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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59568	A sermon preached before the King & Queen at White-hall on Christmas-Day, 1691 by ... John, Lord Archbishop of York ...	Sharp, John, 1645-1714.	1692 (1692)	Wing S2996; ESTC R15087	14,546	31

they might rather be inclined to believe that he would not pardon such Criminals For as their Reason told them that God was Good So the same Reason told them that He was Just and had an infinite Regard to the Honour and Reputation of his Laws Which Laws their own Consciences told them they had heinously transgressed nor had they any thing wherewith to compensate or make satisfaction for the Transgression of them And therefore what could they expect from so Just a God but to undergo the punishment they had deserved This was a very uncomfortable Reasoning And yet such a one it was as there was no answer to be given to in the State of Nature and therefore in what a melancholy Condition were Mankind all the while What encouragement had they seriously to set upon the Amendment of their wicked Lives Or if they did what Fruit what Comfort could they promise to themselves by such amendment But Blessed be God that hath removed us out of these uncertainties Blessed be God that hath given us the greatest assurance that is possible of his Love and Kindness to the greatest of Sinners and consequently laid the greatest Obligation upon all Mankind to turn from their evil Ways He hath sent his Son his only Son into the World on purpose to assure us of his good Will to us to give a demonstration of the unfeigned Love and Kindness that He bears to every Soul of the Sons of Adam that he would not have any of them perish but that they should all come to the knowledge of the Truth and be saved This Son of His doth most Solemnly in the Name of his Father proclaim Pardon and Remission of Sins to every one that should believe in Him There is no Sinner excepted even the Oldest the Greatest the most Enormous of Sinners if they will come in and and submit to the Yoke of Jesus Christ have his certain Promise that they shall be received And least any one should fear the Divine Justice upon account that there is no satisfaction made to it for his Sins Our Lord hath taken care to remove that Objection For he by the unvaluable Merits of his Person and the free unconstrained Offering up of Himself to an ignominious Death upon the Cross on the behalf of Mankind hath made a full compleat and entire Satisfaction to God's Justice for all the Sins of the World from the beginning to the end thereof So that now every one hath free Access to God and a Right to his Favour through the Blood of Jesus Christ. And tho we have been never so bad never so unworthy yet if we have but the Hearts to forsake our Sins and to come to Jesus Christ we shall as certainly obtain the Acceptance and the Love of our Heavenly Father as if we had been Innocent and never sinned at all Nay God is not only willing to receive us but he earnestly begs and sollicits us to take his Mercy And so pleased he is at the Return of a Sinner that our Saviour has told us there is joy in Heaven over such a one Nay more joy among the Angels over a sinner that repenteth than over ninety nine just persons that need no Repentance O how welcome ought this News to be to us How transported should we be at the infinite Kindness of God manifested to us by our Saviour O! praised be God for his astonishing Love For ever adored be our Lord Jesus that has made a Propitiation for us by his Blood O let us for ever kiss and hug the pretious unvaluable Scriptures of the New Testament if there was nothing else in them but that faithful Saying that Saying worthy of all Men to be received That Iesus Christ came into the world to save sinners to save you and me and all Sinners even the greatest of Sinners O who is there that is in his Wits would chuse to be out of the Christian Dispensation or be left to the Methods of Nature and Philosophy for the attaining their Happiness as some loose People among us do sometimes talk Were the natural Talents of Mankind exalted far above what they either are or ever have been yet I would value that one Saying That Jesus Christ came into the World to save Sinners more than all the Notions and Speculations of Reason and Philosophy I would desire to know nothing but Iesus Christ and him crucified I would with the Apostle count all things as loss nay as Dung in comparison of the Excellency of the Knowledge of Christ Iesus my Saviour and that I may be found in him not having my own Righteousness which is by Nature but that Righteousness which is by the Faith of Iesus Christ who gave himself for me And thus much of Christ's appearing to put away Sin in the first Notion of that Expression But Secondly Christ appeared also to put away Sin in another sense That is to say To destroy the Power and Dominion of it from among Men to abolish it so as that it should not henceforth reign in our mortal Bodies To free us from Sin as the Apostle speaks that is to enable us to lead holy and virtuous Lives So that whereas Mankind heretofore yielded their Members Servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity so they should now yield their Members Servants to righteousness unto holiness Thus to put away Sin was as principal an End of Christ's coming as the other before mentioned nay perhaps more principal For the other in true reasoning may be said to be wholly in order to this Certain it is unless this End be attained the other will signifie nothing to us For we are not capable of any Benefit from the Remission of Sin which was purchased for us by Christ until our Sins be put away by Repentance and we become holy Persons by the change and renewal of our Natures Never therefore let us deceive our selves Though Christ hath actually put away all the Sins of the World in the former sense by his satisfaction that is to say hath procured the Pardon of them hath taken away the Sting of them so as that they shall not be deadly to any Yet all this is upon supposition that the Strength of them he taken away in us that they 〈◊〉 no Dominion over us that we mortifie them in all our Members that we daily die to them and live a Life o● Righteousness All that Christ merited or purchased for the World will not do us the least good unless we be made conformable to him in his Death and Resurrection by our dying to Sin and living to Righteousness And in truth if we will mind it the putting away Sin in this sense of it hath as great weight laid upon it in Scripture and is as often assigned for the great End and Business of Christs appearance as the other S. John tells us plainly that for this purpose was the son of God manifested that he might destroy the works of the