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A77515	Two treatises the one, handling the doctrine of Christ's mediatorship : wherein the great Gospel-mystery of reconciliation betwixt God and man is opened, vindicated, and applyed. The other, of mystical implantation : wherein the Christian's union and communion with, and conformity to Jesus Christ, both in his death and resurrection, is opened, and applyed. / As they were lately delivered to the church of God at Great Yarmouth, by John Brinsley, minister of the Gospel, and preacher to that incorporation.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.; Ashe, Simeon, d. 1662.	1652 (1652)	Wing B4737; Thomason E1223_1; ESTC R22919	314,532	569

entred those lists But there is a fatal yet Providential necessitie in it There must be Heresies 1 Cor. 11.16 such is Satan's malice and Man's corruption that in an ordinary way it cannot be expected that God's Field should be free from these tares And such is Gods just and wise dispensation to permit it to be so knowing how to extract good out of evill And seeing it must be so there is a like necessity incumbent upon the Ministers of God servants of that great Husbandman that they should have John 15.1 1 Cor. 3.9 an eye to them that they do not over-grow the good corn Upon this account it is that I have as occasion hath been offered underta-that work which our great Apostle the Dr. of the Gentiles reckons amongst those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those good works 2 Tim. 3.17 unto which the man of God should be throughly furnished Applying my self sometimes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Reproof Engl. new Annot ver 16. viz. of Errors and false Doctrines which the Verse foregoing reckoneth as one of those four Cardinal uses for which the Scripture is profitable yet so as I have ever mainly intended those other Ministeriall services there mentioned of Doctrine Correction Instruction in Righteousnesse And to that end I have made choice of such portions of Scripture as I apprehended properly usefull for those purposes Among other I have singled out and now through a divine manuduction almost passed thorow this Chapter wherof the Text is a part with that fore-going Rom. 5. 6. The one of which professedly handles the Doctrine of Justification the other of Sanctification two main Pillars in the House of the Lord not unlike those in the Temple of Dagon Judg. 19.26 whereon the whole building stands The sum of the later of these you meet with in the Text held forth under a familiar but apt and elegant Metaphor serving as a vehiculum to convey this divine Mystery into the soul with greater both facility perspicuity In prosecuting of this Allegory I have endeavoured to follow it home to the head yet so as not willing to do what in like cases too often done viz. to overdo by extorting that from the Metaphor which it would not genuinely and naturally yeeld My service which I have herein desired to do to God and his Church as I wish it may so I hope it shall be accepted of the Saints and of You in speciall over whom God hath made me though most unworthy an Overseeer To his grace and blessing I cōmend it and you resting Yours in the service of Christ desirous to be found faithful JOHN BRINSLEY Yarmouth Sept. 8. 1651. An Alphabetical Table of the chiefe Points handled in this TREATISE A AArons Rod blossoming miraculous p. 26 Adoption a benefit flowing from mysticall Insition 37. Agonies in the Christians death to sin both before conversion and after 111 The least Agony in true conversion 116. Apostates to be suspected their condition dangerous 55. 240. Why men are called upon to Arise from the Dead 158. Augmentation a benefit flowing from union with Christ 51. Augmentation an evidence of Mysticall Implantation 54. B BArren Christians no true Mysticall Branches 74 The same body shall be raised again 181. 182 Bodies glorified spirituall Bodies 184. Mysticall Branches Beleevers 15. C CAll of God not to be put off 121 Cessation from sin evidencing true Mortification 137 Christ Mysticall 33. Communion Mysticall betwixt Christ and the Beleever 35 Conformity of Christians to Christ in his Death 90 Conformity of Christians to Christ in his Resurrection 146 In the first act of Conversion man a meer Patient 28 Conversion more then a morall swasion 158 D BEleevers Dead unto sin three wayes 125. 127 Death of Christ a violent death 99 Death of Christ a painfull death 108 Death of Christ a lingring death 118 Death unto sin a dying a continued act 121 Death unto sin what 126 Death of Christ the cause of the Christians death unto sin 130 Death unto sin how evidenced 135 E ETernall life a spirituall life 184 Eternal life a glorious life 186 F FAith without works dead 73 Christ a Foundation how 82 Fructification a benefit issuing from union with Christ 68. 72 Gospel Fruits good works 70 Fruitfulness an evidence of Mysticall Implantation 75 Fruitfulnesse in good works why requisite 76 Directions for Fruitfulnesse 78 Fulnesse of Christ the beleevers 40 G. GOspel preached the meanes of Mysticall Insition 24 Grafting naturall and mysticall unlike in three particulars 18 Grafting naturall and mysticall alike in ten particulars 22 Growth a property of all mysticall branches 52 Growth in grace to be endeavoured after 57 Growth in grace the honour of Christ and glory of Christianity 59 Growth in the Christian continuall ibid. Doubts about spirituall growth cleered 60 Hinderances of spirituall growth six 63 Means of growth 67 I. THe Christian an immortall creature 175 Insition mysticall what 13 Insition mysticrll how tryed 24 Joseph's brethren coming to him a pattern of the Christians coming to Christ 47 Judas never given to Christ as the other Apostles 85 Justification a benefit flowing from union with Christ 36 L. THe Law a Grafting knife 23 The beleever living and dying with Christ 12 No spiritual life out of Christ 25 The Christians life a new life in four particulars 165 Life of the Regenerate a spiritual life 171 An immortal life 173 Life of Saints in heaven spirituall glorious eternall 184 186 Beleevers live the life of Christ 209 Life of Christ after his Resurrection a pattern for Christians to live by 236 Lusts being dead alone what to do to them 102 Reprieving of lusts dangerous 107 M. MOrtification resembleth the death of Christ in five particulars 91 Mortification counterfeit discovered 93 Mortification a voluntary act 97 Mortification a violent death 100 Mortification a painful work 110 Mortification a lingring death 118 Mortification how the beleevers work 133 Mortification twofold Habituall Actuall 134 Mortification in what way to be sought and endeavoured 140 N Name of Christ put upon Christians 33. Nourishment beleevers receive from Christ 11. Christ perfect Nourishment to the beleever 44. Nourishment how conveyed to the soul from Christ 45. Nourishment to be drawn from Christ 47 Nutrition a benefit flowing from Vnion with Christ 43. O OLd age the unfittest time for the work of Regeneration 219. Old age renders conversion difficult and suspicious 220. Repentance in Olde age difficult to man not to God 224. P Pelagian doctrine confuted 29 Beleevers planted together in Christ 3 Beleevers planted together with Christ 5. Plantation mystycall by way of Adhesion and Insition 6. Mysticall Implantation how effected 16. ●●●ll Implantation the work of free grace 31. 〈◊〉 spiritvall Pride 7 Q 〈…〉 a Quickning spirit 200 〈…〉 discerned 202 R CHrist Raised to the glory of God his father how 176. Beleevers raised to the glory of God Actively and Passively 177 Resurrection Corporall and Spiritual 146

rather asleep then dead But this construction Beza looketh upon not only as forced Beza Gr. Annot in Text. and making nothing to the Apostles purpose in the Text but also dangerous 2. Basil in the second place conceives the Apostle in this expression to point at the Instrumentall Cause of our spirituall Insition and engrafting into Christ which is Baptisme This saith he is here called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Similitude of the death of Christ in as much as it carrieth a representation and resemblance of his death And so by engrafting in the similitude of his death should be no more but to be incorporated into Christ by Baptisme which is a similitude of his death But this Interpretation though pious and safe yet here it cannot be admitted Beza's reason is convincing Beza ibid. Baptisme carrieth a representation not only of the Death of Christ but also of his Resurrection and so not only of the Christian's Mortification but also of his Vivification Which two the Apostle here plainly distinguisheth the one from the other 3. Chrysostome in the third place conceives that there is no Emphasis at all in the phrase The Similitude of Christ's death saith he is the same with the death of Christ And so indeed the phrase is to be understood in that 2d of Philip. 7. where it is said of Christ that he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 made in the likenesse of men that is Heb. 4.5 he was made a true man like unto others in all things sin onely excepted But here we shall finde the phrase importing somewhat more 4. Not to hold you any longer in suspence Conclude we it with Calvin Beza Martyr C. Lapide and others Believers are said to be engrafted with Christ in the likenesse of his death in a two-fold respect The phrase imports two things The phrase imports two things 1. A conformity of the one to the other 2. The ground and rise and cause of that conformity The Christian's conformity with Christ in his death He is engrafted in the similitude thereof made like unto Christ in his death dying though not the same kind of death yet a death like it The ground and cause of his conformity is Christ himself and his death from whence the believer receiveth that power that vertue to do what he doth as the Graft doth from the Stock He is grafted together with Christ in the likenesse of his death Put these together and they give us the full force and Emphasis of this elegant and comprehensive expression I shall handle them severally At this time of the former The believers conformity to Christ in his death 1. The Christian's conformity to Christ in his death He is engrafted in the likenesse of Christ's death that is he is made conformable to Christ in his death This is that which Paul wisheth for himselfe Phil. 3.10 That I may know him viz. Christ c being made conformable unto his death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And this all true believers are in their measure made partakers of They are conformed unto Christ in his death carrying a representation and resemblance of his death Quod in Christo factum est per naturam P. Martyr ad loc id in nobis fit per Analogiam proportionem as Martyr borrows it from Chrysostome What was done in Christ in a naturall way is done and performed in the believer by way of Analogy proportion resemblance Christ died and so the believer dieth the one a naturall the other a spirituall death the one carrying a similitude of the other Christ's and the Christian's death a death unto sin Quest But what Death is this Ans Why in one word A death unto sin So the Apostle himself explaines his own meaning ver 2. How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein So again ver 10 11. where first speaking of Christ he saith In that he died he died unto sin and then speaking of Christians in the next verse he biddeth them Reckon ye also your selves to be dead indeed unto sin Christ died and the believer dieth both unto sin the one by way of Expiation The one by way of Expiation the other of Mortification suffering and satisfying for the sins of others the other by way of Mortification killing and crucifying his own sins This is the death which carrieth with it a resemblance of the death of Christ. And of this death all true believers are made partakers in their measure Thus this main Proposition again subdivides and branches it selfe into two distinct Doctrinall Conclusions which I shall insist upon severally beginning with the former which informes us that The Christian's death unto sin Doct. 1. True Mortification carrieth a Resemblance of the death of Christ in five particulars carrieth a Representation of the death of Christ. It is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is the similitude of his death carrying a lively resemblance of it That it doth so will clearly appear if we bring them together and compare the one with the other For the Death of Christ we know or may know what kind of death it was Divers particulars are observable and considerable about it To let passe others Take we notice of these five which are usefull to our present purpose The Death of Christ was 1. A true death 2. A voluntary death 3. A violent death 4. A painfull death 5. A lingring death Such was his naturall death and such is the Christian 's spirituall death His death for sin and the Christian's death to sin Touch upon the particulars 1. Resemb A true Death 1. A true Death Such was the death of Jesus Christ his naturall death not a putative seeming death as those old Hereticks the Marcionites and Manichees imagined but a true reall death A true separation of his soul from his body He powred out his soul unto death saith the Prophet Isai 53.12 He gave up the Ghost saith the Evangelist Mark 15.37 And such is this spirituall death in the believer his death unto sin A Separation of the soul from the body of sin a true death a true separation of the soul from the body of sin Such is the work of true conversion in the soul which is a turning of the soul from all sin unto God Repent and turn your selves from all your transgressions Ezek. 18.30 Not only from one sin but from all As in death the soule is separated not only from one member of the body as it is in a Paralysis a numbe Palsie where one part is dead being deprived of sense and motion but from all So is it in true conversion The soul is separated from the whole body of sin and every member of it So separated from it that it hates and abhors it Ye that love the Lord hate evill Psal 97.10 I hate every false way Psal 119.104 What I hate that I do saith Saint Paul Rom. 7.15 Such is the work of

an affliction of spirit causing frequent conflicts within him Now have you found do you find the like symptomes in your selves Surely where the soul never felt any of these pangs these agonies it may well suspect that sin may be asleep or it may be dead to the man but the man is not dead to it True indeed No death unto sin without some agonies as I said these pangs are not alike in all As in the death of the body some have an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Physicians call it a more gentle and easie death then others so is it in this spirituall death this death unto sin to some it is more easie then to others God according to his various dispensations brings off the work of Regeneration and Mortification in a more easie way to one then to another Yet is there no death specially a violent death and such is this death unto sin but it hath some pangs some agonies The least Agonies in true conversion Quest But happily here some may say What are the least of these pangs these agonies that may be in this death What is the least measure of this compunction of spirit this soul-affliction that is requisite unto true Mortification Ans To this I answer and I shall do it with as much indulgence and tendernesse as may be There must be 1. A sense of sin and wrath 1. A sense of sin and of the wrath of God due unto it Such a sense we find in Jesus Christ He was very sensible of the weight and burden of those sins which lay upon him and of the wrath of God his Father due unto them This it was that put him into that preternaturall if not supernaturall sweat And such a sense in measure there must be in the soul of every Christian before he come to die unto sin He must first feel sin as a Burden Mat. 11.28 Come unto me ye that are weary and heavy laden viz. under the weight and burden of sin a burden ready to sink him into hell subjecting him to the wrath and displeasure of God 2. A sorrow for sin 2. From this sense of sin kindly working upon the soul there ariseth an inward sorrow for sin Such an affection we find also in our blessed Saviour before his passion My soul saith he speaking to his Apostles is exceeding heavy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 undiquaque tristis Mat. 26.38 beset and surrounded with sorrowes even unto death And such an affection in measure there is in every true convert every mortified sinner The apprehension of sin worketh in him an inward sorrow and griefe even that godly sorrow as the Apostle calleth it 2 Cor. 10.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a sorrow according to God that is 1. Coming from God 2. Well pleasing to God 3. For offending of God 4. Bringing the sinner unto God Such a sorrow the Apostle there maketh a necessary ingredient to that Repentance which is not to be repented of 3. From this sorrow for sin 3. A desire of being freed from the guilt and power of it in the third place springeth a serious and unfeigned desire of being freed and delivered from it Such an affection also we find in our blessed Saviour Feeling the burden of the sins of the world lying upon him he was very desirous to be freed from it I have a baptisme to be baptized with saith he to his Apostles meaning his passion his death and how am I straitned untill it be accomplished Luke 12.50 And the like affection shall we find in a regenerate soul viz. a serious and earnest desire of being freed and delivered from that sin whereof it is made so sensible And that not onely from the guilt and punishment but also from the power and dominion tyranny and molestation of it O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the Body of this death 4. And fourthly 4. A striving against sin This desire being unfeigned it will expresse and put forth it selfe in answerable indeavours in effectuall strivings against sin Ye have not yet resisted unto blood striving against sin Heb. 12.4 How did our blessed Saviour wrestle in the Garden offering up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to him that was able to save him Heb. 5.7 Thus will a regenerate soul wrastle with God about the death of sin praying against it watching against it going out in the strength of God against it engaging in a continuall war a deadly feud against it Now these are the least of these soul-conflicts wherewith this spirituall death this death unto sin is attended And are we strangers unto these Do we not know what it is to be thus sensible of sin to be thus affected with sin to be thus desirous of deliverance from sin to be thus ingaged against sin Deceive not our selves we are as yet strangers unto this blessed work we do not yet know what this true death unto sin meaneth which also in this particular resembles the death of Jesus Christ It is a painfull death 5. Resemb A lingring death The last particular is yet behind wherein I shall be brief This death is a lingring death Such was the death of Jesus Christ Crucifying is a lingring death Christ hung divers hours upon the Crosse three at the least from the sixth hour to the ninth saith Saint Matthew cap. 27. ver 45. that is from our twelve to three before he gave up the Ghost And herein again doth the Christan's death unto sin carry a resemblance of that his death It is also a lingring death wherein sin is not put to death all at once but languisheth by little and little This is looked upon as one of the main differences betwixt Justification Justification perfected at once and Sanctification The former is a perfect work admitting of no degrees True indeed in respect of manifestation and in the sense of the person justified it is graduall but not in it selfe The person justified may apprehend his justification more clearly then he did but he cannot be more justified then he was Justification being a plenary absolution a full discharge of the sinner from the guilt and satisfactory punishment of all his sins past present and to come True there is a difference betwixt the one and the other Sins past Vide Ames Medul cap. 27. sec 23 24. and present are actually pardoned by a formall Application of the generall pardon unto them sins past onely virtually The former in them selves the later in the subject or person sinning from whom it is required only to shew forth that pardon which is granted and by faith to apply it to himself in respect of the renewed particular acts of sin In the mean time the Grant is perfect and full Numb 23.21 So as God beholdeth no iniquity in Jacob neither doth he see any perversnesse in Israel viz. so as to impute it unto condemnation Not so

truth of mortification Briefly It is an universall cessation arising from an inward Principle 1. An universal 1. Universall cessation not in respect of the Acts but the Kinds of sin He that is dead is feed from sin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from Sin not this sin or that sin but all sin no more living to the lusts of men any lusts So much is insinuated where Mortification is called a putting off of the body of sins Col. 2.11 Not a member of this body but the whole body Death is a supersedeas to all natural operations it runneth thorow the whole man and every part of it closing the ey deafning the ear binding the tongue the hand the foot c. Such is true mortification a through work running through the whole man and through the whole body of sin Through the whole man not only the outward man but the inward causing a cessation from sin not only in the outward Action but in the inward Affection 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Heathen Poet The dead man longs not Anacreon citat per Bezam in Rom. 6.7 Even so doth this spirituall death it puts an end to all the inordinate longings of the soul so as sinful affections do not finde that allowance which sometimes they did They which are Christs have crucified the flesh with the lusts and affections therof Gal. 5.24 viz the inward affections of the soul whether irascible or concupiscible as Grot. explains that place A mortified person ceaseth not only from practical but contemplative wickednesse He doth not regard iniquity in his heart as David speaketh of himself Psal 66.18 And as it runs through the whole man so through the whole Body of sin Not killing one sin and sparing another 1 Sam. 15.15 like Saul who made a Cull amongst the cattell sparing the fattest So indeed do some deal by their lusts mortifying some not others their fat pleasurable profitable sins these they will spare as serviceable to them So doth not the true mortified person He dealeth impartially setting himself against all sin secret sins as well as open small sins as well as great He doth not willingly spare any Where this work is partial it evidenceth it not to be right Dying to sin imports an universall Cessation from sin 2. Springing from an inward Principle 2. It springeth from an inward principle from an inward change in the heart This is the difference betwixt a man that is bound and a man that is dead Each ceaseth from motion but the one the dead man doth it from an inward principle he hath neither power nor will to move The other from outward restraint He would move but cannot Thus do wicked men sometimes cease from sin abstain from the outward Acts of sin but no thanks to them there are some restraints upon them In the mean time their will is the same that ever it was As it is with a theefe in the Prison being manacled and shackled now he ceaseth from robbing and pilfering but yet it may be he is as very a theef as ever he was The outward act is restrained but the inward disposition not changed But in a regenerate person there is an inward change from whence this cessation proceedeth This Practicall Mortification springs from an Habituall Mortification His heart is turned from and against all sin dead to it He doth not finde that taste that sweetnesse in sin which sometimes he did Nay he loatheth abhorreth it he hath a secret Antipathy against it against sin as sin And thereupon it is that he endeavours the Mortification of it As a man that killeth a snake not out of any particular quarrell which he hath against it but out of that generall enmity that is betwixt his nature and the whole brood of Serpents Gen. 3.15 Now bring we our supposed Mortification to these Touch-stones Is it so Vniversall springing from such an inward Principle in the soul Reaching to all sins proceeding from an inward change in the heart If so now conclude it we are in the number of those who are planted together with Christ in the likeness of his Death Otherwise our Cessation from sin being only partiall or occasionall this evidenceth it to bee no true Mortification This Triall being made now two sorts of persons come to be dealt with Such in whom this work is begun Such in whom it is wanting A word or two to Each Vse 2. For the former let them be taught whither to give the praise and glory of this work Application to mortified persons Let them glory in Christ viz. to Jesus Christ He it was that merited this benefit for them and he it is that effecteth it in them by letting out and sending forth the vertue of his death making it efficacious in them for the killing of the Body of sin This could we never have done of our selves If it be done If the work of Mortification be begun If there be an Habituall Mortification wrought in the soul this is the work of Jesus Christ a fruit and effect of his Death That is the Stock from whence this Mortifying vertue issued And therefore not unto our selves but unto him be the glory of the work Paul will glory in nothing but in the Crosse of Christ by which he was crucified to the world Gal. 6.14 Application to unregenerate persons who are Vse 3. For those which want it Let them be first Exhorted then Directed 1. Exhorted to seek after this blessed work 1 Exhorted to seek after this work never to give rest unto their souls untill they finde such an habituall Mortification wrought in them Arguments or Motives I shall need no other then those which I have hinted already If we be not thus dead with Christ we shall never live with him If wee be not thus Crucified mortified with him we shall never be glorified with him If wee be not thus ingrafted in the likenesse of his death we never shall be in the likenesse of his resurrection 2 Directed to go to the crosse of Christ 2. Directed how to attain what they desire in what way and by what means this blessed work may be both begun and carried on Go to the Crosse of Jesus Christ That is the Stock from whence must issue this mortifying vertue for the crucifying killing of sin It is not all our own Purposes Resolutions Promises Vowes Covenants Indeavours Vndertakings in our own strength that will effect the mortifying of sin No this is the work of a supernatural power a fruit and effect of the death of Jesus Christ And therefore whoever of us would have this work wrought in us let us have recourse to his Crosse his Death and that in a three-fold way By way of Meditation Application Imitation 1. By way of Meditation Seriously 1 By way of Meditation upon sad and deliberate thoughts consider and contemplate the Death of Jesus Christ how shamefull how painfull how bitter it was