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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41197	A brief exposition of the Epistles of Paul to the Galatians and Ephesians by James Fergusson.	Fergusson, James, 1621-1667.	1659 (1659)	Wing F772; ESTC R27358	577,875	820

only the merit and satisfaction of Jesus Christ the accomplishment whereof was upon the Crosse Joh. 19. 30. for in opposition to the false Apostles their boasting in Circumcision as the meritorious cause of their Salvation See chap. 5. ver 4. doct 1. doth the Apostle here say God forbid that I should glory save in the Crosse of our Lord Jesus Christ. 4. A holy heart which hath experimentally tasted the worth that is in Christ cannot easily think upon Him and especially upon His Satisfaction and Sufferings but it must be enlarged towards Him and have high thoughts of that excellency and worth which is in Him joyned with an earnest desire of a more near union with Him and with an acquiescence in Him as its own if so the heart be already perswaded of interest in Him yea and will sometimes expresse those thoughts of Him to the full when occasion is offered to make any mention of Him for so Paul having occasion to speak of Christ designeth Him so as he expresseth not only those high thoughts which he had of His Excellency and worth while he calleth Him Lord and Jesus and Christ but also the acquiescing of his heart in Him as his own while he saith Our Lord Jesus Christ. 5. The crosse and sufferings of Christ effectually applyed by faith have that much power and vertue in them as to make all things worldly even the very applause and glory of the world contemptible unto and to be actually abhorred by a sincere Believer in so far as the power terror beauty allurements credit pleasure or profit of those things would interpose to mar that high esteem he ought to have of Christ's satisfaction and sufferings or his right use-making of them or his seeking after God's glory as the chief end of all his actions and above all those things for in those respects the world was crucified or as a dead carrion to Paul wherein he could take no pleasure and this by Christ and the vertue of His sufferings and nothing else By whom or by which crosse the world is crucified unto me 6. The more that high esteem of and glorying in Jesus Christ doth grow in the heart of any the more will our accompt of all things worldly being compared with Him and opposed to Him decay And where esteem of those things is upon the growing hand that high accompt which ought to be had of Jesus Christ cannot but be decaying much for with Paul I glory in the crosse of Christ and the world is crucified to me did go together 7. As a man truly godly and renewed by the Spirit of Christ and in so far as he is renewed at least cannot but be unsavoury unto and vilipended by the world and wicked men in the world So this also doth come from the death and sufferings of Christ not indeed as from a working cause for Christ by His death doth work no such malicious disposition in wicked men towards His People but as from an occasion for from those gracious effects flowing from the Spirit of Christ and wrought in those who are renewed wicked men do take occasion to hate abhor and to take no pleasure in them no more than they were the dead carrions of some notorious malefactors put to a shamefull death by the hand of Justice By whom saith he I am crucified unto the world Vers. 15. For in Christ Jesus neither Circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but a new creature HE giveth a reason why he gloried only in the crosse of Christ and not in those fleshly priviledges or ordinances and why the world was crucified unto and undervalued by him to wit because those things which were matter of gloriation to the false Apostles and by making an outward shew whereof they gained the world's applause one instance whereof he giveth in Circumcision and illustrateth it by its contrary uncircumcision under which may be comprehended the simple want of this ordinance and all other things which the uncircumcised Gentiles boasted of as wealth wisdom strength policy and whatsoever is glorious in the eyes of the world all which things he affirmeth to be of no account or worth in Christ Jesus to wit so as to make a man accepted of Christ or to evidence his acceptation by Him or interest in Him and withall sheweth that the new creature or the renovation of the whole man by God's omnipotent creating power in knowledge Col. 3. 10. righteousnesse and true holinesse Eph. 4. 24. is only that in opposition to those external and worldly things which maketh a man acceptable to God in Christ and especially doth evidence his acceptation by and interest in Christ. Doct. 1. As those things are most applauded unto by men of this world which are most remote from and have least relation unto Jesus Christ and peoples interest in Him So for that reason a godly heart will be more dead unto and lesse taken up with applause from them whether he have it or want it for Paul giveth this for a reason why the world was crucified unto him Even that those things which had most of the world's applause did no wayes evidence a man's interest in Christ as the new creature did as appeareth by the causal particle for For in Christ Jesus neither Circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision 2. Though other things besides the work of Regeneration and saving Grace such as wealth honour wisdom strength are of good use for the affairs of this life Eccles. 9. 15. Yet none of these nor any other thing else if separated from the work of saving grace are of any worth or account to commend us to God or to evidence a saving interest in Jesus Christ and in those saving benefits which are purchased by Him for in this respect he saith In Jesus Christ neither Circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision 3. As we are so far dead in sins and trespasses Eph. 2. 1. that no lesse than almighty creating power is requisit for working of a gracious change in us So this gracious change thus wrought doth reach the whole man his soul and all the faculties thereof his body and all the members thereof are renewed and changed 1 Thess. 5. 23. for this gracious change hath the name of a new creature importing it to flow from God's creating power and that it is extended to the whole man 4. This gracious change of the whole man is for singular use and advantage to the man who hath it though not to give him a right to Christ or to justifie him except in so far as the grace of Faith is included in it for Faith alone doth intitle a man to Christ 1 Joh. 5. 12 13. and justifie him Gal. 2. 16. yet to evidence unto his own conscience that he hath that right and is a justified person 1 Joh. 3. 7 14. for with respect to this he saith That in Jesus Christ a new creature doth avail with a little variation of the sense and