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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61181	A sermon preached before the King and Queen at Whitehal, on Good-Friday, 1690 by the Lord Bishop of Rochester, Dean of Westminster.	Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713.	1690 (1690)	Wing S5061; ESTC R13441	13,597	46

for our Salvation but in the mean time and in order to that for our Example And lastly The Excellency of the Example he has left us to follow is specified in such an eminent Instance that He did no Sin as would indeed make us utterly to despair of ever following it were it not for his Grace strengthning us his Mercy forgiving us and his Spirit supporting us All which he has faithfully promis'd and no Guile was ever found in his Mouth The first Particular in my Text wherein the Grace of our LORD's Passion is magnifi'd is that the Person now suffering was the Christ of God I need not here stay to enumerate distinctly the many High Prerogatives and Glorious Appellations which are heap'd on this great Person as he was the Christ throughout the Holy Scriptures whereof He was the Alpha and Omega the Beginning and the Ending first the Mystery then the Manifestation that to the Jewish Church under the Law this to the whole World under the Gospel It may suffice that all over this inspir'd Book He is amply declar'd to be what the Author to the Hebrews has Divinely contracted into few words The Son of God The only begotten of God The Heir of all Things The Lord of Glory The very Brightness of his Fathers Glory The express Image of his Person full of Grace and Truth by whom He made the Worlds upholding all Things by the Word of his Power All unconceivably splendid and triumphant Attributes and all these directly tending to and chiefly exercis'd in our Pardon and Peace For so it presently follows that when by himself he had purg'd our Sins then and not till then He sate down on the Right Hand of the Majesty on High This then was the Christ appointed before all Time coming in the fulness of Time sent from the Bosom of his Heavenly Father by his Death to raise us from the Death of Sin whereof our first and Temporal Death was the fatal Consequence and our second Eternal Death had been else the irreparable Punishment A Design this was of Pity and Compassion whose Heigth Depth Length and Breadth were so Incomprehensible that nothing less could be sufficient than an Infinite Wisdom to contrive it and Power to effect it and Love to accept of it By this one Adorable Counsel Heaven and Earth that were themselves so vastly distant and whose distance our Sins had widened so much more were to be join'd and for ever Reconciled Mercy and Truth were to meet together Righteousness and Peace to kiss each other There was to be an Atonement on the one part a Forgiveness on the other Satisfaction was to be made by the Free Sufferings of a Man Salvation to be bestow'd by the Free Grace of GOD. Wherefore both Natures the Human and the Divine were to be United in one Christ. And since GOD was pleas'd to dignifie our Mortal Condition so highly by this near Conjunction he made our Nature in his Christ as Glorious and Perfect as it was capable to be The Preparations for his Appearance the Signs that foretold him the Wonders that made way for him his Personal Perfections his Teaching his Actions his Sufferings did all exceed all Measures of Human Greatness or Benignity So Sacred was his Authority that all other True Divine Teachers from the beginning of the World to his Birth though they had gone before him in the Flesh yet received their Power and Commission from him by the Spirit Whatever Wonders they wrought whatever Truths they taught all was done and spoken with relation to him and in subservience to his Religion We know that not only he himself but even his Types Forerunners and Shadows had many of them the Privilege of working Miracles the Gift of altering the common Course of Nature and controuling the setled Laws of the Creation as they pleas'd The Prophets had it Moses had it above all others Yet they all had it only with dependance on him and by a Title deriv'd from him as they were his Figures Ministers and Substitutes to prepare and enable the World by Degrees to receive this Great Mystery of Godliness God manifested in the Flesh This last and universal Declaration of Life and Immortality brought to Light in the Gospel by Him the Messias I know that Messias cometh who is called Christ and when he is come he will teach us all things said the Samaritan Woman in St. John the 4th and Vers. 25. And in the same Chapter said many of the Samaritans Now we have heard him our selves we know that this is indeed the Christ the Saviour of the World Vers. 42. And the same St. John who loved him most and therefore probably knew him best for the greatest Love of GOD is the best way to the greatest Knowledge of him The Messias says he is being interpreted the Christ The very Messias whom the Jewish Nation all the Wise Devout and Inspired part of it all the time it was a True Church so earnestly expected and desired as he was to be afterwards also the Desire of all Nations They long before beheld him though but darkly in the Visions and Intimations to their Fathers the Characters and Inspirations of their Prophets the Veils of their Ceremonies and Sacrifices the Ornaments of their Temple the Office of their High Priests which were all as the Law it self was only Shadows of good things to come whereof He was the Body they had all a borrowed Meaning and Mystical End they were all fixt on the Great Messias by Him they were Illustrated and in Him alone they were all Consummated By the United Expectation of the Jews all along according to the Prophet Daniel's Prediction and no doubt by a right Tradition antienter than that their Messias was to appear after the Captivity and before the Destruction of their Temple and Nation They themselves just then when Christ came did instantly and every Moment expect his coming All their Circumstances agreed in that time All their Descriptions concenter'd in his Person All their Prophecies than gave over the End of them all being in him once obtain'd And that People has since had no more visible Communion with GOD which had so much before The Scepter was not to depart from Judah nor a Law-Giver from between his Feet till Shiloh should come The Scepter just then did depart from Judah Their Temple was shortly after destroy'd and their Nation irrecoverably hitherto scatter'd Wherefore this our Christ must Infallibly have been the same with their Shiloh their Messias He Unto whom the gather ing of the People was to be He towards whom all the Antient Ages of GOD's Church before him did look forward and upon whom all the Ages of it since have look'd back The former Times to foretel him the later Times to reveal him both to Believe in and to be Saved by him alone for which end and with respect to him all the Miseries