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A54378	The redemption of mankind, by the passion of our Lord A sermon, preached on Palm-Sunday, at Kintbury, in the county of Berks. By Jos. Perkins, late vicar of Hill, in Gloucester-Shire.	Perkins, Joseph, b. 1658.	1692 (1692)	Wing P1558; ESTC R221441	13,606	33

Christ we can never do any thing faithfully for whatsoever is done doubtfully is not of Faith and whatsoever is not of Faith is Sin It is our Comfort and our Wisdom we care for no Knowledge in the World but this that Man hath sinned and God hath suffered That God hath made himself the Son of Man and that Men is made the Righteousness of God God Poureth his Wrath upon all as long as he reputeth them Sinners Behold the Lord's Hand is not shortned that it cannot save neither is the Ear heavy that it cannot hear But your Iniquities have separated between you and God and your Sins have hid his Face from you that he will not hear Isa 59.1 2. Here we see Sin to be the Division between God and Man and Man is Enemy to God till he be reconciled in Christ Now God was in Christ and reconciled the World to himself not imputing their Sins unto them and hath committed unto us the Word of Reconciliation 2 Cor. 5.19 Redemption taken for the Remission of Sins is all one with Justification For St. Paul expounds it in his Sermon Acts 13. ver 28. Through Christ is Preached Remission of Sins and from all things by which he could not be justified by the Law of Moses by him every one that believeth is justified we are justified not by any inherent or infused Righteousness but by imputed Justice and by Remission and Forgiveness of our own injustice God looks on his Servants as they are the Members of Christ cloathed with his Righteousness For as Jacob did not deserve the Birth-right in himself and in his own right but received the Blessing and Inheritance in the Garments and Apparrel of Esau his Eldest Brother to whom the same did properly belong so we receive the Blessing of God and are accepted to Eternal Life in the Garment of the Righteousness of Christ for whose sake and sufferings God looks upon our Sins with a discerning not a revenging Eye Howsoever our Sins cleave to our Souls let us hate them as we hate Hell for thence they are and the Devil worketh them Yet though they are many in Number and grievous in their Nature our hopes are not in our own Persons but in the Body of Christ into which we are Grafted and in which there is no spot nor blemish but perfect Righteousness By this Perfection he hath delivered us out of a more than an Aegyptian Thraldom for we were lyable to that Servitude and Punishment where Hell should be our Prison the Devil our Jaylor Sin our Crime our own Conscience our Accuser and perpetual Torments our Punishment Thanks be to God who hath given us Victory through Jesus Christ our Lord. If Christ have paid a Ransom for all it followeth that all without Exception even Mary Christ's Mother were Captives all Sinful none absolutely Righteous in themselves but were absolutely Righteous in Christ. If one have died for all then all were dead in Sins We are not to rejoyce that we are Just but that we are Redeemed Not that we are without Sin but that our Sins are forgiven us For the first Man that was made the first Man that was born he sinned Death which is the Punishment of Sin seizeth upon all therefore all are Sinners And if we were not all Captives and Sinners we should need no Redemption at so high a rate as through his Blood which Blood tho' it wash and purge us yet it doth not take away the stain and infection of Sin but only the Guilt thereof It maketh us not to fulfil all the Law but causeth that which is not done to be pardoned When thou hast done all that thou canst nay all that thou wouldest nay all that Men can or will say Thou art an unprofitable Servant and hast need to be washed with his Blood 4. Blood is taken for the Effusion of his Blood and it is spoken by a Synechdoche implying the Sacrifice and Oblation of his Body and besides all this all the Sufferings which he endured in his aboad upon Earth which Expiation was finished upon the Cross when he said Consumatum est This Sacrifice was paid unto God For He it was whom we offended and He it was who had the Power to condemn us therefore his Justice was to be satisfied But he paid nothing as was said before to the Prince of Darkness who held us Captive but only broke his Power and triumphed over his Kingdom with a mighty and streached-out Arm. As soon as we were absolved and reconciled to God the Tyrant was compelled being but the Jaylor to restore us God's Justice could not be satisfied without the Effusion of this Blood For Debts which do not wrong the Majesty of the Owner may be remitted without any Recompence or Satisfaction but those Debts which do detract from the Dignity of the Creditor as Sins are repugnant to the Majesty of God cannot be released without a Mediator Now as Adam makes us Sinners in his Seed so Christ justifieth us in his Blood The Israelites were instructed of Necessity to seek a Mediator by the Priests Office for they could not come to offer their Prayers Vows or Gifts but by the Mediation of the Priest for whom it was unlawful to enter into the Temple with empty Hands but he must needs offer up Blood or other Sacrifice all which Sacrifices were ended in Christ whom they did prefigure being Types and Shaddows of the true Body It is not possible that the Sacrificers should think their Salvation might be wrought by the Blood of Sheep or Goats but expected a Lamb sent from God to be slain for the People Christ alone worketh in them the Work of Man's Salvation Our own Works are rather the Fruits than Causes of Redemption For Men are not therefore the Sons of God because they do good Works but they have the Grace of God fructifying to good Works because they are the Sons of God As a Princess invested with Kingly Ornaments and thereby distinguished from Vulgar Women is not therefore the King's Spouse because she is adorned with gorgeous Apparel but she is cloathed with soft Raiment because she is the King's Spouse We exclude good Works from Meriting not from Being Our own Merits and Satisfactory Actions are excluded from free Remission of Sins For he is said to remit who expungeth the Debtors Name without any Payment And this is God's own Testimony that of meer Favour he remits our Offences Isaiah 43. Ver. 25. I even I am he that putteth out thine Iniquity for mine own Sake and will not remember thy Sins And let every Man's Conscience be at Peace with God when he is perswaded of that We read Isaiah 53.6 All we like Sheep have gone astray we have turned every one to his own Way and the Lord hath laid upon him the Iniquity of us all What Peace of Conscience where Man's Satisfaction is required The least Satisfaction that can be imagined requireth a Days Labour wherein it

of God hath fulfilled all Righteousness who had no need to undergo such Service for himself should not the same Righteousness be imputed unto us Where any thing is in the Nature of Duty or Debt it is at the Discretion of him to whom it is due to accept one Man's Performance for the Discharge of the other Therefore Christ's Performance being acted in our Name we are the Subjects and Partakers of Redemption 2. Man invested with the Robes of Righteousness disrobed himself of that Dignity and fell into a Sea of Misery It is a Favour to have a Petition Granted but when we were plunged in our Sins and wretched in our selves when we neither considered nor requested a Mediator God out of meer Mercy sent his only Begotten Son to be a Ransom for many God so loved the World that he hath given his only Begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have Everlasting Life John 3. ver 16. Whatsoever Man had wrought in himself was Evil and deserved eternal Punishment But God had respect unto his own Work unto his Creature unto Man whom he himself had made Man had disfigured himself but God had not forgotten to be Merciful Meliùs judicavit de malis benefacere quàm mala nulla esse permittere He thought it more agreeable to his Nature to pardon Sinners than to suffer no Sin saith St. Augnstin When the Citizens of Laurentum delivered to Romulus the Murtherers of certain Ambassadours he notwithstanding let the Murtherers depart saying That one Murder was requited by another for Tatius was killed for the Death of those Ambassadors Plot in Romulus Our Case is not much unlike the former we might be Indicted for Rebellion against the King of Heaven and Earth But he will not the Death of a Sinner It is sufficient that one even Christ Jesus dyed for our Disobedience For with his Stripes we are Healed Ah Sinful Nation a People laden with Iniquity wicked Seed corrupt Children Isaiah 1. ver 4. All these Appellations agree to us all yet so wide are the Bowels of his Compassion inlarged that he sends a Redeemer to us St. Paul speaks in my Text in the first Person saying We have Redemption We that is the Faithful of the Jews in which Number I rank my self And in the 13. Verse he extends the Benefit to the Gentiles also Intimating that they also after that they had heard the Word of Truth were partakers of that Liberty purchased to the Praise of his Glory We have Redemption i. e. the Faithful God's Elect which are the Members of Christ's Mystical Body The Angels which fell from that pure Estate wherein they were Created could never attain unto it again But such was the rich Favour of God towards Man that he united humane Nature to Christ's Divinity and gave to Men that Dignity to be called his Sons Shall we think that God hath indued Man with so many Excellencies more not only than any but than all the Creatures of the World besides to leave them in such Estate that they had been happyer if they had never been born We have a Righteous Judge and rather than he proceeded in Rigour of Judgment he will provide a Sacrifice for himself to be offered up in our Names and all the Benefit shall redound to us and our Posterity Yet all Men are not Redeemed but some of all sorts Christ dyed sufficiently for all but effectually only for some In his Death he intended a Price of such extent in Value and Worth as should be of Power to save all and therefore should be offer'd indifferently to all But in his eternal Counsel and Love he paid this Price only for them to whom in Love he intends Fruit and Benefit thereby There is a World of Men of whom John 17. ver 9. Christ saith I pray not for the World but for them that thou hast given me out of the World If all Men had the Gifts of Grace and the Merits of Christ's Passion where were God's Justice If no Man had Redemption and Hope of Salvation where were his Mercy Deus in suâ Misericordiâ voluit omnes servare per Potentiam potuit sed non potuit per Justitiam In his Mercy he might save all but in his Justice he could not Neither is God the Cause why any Man doth perish For Christ was a sufficient Sacrifice to save all Men But Death and Destruction came from the Incredulity and Unbelief of Men. As the Sun is in its self sufficient to enlighten all Men yet the Blind for want of Sight cannot enjoy the Use thereof So Christ's Death was a sufficient Ransom for all but the Reprobate for want of Faith cannot apprehend it An easie Condition of so great a Benefit He requires us not to earn Peace but to accept it of him What could he give more What could he require beside of us With Men it is a good Rule to try and then to trust With God it is contrary We must first Trust Him as most Wise Omnipotent Merciful and try Him afterwards Eusebius reports an Answer of Thaddeus one of the 70 Disciples framed to Agbarus the Governour of Edessa in this manner Because thou has greatly Believed in the Lord Jesus which sent me therefore am I sent unto thee But in Case thou believe in him and in his Fathor as yet thy hearty Petitions according to thy Faith thou shalt obtain Agbarus answered I have believed in him and in his Father To whom Thaddeus replyed Therefore in the Name of the Self-same Lord Jesu I lay mine Hand upon thee Which when he had done he forth-with was Cured of his Malady and delivered of the Pain that oppressed him grievously It is Faith that incorporates us into Christ's Body it is Faith whereby we do not believe generally our Salvation which with the Papists is to believe as the Church doth but we believe particularly and apply it to our Selves as St. Paul doth in this Place saying We have Redemption where he brings Redemption home to his own Breast Fides in Dei Christi cognitione non in Ecclesiae reverentiâ jacet Devils know the same things which we believe and the Minds of the most Ungodly may be fully perswaded of the Truth But the things which we believe are by us apprehended not only True but also Good and that unto us As Good they are not by them apprehended as True they are Whereupon it followeth that the Christian Man the more he increaseth in Faith the more his Joy and Comfort aboundeth But they the more sure they are of the Truth the more they quake and tremble at it Let us believe firmly that God is good unto us if God hath promised Eternal Life to those that walk faithfully before him let us believe his word above all times in Immortality he hath established a Dwelling for his Saints Whosoever brings a wavering Heart to God's Promises the Sentence is pronounced against him Because he hath

may be effected and who can tell how oft he offends in a Day Then for the Satisfaction of one Days Sin a whole Life is not sufficient Sufficit ad Meritum scire quod non sufficiant Merita sed ut ad Meritum satis est de Meritis non praesumere sic carere Meritis satis est ad Judicium Concerning Merits It is sufficient to know that they do not merit Heaven but to want good Works is sufficient for Condemnation The Devil doth labour by Two Seducements to weaken our Faith First He would perswade us that good Works are the Cause and Means of our Salvation If he cannot succeed this Way then under a Pretence of Faith he would draw us from true Obedience and suggests it into our Minds That if we have Faith let us be indulgent to all Affections and commit all Offences yet Faith will bring us to an everlasting Kingdom But we are taught that real Sanctity of Life is never separated from a free Remission of Sins and we who are interressed by Faith in the Right of Inheriting by Works are wrought to the actual Possession of eternal Bliss Sanctification is a true and inseparable Companion of Justification For whom he hath justified them hath he also sanctified For how can a Christian be perswaded that he is beloved of God unless he be certain that he loveth God with an unfeigned Heart And who can love God who is not willing to perform and obey his Will and Precepts If ye love me keep my Commandments saith our Saviour Tho' we say that Children or Infants may be saved out of the Depth of Perdition by the Depth of God's Mercies without the Works of the Law yet let those to whom the Lord hath lent the length of Days think that he will exact an Account of their Stewardship how they have spent their Time how they have imployed their Talents which he in his Mercy had bestowed upon them Since our Redemption is of so high a rate that Christ's Blood was shed for it since the Malady of Sin is so cruel a Disease that nothing could cure it but the Death of the Physitian it behooveth us who are washed with his Blood to look to our ways and take heed of Vnrighteousness It is already manifest that our own Works are no causes of Redemption but rather the Fruits thereof 5. Now let us fall a little into Consideration of the Passion of our Lord and Saviour Christ and hear what great things he hath done for us And here I find him Buffetted Crowned with Thorns Spit upon Reviled Blasphemed Condemned Executed Dead and Buried Civis Romanus sum was enough to save a Citizen from Scourging and so St. Paul tryes the Experience of it Yet Christ that was Lord of Heaven and Earth and the only Door by which we enter and are made free Citizens of the new Jerusalem he was Whipped Who but our Saviour would have spent his Blood for our Sakes Who but our Saviour could have satisfied for our Sins and renewed us by his Spirit conferring infinite Graces upon us when we lay Dead in Sins and Trespasses Who but our Saviour could get Life into us and that by the sprinkling and shedding of his most Pretious Blood like the Pelican which is a Symbol of Christ Plutarch reports That the Senate durst not accuse Caesar for conspiring with Cataline and his Confederates against the State for if Caesar had been convented he would sooner have saved others than have suffered himself In like case it was an Happiness for us that Christ was Indicted for our Sins who was able to repel all the fiery Darts of Satan and to Triumph over him that had the Power of Death that is the Devil Heb. 2.14 A Mystery it is that our Saviour should vanquish both Death and the Devil by Death which proceeded from the Maliciousness of the Devil that he should make the Devils Glory his shame his Power his Overthrow his Kingdom his Undoing What could the Prophet David in all his Zeal for God wish more against reprobate Men Trayterous to Christ and his Gospel than thus to wish Let their dainty Tables be Snares to take them and let their Prosperity be their Ruin Even thus Christ hath vanquished the Devil He hath spoiled Principalities and Powers and hath made a shew of them openly and hath Triumphed over them in the same Cross Behold Christ once again and consider Dilectionem in discendendo Mansuetudinem in Patiendo Fortitudinem in animose Perferendo Vtilitatem in mala Poenae et Culpae auferendo All the Punishments which we had deserved were inflicted upon our Mediator and he hath quit the Score So whatsoever Afflictions befal the Godly in this Life they are not Punishments but Fatherly Chastisements and Corrections for our Humiliation and Amendment Yea Death her self is spoiled of her Sting and is become to the Godly only a passage into a more Blisful Life The Afflictions of the Wicked in this Life make them readier for greater Torments in the World to come for they tend only to revenge but the Corrections of the Godly make them afterwards more Cautelous and tend to their Instruction Saul was punished by the taking away of his Kingdom David was amended by the loss of his Child Ferulis Verberantur Filij non ut mulctam delictorum Deo persolvant sed ut inde ad Resipiscentiam proficiant as Judicious Calvin hath it When we lay strugling in the midst of all Miseries Let us remember what our Jesus hath done for us and then it will be to us as we have believed The Heathen Philosopher could say None is of Strength to raise himself some Man must lend his Hand and then he shall be lift up The Mind of Man cannot be without some Refuge and as we say of the Elephant cannot rest unless it hath something to lean upon Let Christ be our rest which is the chief Corner-Stone of his Church and we shall never fall and let us so rest that we be not idle but obedient to his will and fructifying to good works Themistocles said of himself That the Athenians used him like the Plane-Tree to which in a Tempest they ran for Succour but the Storm being passed and fair Weather succeeding they tear down his Leaves and tread on them Let it not be so said of you who finding no other Remedy for your afflicted burdened Conscience but the Merits of Christ's Passion his Mediation but when the Storm is past and you begin again to find in your selves that Peace of God and Conscience which Passeth all Vnderstanding you should return again with the Dog and Sow to the Vomit and trample under feet the Blood of the New Testament and make a mock of the Passion of Christ who was so kind for you as to pay all those huge Sums wherein you stood bound to God and that without either Price or Prayers of ours but according to the Riches of his Grace Our Election into