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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57805	A sermon preached before the right honourable the Lord mayor and the court of alderman at Gvild-Hill-Chappel upon Good-Friday the 29th of March, 1689 by George Royse ...	Royse, George, 1708.	1689 (1689)	Wing R2162; ESTC R13852	12,398	35

mighty Redemption is wrought for you and how shall we escape if we neglect so great Salvation That we may not therefore trample upon the Bloud of the Covenant nor baffle all the great ends of our Saviour's undertaking we must remember that as he has done great things for us so there is something to be done on our sides too Though he has deliver'd us from one Obligation yet he has laid upon us another to Obedience It was for this end that he deliver'd us from the hand of our Enemies that we might serve him without fear and he therefore bought us with a Price that we might glorifie God with Body and Spirit which are Gods. Which is the Fourth and last thing to be consider'd viz. The obligation that does arise from this consideration that he has bought us and that is that we should glorifie God both with Body and Spirit which are Gods. That we are purchas'd by the Bloud of Christ is the most powerful Motive and unanswerable Argument for our Obedience to him for he that purchases any thing as he has a just Title and Dominion over it so there is all the reason in the World that he should have its use and service This is nothing else but what is agreeable to the standing Rules of Justice For by the ancient Laws to which the Apostle here alludes the Servant was but the property of the Master and his Service as much due as that of any other Tool or Instrument 'T is a known Rule in the civil Law Servile eaput nullum jus habet The Servant has no power or disposal of himself no right to possess any thing but all things are at the pleasure and for the benefit of his Lord. I appeal to your selves and you may be judged by your own measures who ever bought a Vine without the reasonable expectation of the Fruit of it who ever purchased a Field without appropriating to himself its encrease and productions And 't is the very same Case here you are not your own but bought with a price and I know no other consequence than what the Apostle makes that we should therefore glorifie him with Body and Spirit which are his And then wilt thou rightly discharge this duty when every part that is in thee shall recognize this Title of a Redeemer by a pecular Consecration to his Service when every faculty and power shall own the Lord that bought them by an entire resignation to God's Will and Disposal Then wilt thou truly glorifie God in thy Body when thou doest bear in thy own Body the marks of Christ Jesus when thou caust shew the power of his Sacrifice by the Sacrifice of thy Lusts and can'st view in thy own Flesh the Triumphs of his Cross when thy crucified Flesh shall represent the Crucifixion of thy bleeding Master when every mortified Member shall give a publick Attestation to thy belief of a mortisied Saviour and all thy conquer'd Inclinations shall set forth the glory of his Purchase Then wilt thou truly value the Price of his Bloud when every sensual Appetite does share in the Agonies of his Passion when that Body of thine is delivered from the body of sin and death and when all those Members that were the Instruments of sin unto uncleanness shall be made the Instruments of righteousness unto God. And as we must thus glorifie him with our Bodies so likewise with the Spirit of our Minds Thy Soul was to be made an Offering to him that saved it as his was an Offering for thy Sin and all its powers were to be put upon the stretch and vigorously exercis'd in the advance of his Glory The Pride of thy understanding was to be humbled under the sense of his Meekness and Humility Thy Reason and Judgment must submit to all those misterious Doctrines of that Faith which he publish'd to the World. Every proud Imagination was to be cast down and every Thought as the Apostle expresseth it was to be Captivated into the Obedience of Christ. All the desires of thy Will were to be regulated by those Eternal Laws of Holiness which he has preacht to us Thy Affections must be rais'd as high as the Throne of thy Lord and Master and screw'd up to a passionate Love and Admiration of his Goodness In short then will thy Body and Soul glorifie God and the Lord that bought them when all thy Heart all thy Strength and all thy Soul shall be strongly engaged in promoting his Honour in submitting to his Will and fulfilling his Commands And this certainly when all is done was the great end of his dying for us that they which henceforth live should no longer live unto themselves 2 Cor. 5.15 but unto him that died for us And the reason of it is strong and forcible because whether we live or die we are the Lords Rom. 14.8 For this purpose did he redeem us with his Bloud that he might redeem us too from all iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works that henceforth we should no longer be the servants of Sin but alive unto God Wherefore if this be the great Design of our Saviour's undertaking if all that he has done and suffer'd for us was to deliver us from our Crimes and to fit us for his Service in order to our happiness how just is our Damnation if we don't act up in congruity to those ends If our own Interest on one side or the principles of Justice on the other can't have a due Influence upon us yet a Sense of Ingenuity and Gratitude may justly prevail over us For who can be so insensible to a Curse as to neglect grateful returns and suitable requitals for such an undeserved and mighty Deliverance Do but consult all Ages what Honour and Esteem have been bestowed on those that have redeemed their Countries from Slavery and unjust Dominion what solemn acknowledgments have been paid to such publick Benefactors even in the most barbarous and uncivilized Nations how they have erected Altars Statues and Monuments adored their Memories and eterniz'd their Names by fixt and establisht Solemnities of Worship And if the deliverance of our Bodies from a Temporal Slavery if the recovery of our Civil Rights and Properties be worthy of such hearty Acknowledgments what must be expected from us who are redeem'd both in Body and Soul from Principalities and Powers from the Terrors of Darkness and the Shadow of an Eternal Death How should this inflame all our Passions make our Hearts hot within us kindle the Fire till at last it breaks out into publick Acts of Praise and Thanksgiving Let them give thanks says the Prophet whom the Lord hath redeem'd and deliver'd from the hand of the Enemy let every Knee be bended in the Adoration of this Mighty Redeemer let every Tongue be talking of his wondrous Works and telling of his Salvation from day to day And let us all affectionately joyn with that Heavenly Host above crying out and saying Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive Power and Riches and Wisdom and Strength and Honour and Glory and Blessing And therefore Blessing and Honour and Glory and Power be unto him that sitteth upon the Throne and to the Lamb for evermore FINIS

Justice by an indiscreet Mercy and invite new Provocations by giving impunity to the old Whereas now by executing the Punishment upon Christ our Undertaker he has contrived such an admirable Method of our Deliverance as might at once preserve his own Authority as well as the Souls of the Offenders But not to dwell too long on this let us all fix our Meditations on that Bloud of Jesus and humble our selves rather under a deep sense of his Sufferings than contest about the Merits of them And here I need not use any Artifice to excite your Affections the subject itself is all Passion and the very naming of the Bloud of Jesus is enough to fetch the same drops of Bloud from us if we bear the same nature with him for who can reflect upon the Bloud that was shed this day without being as much concern'd in the Sufferings as our Sins were in the occasioning them How strongly should we be affected when we look back upon Innocence bleeding under unjust Violence strugling with the Pain as well as infamy of a Cross and bearing the Iniquity no less than the contradiction of Sinners What deep Impressions should this work upon us when by a lively representation we can view that Lamb stretch'd on an accursed Tree labouring under the Vengeance due to our Crimes and healing us with those stripes which we our selves laid upon him What a stupendious Mystery is this that the sufferings of the Son should be a Ransom for the professed Rebels to the Father That the bloud of God Acts 20.28 as the Apostle calls it should be laid down as the Price of an accursed Slave and that he who from Heaven might have been the revenger of our Crimes should now be the only undertaker for them 'T was a strange surprise to the Heathens as we read in the Acts of the holy Apostles when they fancied that their Gods were come down Acts 14.11 and appeared in the likeness of men But what would they have said then if they had seen them die like men too and fall not like one of the Princes but like Slaves What an amazing thought is this that he who was infinitely exalted far above all our Sacrifice and Praise should now be not only the Votary but the Sacrifice himself and be brought as a Lamb to the Altar from whence he might have commanded all our Worship This is such a wonderful Scene as seems as much above our wonder as our Faith as far above the understanding of a Man as it was beneath the Majesty of a God. Instead therefore of a further discourse we shall do much better by falling low upon our Knees and silently adoring what we can never express But however this Mistery may stagger our belief yet so much we may understand of it that as the Son of God could never condescend so low but for the highest ends and purposes so his Bloud was effectual for the accomplishment of them and since the great end of his undertaking was to deliver us both from the Guilt and Dominion of our Sin and we may therefore conclude that 't was available for the cancelling the Obligation of the one as well as conquering the prevailing Power of the other which brings me to the third General Head viz. The Effects and Benefits of Christ's Bloud in reference to the Guilt and dominion of Sin and in what condition it has instated us As we are assured that Christ died for us so likewise that he bought us it being equally certain that the Price was accepted as that it was offer'd For as that Bloud was infinitely valuable so it could not fail of being effectual Agreeably we find that it not only seald but procur'd a new Covenant of Grace and Mercy For which reason 't is call'd by the Apostle The bloud of the everlasting covenant Heb. 13.20 Heb. 12.24 The bloud of sprinkling because those overtures of Mercy and Pardon which are offer'd to us were both ratified and confirmed by his Bloud as well as purchased by its Merits To understand therefore what are the benefits of that Bloud we must first know what are the terms and proposals of this new Covevenant because all the Acts of Grace and Favour that are contain'd and promulged in the one are the pure Results and Effects of the other And consequently since the Gospel Covenant does on one side promise greater helps and assistance for the discharge of our Duty and on the other pardon and remission for the Defects of it we may be assured by the former that he has deliver'd us from the Dominion of Sin and by the latter from the Guilt of it By providing such Helps and Abilities he has subdued its Power by opening a Fountain of Pardon he has cancell'd its Obligation Hence on one side we are said to be reconcil'd to God through the death of his Son to have redemption through his bloud even the remission of sins Colos 1.14 Tit. 2.14 1 Pet. 1.18 on the other hand we are said to be redeem'd from all iniquity from a vain conversation from the present evil world This referring to the Dominion of Sin the other to the Guilt of it But because the Gospel being a mutual Covenant betwixt God and Man does contain certain conditions to be perform'd on our parts too and since the Grace and Pardon therein promised is dispensed agreeably to the performance of those Conditions therefore the Bloud of Christ thô infinitely meritorious can be no further beneficial to us than as we apply those benefits by a discharge of those conditions of Faith and Repentance Hence is it that we find Repentance and Remission of Sins so often linkt together the one as the indispensable condition of the Gospel the other as the inseparable Blessing annext to it by vertue of Christ's Bloud For the same reason when he is stiled a Propitiation for us Rom. 3.25 the Apostle adds through faith in his bloud Would you be resolv'd therefore how you are bought or redeem'd with this price the Answer is obvious that Christ has not so redeem'd us as actually to instate us in Salvation without a possibility of a miscarriage but that by opening a Fountain of Mercy and providing us means by which our Salvation may be accomplish'd he has put us all in a glorious condition and capacity of attaining it Thus has the Lord visited and redeemed his People and rais'd up a mighty Salvation in the house of his servant David he has broken the gates of Brass and cut the bars of Iron asunder he has struck off our Fetters and cancell'd our Obligations upon the reasonable terms of Faith and Penitence And being thus set free 't is in your power now by the merits of Christ's Bloud to work out your own Salvation Life and Death are fairly set before you if Iniquity be your ruin 't is your choice too and if you perish in your Sins your destruction is from your selves A