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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33944	The marrow of Christianity, or, A spirituall discovery of some principles of truth meet to be knowne of all the saints : represented in ten sections / by T. Collier ; whereunto is added an epistle, written by M. Saltmarsh.	Collier, Thomas, fl. 1691.; Saltmarsh, M.	1650 (1650)	Wing C5292; ESTC R29305	55,174	122

condemnation recovers man out of this lost and undone condition Two objections here need to be cleared Object 1. Whether Christ Jesus the Second Adam bare the sins and so the condemnation of all men Answ First it is without question that he took the sinne and fault of the first Adam upon him and so the sinne of the world whose nature was in him and so taking the sin so the condemnation of the whole upon him else he could not have effected that work for which he came Object If Christ beare the sin and condemnation of all why then are not all saved Answ 1. All are in one sense saved that is with an externall salvation from the present curse and death pronounced and so the whole world have a being by Christ and a redemption a salvation a peace which it enjoyes by him a mercy that they are not sensible of Col. 1.20 having made peace by the blood of his Crosse by him to reconcile all things to himselfe whether things in heaven or things on earth c. Note all things are reconciled What things The same that were made by him verse 16. All things partake of this reconciliation and peace Secondly all are not saved with an eternall salvation because all do not believe It is true that there was a salvation purchased from the externall part of the present curse for that present sin yet Adams posterity acting other sinnes draw on other externall judgements but there was likewise by the taking away of the present judgement or death threatned a prevention of the present execution of that eternall death included and so a spirituall and an eternall life by Christ obtained yet so as that none partake of it but believers so that although there be a salvation purchased by Christ tendered unto all yet none are made partakers of this salvation but believers and none can believe savingly but those who are drawne up to the Father through the Sonne by a power above themselves who were known and beloved of God from everlasting the Father giving forth his Son as a publick person making satisfaction to the law of transgression that all mankind might be brought under the tender of the Gospell that so upon believing they might be delivered from both the first Covenant and transgression no man being indeed delivered from either but by believing all men remaining in the first Adam and so under the Law of transgression in the spririt unlesse believers Christ having purchased an eternall salvation but keeps it in his owne hand and dispenseth it in the spirit to those to whom God gives hearts to receive both him and it so now nothing hinders the salvation of any man with relation to Christ a Saviour or Deliverer from the transgression and sinne of the first Adam on Gods part externally all partake of it internally onely believers He is the Saviour of all but espeacially of them that believe And nothing on Gods part hinders the eternall salvation of all with relation to the purchase or price paid but only on Gods part his eternall purpose to draw up some into union with himselfe in his Sonne and leaving others to believe if they would or could And from hence on the creatures part being thus left only a Christ tendered able to save them if they believe they being left of God having neither will skill nor power to believe perish everlastingly under the rejecting of the Gospell Object It seemes to be injustice in God to condemne the sin of all upon Christ and yet to condemne it upon the sinner too Answ 1. It was as easie for Christ being thereunto appointed of the Father to make satisfaction to the Law of Transgression for the sins of all as one Such was his excellent worth Secondly the spirituall and eternall part of it remaines still with God in Christ and is handed forth to none but believers and of it remaines that there is no injustice in God to put such a worth in the sufferings of his Sonne that it is able to satisfie the Law of transgression for all and able to save all that come to God by him and yet to condemne sinne even the sinne of the first as well as the rejecting of the second Adam in all those that refuse him seeing his eternal purpose in all was the setting forth of his Son as a maker that so there might be a visible ground upon which the beloved of God might accept of peace and so come to enjoy that invisible union with the Father in the spirit which he from eternity intended and likewise that there might be a visible rule of rejecting all who wilfully contemne their owne peace and so judge themselves unworthy of eternall life Quest Did Christ purchase life and love from the hand of the Father Answ Nay he did not purchase life and love from the hand of the Father but was a gift flowing forth from the fathers love the death of Christ was not the cause efficient either of life or love but love in God was the efficient cause of the comming forth and suffering of Christ Ioh 3.16 God so loved the world that he gave his son Qu. In what sense then may Christ be said to deliver from wrath 1 Thes 1.10 And to purchase his Church with his bloud acts 20.28 Answ 1. He delivers from wrath in a twofold consideration First from that wrath and Justice of God gone forth in a righteous Law it being broken wrath is gone forth upon all because God is truth and so in the Letter wrath is gone forth upon all through Adams transgression and so all unbelievers in that sense are under wrath and there remaine eternally if not delivered Iohn the 3.2 They are delivered from wrath with relation to their apprehension never any soule comes savingly to Christ but the first makes him sensible of an estate of Wrath and so every believer may truly say They were once Children of wrath that is in an estate of wrath under the Law of Transgression and so are delivered from wrath to come because if God had not from everlasting received them into the number of those written in Heaven they must likewise have endured wrath to come Secondly he purchased his Church with his blood and so salvation for them under two considerations 1. He purchased his Church from the law of transgression God having said in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye Man eats and so should have dyed eternally had not God provided such a remedy therefore he gives his son to purchase Man from that condition 2. He purchaseth His with his blood from wrath and condemnation in their own apprehensions man being sensible of his lost condition must have something to satisfie his conscience therefore likewise the Father gives Christ and in both these not as the first and moving cause of any thing in God but God out of his love gives forth his Son to effect that work As if a man indebted for

more then he is ever able to pay the Creditor having vowed satisfaction the debtor is cast downe and troubled exceedingly the creditor to satisfie both his own word and the mind of the debtor sends forth his son and fully inables him to pay the debt he brings along the debtor with him payes the debt cancels the bonds and sets him free and thus it was with the Father man had sinned God had said in the day thou sinnest thou shalt dye this debt of death must be discharged the Father that he might be just and yet a justifier and that the conscience of faln man whom he loved might be satisfied he gives or sends forth his Sonne he payes the debt and so satisfies the word of the Father and the conscience of the sinner and so indeed is not essentially the procuring cause of love but rather an effect of love to satifie both the word of the Father and the conscience of the sinner and this was Gods way from eternity through which he intended to manifest hmselfe to his people SECTION V. How persons come to have benefit by this meanes that God hath appointed as the way of life SInners come to have benefit by Jesus Christ by believing Iohn 3.16.36 He that believeth on the Son hath life and he that believeth not on the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth in him Faith as an instrument is the meanes appointed of God by which sinners receive and owne Jesus Christ and life by him For clearing this truth three things will be necessary to be considered First what Faith is Secondly how it comes Thirdly the properties and effects of it 1. What it is Faith is the apprehending and applying Christ and so the Father and his everlasting grace in him 1. It is the apprehending of Christ that is the observing and beholding of him as he is in himselfe the seeing of him in his beauty and excellency Esa 33.17 thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty it is to see all that worth to be in him that the soule needes and then 2. To apply him according to the soules present occasion a dying Christ to a dead soule and this Christ commends unto us to be the faith by which Soules come to enjoy salvation Iohn 6.40 this is the will of him that sent me that he that seeth the Son and believeth on him may have everlasting life note Hee that seeth the Son that is apprehends that worth and excellency that ability the Father hath put in him to save sinners able to save all those to the utmost that come unto God by him and beleeveth on him that is applieth him receiveth him as its alone Saviour and justifier to them he gives power to become the Sons of God Iohn 1.12 even to as many as believe on his name 3. This faith doth not onely apply Christ as given forth of the Father singly and a part from the Father but it applyes that is ownes the Father in the Son and that everlasting love of the Father to the Soule brought downe through the Son for the Son is but the Fathers way downe to sinners Iohn 14.6 Iohn 12.44 He that believeth on me believeth not on me but on him that sent me that is believeth not alone in Christ but believes and injoyes that everlasting good will and love of the Father to the soule anb so seeth the Father in Christ commending love and so giving forth himselfe to the soule and so is able to see and say that it is indeed God that justifies and that God was in Christ as the way reconciling sinners to himselfe not imputing their sins and now the sinner sees that Christ never acted any thing or brings downe any thing to the soule but what was and is the good will and pleasure of the Father and so faith ownes not only Christ but the Father giving forth the sonne as the price of their redemption Ephes 1.7 Gal. 3.13 and way of their adoption Gal. 4.5 2. How is this Faith obtained Answ It is the free guift of God as Christ who is its object and all other good things for every good and perfect gift comes downe from the Father God in Christ is the Prince and Author of our faith Heb. 12.2 Looking to Jesus the Author and finisher of our faith Eph 2.8 ye are saved freely by grace through faith that not of our selves it is the gift of God faith is the proper and peculiar guift of God no man commeth unto me except the Father which hath sent me draw him it is the Father that workes all the Father first loves and then gives his Sonne and then drawes soules up unto himselfe in the Son else they never come No man comes to me unlesse the Father draw him Iohn 6. hence it is that the experienced soule desires to be drawn Cant. 1.2 Phil. 1.29 for unto you it is given in the behalfe of Christ not onely to believe but to suffer that is you who have received this gift of faith must expect to suffer likewise Obj. But is not faith held forth in the Gospel as the condition of the Covenant of grace he that believeth shall be saved Answ 1. Although it seemes in the letter of the Gospel to be held forth as a condition of the Covenant he that believeth shall be saved yet it is in the spirit mystery of the Gospel a condition on Gods part it is true none can be said and say truly himselfe that he is in the Covenant of grace before faith yet this faith is the gift of God as you have heard and if any condition it is on Gods part in the mystery and it is his promise Heb. 8.10 This is the Covenant I will make with them I will write my Lawes in their hearts saith the Lord that is I will take them off themselves and make them partakers of my spirit which shall cause them to own love in God and to live out of themselves in God and shall cause them to act spiritually even as Jesus Christ himselfe acted and so faith may be said indeed to be rather a branch or part of the Covenant of grace then the condition for God in the Covenant promiseth to write his Law and to give faith and all good unto the soule he gives Christ a Covenant and with him he gives all having given us his Son how shall be not with him give us all things 2 Faith is indeed an evidence to the soule that is in the Covenant of grace and made one with God hence it is called Heb. 11.1 The evidence of things not seen that is not seen with a carnall eye the spirit evidenceth it and saith receiveth that evidence and so the soule is satisfied through faiths believing of the word and spirit of God Obj. What is the meanes by which God worketh faith Answ The meanes by which God workes faith is his word and spirit by the preaching of the Gospel