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A57158 A sermon preached before the king at White-Hall on March 22, 1667, being Easter-day / by Edward Lord Bishop of Norwich. Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676. 1668 (1668) Wing R1283; ESTC R32286 13,905 38

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a Peculiar People zealous of good works Tit. 2. 14. Yea Our Holiness is one Principal branch of those good things which in the Covenant of Grace are promised unto us I will put my Fear in their Hearts that they shall not depart from me Jer. 32. 40. I will give them an Heart of Flesh that they may walk in my Statutes Ezek. 11. 19 20. I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my Statutes and ye shall Keep my Judgments and do them Ezek. 36. 27. The Law doth but Command but the Covenant supplyeth Grace to do in Sincerity though not in Perfection what the Law Requires Lex imperat Fides impetrat as Saint Austin speaks The Law was given by Moses But Grace to perform the Duties of the Moral Law and Truth to accomplish the Prefigurations of the Ceremonial Law came by Jesus Christ John 1. 17. 2. The Blood of Christ whereby the Covenant of Grace is established and the Sure Mercies of David purchased for us is an invincible Argument unto Holiness of Life For the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all Sinne 1 John 1. 7. The Blood of Christ purgeth our Conscience from Dead Works to serve the Living God Hebr. 9. 14. By the Blood of Christ we were redeemed from our vain Conversation 1 Pet. 1. 18 19. In Christ crucified Faith sees his Infinite Love in Giving Himself for us and this Love of Christ constraineth us to Live unto him who died for us 3 Cor. 5. 14 15. In Christ crucified Faith sees the Justice of God against Sinne who spared not his own Sonne but delivered him up for us all and this works in the Heart an Hatred against Sinne and an endeavour to avenge the Blood of Christ upon it And it works a Fear of Sinne for if Sinne brought a curse upon the Sacrifice it will much more bring it upon the Sinner if the Sacrifice be despised Where Sinne is found it will be punished Sinne forsaken and repented of hath been found on the Sacrifice and hath there been punished Sinne unforsaken and unrepented of remains yet upon the Sinner and so long he himself is under the Curse which is Due unto it For Christ did not Dye to Protect us in our Sinnes but to Deliver us from them He dyed to save the Sinner but withall to destroy the Sinne. He therefore who resolves to Hold fast his Sinne doth Interpretativè resolve to let go Salvation Again the Apostle teacheth us thus to Argue We are not our own for we are Bought with a Price Therefore we must Glorifie God in our Bodie and in our Spirit which are Gods 1 Cor. 6. 19 20. For Quod emitur transit in potestatem Ementis In the Imperial Law a Person redeemed became the Servant of him that Redeemed him per Modum Pignoris till he could pay back his Ransom Certainly Christ did not purchase us with so Precious a Price as his Own Blood that we should continue the Servants of Satan and Sinne still which he came to Destroy Yeare Bought with a price sayeth the Apostle be ye not the Servants of Men Much less of Sinne for to this End Christ both Dyed and Rose and Revived that he might be Lord both of the Dead and Living Rom. 14. 9. The Apostle maketh mention of the Fellowship of Christ's Sufferings and our being made comformable to his Death Phil. 3. 10. wherein our Old Man is Crucified with him that the Bodie of Sinne might be destroyed that henceforth We should not serve Sinne as the same Apostle speaks For that is to be done to Sinne in us which was done to Christ when he was made Sinne for us The Death of Christ was a Violent Death Christ having no Sinne in himself could not have dyed otherwise than as a Sacrifice So Sinne in us would never dye of it self Omnis Peccator Peccat in Suo AEterno It must therefore be Judged condemned and destroyed as the Apostle speaks Rom. 6. 6. Rom. 8. 3. Again the Death of the Cross was Servile Supplicium as Historians Usually call it whereunto the Apostle seemeth to allude when he sayeth that Christ took upon him the form of a Servant and became Obedient unto Death Even the Death of the Cross Phil 2. 7 8. Thus should we treat Sinne as a Base Vile and Servile thing not suffering it to reign or have Dominion over us as the Apostle speaks Rom 6. 12. 14. Again the Death of the Cross was In same Supplicium Christ endured the Cross and despised the shame saith our Apostle Heb. 12. 2. So Sinne should be put to shame by us A Sinner in his Baptisme and Repentance doth as Gregory Nazianzen Flegantly Expresseth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 put Sinne to open shame What Fruit had Ye in those Things whereof you are now ashamed sayeth the Apostle Romans 6. 21. Lastly the Death of the Cross is frequently called in Historians Summum Suppluium a Cruel and a Cursed Death We shou●d shew no Mercy to Sinne. Christ would not Drink the Vinegar and Ga●l which some Learned Men as I Remember think was a Cup of Astonishment to Dull his Senses against the Pain of Death Thereby teaching us if so to refuse any Anodynes or Stupesactives which might take away the sense of sinne from us Thus the Blood of Christ is to cure Sinne and not onely to Cover it One of the surest Comforts of the pardon of Sinne is its dying in us for the Life of a Christian should be a shewing forth of the Death of Christ. 3. The Everlastingness of the Covenant of Grace is an Impregnable Argument unto Holiness of Life There is no Real fruit in Sin the Promises thereof are all false and deceitfull Gehazi promised himself Gain but got a Leprosie Balaam pursued Honour but met with a Sword Achan found a Wedge of Gold but it cleaved asunder his Soul from his Body The onely fruits of Sinne are Shame if we repent and Death if we do not repent Rom. 6. 21. But whatever Fruit we can promise our selves from Sinne it is all but vanishing and Transitory The pleasures of Sinne are but for a Season Heb. 11. 25. the World passeth away and the Lusts thereof 1 John 2. 17. Our Sinne will Leave us nothing to keep Company with for ever but a polluted Soul and a Guilty Conscience Now what a Folly is it for Men that are themselves Immortal who must have a Being as long as there is power in God to preserve it as long as there is Truth in God to make good the promises of Eternal Life to them that Serve him and the threatnings of Eternal Death to them that Despise him not to provide an Happiness of equal duration with themselves to preferr the false and dying Comforts of the World before the Pleasures which are at God's Right-hand for evermore O let us learn by a sincere and serious Holiness of Life to secure unto our selves the Mercies of an