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A50488	A funeral sermon preached upon the sad occasion of the death of that emiment and faithful servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Rosewell who departed this life February the 4th : and whose remains were interred February th 19th. 1691/2 / by Mathew Mead.	Mead, Matthew, 1630?-1699.	1692 (1692)	Wing M1554; ESTC R20429	28,985	38

pardoned and the guilt removed then the bonds that held his Soul are loosed Thou hast loosed my bonds says David Psal 116.16 And here our redemption begins according to that of the Apostle Eph. 1.7 In whom we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins So that when God pardons sin then he is gracious and says Deliver him from going down to the pit 2. This Redemption is compleated in Salvation There is a state to which he is redeemed as well as from which The state from which is a state of Condemnation There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus Rom. 8.1 The state to which is Salvation and Glory It is not enough to be redeemed from Sin and Death and Hell and Satan unless we are redeemed to God The Blood of Christ purchased positive Mercies as well as negative He doth not see the travel of his soul to satisfaction in delivering us from Hell and Satan till he hath lodged us safe in the bosom of God And therefore this is that which compleats the Song of the Beasts and Elders Rev. 5.9 Thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood And therefore Redemption is spoken of in Scripture as a thing to come a priviledge to be injoyed in the next World and therefore 't is to be waited for at present Rom. 8.23 We which have the first fruits of the Spirit groan within our selves waiting for the Adoption to wit the Redemption of our Body And when is that not till the general Resurrection Therefore that is called the Day of Redemption Ephes 4.30 Ye are sealed to the Day of Redemption We have Redemption now in the application but not in full possession It is bogun but it is not perfected We are redeemed from the guilt and power of sin but not from the defilement Gal. 1.13 and penal effects of sin We are now redeemed from the curse of the Law but we are not yet possessed of all the Comforts of the Gospel The Priviledges we now injoy are the Fruits of Christ's purchase but we do not injoy all which he hath purchased We have a right by Faith to the whole inheritance but we cannot as yet inherit upon that right Though Redemption be perfectly wrought by Christ yet it is applied but in part in the present state We must stay till the great Resurrection before we can be put into full possession This Body that is sown in dishonour 1 Cor. 15.43 must first be raised in glory and this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality Vers 54. and then as Elihu says in the words following the Text his flesh shall be fresher then a Childs Job 33 25 26. he shall return to the days of his youth And then God will be favourable to him and he shall see his face with joy All this is included in the Deliverance here mentioned 1 Thess 1.10 Eph. 1.14 It is not only a deliverance from wrath to come but a redemption to the purchased possession This Ransom reaches from Death to Life from Satan to God from the Pit to Paradise from Hell to Heaven It is such a Deliverance as carries a compleat Salvation in it and nothing short of this can be fully expressive of that Grace which found it out For he is gracious and saith Deliver him from going down to the pit I have found a Ransom And that brings me to a third Query Quest. 3. What Ransom is this that God is said to find and upon the account of which Souls are delivered from the Pit A Ransom properly is that which purchases Redemption It is a Redemption by price To be redeemed and to be ransomed is the same thing The redeemed shall walk there and the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Sion with Songs Isa 35.9 10. It is the Lord Jesus Christ that is the Ransom in the Text his Merit and Righteousness both in doing and suffering is the price of our Redemption and that from the Curse of the Law from the Justice of God from the Power of Satan and from Death spiritual and eternal There is a redemption by power and a redemption by price We are redeemed out of the Soul destroying hand of Satan by power but we are redeemed out of the Sin revenging hand of God by price And that price is no common price it is no less then the Blood of Christ 1 Pet. 1.18 19. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold but with the precious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot Therefore Christ is called the Redeemer Isa 59.7 The Redeemer shall come to Zion And under this Title Job appropriates him to himself Job 19.25 I know that my Redeemer lives And he is said to obtain eternal redemption for us Hebr. 9.12 And this is the Ransom in the Text and it implies two things 1. The Misery of the state sin had brought us into A state of Bondage and Thraldom a state of Death and Damnation That is the case of every Son of Adam by the Fall all Humane Nature was dropping into everlasting Destruction 2. It implies the voluntariness of Christ in giving himself for a Ransom Had not his undertaking been free and voluntary it could not have been meritorious For he who acts by constraint cannot merit by his doing He who parts with what he cannot keep can merit nothing by parting with it The Apostle tells us Rom. 4.4 what Merit is It is such an adjunct of obedience as whereby the reward is reckoned not of grace but of debt God in the covenant of Redemption having proposed to Christ a Law of Obedience with promises of such and such Rewards upon condition of his fulfilling the Obedience required and Christ having performed that Obedience hence the reward is reckoned to him of debt For whatever was promised to Christ upon a Condition he performing that Condition might righteously claim as the reward of his Merit There are two things in the Death of Christ payment and purchase satisfaction and procuration By the one we are ransomed from Misery by the other we are intitled to Glory The first fruit of his Death is Deliverance wrought the next is an Inheritance purchased Now the blood of Christ had been unavailable to both had it not been laid down freely Had he been compelled to die he could not have merited ought for us by dying What was the fruit of Force could not have been meritorious Therefore he says No man takes my life from me I lay down of my self John 10.18 And from the voluntariness of his Death in pursuance of the eternal compact between the Father and the Son and the insinite value of it as being the blood of God so it became a sufficient price not only to ransom us but to purchase all grace and glory for us O how great is the Grace of Christ how should the

is of the Father's drawing but the injoyment of mercies is of Christ's purchasing He pays the ransom which is the price of our redemption but the Father finds the ransom by choosing him to be a redeemer I have found a ransom 3. This finding a ransom implies the acquiescency of the heart of God in it It is a ransom by such a price as is every way satisfactory to the Justice of God and that was the blood of the Son of God Nothing less could have been a sufficient Satisfaction For pray mind this Whence doth the satisfactoriness of Christ's undertaking result It is not from the dignity of his person no that indeed makes it to be of infinite value and worth but it doth not make it to be a Satisfaction For God might have refused it notwithstanding the dignity of the Person that offered it had nothing else interposed As Christ was under no necessity to give Satisfaction so the Father was under no necessity to accept it The same might be said of the greatness of his Sufferings the Satisfaction of Justice doth not arise from them No but it arises from that Agreement that passed between the Father and the Son in the Covenant of Redemption Such a Covenant the Scripture holds out in which there are certain Articles and Conditions concerning the redemption of Man voluntarily consented to and to be persormed by each party There was something to be performed by Christ to the Father and something by the Father to Christ Christ's part was to take up Humane Nature Rom. 8 3. to be made in the likeness of sinful flesh to become a Surety for Man to God to be made sin to bear the Curse due to it to answer all the Demands of Justice for the dishonour sin had done to injured Majesty that so God and Sinners might be brought into a state of Reconciliation and Amity The Father on his part ingages to prepare him a Body to accept him as a Surety to fit him for the work to strengthen him in it and to accept his performance as a full Satisfaction to his Justice and thereupon to pardon and save all that lay hold of his Righteousness And this expounds that dark place in Zech. 9.11 As for thee by the Blood of thy Covenant I have sent forth thy Prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water Most understand this of the redeeming the captived Jews out of Babylon I do not deny this sense but sure they have a farther sense then this I take them as the words of the Father to the Son The pit wherein is no water is the natural slate The prisoners in the pit are not sinners in general for all are not sent forth But such as the Father gave to Christ to redeem therefore called thy prisoners Prisoners in regard of their bondage to sin thy prisoners as being given to Christ to ransom and redeem The sending forth the Prisoners being spoken of as the Fathers act I have sent them forth is an evidence of his full satisfaction for sin And that which satisfies him is the blood of Christ as it is the blood of the Covenant viz that Covenant of Redemption that passed in Eternity between the Father and the Son By the blood of thy Covenant I have sent forth thy Prisoners So that this Scripture is of one sound and sense with the Text Deliver him from going down to the pit I have sound a ransom I should have spoken to one thing more mentioned in the Text viz. the spring and source of this Ransom and Deliverance and that is the Grace of God This had the first hand in the work He is gracious to him and says Deliver him from going down to the pit What a woful Abyss of Misery was poor Man plunged into by the Fall obnoxious to all the Severities of Divine Vengeance so that his case was become desperate and nothing to be looked for but Wrath and Damnation Now what shall prevent this Where is there a Remedy to be found It lies only in the Soveraign Grace of God Man in his lapsed state cannot deserve a Ransom much less such a Ransom as this in the Text made up of such a price as the blood of God Where nothing remains but deformity and desilement there can be no desert Innocency it self cannot merit of God much less Pollution and Filth Redemption is from meer Grace a Favour not procured by the worth of Man who receives it but excited by the Grace of God who dispenses it Nothing can be an Obligation upon God to redeem Man t is his own Grace obliges him Man was so far from laying Obligations upon God by desert that he never once attempted to ingage his Compassion by request Tho he was sunk into the depth of Misery yet he had no desire of a better state Supplications and Tears are prevailing Solicitors with melting Bowels and such are the Bowels of God but the sinner was so far from drawing them forth that by his contemptuous Refusals he rather indeavoured to stop them up And yet our misery and undoneness moved God when there was nothing else to draw forth his Compassions Grace runs through every part of this ransoming work from first to last Grace pitched upon Christ to undertake it And oh how early was God in it for the Ransom was provided long before the Vassalage commenced Sin was never thought on by the Creature when a Redeemer was ordained of God Nay Man's redemption was contrived before his being was bestowed for it was laid from Eternity whereas he began to be in time God foresaw Man would sin and be miserable and therefore provided him a Goel 1 Pet. 1.10 a Redeemer before the Foundation of the World And as Grace ordained Christ to this work so it was Grace that fitted him for it and it was Grace that called him to it and Grace that accepted him in it Justice must have Satisfaction for sin but it is Grace that spares the sinner and takes the Surety Gen 22.13 as Abraham spares Isaac and offers the Ram in his stead There can be no Deliverance out of the hands of Justice but by a full price and therefore Grace finds out a Ransom So that the whole of Redemption is Grace and Riches of Grace so the Apostle calls it Ephes 1.7 In whom we have Redemption through his blood according to the Riches of his Grace It is Grace to find out a Ransom it is Grace to accept it and to deliver and save sinners upon the account of it Thus is God gracious and says Deliver him from going down to the pit I have sound a ransom But I shall proceed no farther in Explication I must make some improvement of these things by Application Infer 1. What a cursed thing is sin how dreadful are the fruits of it Rom. 6.21 the end of these things is death It brings the Soul down to the pit yea to such a pit from which nothing