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A29103	The nature of that salvation, which the Gospel offereth, and the method of obtaining it, by a mediator a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, March the 6th, 1698/9, being the third, for this year, of the lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. / by Samuel Bradford ...	Bradford, Samuel, 1652-1731.	1699 (1699)	Wing B4116; ESTC R19719	15,399	36

another instance wherein our Mediator glorified the Attributes of God by his coming into the World But He did so in the highest degree by all the Sufferings which de underwent upon our account It was not it seems sufficient for our Mediator to declare and publish the divine Law afresh nor to give an instance of perfect Obedience to it in his own person but it was judg'd requisite also that he should submit to an afflicted and suffering condition and at last yield himself to be offer'd up as a Sacrifice upon the Cross to testifie in the most significant manner that was possible the fixed love of God to Righteousness his unalterable hatred of Sin his impartial justice in governing the World the excellency of the Laws which he had given to Men and the danger of transgressing them Such was the nature of the Offence given to God by Man's Apostacy and so bad were the circumstances of Mankind that it seem'd expedient to the great Father and Lord of all that our Mediator should voluntarily humble himself in this extraordinary manner The Son of God was admitted to be our Mediator upon no lower Terms than these as is plainly intimated by the Author to the Hebrews when citing a passage out of a prophetical Psalm he applies it to our Saviour and represents him as saying to his Father when he came into the World Sacrifice and Offering thou wouldst not Heb. 10.5 6. but a Body hast thou prepared me In burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure Then said I Lo I come in the Volume of the Book it is written of me to do thy will O God by which will as he adds a little after we are sanctified Ver. 10. through the offering of the Body of Jesus Christ once for all And upon our Mediator's thus suffering for us new terms of Mercy and Reconciliation were offer'd to us upon which account he himself calls his Bloud Mat. 26.28 the Bloud of the new Covenant viz. that Bloud in the shedding of which the new Covenant between God and Man for acceptance upon Repentance and Faith was made and ratified The Sufferings of our Lord are throughout the Holy Scriptures represented as making expiation for the Sins of Men and particularly his death upon the Cross as it is made to answer all the expiatory Sacrifices under the Law so it is it self frequently Styled a Sacrifice and Offering for Sins and represented as the means of God's being reconciled to us and so it evidently was in as much as by this means the Sins of Men were so openly condemn'd the Righteousness of God's Law so notoriously declar'd and by consequence the Holiness and Justice of God so conspicuously honor'd in the view of the World which certainly may be reasonably call'd giving Satisfaction to God This Doctrine of our Saviour's offering up himself as a Sacrifice for the Sins of the World and thereby giving Satisfaction to the great Lord of all is so fully declar'd throughout the New Testament and particularly in one whole Epistle Written as it should seem to that very purpose I mean that to the Hebrews that I knew not how to do right to Christianity without thus plainly asserting it I know that according to the Will of our pious and charitable Founder I am not to descend to any Controversies that are amongst Christians themselves and therefore I shall not make this a Controversie but take it for granted as what is not only fully asserted in holy Writ and agreeable to the sense of the most primitive Christian Antiquity as well as the judgment of the main Body of Christians throughout every age but what belongs to the true Christian Scheme and is necessary to render it entire and of a piece And though I would be very loth to deny the Title of Christian to any man who seriously lays claim to it and in so sceptical an Age as this to lessen the number of Christian Professors yet I must not for the sake of such as desert the Christianity which we are taught by the Scriptures over-look so prime a branch of it as this is Let those who call themselves by this Name and yet deny that satisfaction was made to God by the Sufferings of Christ for the sins of Men reconcile their Title and their opinion as well as they can My business is to assert and vindicate the truth of the Christian Religion as exhibited to us in the Gospel and I am so far from thinking the Doctrine of Expiation and Satisfaction made by the Death of Christ an objection against the Christian Revelation that I have judg'd it necessary to insist upon it as one admirable instance of the Excellency of that Method in which our Mediator hath obtain'd Salvation for us The Sum of what I have said upon this Argument is that our Lord when he came into the World took upon him the Character of a Mediator and that he executed his Mediatorial Office partly by doing that which was greatly for the honor of his Heavenly Father the Person offended and consequently well-pleasing and satisfactory to him making this the first step in procuring Reconciliation between God and Men. The business of my next Discourse will be to proceed to shew how our Lord hath farther executed the same Office by providing for the Necessities of Men. I shall conclude at present with two short Inferences from what has been now offer'd If what I have said upon this Subject be true it shews us how little Christianity is beholden to those who attempt to lessen the Person of our Mediator This inference will appear just if we do but observe that by how much the greater and more considerable the Person of our Mediator is by so much the better qualified he must also be for the obtaining Salvation for us and particularly by so much the greater will that honor be which is done to the Attributes of God by his Doctrine and especially by his Actions and his Sufferings It must certainly in the account of any reasonable Man be a more full and ample declaration of the Holiness and Justice of God for a Person so near to the Father as the Scriptures represent our Mediator to be first to condescend so low as to assume our Nature and then to do and suffer so much upon our account than for one that was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a meer Son of Adam to have done it The dignity of the Person transacting this affair must needs add weight to all that was done by him If this be true what awful thoughts ought we to have of Almighty God! what regard to his Purity and Justice and his Authority over us what fear of dishonoring and offending so Excellent a Majesty what a dread of wilfully violating any of his known Laws for the future When he thought fit notwithstanding the infinite Goodness of his Nature not to offer us Terms of Mercy but in the Method of the Gospel when he would not treat with us at all without a Mediator and when having appointed his own Son to that Office he was pleas'd to found and ratifie a New Covenant with us in his Bloud The reasoning of the Apostle is unanswerable both with respect to the former part of this Discourse and the latter How shall we escape Heb. 2.3 if we neglect so great Salvation And If we sin wilfully Chap. 10 2● after we have receiv'd the knowledge of the Truth i. e. if we either Apostatize from our Christian Profession or which comes to the same issue ver 27. live in plain contradiction to the Profession we make there remaineth no more Sacrifice for sins no greater can be made but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaries Heb. 10.29 this as he adds being to tread under foot the Son of God and to count the bloud of the Covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing besides doing despite to the Spirit of Grace May Almighty God preserve us all from such Apostacy in this degenerate Age may he if it be possible recover such as be fallen and may he give us all Grace not only to adhere to the Profession of Christianity but also to bring Reputation to it by a suitable Practice through Jesus Christ our only Mediator and Advocate to whom with the Father and the Eternal Spirit our great Creator Redeemer and Sanctifier be ascribed all Honor and Glory now and for ever Amen FINIS The First SERMON The Qualifications requisite towards the Receiving a Divine Revelation The Second SERMON Apostate Men fit Objects of Divine Care and Compassion The Third SERMON The Nature of that Salvation which the Gospel offereth and the Method of obtaining it by a Mediator These three by Mr. Bradford and Printed for Tho. Parkhurst