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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13010	XI. choice sermons preached upon selected occasions, in Cambridge. Viz. I. The preachers dignity, and duty: in five sermons, upon 2. Corinth. 5. 20. II. Christ crucified, the tree of life: in six sermons, on 1. Corinth. 2. 2. By John Stoughton, Doctor in Divinity, sometimes fellow of Immanuel Colledge in Cambridge, late preacher of Aldermanburie, London. According to the originall copie, which was left perfected by the authour before his death.	Stoughton, John, d. 1639.; Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1640 (1640)	STC 23304; ESTC S100130	130,947	258

the Lord had not beene on our side they had swallowed us up quicke But thanks be to God in Christ Iesus the net is broken and we are escaped and behold they are dead that sought our lives The Divell like a Serpent in the Garden stirred Adam to sinne and Sinne like a Serpent in the Wildernesse stung Israel to the death but our Saviour hath overcome them all he tamed the Serpent in the wildernesse that tempted Adam in the Garden to sinne and he tooke out the sting of sinne the Serpent of the Desart by the desert of his suffering for sinne was the Serpent and the sting of sin was death and death he vanquished in the grave even in his owne denne even on his owne dunghill So that if death should now reason that he hath us still in captivitie because he hath us still in keeping we may say as Tully once to Atticus O mors ubi est acumen tuum or rather as S. Paul prompteth us O death where is thy sting ô grave where is thy victorie And thus was Christ the Lambe sltaine the price paid the propitiatory sacrifice for his chosen and this was his passive obedience whereby he suffered and overcame that which we should have suffered but could not have overcome satisfying even the rigorous exaction of Gods exact justice and these are both the parts of the payment which he tendred up to God in our behalfe and for our behoofe by which he hath not only freed us from our naturall misery which was the first part of Salvation and hath beene shewed hitherto but hath also filled us with all good things which as the former consists in two things Holinesse and Happinesse Both which Christ hath furnished us withall out of the rich storehouse of his merits for what he did he did for us and we are righteous in his righteousnesse and what he merited for us he merited and we are victorious in his victorie in a word he hath cloathed us with an undefiled immaculate robe of righteousnesse and crowned us with an immortall crown of glory even in incorruptible crowne of inconceivable glory with righteousnesse irreprehensible with glory incomprehensible And if any man doubt yet of the sufficiency of his satisfaction weighing the heinousnesse of our transgression let that man consider but who it was that did these things and what the things were that he did and suffered and then I hope he shall be sufficiently satisfied It was the Lord of glory that emptied himselfe into the forme of a servant it was the Lord of life that shed his precious blood for us he humbled himself to be a man yea a servant of whom it was every way true if ever it were true there is one servant only which is master of the house yea not a man a worme and no man he humbled himselfe to the death the death of the crosse the most ignominious and ignoble death of all other● he descended out of the bosome of blessednesse into the bottome of basenesse and therefore needes must his passion be very meritorious whose person was so magnificent his desert must needs be great whose descent was so glorious Neither need any man doubt of Gods acceptation for beside that which hath beene said that what he did and what he suffered it was for us because he was man he tooke not the nature of Angels upon him but of man and it was sufficient because hee was God which adds infinite value to both beside this I say who could be so fit to reconcile man to God as he who was both God and man Man quia solus Deus sentire God quia solus homo superare non potuit mortem quam pro nobis obire debuit yea and it was the counsell of the Lord that this should be the meanes to bring this to passe and therefore hee laid his wrath upon him which otherwise had beene injustice his wrath I say so heavily upon him that it wrung out strange words My God my God why hast thou forsaken me and therefore he that accounted him a sinner for our sakes must needs accept of the sacrifice that he offer'd for our sins Now when I review all that I have said for his sufficiency me thinks I need not have gone further off my text for demonstration of this truth for Paul saith he determined to know nothing but Christ Iesus and him crucified therefore he is Christ and Iesus and crucified therefore he is an alsufficient Saviour for these three like the three termes of a Syllogisme draw in a demonstrative Conclusion like the three tongues that were written upon the Crosse Greeke Latine Hebrew to witnesse Christ to be the King of the Iewes doe each of them in his severall Idiom avouch this singular Axiom that Christ is an alsufficient Saviour and a threefold cord is not easily broken He was that Christ which was annointed and appointed of God for that purpose and therefore filled and furnished with all graces fit for the accomplishment According to the smell of thine Ointments thy Name is an Ointment powred forth therefore the virgins love thee saith the Spouse in the Canticles His name is the Annointed and in him many graces concurred to make a full performance as in a precious ointment many spices concurre to make a sweete perfume Therefore the virgins love thee the virgins that are pure in heart hence they fetch Oyle for their Lamps and therefore they burne in love virgins love ointment for their beautie thy Name is an ointment powred forth therefore the virgins love thee the wise virgins love thee because they are wise and so would the foolish too but that they are foolish 2. This Christ was crucified for us there was the whole box of ointment broken and powred forth there all the spices gave their smell a sweet smelling savour which ascended into the nosthrils of the Lord and became to him a dutifull smell in which he is well pleased And therefore 3. He must needs be Iesus whether you derive the name from the Greeke as some have done to heale more finely then fitly and yet more fit then finely for he hath healed all our infirmities by the merit of his blood and the annointing of his Spirit or from the Hebrew as it is most truly for he hath saved us from our sinnes from all our sinnes and therefore is a true Iesus a Saviour a perfect Saviour for so the Angell that imposed his name expounded it And therefore is an Angell from Heaven preach any other doctrine then this let him be accursed saith S. Paul I need not heape up any more yet it will not be amisse to let you heare the voice of the Scripture where to omit the common consent of the whole frame and phrase of the booke and the murmure of every letter which all of them proclaime this truth and beside those words of note which note thus much every where as Grace

Iuda till Shilo come Crucified As the Serpent was lifted up in the Wildernesse Dead The Messiah shall bee slaine saith Daniel Buried Thou wilt not leave my soule in grave said David in his person the third day he rose againe for it was impossible that the paines of death should hold him as was signified in Ionas comming out of the Whales bellie He ascended into Heaven as Enoch and Elias types of him had done Sitteth at the right hand of God the Father so David the Lord said unto my Lord sit thou at my right hand untill I make thine enemies thy footstoole 2. Because Christ crucified more specially makes for our purpose consider it of his passion in speciall he was betrayed he that eateth bread with me my familiar in whom I trusted saith David sold for thirty pieces of silver some would have it to answer to the price of the ointment that Mary powred upon his feet because Iudas murmured and so that hee did it ut impleretur that the bagge might be filled thus the covetous Traitor should have sold the annointed of the Lord to have gained the ointment but this was not it here was the true reason ut impleretur that the Scripture might be fulfilled that said so much Zach. 11. 12. So they weighed my price thirty pieces of silver a goodly price that I was prized of them he was Crucified betweene two Thieves for so saith the Scripture with the wicked was he counted 3. Nay even petty things were not omitted he thirsted well might he thirst who was so scorched with the heat and pressed with the weight of Gods wrath that he sweat water and blood and therefore well might he say he thirsted ut impleretur that he might quench it but this was the maine cause ut impleretur that the Scripture might be fulfilled for it was meat and drink for him to doe his fathers will they gave him vinegar to drinke so David They cast lots for my garments so said he upon my vesture have they cast lots his side was peirced with a spear even that speare was guided by a prophesie so saith David 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so Zacharie they shall see him whom they have pierced I might be infinite and Matthew alone hath gathered thirty two prophecies and applyed them to him with this burden or undersong ut impleretur quod dictum erat per Prophetas I end this point with that of Peter Act. 10. 43. To him give all the Prophets witnesse that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sinnes the place is very plaine and those words of the Prophets are thrise repeated in the third of that booke for all the Prophets are many times Boanerges sonnes of thunder and then indeed they fetch all from Mount Sinai where there were thunder and lightning and earthquakes when the Law was given but all these stormes usually end in some calme of consolation and when they would be Barnabas sons of consolation they fetch all from Mount Sion the sweet promises of the Messiah and steepe all their words in his blood Thus Christ is the scope of the Propheticall part of the old Testament I should shew the same in the new also but it will be needlesse every letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the very sound as the Orator speakes avouches this truth The foure Evangelists what are they but the storie of his life and death Let Iohn speake for them all These things are written that ye might believe in Christ Iesus and believing have everlasting life through his name I will not hunt for comparisons nor shew what reference they have to the foure beasts in Ezekiel but me thinkes all the rest aime at his humanitie more principally Iohn only like the Eagle is quicker eyed and as though he had some window into his breast as well as he leaned on his breast hee peirceth through the vaile of his flesh to his Divinity and draws his pedigree from heaven through eternitie And the Providence of the Lord is worth observation that he would have foure to write this storie all in a most celestiall harmony two of which the two Apostles Matthew and Iohn were ocular and two the two Evangelists Mark and Luke auricular witnesses of that which they wrote that all pretext of doubting might be excluded The Acts have nothing but the same Christ preached among the Gentiles for he brake downe the wall of separation And as after the flood there was a confusion of tongues to hinder the building of Babel so was there the effusion of the gift of tongues to further the building of the heavenly Ierusalem that all knees might bow and all tongues confesse that Iesus is the Lord. All the Epistles have no other argument but salvation by Christ as may appeare out of the salutation Grace and peace in Christ Iesus grace the beginning and peace the perfection of all happinesse and both by Christ Iesus And it is observed that the very name of Iesus is used by Paul alone above five hundred times and no wonder for there be in it a thousand treasures as Chrysostome said yea all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge and comfort are hid and lockt up in him The whole Revelation what is it but a Commonitorie for the observation of the government of the Church by Christ the King thereof and the expectation of his glorious comming as the conclusion of all evidences Come Lord Iesus come quickly Tanquam habeat scriptum tota tabella veni That I may didicate an Egyptian Jewell to the service of the Tabernacle And thus I shut up this part that Christ is the summe of both Old and New Testament in these three differences as to come in the Old and in the New as come and to come againe to judgement And me thinks those two are like the two Cherubims that shadowed one Mercy-seat their faces were one toward another and their wings but both toward Christ the Mercy-seat like Ezekiels vision where the foure creatures stirred and stood still both together whose wheels were as it were one wheele within another and Christ in all like the Spies that returned to Moses out of Canaan for as they brought the clusters of Grapes a map of that good Land betweene them so the two Testaments bring nothing but Christ betweene them now Christ is the true Vine as himself sayes like the clusters of Grapes as the Spouse speaks and his blood is the Wine of the Sacrament the wine that maketh glad the heart of the faithfull which was scruzed out of his body upon the Crosse the Winepresse of Gods wrath where you may behold him excellently tanquam uva passa Christ Crucified And therefore Christ is like the hinges upon which the whole frame of time upon which the bifores valvae of the house of the Sunne the two Tabernacles the two gates of Heaven doe hang and turne themselves