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A57477	The preciousnesse of Christ unto beleevers. Or, A treatise wherein the absolute necessity, the transcendent excellency, the supereminent graces, the beauty, rarity and usefulnesse of Christ is opened and applyed. By John Robotham, preacher of the Gospel	Robotham, John, fl. 1654.	1647 (1647)	Wing R1733; ESTC R208474	115,896	303

drops of bloud which hee did sweat in his agony had nothing availed without death Death is the summe of the curse due to us in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt die the death Christ then dying for us here was the accomplishment of all his sufferings and the height of his love towards us Surely that bloud must needs be very precious which could not be let out but the vitall spirits must follow after it Those that professe skill in words doe derive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bloud from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth to burne or to kindle whether this be a true etymologie or not I will not dispute the heate that is in the bloud of a living creature if at leastwise in good temper speakes for it sure I am that the bloud of Jesus Christ shed for our sinnes both testifies his ardent and burning love toward us and requires a like affection in us the kindling and fiering of our love toward him Fourthly the preciousnesse of Christs bloud appeares likewise from the personall union of his manhood with his God-head The Divine and humane natures of Christ subsisting together in one and the same person is called an hypostaticall union properly the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies a placing or standing under when the Godhead stands under the manhood and the manhood is taken into the same person with the God-head this is hypostaticall Now from this marvellous and wonderfull union floweth though not a reall communication of properties yet a promiscuous predication of them as if they were all alike common and naturall to both natures Hence the manhood is said to be in heaven even while it was circumscribed compassed with a place on earth John 3. 13. and on the other side the bloud of the humane nature is called the bloud of God Acts 20. 28. and else where by reason of this union God himselfe is said to be crucified Oh how precious was the bloud of Christ then doubtlesse it had more worth in it then all the creatures in Heaven and earth Angels and men and all the world beside The uniting and consequently the cooperation and compliance of the impassible Deity in the same person with that soule and body which suffered must needs put infinite dignity and preciousnesse beyond all account upon the bloud of Christ yet this was not thought too deare for his Saints Fiftly and lastly the blessed effects of Christs bloud is another strong Argument of the inestimable value and price of it It justifies our persons in the sight of God It frees us from the guilt from the punishment and from the power of all sinne It saves us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from that wrath that is to come 1 Thessalonians 1. 10. Wicked people are Light and merry-hearted and never dreame of an after recoming but there is a thunder shower of Gods wrath to come which will light heavily upon the heads of unbeleeving ones Wee are all of us by nature obnoxious to and involved in this danger therefore the Apostle useth the words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 snatching or pulling us out from the wrath to come even wee of the children of God wee of the Corporation and society of the Saints we Beleevers as well as others were liable to this wrath but Christ hath d●livered us this is his tender loving kindnesse and good will to his Elect. Againe the bloud of Christ obtaines eternall redemption for us Heb. 9. 12. whence it is that the Apostle opposes it to Gold and Silver though these be among the most precious things that the Earth affords yet being corruptible and transitory they cannot purchase incorruption and eternity for us The bloud of Christ is the price of our Redemption yee are bought with a price saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 7. 23. and a like phrase he uses in the end of the precedent chapter yet there is neither a pleonasme in the words that is to say a fulnesse of speech though that sometimes be rhetoricall enough nor impropriety or unfitnesse of Language as if a thing could be bought without a price though I confesse the Scripture in some respects doth sometimes speake so neither is there an hebraisme whereby words of the same signification are itterated and repeated ob vehementiam to set the matter on with the greater vehemency and force but the word price is used 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to shew the superlative excellency and dignity of the price wherewith the Saints are bought so that ye are bought with a price is as much as to say yee are dearely bought 't was a price with a witnesse that was given for you a price of inestimable value a price past the number of a man it cannot be calculated or summed up it is so infinite such a rich and exceeding price is the bloud of Jesus Christ costly and chargeable were our soules that required such a ransome This is the price wherewith wee are bought from the earth bought out of Hell and bought into Heaven and everlasting glory This is the price that redeemeth us from condemnation and this is it that cleanseth us from the filth and staine of sinne This is it that purgeth our Consciences from dead workes to serve the living God Heb 9. 14. The Apostle in that place draweth an Argument ● minori ad majus as the Logician speakes If typicall rites and sacrifices as the bloud of Bulls and goates and the ashes of an Heifer sprinckled upon the uncleane availed for externall Sanctification namely for the purifying of the flesh legally and ceremonially how much more shall the bloud of Christ sprinkled upon our Consciences purge away the guilt of sinne and avayle to the internall spirituall and everlasting sanctifying of our persons Againe by this bloud it was that Christ as the high Priest of our profession that is of Christians entred into Heaven so saith the Apostle Heb. 9. 12. Christ entred ●y his owne bloud into the holy place hee did not enter into the presence of God as the high-priest of old did with the bloud of Goates and Calves what should those slender things doe in the Tabernacle made without hands there are no such meane and poore offerings there Neither did Christ enter to offer for himselfe as well as for his Family as Aaron did Levit. 16. 6. he had no need of expiation himselfe but he went into the holiest to offer for his people only whom he hath for ever washed justified and sanctified not with bloud of others as the Apostle speakes but with his owne bloud Lastly from the precious bloud of Christ we also that are so cleansed and purged have boldnesse to enter into the holiest Heb. 10. 19. 20. The bloud of Christ breeds us and begets us this confidence The Apostle in that place doth covertly oppose the liberty of Christians unto the restraint of them that lived under the Law The Jewes of old might not presse into the Holy of Holies it

he desires to claspe and close with it Thirdly from complacency or wel-pleasednesse and from union and enjoyment flowes a third thing in love viz. benevolence or good-will Benevolence being referred to Christ is an affection whereby wee doe yeild our selves wholly unto him desiring his name may be glorified by us The Saints cannot properly conferre any essentiall goodnesse or glory upon Christ but onely make an agnition and acknowledgement thereof Can a man saith Job be profitable unto God is it any pleasure to the Almighty that thou art righteous Job 22. 2. that is if a man were just and holy yet hee could not profit God or adde any joy and delight unto him Againe in Psalme 16. 3. Thou art my Lord saith David my goodnesse extendeth not to thee that is I cannot enlarge and enrich God but saith he to the Saints on Earth in whom is my delight that is as for those that beare thy stampe and superscription upon them I will entertaine with my goods thus we may wish well to Christ in his members Againe this love of benevolence doth carrie and containe in it a willingnesse to yeild all obedience unto Christ He that loves Christ freely cannot but study to please him in all things and be like unto him 1 Joh. 4. 17. And he that keepeth his word in him is the love of God perfect 1 Joh. 2. 5. Love is the condescending to the lowest service it is impulsive and constraining it hath a sweet kind of violence to draw the heart of a Beleever unto the obedience of Christ so saith the Apostle the love of Christ constraines us 2 Cor. 5. 15. And so in Cant. 8. 6. Love is strong as death and Jealousie is cruell as the grave That is love is that strong affection which cannot be subdued by trouble or tentation it is as strong as death the heart as some say is primum vivens ultimum moriens the first living and last dying and therefore all the vitalls of the body drawes to the heart and unites there whence it is a man gives such strong plunges at his death because his strength is united so love doth unite all the affections of a Beleever drawing them forth to act for Christ and for zeale or jealousie that is love enflamed and fervent and it is fierce and inexorable as Hell and the grave that as Death and Hell devoureth and swallows up all so love to Christ overcometh all opposition and suffring and makes Beleevers rejoyce to fill up that is declaratively the suffring and affliction Col. 1. 24. of Christ Fourthly the unmatcheable excellency Vse 3 and preciousnesse of Christ must not lye as a contemned thing but it calls for the utmost strength of our soules and the height of our affections to be fixed upon it There is no object in the world but there is a will relating to it and inclinable to close with it Now what better object can the will of man have then Christ if wee be not here what doe wee differ from beasts and a beast in the shape of a man is worst of all 'T is good for us that God hath placed affections of love of joy of desire and the like in our soules but if these be not placed upon Christ also it were better that we were quite without them and were as uncapable of Christ as the most insensible and unreasonable creatures that are Let us consider then what may yet farther elevate our affections and cause them to mount up with wings as Eagles unto that delight of all delights and abstract of all prayses This will be if we look upon those rich and costly gifts which Christ hath bestowed upon Beleevers and they are such as these viz. Precious Bloud Precious Graces Precious Promises Precious Love Precious Spirit Precious Priviledges The bloud of Christ is precious in Mot 1 these respects First from the purity of his humane nature which was holy harmelesse undefiled and separate from sinners to God to man and to it selfe it was wholly without spot and blemish and had not the least touch of sinfulnesse in it In nature the best constitutions have the best bloud never was there a better tempered a more purely constituted nature farther from the corruptions freer from the pollutions and grosse humours of sinne then Christs was It behoved him as man to fulfill all righteousnesse and throughly to come up to the patterne of Legall types which did all shadow him absolutely holy and speake him perfectly pure without the least tainture of spirituall defilement Now if the bloud of the Saints who are but in part sanctified dregs of sinne remaining in the best be precious in Gods account as wee read Psal 116. 15. how much more then is the bloud of the Sonne of God precious who never went awry never failed in the least jot or title of due obedience to the Law of God The Apostle saith for a good man peradventure some would even dare to dye Rom. 5. 7. and why so but because 't is great pitie such precious bloud should be lost now if their bloud be so precious that are but imperfectly good what then was his who was good without any mixture of evill Secondly Christs bloud was noble bloud and therefore precious He came of the race of Kings as touching his manhood but being with all the Sonne of God this renders his nobility matchlesse and peerelesse 'T was Pharaoh's bragge that he was the Sonne of ancient Kings Isaiah 19. 11. Who can lay claime to this more then Christ who can chalenge this honour before him he is the Sonne of the ancientest King in the world he was begot a King from all eternity and the bloud of Kings is precious thou art worth ten thousand of us said David's Subjects to him and therefore they would not suffer him to hazard himselfe in the battell 2 Sam. 18. 3. his Life-bloud was of more value then if halfe of his people had perished because he was King and had the Soveraignty the noblenesse of his person did set a high rate upon his bloud and whom doth this Argument more commend unto us then Christ Thirdly the bloud which Christ shed for his people was his life-bloud Life is the most precious thing that a man hath As the life of God is the summe of all his attributes so the life of man doth eminently containe in it all other blessings all that hee hath serves to maintaine it it is the end and drift of all his enjoyments What could Christ doe more then to spend his heart-bloud and to lay downe his life for us Sanguis est vehiculum vitae saith the Physician the bloud is the Chariot of life yet Experience teacheth that there may be great effusion of bloud and yet no death following Had Christ almost emptied all his veynes and not dyed this would not have reached to our misery it had not been sufficient to save us from death even those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉