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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54928	The spiritual sacrifice, or, A treatise wherein several weighty questions and cases concerning the saints communion with God in prayer are propounded and practically improved by Mr. Alexander Pitcarne.	Pitcarne, Alexander, 1622?-1695.	1664 (1664)	Wing P2295; ESTC R30533	821,533	890

individuall man or woman are elect or reprobat but also in the generall as to the present and following generation whatever may be said of times past whose wickednesse and impiety is notour and known for who can bind up Gods hand that he may not shew mercy to all the world and shall we alledge an unknown decree purpose and intention which though it were known must not be acknowledged for a rule and law for a ground and plea why we should forsake the known commandment to pray for all men And that we might pray for cast-awayes though their reprobation and why not also though Christs purpose and intention not to shed his blood for them were known hath been shown Concl. 4. 3. It is not faith in the Object but in the Subject not in him for whom but in him who doth pray that is required in the i Jam. 5.15 prayer of faith and that it may be offered up in Christs name as shall appear Part 2. Ch. 2. From this generall we may draw several particulars the most matterial shall be named in the following Conclusions Concl. 6. Concl. 6.1.2.3.4.5.6 We should pray for our enemies 1. David did so Psa 35.13 and Stephen Act. 7.60 Yea and our blessed Lord Jesus Luk. 23.34 And 2. commands us to do so Mat. 5.44 And 3. maketh the conscientious performance thereof an evidence of our son-ship And 4. of our conformity with our Father which is in heaven v. 45. And 5. of discrimination between us and Publicans v. 46.6 This is the best mean to reclaime enemies and to make them friends with God and with us and that is the most noble k Quo quisque est major magis est placabilis irae Ovid. 3. trist 5.7 victory over enemies in which the true Christian will more rejoyce and triumph though one were only thus gained then in the destruction of a multitude However 7. thus he doth his duty and shall be no loser his prayer shall not be as l 2 Sam. 14.14 water spilt on the ground but shall return with a message of peace to himself Psa 35.13 And 8. in so doing he heapeth coals of fire though he intend not their hurt upon the head of incorrigible enemies Rom. 12.20 And 9. it is no small evidence of sincerity and may be a ground of comfort to thee O Saint if while enemies are injuring and persecuting thee thou canst with the Prophet say O Lord remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them and to turn away thy wrath while they were digging a pit for my soul Jer. 18.20 And as this is a notable mean of our peace with God and with our own consciences So it is 10. an evidence and a sure ground of confidence that our prayers for our selves are heard 10. and our iniquities pardoned Mat. 6.14 Mark 11.25 and 11. 11. thereby also we prevail against and most valiantly m Bis vin ci● qui se vincit Publian apud Reusn clas 1. Sym. 50. triumph over that devil of malice and revenge which maketh the Lord himself become our enemy and to back the lashes of men with a stroak from heaven because we tak upon us to sit on his Throne who hath said vengeance is mine I will repay Deut. 35.35 Heb. 10.30 Rom. 12.19 O! Then pray for your enemies and ye shall have God to be your friend and shall thus obey that evangelicall command give place to Wrath Rom. 12 19. Psa 37.8 Prov. 20.3 O! blesse them that persecut you Rom. 12.14 and thus thou mayest get a blessing both to thy self and them But ah although this duty doth make us resemble God who is kind unto the unthankfull and to the evil Luk 6.35 albeit it hath so much of heaven in it so much humility self denyall and tendernesse though it be such a notable mean of our comfort peace and acceptance with God and may prove a mean of so much good to others yet how few make conscience thereof and are carefull to perform it but if thou goest mourning all the day long for want of comfort enlargement of affections divine manifestations and acceptance in thy addresses to God enquire after the cause and perhaps thou wilt find that if thou wert compassionat towards thy enemies God would be more kind to thee and manifest himself more familiarly the Lord deals with many as if he were an enemy because they live in malice and at enmity with their brethren and their prayers meet not with that n Qui tollit litem fas huic est fausta precari Reusn class 3. Symb. 16. acceptance they desire because they do not cordially desire the good of others God seemeth to slight their (o) Qui litem aufert execrationem in benedictionem mutat symb Henrici 3. Nigri prayers that they may learn no more to hate or slight their brethren in their prayers Mat. 6.15 Mar. 11.26 Concl. 7. Albeit we should thus pray for all men though strangers yea though enemies and persecuters yet there are speciall bonds and tyes lying upon us to pray for those to whom we have speciall relations and the mo and greater and the more neer and engaging the relation is our obligation to the performance of this duty is the greater we may not speak to particulars these being so many this duty so clear and uncontroverted Scripture-instances so obvious and the advantage both to our selves and them so certain and great And 1. in the generall who is so ignorant as not to know that it is his duty to pray for the Church of Christ and that his Kingdom may come that the borders thereof may be enlarged that the heathen may be given to him for an inheritance and the uttermost ends of the earth for a possession Mat. 6.10 Psa 2.8 that the whole earth may be filed with the knowledge of God Isa 11.8 that the Gospel may have a free and effectuall passage 2 Thes 3.2 that all Israel might be saved that Sem may be perswaded to dwell in the tents of Japhet Rom. 11.26 Gen. 9.27 that the fulnesse of the Gentiles were brought in and that those who yet sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death may be enlightned Rom. 11.25 Luk. 1.79 that God in his good pleasure would do good to Zion and build up the walls of Jerusalem that peace may be within Her walls and prosperity within her Palaces and that God would redeem Israel out of all his troubles Psa 51.18 Psa 122.7 Psa 25.22 2. Who knoweth not that we should pray for Kings and Rulers that God would blesse them and make them a blessing to his people that he would instruct our Magistrats and teach our Senators wisdom that judgment may run down as a river and righteousnesse as a mighty stream that thus they may prove nursing Fathers both to the Church and Kingdom being an encouragment to them that do well and a terror to such and only to such

that one can act and do what the other two doth not for they have one nature and so the same presence they have one power and so the same work and therefore that work and symbole whether sensible or spirituall whereby one of the persons of the Trinity doth in some particular manner appear and manifest himself must be the effect and product of all the three albeit for this end and purpose that it may in some speciall maner and upon some particular account represent and have a peculiar relation unto some one of those blessed persons and not to the other two Neither 2. must we imagine that what is said or done in a (s) As that in the objection Zech. 3. vision or by sensible (t) As that God did speak walk c. symbols and representations is personally and really acted by those glorious persons but thereby is held forth 1. that naturall order and distinction of the persons of the Trinity an order in subsisting and working but no inequality or subjection of one person to another sed ut personarum saith (u) Syntag. part 1. Disp 22. Sect. 11. Tilen sic actionum personalium ordo ac distinctio hoc pacto de signatur 2. Thereby is signified that (x) Neque per missionem spiritus imperium aliquod servile vel ipsius personae nullis locorum spatiis circumscriptae motus localis sed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 duntaxat extraordinaria effecta aut peculiare aliquod presentiae ipsius symbolum intelligendum est Tilen ibid. Sect. 10. aliud est jus naturae aliud 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vo untaria disp 21.2 Sect. 27. Sed quae subiicit deobedientia honore Patri à Christo exhibito intelligenda sunt de natura humana quamvis fatendum sit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 exhac dispensatione gloriam suam ad tempus occultasse nunquam tamen abdicasse vel alteri dedisse x of which appropriation we purpose to speak at some greater length part 3. Chap 1. appropriation of attributes and works which is founded upon that naturall order and doth flow from the voluntary economy and dispensation in their way of acting and conveighing the good things in the Gospel-offer to the sons of men And thus 3. What is said of Christ his appearing and being present by some sensible symbole or of his intercession represented to the prophets in some vision doth not import that for that time he did personally appear and did then interceed for his people but that according to that eternall transaction and covenant amongst the persons of the Trinity he was in time to take on him our nature and in it really to act what then was represented and thus even then he was the Angel of the Covenant by vertue of that eternal transaction and accordingly his dispensations did from time to time answer and in some manner represent that paction and agreement and adumbrat what in due time he would personally do and suffer for the Elect as his appearing conducting and comforting the ancient people by some sensible signes of his presence untill the (y) Gal. 4.4 fulness of time came and then he appeared in our nature personally united to the divine and in it did really perform what had been formerly only shaddowed forth and typified then he did execute the office of a Priest in all it's parts offering up himself in a sacrifice on earth and then ascending into heaven there to appear and interceed for us for ever And thus we grant that Christ did typically and symbolically interceed and appear under the Old Testament though not properly and personally So much for discovering the first rock As for the second the judicious (z) Thom. Goodwin tr of faith from Christs Intercession Mr. Goodwin seemeth to ascribe too much to Christs intercession as it is contra distinguished from his sacrifice we will only offer these few particulars from that elaborat Treatise of the triumph of faith from Christs intercession 1. This was saith he so necessary a part of his priesthood that without it he had not been a compleat Priest for he had then left his Office imperfect and had done it but by halfes seing the other part of it the work of intercession lay still upon him to be acted in heaven sect 5. chap. 2. pag. (a) Edit Lond. an 1661. mihi 72. 2. Yea this part of his priesthood is of the two the more eminent yea the top the height of his priesthood ibid. pag. 79. 3. Yea all his priesthood would have been in-effectual if he had not acted the part of a Priest in heavenby intercession for by his death he did but begin the execution of his Office in heaven he ends it and if he had not fulfilled his Office in both the work of our salvation had not been fully perfected it was therefore as necessary as oblation it self ibid. pag. 81. 4. Yea so prevalent of it self it is that we might build upon it alone even as much as upon his death ibid. chap. 5. pag. 100. 5. The whole application of his redemption both in justifying and saving us first and last hath a special dependance upon this his intercession this all Divines do attribute unto it calling his death medium impetrationis that is the means of procurement and obtaining it for us But his intercession medium applicationis the means of applying all to us Christ purchaseth salvation to us by the one but possesseth us of it by the other the end of his death is adeptio juris purchasing a right unto salvation but of intercession procuratio ipsius salutis the very saving us actually and putting us in possession of heaven ibid. chap. 3. pag. 85. and chap. 4. pag. 93. 6. Although his being a Surety holds true of all parts of his office yet it doth in a more special way refer unto his intercession ibid. pag. 96. There be some other expressions to the same purpose here and there intermixed all alongst that Treatise but these are the most material on which he most insisteth We do not condemn but most heartily comply with this great Divine in his design which was to demonstrat the prevalency of Christs intercession and to hold that out as a sweet cordial to believers in all their fainting fits and a soveraign Catholicon to which they may recur for removing and preventing every distemper they are subject to O! for a heart to prize and a tongue to expresse that mystery of love care and tenderness of our glorified Redeemer towards his poor servants wrestling with many tryals and difficulties in this their pugrimage O! what bowels of sympathy and compassion are discovered by his continual intercession for us and all the texts cited by this Author and the several reasons drawn from thence do only prove 1. That Christ doth truly and properly interceed for us that his intercession is distinct from his oblation and sacrifice 2. That his intercession must prevail that