I consider in the next place 1. How he did deliver me 't was with his Life his Blood it cost him Tears Groans Agony Separation from God to do it he endured his Fathers Wrath bare his Fathers Curse and died thousands of deaths at once 2. He did this while I was his Enemy without my desires without my knowledg without my deserts he did it unawares to me 3. He did it freely cheerfully yea he longed to die for me yea Heaven would not hold him for the Love he had to my Salvation which also he hath effectually accomplished for me at Jerusalem Honourable Jesus precious Jesus loving Jesus Jonathan's Kindness captivated David and made him precious in his Eyes for ever I am distressed for thee my Brother Jonathan said he very pleasant hast thou been to me thy Love to me was wonderful passing the Love of Women 2 Sam. 1. 26. Why what had Jonathan done O! He had delivered David from the Wrath of Saul But how much more should he be precious to me who hath saved me from Death and Hell who hath delivered me from the Wrath of God! The Love of Christ constraineth us Nothing will so edge the Spirit of a Christian as Thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy Blood This makes the Heavens themselves ring with joy and shouting Mark the Words Thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God with thy Blood out of every Kindred and Tongue and People and Nation and and hast made us unto our God Kings and Priests and we shall reign on the Earth What follows now And I beheld and heard the Voice of many Angels round about the Throne and the Beasts and the Elders and the Number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands saying with a loud Voice Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive Power and Riches and Wisdom and Strength and Honour and Glory and Blessing and every Creature which is in Heaven and on the Earth and such as are in the Sea and all that are therein heard I saying Blessing Honour Glory and Power be unto him that sitteth upon the Throne and to the LAMB for ever and and ever Revel 5. 9 10 11 12 13. Thus also is the Song that New-Song that is said to be sung by the Hundred fourty and four thousand which stand with the LAMB upon Mount Sion with his Fathers Name written in their Fore-heads These are also called Harpers Harping with their Harps And they sang as it were a new Song before the Throne and before the four Beasts and the Elders and none could learn that Song but the Hundred and fourty and four thousand which were redeemed from the Earth Revel 14. 1 2 3. But why could they not learn that Song Because they were not redeemed none can sing of this Song but the Redeemed they can give Glory to the Lamb the Lamb that was slain and that redeemed them to God by his Blood 'T is Faith in his Blood on Earth that will make us sing this Song in Heaven These Shoutings and Heavenly Songs must needs come from Love put into a Flame by the Sufferings of Christ. The last Use. If all these things be true what follows but a Demonstration of the Accursed Condition of those among the Religious in these Nations whose notions put them far off from Jesus and from venturing their Souls upon his Bloody Death I have observed such a Spirit as this in the World that careth not for knowing of Jesus the Possessed therewith do think that it is not material to Salvation to venture upon a Crucified Christ neither do they trouble their Heads or Hearts with inquiring whether Christ Jesus be risen and ascended into Heaven or whether they see him again or no but rather are for concluding that there will be no such thing These Men speak not by the Holy Ghost for in the Sum they call Jesus Accursed but I doubt not to say that many of them are Anathematised of God and shall stand so till the Coming of the Lord Jesus to whom be Glory for ever and ever Amen THE END Books writ by Mr. Bunyan and printed for Francis Smith at the Elephant and Castle near the Royal Exchange in Cornhil 1. SIghs from Hell or the Groans of a Damned Soul discovering the Lamentable Estate of the Damned 2. Resurrection from the Dead and Eternal Judgment asserted and with what Bodies the Dead arise 3. A Discourse of Prayer and what it is to pray with the Spirit and with Understanding 4. The Holy City or the New-Jerusalem or the Glorious State of Believers after this Life asserted 5. Christian Behaviour teaching Husbands Wives Parents Children Masters Servants to walk so as to please God 6. Grace abounding to the chief of Sinners discovering the woful Estate of the Impenitent and the Greatness of Gods Mercy 7. A Map shewing the Order and Causes of Salvation and Damnation c. 8. Serious Meditations on the four last things viz. Death Judgment Heaven and Hell 9. A Defence of the Doctrine of Justification by Faith in Jesus Christ. 10. A Confession of the Author's Faith and a Reason of his Practice in Matters of Worship