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A76090	[Chrysammoi] Golden sands, or, A few short hints about the riches of grace. Part I begun to be opened from the words of the Apostle, in Eph. 2,7 ... : dedicated to the royal bud of our English hopes, Princesse Elizabeth / by John Bachiler ...	Batchiler, John, ca. 1615-1674.; Elizabeth, Princess of England, 1635-1650.	1647 (1647)	Wing B1073A; ESTC R42998	28,635	167

multitudes of vast debts supply the wants of thousands suffer old scores and new to increase upon him from a numberlesse number of bankrupt and bad debtors and that continually would it not break him over and over could he be able to hold up his head or keep his trade going yet Grace doth this and break 's not As there are multitudes of sinnes and debts which the Saints can never take off so Grace hath multitudes of mercies to crosse them out and as those debts are vast and exceeding great so Grace hath as tender and great mercies even bowels rowling bowels of pitty to forgive It abundantly pardons Esay 55.7 and where sinne abound's there to a Beleever this Grace superabounds Rom. 5.20 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 One would think the very back of Grace should crack under it that it should be totally impoverished and undone But behold it is so far from sinking or giving out that as if it had suffered no losse at all or met with no bad debtors but had received its due unto the utmost it liv's and maintain's its port with as much magnificence as ever Grace reigneth saith the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 5.21 keep 's Court in Heaven like an Empresse notwithstanding CHAP. V. The Ransom which Grace layes down for the Saintss THirdly consider the Ransome which Free Grace lay's downe for the Saints The best of them before conversion are under a double bondage 1. In the hands of a most cruell Tyrant 2. Of a most exacting Creditor First of a most usurping tyrant Sinne which exerciseth dominion over them and to which they also for a time yeeld themselves as servants to obey it Rom. 6.6 20. Sin reign 's like a Lord of mis-rule the most Princely Off-springs of heaven the most royall births among the Saints have known the sorrows of vassals under it They also till a Deliverer com's are sold under sin Rom. 7.14 as slaves are sold for a base price and to doe base work And as for the Devill with his fellowes all the while the poore Saints are in this kind of bondage under sinne they are but the tyrants executioners bloody ones indeed they are for besides the horrid threats of death and hell with which they scare them how sorely do they whip them to all those cruell services in which they are employed by sin Beleeve it they strike smartly who will take off they lay on most deadly blowes scourges that draw blood apace and cut deepe even to the very bone As the task-masters of Egypt made the Children of Israel serve with rigour hard bondage and made their liv's bitter what with their work and their sore beating them Exod. 1.13 14. Thus these Diabolicall tormenters lay about them most severely using the precious sons of Zion as if no better then the Skullions of hell Nor wil they suffer a moments rest to them but make them work even in the very fire among fiery temptations to allude to that of the Prophet Hab. 2.13 Now so long as the Saints are under such a mercilesse tyrant and such Dragon-lawes so fiercely imposed and executed how great a bondage is it Secondly they are in the hands also of a most exacting Creditor Divine Justice for whatever Free-grace please to doe in bearing its owne losses and forgiving its owne debts yet Justice will not be so satisfied neither for it selfe nor for all those other Attributes which have been as much wronged as ever Grace it selfe was the Saints are as much behind hand with Justice Wisdome Faithfulnesse Goodnesse Patience and all the rest therefore Justice serv's an Arrest upon them and that not only in its own name but in the name of all the other Creditors yea it keeps them in safe custody without bayle or main-prize and to prison they must goe there to lye till they have answered for all wrongs and pay'd all debts even to the utmost farthing which if they can never attain the wrath of God seizeth on them in pains unutterable for evermore Mat. 5.25 26. In this most miserable double bondage in the state of unregeneracie doe the poore Saints lie and are like to continue so unlesse freegrace com's in for their reli●se which at one time or other it is sure to doe and with so powerfull an hand too that immediately it rescu's them from all these miseries at once And the meanes by which Grace doth this is by laying downe a Ransom even the same which before we told you went for the price of a purchase also the life-blood of Christ He is the great Lord Treasurer of heaven Free-grace her Cash keeper at whose onely appointment 't was for in this businesse she rul's all that he came downe from his glory with all the fulnesse of the Godhead in him bodily He brought all his wealth with him that he might be sure to take off all reckonings before his return Well when he did come and that by free-grace her sending what was the work she set him about was it not to performe her promises and make good her engagements for the poore Saints Goe saith Grace to him goe downe from heaven goe and ransome such and such whom I have elected Loe I am ready saith Christ Psal 40.7 8. I goe willingly and as he said he did according to all the Commission that Grace gave him he most punctually perform's Grace order's him to lay down a ransome and he doth so and that such a ransome as is every way and to all purposes effectually sufficient He gave his life a ransome for many Mat. 20.28 the word imports a double ransome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 solvo to pay or to loose as when one unty's bands or fetters answerable to the double bondage mentioned First a ransome by power whereby the captive with strong hand is rescued from the oppressor Secondly a ransome by price whereby full satisfaction is made to the Creditor either in ready money or something else equivalent and so the Prisoner set free both from the gaole and the debt too Now in both these senses the death and blood-shed of Jesus Christ is become a ransome to the Saints First it sets them free from the power of sinne the Devill death and hell by conquering and triumphing over them Who gave himselfe for us that he might redeeme us from all iniquity Tit. 2.14 As Grace before delivered from sinne in respect of the guilt of it by forgiving it and therein declared the riches of it as the Apostle tells us Eph. 1.7 By whom speaking of Christ we have the forgivenesse of sins according to the riches of grace so here also it deliver's from the dominion of sin even through the redemption of his blood as we there also have it And by the same blood he sav's from death and hell too yea and him that hath the power of them both which is the devil Heb. 2.14 Through death he destroyed death Colos

2.15 Having spoiled Principalities and powers he made a shew of them openly triumphing over them He speaks it of those principalities and powers which are also called spirituall wickednesses Ephes 6.12 Secondly yet that was not the onely ransom that was laid down for Grace pay's the Creditors also even all that they can demand whatsoever it is that the Saints are endebted to any Creditor in heaven or in earth Grace dischargeth all for the vastest summes it makes such ample satisfaction not only for Principle but for Interest even to an hour's forbearance that more in justice cannot be required Therefore 't is said of Christ that he saveth to the utmost Heb. 7.25 because he hath paid the utmost farthing as 't is phrased Mat. 5.26 so that none of the Creditors no not Justice it self as exacting as it is hath any thing to doe now to keepe the Prisoner any longer but looketh graciously saith Deliver him from going down into the pit I have found a ransom Job 33.24 The Gaoler what ever he be must open doores and let his prisoner out yea and more then so he must deliver up the keyes also even all that bunch of keyes with which the poore Saints were locked in And if you aske into whose hands these keyes are given 't is into the hands of Grace who having them at her dispose she againe put 's them into Christ's hands to keep Rev. 1.18 I have the keys saith he of hell and death A priviledge which he may well injoy having been the pay-master of all the debts and the setter of the Prisoners free though still indeed it must be remembred it was with Free-Grace her money And alas what a case had the poor Saints beene in if free grace besides the bearing so great losses and forgiving such mighty debts due unto it selfe had not done this also even made an end and gotten a full acquittance from all the other creditours How did the Saints groan under their many obligations and what feares were they in continually stil looking for new arrests every hour Justice for its part and the other creditors with it stood upon it nor would they hearken to any compositions or make abatements in the least As for suretyes or undertakers the whole creation could not afford them Should they have crav'd the helpe of Angels alas their baile would never have beene taken because their riches would never have amounted to any considerable part of payment they might soone have crack'd their credits have broken and undone themselves upon it but could never have taken off the debts The poore Saints in meane time stand gazing upon each other with palenesse in their faces with floods of teares in their eyes and as many sorrowes in their hearts while they thinke of this their helplesse and most hopelesse condition But behold in this most pittifull and deplorable a distresse just in the very nick of it Free grace com's in with her bags of untold gold I say free grace who had enter'd into bonds before she lay's downe the whole debt in manner as hath beene said An act of bounty which not only out-went the former ten times over in the multiplications of new summes because so many creditors had their owne from it but most of all in that it procured a full deliverance take an instance to cleare it If a man be endebted to me ten thousand pounds and be also endebted to many other creditors and to each of them as much as to my selfe for me to forgive him mine owne debt and that so great an one even every penny of it you will say 't is a very bountifull and friendly act but to pay downe so much ready money also in his behalf unto his other creditors without which notwithstanding my forgiving him as concerning my selfe he must have lay'n and rotted in prison you will acknowledge this is far greater bounty and a more excellent kindnesse then the former For perhaps you might suppose I forgave him mine own debt because I could never hope to get it of him but to answer for his debts to others also and that in ready money out of mine owne purse all that heare it will conclude this is a strange piece of most singular liberality yea as unparallel'd a love also And thus hath Grace done for the poor Saints pay'd all as hath been said with good gold and silver shall I say nay with that which is farre more precious then such corruptible things the blood of Christ 1 Pet. 1.18 19. Hence it is that the Saints are said to be bought with a price 1 Cor. 6.20 with an honourable price as the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Yea they are bought twice over with a double price they are twice ransom'd with a ransom so great as hath satisfied all parties and perfectly delivered from all bondages And which yet add's to all the rest 't is not a ransome for the present onely but a most full and satisfying ransome to all eternity Indeed if a Gally-slave of Turky or any other tyrant captive be once ransomed and so delivered yet if he be taken againe he cannot be redeemed without a new ransome or if a debter be once discharged and run into new debts he must make new payments or else to prison againe But here the case is far otherwise the ransome is everlasting the satisfaction is for ever Heb. 9.12 The blood of Christ offered once for all having obtained eternal redemption So that though sinne in the dominion of it may have mind enough to seize on the Saints and embondage them againe yet 't is more then it can ever doe And though Justice may seem to come again upon them take them by the throat in the severall afflictions sufferings they encounter with yet let there be no mistake here for it is not properly from the hand of Justice that the sorest troubles at any time befall the Saints as though thereby it would receive some satisfaction from them and pay it self out of their sufferings No verily there can be no ground for such a thought as this Justice being already fully and eternally satisfied as concerning the Saints through the death of Christ It is from the hand of Grace rather who we may be sure will never lash too hard that all these lashes come and that for excellent intents and purposes as Parents when they correct their children it is not out of unappeased wrath or hatred to their persons but out of tenderest care love Heb. 12.5 12. Well then we have seen somwhat more of the riches of Grace in the ransome it lay's down for the Saints The ransome of a mans life are his owne riches saith Solomon Pro. 13.8 but the ransome of the Saints lives are the Riches of Grace CHAP. VI. Of the expences which Free grace is at in maintaining of the Saints THe fourth channell through which the riches of Grace run unto the Saints is its expence