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A90897	God the father glorified: and the worke of mens redemption, and salvation finished by Iesus Christ on earth. Opened in a sermon before the Right Honorable the Lord Major, and the Right Worshipful the sheriffes, aldermen, and recorder, of the Citie of London, the second day of the tenth moneth (called December) 1649. / By Vavasor Powell, a willing (though weake) labourer in Christs Vine-yard in Wales.	Powell, Vavasor, 1617-1670.	1649 (1649)	Wing P3087; Thomason E584_15; ESTC R206284	43,217	67

for me he would answer It is for you that are Prisoners without acception if you accept of it A Pardon is now sent unto you that are finfull men and women who are Prisoners under the power of Satan and sinne I say to you all the Lord Jesus hath sent forth his pardon which runs thus I the Lord Iesus the Son of God and the Saviour of sinners out of my free grace and mercy rich love and pity am willing to pardon and forgive the sinnes and transgressions of you all and this I will doe really if you will come in and lay hold of this pardon and of my righteousnesse Will a sinner now say doth Jesus Christ meane me seeing he saith whosoever comes unto me I will in no wise cast him out and whosoever believes on me he shall be pardoned and saved This word whosoever comprehends all and excludes none therefore object not against your selves neither refuse your owne salvation Obj. Oh! but though Christ invites all and makes promises to all that doe come yet he intends not that all should be made partakers thereof Ans My beloved thinke you that Christs intentions and his expression are not one as reall as another I tell you and you may believe that he intends to pardon all and to save all as he expresseth it He saith not the words only but his heart is so also But marke it well and mistake me not I doe not meane that he saith absoluely I 'le pardon all and save all and no more oh no but he speaks conditionally I 'le pardon you all and save you all if you believe on me and accept of my pardon Obj. But alas he were as good never tender me a pardon nor make me a promise upon those tearmes for of my selfe I cannot believe nor receive his pardon and grace Ans It s true of your selves you cannot believe nor receive his pardon and grace though tendred to you yet as I said before cry upon him to give you eyes to see him and his grace and feete to come to him and hands to take hold upon his merits and righteousnesse He promiseth largely and freely peradventure now while the word is speaking God will be working these things in you Obj. But he doth not give this grace to nor worke this grace in all but to few therefore doe I feare least I should not be one of them Ans Though he doth not give grace to all for he hath not tyed himself so to doe neither is the cause in God why men want grace for he gave sufficiently at first yet you are bound to seek and the promise is made to Seekers nay I may speake more the Lord is found of some that seeke him not Prov. 18.4 Jer. 29.13 Rom. 10.20 Ezek. 34.6.11.12.16 Obj. But peradventure another here may further object and say I have long sought and I am even weary of seeking yea I am ready to conclude that if I had belong'd to God I should have found grace in his sight ere now Ans Oh deare soules conclude nothing neither against your selves nor against the Lord for he hath sought you longer then you sought him And you have not yet been thirtie-eight years waiting at the waters Christs Ordinances as that weak and impotent man Oh soule peradventure the Lord is now asking thee as he did this man John 5. ●5 Wilt thou be made whole If he be so make him answer and say Lord I am weake but yet waiting oh help me and heale me Lord. Thus much for the first use Seeing Christ hath glorified his Father Use 2. and finished the worke of mens Redemption and Salvation this then directs and teaches men what they should not doe and also what they should doe First what they should not doe In the first place First they should not goe about to worke their owne Redemption and Salvation againe for if Christ hath wrought it already then it s in vaine yea its ignorance and folly to think of doing any thing towards your owne Instification and salvation Object Sure there be none that thinke to doe any thing for and towards their justification and salvation unlesse they be Papists Answ Oh yes there be many besides Papists thot doe so for doe but aske many Protestants how they thinke to be justified and saved they will tell you by their good works and well-doing If we doe well say they we shall have well and if we doe ill we shall have accordingly Yea this is apparent in men both living and dying In their life time they will say if we can but keep the Commandements viz. to love God above all and our Neighbours as our selves then we hope it will goe well with us Then at their death they thinke that to build an Hospitall or to doe some such charitable worke will save their soules Marke this it is easier to doe good works then to undoe our selves from them and to have no confidence in them Phil. 3.3 and to be able to say as the Apostle said in him i.e. Christ I desire to be found not having my owne righteousness v. 9. Secondly Secondly on the other hand men should not rest and sit still and content themselves with this bare notion that Christ came to redeeme to and save sinners and that if he died for them then they shall be saved Oh! what are you the better that he dyed for sinners unlesse you know the death of Christ in the worth and efficacy of it and unless you have it apply'd it to your selves in particular and be able upon good grounds to say as Paul said Christ came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief 1 Tim. 1.13 Gal. 2.20 and Christ loved me and gave satisfaction for me this particular faith you stand in need of Object I do beleeve that he dyed for me in particular Ans But upon what ground do you beleeve it what promise have you to build your faith upon there is a kind of * Luk. 8.12 Act. 8.13 Hystoricall beleeving or assenting unto this truth that Christ died for sinners which is not a lively but a dead faith which may rather be called a fancy then a faith this is but a conceit that arises in your hearts like the dreame of a sleeping man alas alas be not deceived for if every one did beleeve that doth say he doth beleeve the numbers of beleevers would be far greater Object I am sure my faith is as good as most mens faith Ans I tell you most mens faith is not worth a farthing for it is but Copper faith and carnall faith a faith that they had they know not how nor they know not when such a faith as they wil pawne for a penny 2 Pet. 1.1 Act. 15.9 Eph. There is a great deale of difference betweene your faith and the faith of the godly for your faith I meane you that are as the most are carnall is not

To The Right Honourable THOMAS FOOTE Lord Major of the famous City of LONDON Together with the Right Worshipfull the Aldermen and Recorder thereof Right Honourable and Right Worshipfull IN this plaine Sermon Preached and published by your Call and Command You have presented unto you the two principallest points in all the Scripture viz. The glorifying of God and the perfecting and finishing of that great and ever-admired worke of mens Redemption and Salvation by Iesus Christ In the former of these two to wit in glorifying God you are to strive to be followers of your Soveraign and Saviour And in the latter you are to stoope and submit to his Majestie and Excellency 2 Pet 1.16 Isa 35.2 and to be humble Seekers that you may be happy sharers of this precious price and purchase Hee that was a Soune became a Servant and hee that was equall with the highest became inferiour to the lowest Phil. 2.6 7 8. that GOD might be exalted and lost undone men redeemed and saved The great businesse acted by CHRIST in time here below was contrived Zach. 6.13 9.11 and agreed upon betweene GOD and CHRIST before time in Heaven above If you would see all in one and one in all then cast your eyes upon Christ Col. 3.11 Col. 1.19 Ephes 1.10 Col. 2.3 who is all in all in whom dwelleth all the fulnesse of the God-head bodily What can you thinke on speake of delight in or desire to have but you may finde them in Iesus Christ If you would know God as a reconciled God and as a Father you may know him and must know him for there is no other meanes but in through Iesus Christ If you would goe to GOD or have GOD come to you there is no other way but by him He is that Ladder that Iacob saw Gen. 28.12 with Joh. 1.51 which reached from Earth to Heaven upon which the Angels of God ascended and descended If you would climbe up this Ladder then must you begin in the lowest steps and staves thereof even in the sufferings of this sweete Saviour Christ crucified is the first lesson you must learne 1 Co. 2.2 and that being well learned it leades by the hand to all the rest To see your sinnes laid on Christ and your selves virtually in Christ when he suffered as you were in Adam when hee sinned is the first sanctified and soule-satisfying light Nothing humbles nor melts the heart more then to see the bloudy wounds of this loving Lord if then you would be penitent oure Phil. 3.10 self-denying weaned from the world get a sight of Christ upon the crosse and a feeling of that fellowship betweene his person and your persons in his death Meditation upon the intent of Christ in dying faith to believe the extent of of his death to you and a feeling of the efficacy of his death in you will raise up your hearts to a high measure of admiration estimation and affection of him and to him After you have knowne the death of Christ and the benefits thereby viz. the putting avvay of your sins Heb. 9.25 Ephes 2.14 First labour to be Gods sons and then his publique servauts as Christ was making peace betvveen God your persons making sure your salvation Then consider and study the goodnes of his nature the goodlinesse his person the greatnesse of his love the freenesse and riches of his grace the sweetnesse and preciousnesse of his promises the beauty and comelinesse of his Church and people and the transcendency and eternity of his glory The best next and surest way to become sound and true Christians is to know that Christ hath done all for you Isa 26.12 Phil. 2.12 13. and without you and that he must doe all in you and by you And being true Christians which is the wel-being of men to live on him and walke to him who hath given you the name and the nature which makes you to be so accounted And seeing God hath honoured glorified his Sonne after hee had finished his worke let that encourage you Honourable Senatours to goe on in the work that God hath called you too Christ hath done and suffered much for you Oh be you willing to do and to suffer for him also Doubtlesse if you own his cause crosse choose his will and doe his work as he hath put chains of gold about your necks here so he will put crowns of gold upon your heads hereafter Luk. 16.2 3 4. Remember you are Stewards entrusted with your Masters treasure and must give an account you know not how soone be sure therefore you lay out all for your Lords glory and the good of his Family Persevere in the way you have begun and prosecute the good worke you have entred upon especially your late excellent Petition Stand far and strive together to obtaine the pure Gospel to guide mens souls in spirituall things and plaine Laws to direct men in civill things Be for Christ resolutely and for true Christians really execute justice impartially regard and relieve the oppressed and needy speedily Neh. 6.3 and say as Nehemiah said I am doing a great worke why should the worke cease whilst I leave it Doe not take off your hand from the Lords plough this yeare for this may be the year of visitation and the next of jubilee The greatest honour is like to be lost or got this yeare the Lord be honoured by you and honour you in himselfe Which is and shall be the prayers of him that craves your pardon for his boldnese rudenesse of speech and for adding one use which time prevented me then to deliver Your Master Christs servant in his and at your service VAVASOR POWELL GOD the FATHER glorified And the work of mens Redemption and Salvation finished by JESVS CHRIST on Earth John 17.4 I have glorified thee on the earth I have finished the work which then govest me to doe THE last Lords day Right Honourable and Beloved By Mr. Thomas Goodwin you had presented unto you the Dedication of Christ or Christ dedicating himselfe to the work of mens Redemption and Salvation I have chosen this Text and I hope by the guidance of Gods spirit it comes in seasonably to make known the work it selfe even that great work or businesse which Christ did and none else could doe upon earth Christ tells you in this Text what it was and wherein is did consist Before I come to the Text it selfe I must first acquaint you how that our blessed Lord and Master Jesus Christ being to take his leave of his Disciples he expresses at his departure most of his affection to them As Joseph before he took his leave of his brethren a Gen. 45.1.4.15 made known himself unto them kist them and wept upon them So Jesus Christ hee as it were gives kisses of love and shews more expressions of endearednesse and rendernesse towards his Disciples at

much as any way else Christ glorified his Father by his sufferings John 13.31 and therefore saith Christ in the 13. of Iohn the 31th verse Now is the Son of man glorified and God is glorified in him when was that now then when Christ was going to suffer in the sufferings of Jesus Christ his Father was very much glorified Obj. I But you will say Sir how was the Father glorified in Christs sufferings one would thinke that the Father should be rather dishonoured then glorified thereby in suffering his Sonne to fall into the hands of such cruell enemies as the Jewes and Heathens were to God we cannot see how this did tend to the glory of God Ans I answer By his patient sufferings it tended to the glory of God thus 1. By Christs patience under his sufferings to see Christ so patient under such a great measure and so heavie a weight of affliction this glorifyed God very much he did not so much as i Esa 53.7 open his mouth to complaine of his condition nor of his enemies cruelty as the young men in k Dan. 3. Daniel when they were cast into the fiery Furnace they acknowledged the onely true God and they would own no other also they would not be freed if they might not be freed without sin so Jesus Christ would goe through the worke of his father and glorifye him as the expression is even in the fires even in the fire of affliction yea in the Furnace of affliction Secondly Christ glorifyed his father in this when he was delivering up the Ghost The vaile of the Temple was rent in twaine Mat. 27.51 and the earth did quake Yea the heathens said when they saw this that either the God of nature was now dying or else that the end of the world was come upon them This tended much to the glorifying of God the Jewes and Gentiles that would never glorifie him before these sufferings of Christ and this act of his death yet doubtless this did work upon them As you know when a Comedy is played people are not so seriously and deepely affected as when a Tragedy is acted so when Jesus Christ was upon the earth they were not so much affected with him neither did they so much glorifie God in him but when he was acting this Trygiccall part or his sufferings doubtlesse then many of the Jewes were convinced and that 's the meaning of that text John 12.32 in the 12. of Iohn the 32. When the Son of man is lifted up he shall draw all men or many unto him this speaks he of his death when Christ was exalted upon the Crosse many were perswaded that this was the Son of God Truly say they this was the Sonne of God And againe Christ saith in the 12th of Iohn John 12.24 ver 24. Except a corne of wheat fall into the ground and dye it cannot bring forth Shewing that except Jesus Christ that was that corne of wheat should die and suffer there should little profit come unto men and little glory unto God And thus is the next question answered how Jesus Christ glorifyed his father First negatively by not sinning and not seeking himselfe Secondly positively by his word and works Thirdly passively by his sufferings The next and the last question for the cleering of the text is this Q. How did Jesus Christ finish the work of mens redemption the work of mens salvation Ans I beseech you stirre up your selves and hearken unto this Jesus Christ did finish the work of mens redemption and the work of mens salvation three wayes First The first way was this The first way Christ wrought mens Redemption and falvation by putting himself into mans condition that 's the first Jesus Christ he did put himselfe into the state and condition of men he comes from Heaven and takes up mans nature he appeares in mans flesh and undergoes the state and condition of men yea sinfull men and if you consider but what the Scripture speaks of this it will be a great encouragement for you to looke for salvation through Jesus Christ Consider Christ therefore two wayes First as a Mediatour and secondly as a Surety As a Mediatour Christ consider-as a Mediator He is said to be Mediatour of the New Testament There is one Mediator between God man the man Christ Iesus 1 Tim. 2.4 1 Tim. 2.4 There was but one mediator between God and men from eternity It s true Moses was a typicall mediator but there was no reall and true Mediator save Jesus Christ only And as the Apostle saith in the third of the Galathians the 20. v. Now a Mediator marke this Is not a Mediator of one Gal. 3.20 but God is one what is the meaning of that The meaning is that Christ was not a Mediator of one Covenant that is of the Covenant of works onely but a Mediator of the Covenant of grace also Or thus Christ was a Mediator betweene one and not as a dayes man or Mediator among men for we never use a Mediator to reconcile a man to himselfe but a dayes-man goes to reconcile two that are at variance But Jesus Christ was a Medator of one that is he that was offended and he that was Mediator to mediate for the offence and to reconcile man unto himselfe in one person Was one and the same God the same God That I may cleare this a little unto you consider what the word Mediator signifies The greek word for a m 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mediator signifies as much as this one that puts himselfe as it were betweene an offending and offended party yet not without a Call to reconcile them and being an indifferent person and disposed to either party thus was Jesus Christ Only Christ had somewhat more to make him a Mediator then Mediators among men have to wit he was not onely called to be a Mediator but he was made a Mediator by n Heb. 7.20 Oath to declare that he was to doe right between God and men to give God his due and not to undoe poore man So thus you heare that Jesus Christ became a Mediator a midler or middle person between God and man Now in the next place I shall shew you how Christ is a surety Christ considered as a surety Heb. 7.22 He is made saith the Apostle in the 7th of the Hebr. the 22. verse A Surety of a better testament A Surety quasi Sure-tye not an uncertaine tye but a sure-tye a tye that can never be broken Indeed the tye that was between God and man in his Innocency was a tye that was to be broken and untyed but this is a sure-tye when God deals with men in Christ he deales vvith them in a sure way and the word surety in the o 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apprepirquo Greek comes of a verb that signifies to draw neer for a surety is