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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91010	A bundle of myrrhe. Or Several sweet truths spiritually unfolded under these following heads. 1. Mercy magnified. 2. Practical graces. 3. Christs humiliation. 4. Certainty of salvation. Published by H.P. minister of the Gospel.	Prime, H.	1653 (1653)	Wing P3458; Thomason E1476_1; ESTC R209523	20,540	61

accepted unto eternal life And in all he is the Lord our Righteousness And it may be to us an example of obedience to obey from the heart counting it as our meat to obey intirely in all things to obey devoutly with cheif affection to Gods glory to obey constantly and with continuance unto death and in death for the time place kinde c. To death The death of Christ was the will of the Father and Christ was voluntary in dying though death had no power over him being without sin yet he yeelded himself to it and died not onely in apprehension which to some is more then the thing suffered comes to but in sense such a death as made him fear cry weep sweat blood and utter his sense of Gods wrath forsaking him not separating the united natures but not so presently delivering him He offered himself to God by his Eternal Spirit Heb. 9.14 Acts 4.27 28. God by his counsel determined what Herod Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered together to do to him and God is said to deliver him for us all to death Rom. 8.32 And Christ consenting to his Father came into the world to give his life a ransom for many Heb. 9.26 Rom. 4. 1 Cor. 15. Matth. 20.28 He did die to put away sin by the Sacrifice of himself to dissolve the works of the Devil according to the promise the seed of the woman shall break the head of the Serpent To reconcile us to God and set a peace between God and us and between the Jews and the Gentiles making of twain one new man in himself Eph. 2.15 16. To deliver from the Devil that had the power of death them that for fear of death were all their life held in bondage Heb. 6.14 15. He hath set Heaven open and given us free entrance unto the Father in the holy place Eph. 2.18 Heb. 10.19 He ratified Gods Covenant for ever Heb. 12.20 He kills the power of sin Rom. 6.6 He destroyed death concerning the power of it Vses 1 We are hereby admonished so to meditate of the death of Christ by the Will of God and his voluntary obedience in dying as to obtain this at our hands to die in obedience to God Not in impatience through tediousness of labors and affliction nor of necessity because our time is come but obediently as sacrificing our life unto God whether it be a natural or violent death none of us ought to live or to die unto himself but to the Lord Rom. 14.7 We are to be moved hereby to lay down our lives for the Brethren therefore that which is less then our lives 1 John 3. to use humility mercy gentleness towards others First We may hereby know the worth of Gods favor by the price which it cost Secondly The great mercy of God in delivering his Son to death for us Rom. 5. The abundant love of Christ Jesus to die for us Thirdly The hatefulness of sin seeing the imputation of it brought Christ so low Fourthly Labor for assurance of the communion with Christ in his death and glory in the certainty of Gods Covenant for forgiveness of sins sanctification perseverance and eternal life It reproves them that remember not Christs death do not think of it to work their affections to be like Christs therein we owe to him the remembrance of him and shewing forth of his death Of the Cross This was Gods will and herein Christ obeyed that his death should be for the kinde the most odious and fullest of reproach that is to be hanged on a tree This was figured in the sacrifice laid upon the wood as in Isaac in the Brasen Serpent lifted up on a pole Deut. 21.23 and God in his secret counsel had pronounced them accursed that hanged on a tree according to his purpose in Christ Jesus that he should bear our curse Gal. 3.13 They suffered for their own sins and he for ours God would have that a prefiguration of this And thus defilement is taken away and removed from us the purgation being made by the death of Christ on the Cross the remembrance of our vitiousness is to be removed from all mens eyes This Christ himself foretold Matth. 20.19 Joh. 3.14 8.28 18.32 and for this it was ordered that the Jews were stiffe in desiring him to be crucified And thus the Apostles charge the Jews Acts 5.30 2.23 he took our sins with him to the tree 1 Pet. 2.24 Spoiled principalities and powers and triumphed over them Col. 2. On the Cross Christ was encountred with exceeding fury on which legions of Divels of incomprehensible rage and long experience and Gods anger was kindled against him as a surety for sinners The Devils are spoiled God satisfied the wretched spirits are as it were dragged after the Chariot of Triumph and exposed to shame and the Elect are restored Vse Seeing Christ yeelded himself unto the will of his Father for such a death both shameful and bitter above other deaths it must teach us humility Seeing he being in the Form of God abased himself in the form of a servant to die on a tree for us let us endure the Cross and despise the shame Seeing the fruit of this death for us Let us glory in the Cross of Christ and in nothing more Gal. 6.14 Seeing in the Cross was Christs triumph Let us not be ashamed of Christ crucified but resolve to overcome also by sufferings Revel 12. And lastly Let it move us to take heed of sinning against Christ who submitted himself to the Cross for us How precious should his remembrance be with us and that Sacrament of his holy Body and Blood that carrieth with it special remembrance of his love in his dying on the Cross for us how should it be desired of us It must move us to look carefully to this That the Cross of Christ be not made of none effect by us either by receiving any Doctrine making the death of Christ in vain Gal. 5. or not applying the Doctrine of Christ by Faith unto reconciliation but receiving grace in vain 2 Cor. 6.1 Or not making the death of Christ in the efficacy of it powerful in us to crucifie the flesh with the affections as love of the world worldly sorrow corrupt hatred c. Lusts as the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye c. It should move us to take to heart Phil. 3.18 even to tears that men in the Church should be enemies to the Cross of Christ Certainty of Salvation 1 THESS 5.9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath THe Apostle addes this Reason to his Exhortation to watching sobriety arming with Faith Love and Hope of Salvation taken from the certainty of obtaining Salvation which certainty is grounded in the knowledge of the gracious act of God in their exemption from his ordination to wrath in his counsel and decree of their Salvation Where note four things

remembrance of the wrong God forgives the punishment and remembers the sins no more urgeth them not with the mention of them Ezek. 33.16 nor hinders himself from doing them good or praising the good he seeth in them for former injuries Isa 54.9 Thirdly So to forgive as to love him Matth. 5. that hath done the wrong as my self for an enemy is my Neighbor and within that Royal Law be he poor or rich God so forgives us as he loveth us with the same love wherewith he loveth his own Son in whom his soul delighteth Joh. 17. Fourthly Matth. 18.32 1 Pet. 4. God forgiveth fully all sins that we commit for love covers all trespasses though the offences have been often committed not once but a thousand times though often in one day So we till seventy times seven times Matth. 18.21 Seven times in a day Luke 17.4 Where we see Repentance and the offender grieved and bruised we are to comfort him as forgiven of God the sin as well as of us the scandal or trespass 2 Cor. 2.7 And we must confirm our love to him As Christ forgave you This being put as a motive and pattern our forgiveness received of Christ Doct. It appears and is presupposed as granted That Christians do know that their sins are forgiven them In this stands the cheif part of their comfort The knowledge of salvation by the remission of their sins Luk. 1.77 John before his precepts of love and good works and evidence of salvation by them sets down this as their cheif foundation of comfort their sins are forgiven for Christs sake 1 John 2.12 though the conscience of inherent righteousness is a good prop to hope yet it is so little and corruption so much and sensible to them that have light and life that when they see God in Majesty and contemplate his holiness and spiritualness of his Law they cry out of their own misery and death Rom. 7.24 and forget sometimes they are separate from them that perish Isai 6.5 till the knowledge of forgiveness be confirmed in them v. 7 8. In this David reckons a mans blessedness that the burthen of his sins is lifted off from his Conscience and the quarrel taken up between God and him Psal 32.1 Quest Quest How may a man that yet is doubtful be perswaded that his sins be forgiven him Answ Answa By the beginning of the work of the Spirit of Adoption Rom. 8.15 Luke 4.8 inspiring the motion of Faith and working a mans soul bruised for his sins to seek Gods face and favor in Christ by the Commandment of believing with love to obey it The smoaking flax Bruised by weight and striving for liberty and the bruised reed shall not be quenched Grace saving is already poured into the soul which shall after appear in more strength Isai 54.6 Affliction of spirit in Conscience of injury to God as a wife that hath been false and would return to her husbands favor Thus promises are made to them that be troubled in spirit that afflict themselves for Gods offence and God is said to delight in such as cheif sacrifice Psal 51. and will dwell with them It argueth a minde reconciled to God which cannot be but by grace when his favor is so sought Rom. 8.5 7. his friendship so desired that nothing will satisfie a man till he finde it God easeth not men of all their grief at once Luke 7.47 48 50. She was perswaded that he was her onely refuge but remained afflicted and Imgring for relief and found comfort but holds them lingring after him onely his stirring up their desire to him and moving their love in such passion for him argueth he is reconciled and hath forgiven the injury Cant. 5.4 5 6. As it is in the recovering of peace so in the first working for most part by our affection to God setled know we his affection to us He gives a little light that gives them hope and in their prayers and use of the means sometimes chears them a little but settles them not yet but makes them love and hope The will of believing with strife against corruption of love to God is Gods work of his favor as well as the power of Faith Isa 1.19 Phil. 2.13 Rom. 7.18 22. Mark 9.24 Psal 42.5 and argues his with such Other men strive not for faith Remission in order of nature is before our repentance but joyned with it in time that repentance argues God reconciled Levit. 20 41. but they that have the grace begun Grace is first infused without our seeking and by it we aspire to grace and give no quiet settling to corruption Inward shame of that which hath been done against God though not amongst men shameful or if such not known voluntary remembring of sins with shutting up a mans mouth that he cannot complain of God for judgement though it were of Hell with hope yet that it shall not be so Ezek. 16.63 Rom. 6.21 Joh 42.6 Ezek. 20.43 In a time of Gods gracious dealing with them not onely when he urgeth them to accuse themselves by judgements Ezek. 36.31 intreating the Lord and enquiring of him for his mercies v. 37. It is the note of Gods people They seek the Lord Psa 24. confessing their sins 1 Joh. 1.9 Healing of our nature Gods Spirit given to a man to dwell in him is his testimony of his accepting of the man Acts 15.7 8. His seal Ephes 1.13 His earnest 2 Cor. 5. That if a man know Gods grace hath changed him to be that which he was not and he is not that which he was he hath sin in him and appearing yet in his life now appears the study of piety that he aspires still to the grace of God and would unfainedly have it govern him poor in sense of his nothingness in himself purging the remnants of sin Rom. 8.13 2 Tim. 2.21 1 Joh. 3.3 Striving against sin Prov. 28.4 Heb. 12.4 1 Cor. 9.27 Fearing sin Prov. 28.14 Eccles 8.12 2 Cor. 7.11 He hath it under Gods testimony and seal that he is forgiven and God reconciled to him God freeth some and strengthens others that he brings into the battle about Faith Both serve the Lord some in sweetness some in sharpness some with glorying over adversaries some weeping in the strife yet laboring to dissolve the temptation some serve without fear some delivered from the cause of the fear yet feel it trouble them and yet obey love hope pray hang on the Ordinances to suck and be satisfied Isai 66. So their fear is not as the fear of the wicked in fulness Isa 8.12 13. without study of casting it out as a sin against God and the fruit of unbelief with hatred of God without seeking God or care of sanctifying him in heart Vers 11 They are otherwise taught of God and that with inclining of their wills with love to obey him A tender merciful conscionable forgiveness of other men that offend us and