those holy ones that rose at that time and appeared to many in the holy City Thus was the funeral of our Lord performed by men Thus was iâ— adorned by Miracles from heaven Vse And now we have seen Jesus interred He that wears at his girdle the Keys of Hell and Death himself locked up in the Grave What shall I say of him whom they now laid in the Grave Shall I undertake to tell you what he was What he did suffered and deserved Alas The tongues of Angels must pause and stammer in such a work I may truly say as Nazianzen said of Basil no tongue but his own can sufficiently commend and praise him He is a Sun of righteousness a fountain of life a bundle of Love Of him it might be said in that day Here lies the lovely Jesus in whom is treasured up whatsoever an angry God can require for his satisfaction or an empty creature for his perfection Before him was none like him and after shall none arise comparable to him If every leaf and spire of grass saith one nay all the Stars Sands and Atomes were so many Souls and Seraphims whose love should double in them every moment to all eternity yet would it fall infinitly short of what his worth and excellency exacts Suppose a creature compos'd of all the choice endowments that ever dwelt in the best of men since the Creation of the World in whom you find a meek Moses a strong Sampson a faithful Ionathan a beautiful Absolom a rich and wise Solomon nay and add to this the understanding strength agility splendor and holiness of all the Angels it would all amount but to a dark shadow of this incomparable Jesus Who ever weighed Christ in a pair of ballances saith another who hath seen the foldings and plyes the heights and depths of that glory which is in him O for such a heaven as but to stand afar off and see and love and long for him while times thred be cut and this great work of Creation dissolved O if I could yoke in among the thick of Angels and Seraphims and now glorified Saints and could raise a new Love song of Christ before all the world I am pained with wondering at new opened treasures in Christ. If every finger member bone and joynt were a torch burning in the hottest fire in hell I would they could all send out love praises high songs of praise for ever more to that plant of renown to that Royal and high Prince Jesus my Lord. But alas his love swelleth in me and finds no vent I marr his praises nay I know no comparison of what Christ is and what he is worth All the Angels and all the glorified praise him not so much as in halves Who can advance him or utter all his praise O if I could praise him I would rest content to die of Love for him O would to God I could send in my praises to my incomparable well beloved or cast my Love songs of that matchless Lord Jesus over the walls that they might light in his lap before men and Angels But whâ—n I have spoken of him till my head rive I have said just nothing I may begin again A God-head a God-head is a worlds wonder Set ten thousand thousand new made worlds of Angels and Elect men and double them in number ten thousand thousand thousand times let their hearts and tongues be ten thousand times more agile and large than the hearts and tongues of the Seraphims that stand with six wings before him when they have said all for the glorifying and praising of the Lord Jesus they have spoken little or nothing O if I could wear this tongue to the stump in extolling his highness But it is my daily sorrow that I am confounded with his incomparable Love Thus have his enamoured friends faintly expressed his excellencies and if they have therein done any thing they have shewn the impossibility of his due praises Come and see believing souls look upon dead Jesus in his winding-sheet by Faith and say Lo this is he of whom the Church said my beloved is White and Ruddy his ruddiness is now gone and a death pale hath prevailed over all his body but still as lovely as ever yea altogether lovely If David lamenting the death of Saul and Ionathan said Daughters of Ierusalem weep over Saul who cloathed you in Scarlet with other delights who put on ornaments of Gold upon your apparel Much rather may I say children of Sion weep over Jesus who cloathed you with righteousness and garments of Salvation This is he who quitted the throne of glory left the bosom of unspeakable delights came in a body of flesh produced in perfect holiness brake through many and great impediments thy great unworthiness the wrath of God and man by the strength of love to bring salvation home to thy soul. Can he that believingly considers this do less than faint at the sense of that love that brought him to the dust of death and cry out with that Father my Love was Crucified But I will insist no longer upon generals but draw down the particulars of Christs Funeral to your use in the following Corollaries Corollary 1. Was Christ buried in this manner then a decent and mournful Funeral where it can be had is laudable among Christians I know the souls of the Saints have no concernment for their bodies nor are they solicitous how the body is treated here yet there is a respect due to them as they are the Temples wherein God hath been serv'd and honoured by those holy souls that once dwelt in them As also upon the account to their relation to Christ even when they lie by the walls And the glory that will be one day put upon them when they shall be changed and made like unto Christs glorious body Upon such special accounts as these their bodies deserve an honourable treatment as well as upon the account of humanity which owes this honour to the bodies of all men To have no funeral is accounted a Judgement Eccles. 7.4 Or to be tumbled into a pit without any to lament us is lamentable We read of many solemn and mournful funerals in Scripture wherein the people of God have affectionatly paid their respects and honours to the dust of the Saints as men that were deeply sensible of their worth and how great a loss the world sustains by their remove Christs funeral had as much of decency and solemnity in it as the time would permit though he was a stranger to all pomp both in life and death Corollary 2. Did Ioseph and Nicodemus so boldly appear at a time of so much danger to beg the body and give it a funeral let it be for ever a caution to strong Christians not to despise or glory over the weak You see here a couple of poor low spirited and timorous persons that were afraid to be seen in Christs company when the
Sacrifice he must be such as the Law required pure and spotless Fifthly His sanctifying himself for our sakes speaks the strength of his Love and largeness of his heart to poor sinners thus to set himself wholly and entirely apart for us So that what he did and suffered must all of it have a respect and relation to us He did not when consecrated for us live a moment do an act or speak a word but it had some tendency to promote the great design of our Salvation He was only and wholly and always doing your work when consecrated for your sakes His Incarnation respects you Esa. 9.6 For us a Child is born to us a Son is given And he would never have been the Son of man but to make you the Sons and Daughters of God God would not have come down in the likeness of sinful flesh in the habit of a man but to raise up sinful man into the likeness of God All the miracles he wrought were for you to confirm your Faith When he raised up Lazarus Joh. 11.42 Because of the people which stand by I said it that they might believe that thou hast sent me While he lived on earth he lived as one wholly set apart for us And when he dyed he dyed for us Gal. 3.13 He was made a curse for us When he hanged on that cursed tree he hang'd there in our room and did but fill our place When he was buried he was buried for us For the end of it was to perfume our Graves against we come to lie down in them And when he rose again it was as the Apostle saith for our Iustification Rom. 4.25 When he ascended into glory he protested it was about our business That he went to prepare places for us And if it had not been so he would have told us Ioh. 14.2 And now he is there it is for us that he there lives For he ever lives to make intercession for us Heb. 7.25 And when he shall return again to Judge the world he will come for us too He comes when ever it be to be glorified in his Saints and admired in them that believe 2 Thes. 1.10 He comes to gather his Saints home to himself that where he is there they all may be in Soul and Body with him for ever Thus you see how as his Consecration for us doth speak him set a part for our use so he did wholly bestow himself time life death and all upon us Living and Dying for no other end but to accomplish this great work of Salvation for us Sixthly His sanctifying himself for us plainly speaks the Vicegerency of his death that it was in our room or stead When the Priest Consecrated the Sacrifice it was set apart for the people So it 's said of the scape Goat And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live Goat and confess over him all the iniquities of the Children of Israel and all their transgressions in all their sins puting them upon the head of the Goat And shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the Wilderness Levit. 16.21 Thus Isa. 53.6.7 He stood in our room to bear our burden And as Aaron laid the iniquities of the people upon the Goat so were ours laid on Christ. It was said to him in that day on thee be their Pride their Unbelief their hardness of heart their vain thoughts their earthly mindedness c. Thou art Consecrated for them to be the Sacrifice in their room His death was in our stead as well as for our good And so much his sanctifying himself for us imports Seventhly His sanctifying himself imports the extraordinariness of his Person For it speaks him to be both Priest Sacrifice and Altar all in one A thing unheard of in the world before So that his name might well be called wonderful I sanctifie my self I sanctifie according to both natures My self that is my humane nature which was the Sacrifice upon the Altar of my Divine nature For 't is the Altar that sanctifies the gift As the three offices never met in one Person before so these three things never met in one Priest before The Priests indeed Consecrated the bodies of Beasts for Sacrifice but never offered up their own Souls and Bodies as a whole burnt offering as Christ did And thus you have the import of this phrase I sanctifie my self for their sake Secondly I shall shew you briefly the habitude and respect that all this hath to us For unto us the Scriptures every where refer it So in 1 Cor. 5.7 Christ our Passover is Sacrificed for us Eph. 5.2 He loved the Church and gave himself for it See Tit. 2.14 This will be made out by a three fold consideration of Christs Death And First Let it he considered that he was not offered up to God for his own Sins For he was most holy Isa 53.9 No iniquity was found in him Indeed the Priests under the Law offered for themselves as well as the people But Christ did not do so Heb. 7.27 He need not daily as those High-Priests to offer up Sacrifice first for his own Sins and then for the peoples And indeed had he been a sinner what value or efficacy could have been in his Sacrifice He could not have been the Sacrifice but would have needed one Now if Christ were most holy and yet put to death and cruel sufferings either his Death and sufferings must be an act of injustice and cruelty or it must respect others whose persons and cause he sustained in that suffering capacity He could never have suffered or dyed by the Fathers hand had he not been a sinner by imputation And in that respect as Luther speaks he was the greatest of sinners Or as the Prophet Isaiah speaketh all our sins were made to meet upon him Not that he was so intrinsecally but was made so sc. by imputation As is clear from 2 Cor. 5.21 He was made sin for us that had no sin So that hence it 's evident that Christs Death or Sacrifice is wholly a respective or relative thing Secondly It is not to be forgotten here that the Scriptures frequently call the death of Christ a price 1 Cor. 6.20 And a ransom Matth. 20.28 Or counterprice To whom then doth it relate but to them that were and are in bondage and captivity If it were to redeem any it must be captives but Christ himself was never in Captivity He was always in his Fathers bosom as you have heard but we were in cruel bondage and thraldom under the Tyranny of sin and Satan And it 's we only that have the benefit of this ransom Thirdly Either the death of Christ must relate to believers or else he must die in vain As for the Angels those that stood in their integrity needed no Sacrifice and those that fell are totally excluded from any benefit by it He is not a Mediator for them And among men
Prophet precisely faithful and exact in all things that God gave him in charge even to a pin of the Tabernacle Moses verily was faithful in all his house as a Servant for a Testimony of those things which were to be spoken after But Christ as a Son over hiâ— own house Heb. 3.5 6. Again Moses confirmed his Doctrine by miracles which he wrought in the presence and to the conviction of gain-sayers Herein Christ our Prophet is also like unto Moses who wrought many mighty and uncontrolled miracles which could not be denyed and by them confirmed the Gospel which he Preached Lastly Moses was that Prophet which brought Gods Israel out of literal Egypt and Christ his out of spiritual Egypt whereof that bondage was a figure Thus he is described by his likeness to Moses his Type Thirdly He is described by his Stock and Original from which according to the flesh he sprang I will raise him up from among thy brethren Of Israel as concerning the flesh Christ came Rom. 9.5 And it 's evident that our Lord sprang out of Iudah Heb. 7.14 He honoured that Nation by his Nativity Thus the great Prophet is described Secondly Here is a strict injunction of obedience to this Prophet Him shall ye hear in all things c. By hearing understand obedience So words of sence are frequently put in Scripture to signifie those affections that are moved by and use to follow those sences And this obedience is required to be yielded to this Prophet only universally and under great penalties It 's required to be given to him only for so Him in the Text must be understood as exclusive of all others It 's true we are commanded to obey the voice of his Ministers Heb. 13.17 But still it 's Christ speaking by them to whom we pay our obedience He that heareth you heareth me We obey them in the Lord i. e. commanding or forbidding in Christs name and authority So when God said Deut. 6.13 thou shalt serve Him Christ expounds it exclusively Matth. 4.10 Him only shalt thou serve He is the only Lord Jude 4. And therefore to him only our obedience is required And as it 's due to him only so to him universally Him shall ye hear in all things His commands are to be obeyed not disputed A Judgement of discretion indeed is allowed to Christians to Judge whether it be the will of Christ or no. We must prove what is that holy good and acceptable will Rom. 12.2 His Sheep hear his voice and a stranger they will not follow They know his voice but know not the voice of strangers Joh. 10.4 5. But when his will is understood and known we have no liberty of Choice but are concluded by it be the Duty commanded never so difficult or the sin forbidden never so tempting And this is also required severely under penalty of being destroyed from among the people And of Gods requiring it at our hands as it is in Deut. 18. i. e. of revenging himself in the destruction of the disobedient Hence the observation is DOCT. That Iesus Christ is called and appointed by God to be the great Prophet and teacher of the Church He is anointed to Preach good tidings to the meek and sent to bind up the broken hearted Isa. 61.1 When he came to Preach the Gospel among the people then was this Scripture fulfilled Matth. 11.27 Yea all things are delivered him of his Father so as no man knoweth who the Father is but the Son and be to whom the Son will reveal him All light is now collected into one body of light the Sun of righteousness and he enlighteneth every man that cometh into the world Joh. 1.9 And though he dispenseth knowledge variously in times past speaking in many ways and divers manners to the Fathers yet now the Method and way of revealing the will of God to us is fixt and setled in Christ. In these last times he hath spoken to us by his Son Twice hath the Lord solemnly sealed him to this Office or approved and owned him in it by a miraculous voice from the most excellent glory Matth. 3. ult and Matth. 17.5 In this point there are two things doctrinally to be discussed and opened viz. What Christs being a Prophet to the Church implies And how he executes and discharges this his Office First What is implyed in Christs being a Prophet to the Church And it necessarily imports these three things First The natural ignorance and blindness of men in the things of God This shewes us that vain man is born as the wild Asses Colt The world is involved in darkness The people sit as in the Region and shadow of Death till Christ arise upon their Souls Matth. 4.15 16 17. 'T is true in the state of innocence man had a clear apprehension of the will of God without a Mediator but now that light is quencht in the corruption of nature and the natural man receiveth not the things of God 1 Cor. 2.14 These things of God are not only contrary to corrupt carnal reason but they are also above right reason Grace indeed useth nature but nature can do nothing without grace The mind of a natural man hath not only a native blindness by reason whereof it cannot discern the things of the Spirit but also a natural enmity Rom. 8.7 And hates the light 1 Ioh. 3.19 20. So that untill the mind be healed and enlightened by Jesus Christ the natural faculty can no more discern the things of the spirit than the sensitive faculty can discern the things of reason The mysteries of nature may be discovered by the light of nature but when it comes to the Supernatural mysteries there omnis platonicorum caligavit subtilitas as Cyprian some where speaks the most subtile searching penetrating wit and reason is stalled and at a loss Secondly It implys the divinity of Christ. And proves him to be true God for as much as no other can reveal to the world in all ages the secrets that lay hid in the heart of God and that with such convincing evidence and authority He brought his Doctrine from the bosom of his Father Ioh. 1.18 The only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father him hath he revealed The same words which his Father gave him he hath given us Ioh. 17.8 He spake to us that which he had seen with his Father Ioh. 8.38 What man can tell the bosom counsels and secrets of God Who but he that eternally lay in that bosom can expound them Besides Other Prophets had their times assigned them to rise shine and set again by Death Zâ—ch 1.5 Your Fathers where are they And do the Prophets live for ever But Christ is a fixed and perpetual Sun that gives light in all ages of the world For he is the same yesterday to day and for ever Heb. 13.8 Yea and the very beams of his divinity shone with awefulness upon the hearts of them that
of death compassed him about how much are we engaged not only to love him and esteem him whilst we live but to be in pangs of love for him when we feel the pangs of death upon us To be eyeing him when our eye-strings break To have hot affections for Christ when our hands and feet grow cold The very last whisper of our departing soul should be this Blessed be God for Iesus Christ. The TWENTY FIRST SERMON I COR. XI XXIII XXIV XXV The Lord Iesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he brake it and said take eat this is my body which is broken for you this do in remembrance of me After the same manner also he took the Cup when he had supped saying this Cup is the New-Testament in my blood this do as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me CHrist had no sooner recommended his dear charge to the Father but the time of his death hasting on he institutes his last Supper to be the lasting memorial of his death in all the Churches until the second coming therein graciously providing for the comfort of his people when he should be removed out of their sight And this was the second preparative act of Christ in order to his death he will set his house in order and then die This his second Act manifests no less love than the former It 's like the plucking off the ring from his finger when ready to lay his neck upon the block and delivering it to his dearest friends to keep that as a memorial of him Take this c. in remembrance of me In the words read are four things noted by the Apostle about this Last and Lovely Act of Christ. viz. the Author time institution and end of this holy and solemn ordinance First The Author of it The Lord Iesus it 's an effect of his Lordly power and royal authority Matth. 28.18 And Iesus came and spake unto them saying all power is given unto me in Heaven and earth go ye therefore The government is upon his shoulder Isai. 9.6 He shall bear the glory Zech. 6.13 Who but he that came out of the bosom of the Father and is acquainted with all the counsels that are there knows what will be acceptable to God And who but he can give creatures by his blessing their Sacramental efficacy and vertue Bread and Wine are naturally fit to refresh and nourish our bodies but what fitness have they to nourish souls Surely none but what they receive from the blessing of Christ that institutes them Secondly The time when the Lord Jesus appointed this ordinance In the same night in which he was betrayed It could not be sooner because the passover must first be celebrated nor later for that night he was apprehended It is therefore emphatically expressed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in that same night that night for ever to be remembred He gives that night a cordial draught to his Disciples before the conflict He settles that night an Ordinance in the Church for the confirmation and consolation of his people in all generations to the end of the world By instituting in that night he gives abundant evidence of his care for his people in spending so much of that little very little time he had left on their account Thirdly The Institution it self in which we have the memorative significative instructive signs and they are Bread and Wine And the glorious mysteries represented and shadowed forth by them viz. Jesus Christ crucified the proper New-Testament nourishment of Believers Bread and Wine are choice creatures and do excellently shadow forth the flesh and blood of crucified Jesus And that both in their natural usefulness and manner of preparation Their usefulness is very great Bread is a creature necessary to uphold and maintain our natural life Therefore it 's called the staff of bread Isai. 3.1 Because as as a feeble man depends and leans upon his staff so doth our feeble spirits upon bread Wine was made to chear the heart of man Iudg. 9.13 They are both useful and excellent creatures Their preparations to become so useful to us is also remarkable The Corn must be ground in the Mill the Grapes torn and squeesed to pieces in the Wine-prefs before we can either have Bread or Wine And when all this is done they must be received into the body or they nourish not So that these were very fit creatures to be set apart for this use and end If any object it 's true they are good creatures but not pretious enough to be the signs of such profound and glorious Mysteries It was worth the creating of a new creature to be the sign of the new Covenant Let him that thus objects ask himself whether nothing be pretious without pomp The pretiousness of these Elements is not so much from their own natures as their use and end and that makes them pretious indeed A Loadstone at Sea is much more excellent than a Diamond because more useful A peniworth of wax applyed to the Label of a Deed and sealed may in a minute have its value raised to thousands of pounds These creatures receive their value and estimation on alike account Nor should it at all remain a wonder to thee why Christ should represent himself by such mean and common things when thou hast well considered that the excellency of the picture is in its similitude and conformity to the original and that Christ was in a low sad and very abased state when this picture of him was drawn he was then a man of sorrows These then as lively signs shadow forth a crucified Jesus Represent him to us in his red garments This pretious Ordinance may much more than Paul say to us I alwaies bear about in my body the dying of the Lord Iesus That 's the thing it signifies Fourthly Lastly Take notice of the use design and end of this institution 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in remembrance or for a memorial of me O there 's much in this Christ knew how apt our base hearts would be to lose him amidst such a throng of sensible objects as we here converse with And how much that forgetfulness of him and of his sufferings would turn to our prejudice and loss And therefore doth he appoint a sign to be remembred by as oft as ye do this ye shew forth the Lords death till he come Hence we shall observe suitable to the design of this discourse DOCT. That the Sacramental memorial Christ left with his people is a special mark of his care and love for them What! to order his picture as it were to be drawn when he was dying to be left with his Spouse to rend his own flesh and set abroch his own blood to be meat and drink for our souls O what manner of love was this 'T is true his Picture in the Sacrament is full of scars and wounds but
in the earth by an earthquake and the Oracle was consulted how it might be closed this answer was returned that breach can never be closed except something of great worth be thrown into it Such a breach was that which sin made it could never be reconciled but by the death of Jesus Christ the most excellent thing in all the Creation Inference 2. How sad is the state of all such as are not comprized in the Articles of peace with God! The impenitent unbeliever is excepted God is not reconciled to him and if God be his enemy how little avails it who is his friend For if God be a mans enemy he hath an Almighty enemy in him whose very frown is destruction Deut. 32.40 41 42. I lift up my hand to Heaven and say I live for ever If I whet my glittering sword and my hand take hold on judgement I will render vengeance to my enemies and I will reward them that hate me I will make mine arrows drunk with blood and my sword shall devour flesh and that with the blood of the slain and the Captives from the beginning of revenge upon the enemy Yea he is an unavoidable enemy Fly to the utmost parts of the earth there shall his hand reach thee as it is Psal. 139.10 The wings of the morning cannot carry thee out of his reach If God be your enemy you have an immortal enemy who lives for ever to avenge himself upon his adversaries And what wilt thou do when thou art in Sauls case 1 Sam. 28.15 16. Alas whither wilt thou turn To whom wilt thou complain But what wilt thou do when thou shalt stand at the Bar and see that God who is thine enemy upon the throne Sad is their case indeed who are not comprehended in the Articles of peace with God Inference 3. If Christ died to reconcile us to God give diligence to clear up to your own souls your interest in this reconciliation If Christ thought it worth his blood to purchase it it 's worth your care and pains to clear it And what can better evidence it than your conscientious tenderness of sin lest you make new breaches Ah if reconciled you will say as Ezra 9.14 And now our God seeing thou hast given us such a deliverance as this should we again break thy Commandments If reconciled to God his friends will be your friends and his enemies your enemies If God be your friend you will be diligent to please him Iohn 15.10 14. He that makes not peace with God is an enemy to his own soul. And he that is at peace but takes no pains to clear it is an enemy to his own comfort But I must pass from this to the third End of Christs death End 3. You have seen two of those beautiful births of Christs travail and lo a third cometh namely the sanctification of his people Typical blood was shed as you heard to purifie them that were unclean and so was the blood of Christ shed to purge away the sins of his people so speaks the Apostle expresly Ephes. 5.25 26. Christ gave himself for the Church that he might sanctifie and cleanse it And so he tells us himself Joh. 17.19 And for their sakes I sanctifie my self i. e. consecrate or devote my self to death that they also might be sanctified through the truth Upon the account of this benefit received by the blood of Christ is that Doxology which in a lower strain is now sounded in the Churches but will be matter of the Lambs song in Heaven Rev. 1.5 6. To him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood be glory and honour for ever Now there is a twofold evil in sin the guilt of it and the polution of it Justification properly cures the former Sanctification the latter but both Justification and Sanctification flow unto sinners out of the death of Christ. And though it 's proper to say the spirit sanctifies yet it is certain it was the blood of Christ that procured for us the spirit of sanctification Had not Christ died the spirit had never come down from Heaven upon any such design The pouring forth of Christs blood for us obtained the pouring forth of the spirit of holiness upon us Therefore the spirit is said to come in his name and to take of his and shew it unto us Hence it 's said 1 Joh. 5.6 he came both by blood and by water by blood washing away the guilt by water purifying from the filth of sin Now this fruit of Christs death even our sanctification is a most incomparable mercy For do but consider a few particular excellencies of holiness First Holiness is the Image and glory of God His image Coll. 3.10 and his glory Exod. 15.11 who is like unto thee O Lord glorious in holiness Now when the guilt and filth of sin is washt off and the beauty of God put upon the soul in sanctification O what a beautiful Creature is the soul now So lovely in the eyes of Christ even in its imperfect holiness that he saith Cant. 6.5 Turn away thine eyes from me for they have overcome me So we render it but the Hebrew word signifies they have made me proud or puffed me up It 's a beam of divine glory upon the Creature enamouring the very heart of Christ. Secondly As it 's the souls highest beauty so it 's the souls best evidence for heaven Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God Matth. 5.8 And without holiness no man shall see God Heb. 12.14 No gifts no duties no natural endowments will evidence a righâ— in heaven but the least measure of true holiness will secure heaven to the soul. Thirdly As holiness is the souls best evidence for heaven so it 's a continual spring of comfort to it in the way thither The purest and sweetest pleasures in this world are thâ— results of holiness Till we come to live holily we never live comfortably Heaven is Epitomized in holiness Fourthly And to say no more It is the peculiar mark by which God hath visibly distinguished his own from other men Psal. 4.3 The Lord hath set apart him that is Godly for himself Q. D. this is the Man and that the Woman to whom I intend to be good for ever This is a man for me O holiness how surpassinâ—ly glorious art thou Inference 1. Did Christ die to sanctifie his people how deep then is the polution of sin that nothing but the blood of Christ can cleanse it All the tears of a penitent sinner should he shed as many as there have fallen drops of rain since the Creation to this day cannot wash away one sin The everlasting burnings in Hell cannot purifie the flaming conscience from the least sin O guess at the wound by the largeness and length of this Tent that follows the mortal weapon sin Inference 2. Did Christ die to sanctifie his people Behold then the love
Vnion with the second Person p. 57. Adversaries to the Vnion of the two natures in Christ who and how p. 58 59. Affections how moved by remembring Christ. p. 270 271. Afflictions four things to be studied in them p. 220. how they provoke to holiness p. 622. Agonies of Christ in the Garden whether preternatural p. 288. the cause of it p. ibid. Amyntas his intercession for his Brother Aechylus p. 156. Appetite wanton Appetites reproved p. 473. Apollogy none left to them that perish under Gospel-offers p. 231. and p. 46 47. Apostolical dignity what it was p. 298. Aptitude of the Sacrament to refresh the memory of Christ. p. 272. Articles of peace with God what they are p. 532. how sad not to be comprized in those Articles p. 533. Arraignment of Christ at Pilats bar an evidence believers are never cast at Gods bar p. 324 325. Ascension of Christ to Heaven opened p. 563. the terms of Christs Ascension p. 564. the reason and ends of it p. 568 569. Ascriptions of Praise to Christ for all our mercies how reasonable p. 92 93. Assumption of our Nature opened p. 52. our nature was Assumed integrally p. 55. And with all its natural infirmities ibid. Reasons of Christs Assuming our Nature p. 58. B. BElievers are warranted and incouraged to commit their soul into Christs hands at death p. 493. Believers under highest obligations to set then selves apart for Christ. p. 75 76. Believers immediately received into glory upon their dissolution p. 437. Four Arguments to evince it p. 438 439. Blaspheamous suggestions and how best cured p. 246. Blood of Christ of infinite value p. 348. How it cools and cases a distressed Conscience p. 348. How sad to have it cry against us p. 160. Bodies of Saints intended to be made glorious pieces and how that appears p. 63. Bodies of Saints how to be disposed used and ordered p. 556. The due honour of our bodies to be preserved and why p. 556. Bosom of God what is and what is not there p. 19 20. Breach made between us and God by sin how dreadful p. 86. Bread the excellency of it p. 267. Burden of Christs sufferings how great it was p. 465 466 467. Burial Christs dead body had a decent though not a pompous Burial p. 506. Three Reasons why Christ must have a Burial p. 508. Christs Burial obscure as to the manner of its performance by his friends p. 509. Christs Funeral is adorned by several famous miracles from Heaven p. 510. Decent and mournful Burials laudable among Christians p. 514. C. CAre of Christ over his Church and Ministers p. 121. His Care for it manifest in Sacramental appointment many wayes p. 273. Care of Christ for his natural relations p. 418 419. Change made by death very great p. 495. Children how dear to Parents p. 420. Nothing of Christ in rebellious Children p. 424. Five Queries to convict such p. 425. Six Considerations to humble disobedient Children p. 426. And Chidren presented with a famous pattern p. 419. Conscientious Children to be incouraged p. 428 429. Christ an invitation to Study him p. 9 10. Christs delights in the Fathers bosom infinite p. 17 18. Christ had no sorrows or wants in the Fathers bosom p. 15 16. Christs self-denyal in leaving the Fathers bosom for us p. 20. Christs excellency p. 9. Christ made flesh what it imports p. 51 52. Christ is true God p. 100 101. Christ the Original of all light p. 101. The first receptacle of all power p. 101. The manner of his providential influence p. 214 215. Christ is most excellent soul-food p. 272. Christ and his blood never grow stale p. 278. His love beyond all comparison p. 274. Christ hath finished redemption work p. 482. How he hath wrought it out in six particulars p. 481 482. a Character of Christs excellency p. 512 513. Christs glorious Majesty p. 581 584. Church safe and why p. 583. Circumcision a great abasement to Christ and that two wayes p. 237 238. Comfortable indeed that he who assumed our Nature is God p. 63. Company the very best sometimes a burden p. 290. Commission of Christ great security to our faith p. 63. Committing the soul to Christ implyes six great things in it p. 494 495. Seven excellent grounds of encouragement to this last and great work p. 496 497 498. The Concourse or co-operation of both Natures in Christs Mediatory works p. 90. Confession when and why our duty p. 316 317. Confidence in men a folly p. 309. Conscience how overborn by fleshly interests p. 323. Rules to prevent it p. 323. It s inward troubles dreadful ibid. Consecration of Christ what it is p. 71 72. Constancy in Religion urged p. 363. Content with our present state how rational p. 188. Court that tryed Christ had no authority so to do p. 314. Covenant of Redemption p. 26 27. The Form Foederates and performance of that Cevenant opened p. 27 28. The new Covenant how Christs death confirmed and ratified it p. 536 537. Cross of Christ three sweet considerations to bear it cheerfully p. 351 352. The Cross of Christ a dignified Cross. p. 364. Cup What it signifies in Scripture p. 284. What the passing of it is p. 284 285. Curse that may prove the soarest curse from which men promise themselves much content p. 307. D. DEath fairly overcome and that in its own territories by the Resurrection of Christ. p. 553. Death of the Cross what it was opened in six properties p. 343 344 345. The manner of Crucifying p. 346 347. Why Christ was Crucified p. 347 348. Death Christ chose to meet it in a praying posture p. 281 c. Christs Death the worst death for kind p. 344. Death not to be feared by believers p. 555. Their duty to long for it p. 188. Souls not ordinarily wrought on at Death p. 442. Choice encouragements to believers against the fear of Death p. 518 519. Delight of Christ in the Fathers bosome how great pure and constant p. 17. How transcendent to all other delights in the World p. 18 19. Defect The finishing of Christs work how great a relief against the defects that attend our works p. 484. Deliverance from wrath obtained by Christ is free full peculiar wonderful p. 524. Three signes of a soul delivered from wrath to come p. 528 529. Desersion Christ deserted by his Father in time of greatest need p. 449. Desersions either absolute or respective ibid. Respective Desersions of four sorts p. 450. How Christ was not Deserted opened in six particulars p. 450. In what sense Christ was deserted opened in five particulars p. 451 452. Two special ends of Gods forsaking Christ p. 453. Christs Desersion more afflictive than all his other Sufferings five Reasons for it p. 455 456. Every time we sin we deserve to be eternally deserted p. 455. Desersion the greatest misery p. 456. Christs desersion the believers comfort p. 457. Despising Christ how intollerable to the Father p. 46