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A45586 A Scriptural and rational account of the Christian religion particularly concerning justification only by the propitiation and redemption of the Lord Jesus Christ. Harley, Edward, Sir, 1624-1700. 1695 (1695) Wing H778; ESTC R14848 33,881 122

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God can be well-pleased with sinners even through the Blood of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God who purgethi'geth our Consciences from the dead Works of Sin to serve the Living God For by one Offering he hath perfected ever them that are sanctisied Therefore to imagine any Possibility of the Pardon of Sin without out the atoning Propitiation and Satisfaction only obtained by the Blood of Christ is an evil Figment to palliate the desperate Wickedness and Sinfulness of Sin to make void the Law of perpetual Righteousness which is the in●sible Rule and Judg of all Affections and Actions and doth indeed effectually contemn and blaspheme the infinite Majesty Holiness and Justice of God the Creator and Preserver of all Beings and consequently miserably deprives a Sinner of that strong Consolation given by God to those that fly for Refuge unto Christ to obtain by his Resurrection the Evidence of his compleat Satisfaction to Divine Justice the Answer of a good Conscience The Worshippers thus purged as the Scripture saith having no more Conscience of Sins the Lord having laid on him the Iniquities of us all who do the Work of God to believe on him whom he hath sent For this is the true Cabala the faithful Saying and worthy of all Acceptation That Christ Jesus came into the World to save even chief Sinners In the Cases of Life and Death according to universal Justice in the World it is fatal not only to be an Outlaw flying from Justice Mute in refusing to answer Justice but it proves no less mortal to suggest a Plea which the Law will not allow If a Criminal condemned to die be favoured with some Reprieve and then by the Soveraign's Commission intrusted with an important Imployment the faithful Discharge of that Trust is meer Duty but not Merit and he remains still a condemned Malefactor liable to the former Sentence by the Law of Attaint and Death from which not any thing can deliver but a Pardon from the Soveraign laid hold on and legally pleaded by the Criminal It is thus according to the Rule of Righteousness between the Judg of all the World and every Mortal Creature that God might be just and the Justifier of him which believeth in Jesus Therefore we must not be ignorant of Saton's Devices the Popish Doctrine of Merit by Works sprinkled as they say by the Blood of Christ available to Justification and Salvation is an Antichristian Departure from the Faith and the teaching of Lies in Hypocrisy For there cannot be any Work possible to be accepted by Divine Justice but what is an Act of Obedience to the Law and the best Performances of such is but as our Saviour saith that of an unprofitable Servant When we shall have done all those things which are commanded us we must say We have done that which was our Duty to do Therefore the Observance of a present Duty the Neglect or Male-performance whereof would be criminal Guilt cannot in any just Construction be assumed or imputed to expiate a precedent Transgression guilty of Felony and Treason Yet this Truth doth not in any degree exempt from the Obedience of Faith which is the inseparable and indispensable Obligation and Duty annexed to the Covenant of Grace So that there is not in the least degree any Pretence for Antinomian Libertinism For the Grace of God that bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all Men teaching us that denying Vngodliness and Worldly Lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present World Because Faith unites us to the Principle of Life and works in us by Love which is the Operation or Activity of Life in the fulfilling of the Law There is also another Method of the Depths of Satan to cloud the Glory of God's free Grace and the compleat Merit of Christ's Satisfaction and Righteousness and also to shake the Confidence of a Sinner's Hope to obtain Remission and Acceptance by suborning the Act of Faith to share in the Merits of Christ Now how weak and unreasonable this Supposition is will appear by the Consideration of parallel Cases of Civil and Natural Instances in Judicature Tho the guilty Person cannot have Benefit unless he plead the Royal Pardon yet there is no Virtue in the Plea and humble Claim but only in the extensive Validity of the Pardon Likewise in desperate Sickness or deadly Wound the healing Virtue is not in the meer Application or receiving the Sovereign Balm or Elixir not withstanding the Patient cannot be healed without the Reception or Application of the Remedy Thus it is with a Sinner before the Divine Tribunal Faith believes the Truth and Goodness of the Promise and embraces and relies upon it that is upon the Redemption purchased by Jesus Christ for compleat Salvation from the Condemnation and Corruption of sinful Death for Reconciliation and Acceptance with God and for Participation of Eternal Life which is in Christ Jesus to be communicated to all those who by Faith receive Christ and so have an Union of Life with Christ Now as in the Body the Artery and Nerve is the Ligament the Vessel and Conveyance for vital Union and Motion unto all the Members by the Blood and Animal Spirits So Faith to the Soul is a Means of vital Union with Christ and of the Application and Merits of Christ All which is effected by the Spirit of Christ without which we are none of Christ's and Faith it self is dead The Look of one stung with the deadly fiery Serpent to the Brazen Serpent had no share in the healing Virtue of that Divine Ordinance yet without looking up to the Brazen Serpent the Person stung could receive no Benefit but must die So Faith hath no justifying Virtue inherent in it self For what may prevail to justify must make the Conscience perfect Consequently the Efficient of Perfection must of it self be perfect but Faith cannot be such for it is not of our selves it is the Gift of God Now whatsoever is received is received according to the Measure and Capacity of the Recipient which 〈…〉 and frail 〈…〉 it cannot be 〈…〉 the Law was weak and 〈…〉 through the Flesh so even the Gift of Faith is not able through the remainder of Corruption to perform any perfect Work Therefore the Scripture represents the Lord Jesus Christ under the Notion of the most tender Compassion to the weak in Faith that he will not break the bruised Reed nor quench the smoaking Flax but will bring forth Judgment unto Victory which proceeds not from any Virtue and Power inherent in the Work of Faith but from the Righteousness and Strength which only is to be found in the Lord Jesus by perishing Sinners who sly for Refuge unto the Hope that is set before them Jesus Christ the Son of God Even as the Man-slayer under the Law could not be secure from the Avenger of
that is the Worship of God is taught by the Precepts of Men. The course of Rational Argumentation carrying the Mind to infer that if the Object of Adoration must be obliged to depend upon the Will and Fancy of Human Imposition how and when and with what Mediums or Ceremonies it shall be adored Then the Deity must become a meer Fiction and such Religion nothing but an Idol-Contrivance of the crafty or the foolish Such Superstition being sacrilegious Invasion of the Divine Majesty to institute or practise any Rite Formulary or Ceremony in Religion not commanded by God or otherwise than God hath commanded because God only can be the Law-giver of his own Worship for all other Worship falls short of Acceptance with God consequently cannot make the Worshipper happy but prepares for an Atheistical Rejection of all Religion The most refined Human Intelligence could never find out to Perfection the Works of God which are the Objects of our Sense so as fully to discover the Formation Texture Consistence and compleat Use and End of created Beings Who can fully understand the glorious Orbs of Light which dazle the Beholder Who knows the Firmament of his Power Who knows the Ballancings of the Clouds the wondrous Works of him which is perfect in Knowledg how thy Garments are warm when he quieteth the Earth by the South Wind The very Augmentation of Stones and other Subterranean Materials the Growth of Vegetables the Production Generation Use and Operation of Animals even of the most despicable Insects have escaped and surpassed the diligent Inquiry of the most sagacious Pretenders The Certainty of all which having only Substance and Evidence in Faith by which we understand that the World was made by the Word of God so that things which are seen are not made of things which do appear But who can by searching find out God Or who can find out the Almighty unto Perfection It is as high as Heaven what canst thou do deeper than Hell what canst thou know Yet this is Life Eternal to know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent The Mysteries of the Divine Trinity and of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ God manifested in the Flesh must necessarily transcend the Comprehension of any finite created Intelligence But tho the Love of Christ passeth Knowledg it is impossible for sinful Man to be delivered and saved from Wrath to come that is from eternal Death but by unfeigned Faith in God the Father to be just and the Justifier of an ungodly Sinner which believeth in Jesus in God the Son who only is able to save to the utmost having by himself purged us from our Sins and satisfied Divine Justice is only capable to be an everlasting Mediator of Redemption and Intercession Also in God the Holy Ghost who only can regenerate and sanctify a Sinner to be received into Communion of Life with God for ever Now for a Golden Clasp to the rehearsed Truths none of them being of private Fancy or Invention duly consider the two first Articles of Religion being the Doctrine of the Church of England published in the beginning of the Reformation confirmed by Act of Parliament and continually subscribed by the Clergy Articles of Religion I. Of Faith in the Holy Trinity THere is but one living and true God everlasting without Body Parts or Passions of Infinite Power Wisdom and Goodness the Maker and Preserver of all things both visible or invisible And in Vnity of this Godhead there be Three Persons of one Substance Power and Eternity the Father Son and the Holy Ghost II. Of the Justification of Man WE are accounted righteous before God only for the Merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith and not for our own Works or Deservings Wherefore that we are justified by Faith only is a most wholsom Doctrine and very full of Comfort as more largely is expressed in the Homily of Justification FINIS Prov. 27.19 1 Cor. 4.11 12. 1 Pet. 2.6 Zech. 4.7 Psal 87.3 Isa 62.7 Psal 48.2 Isa 32.17 Jam. 3.18 Rom. 5.1 2 Pet. 2.1 Ephes 4.17 18. Epicire Grashopper Eccles 9.3 Heb. 9.27 Rom. 1.20 Rom. 2.15 Act. 24.25 Deut. 30.20 Prov. 16.4 Eccl. 7.29 Rom. 2.15 1.12 1 Joh. 3.4 Eph. 4.18 Rom. 3.23 Rom. 8.20 Psal 90.11 Isa 40.13 14. Rom. 11.33 Ephes 1.7 8 9. Rom. 3.26 4.5 Gen. 3.15 Jer. 17.12 Heb. 5.9 Heb. 11.4 Heb 9.22 10.4 Heb. 13.20 21. Rom. 1.21 25. Tim. 3.15 Col 2.2 2 Cor. 5.19 21 Heb. 9.22 Heb. 10.1 Heb. 9.14 Heb. 10.14 Heb. 6.18 Heb. 10.2 Isa 53.6 1 Tim 1.15 Rom. 3.25 26 1 Tim. 4.1 2. Luke 17.10 Tit. 2 1● 12. Cor. 5.17 James 2.26 Eph. 2.8 Isa 42.3 Mat. 12.20 Isa 45.24 Job 40.14 2 Sam. 23.5 2 Tim. 2.19 Psal 50.16 Rom. 8.9 Ezek. 36.25 Psal 51.7 Heb. 12.24 13.20 21. 9.14 Rom. 8.1 2 Tim. 1.10 Ezek. 36.26 Tit. 3.3 Eccl. 9.3 1 Cor. 2.14 Joh. 3.3 Joh. 6.65 Joh. 6.56 57. Rom. 8.9 Joh. 15.5 16. Ephes 1.4 Rom. 5.18 Joh. 15.6 Eph. 2.10 Heb. 8.10 11. Hos 2 2● 1 Cor. 1.29 30 31. Gen. 8.20 21. Zech. 5.8 11. Tim. 4.1 Christanam Religionem absolutam simplicem anili superstitione confundere Am. Marcellin Isa 2.19 20 21. Rev. 6.15 16. Joh. 16.3 Rev. 12. Pet. 2.1 Eph. 1.4 9. Rom. 1.23 1 Cor. 8.4 Isa 41.23 Psal 90.1 11. Rom. 3. 1 Pet. 3.21 Rom. 3.24 25. Mark 10.45 1 Tim. 2.5 Rom. 5.1 9 10 11 19. Act. 13.39 10.36 43. Rom. 5.1 Eph. 2.14 Gen. 3.15 Jer. 17.9 Psal 50. Rom. 3.26 4.5 Heb. 9.1 1 Cor. 10.20 Heb. 6.1 Heb. 10.1 4 to 10. Heb. Ephes 1.4 2 Tim. 1. T it 1.2 Ephes 1. Gen. 8.20 21. Ephes 5.2 Gen. 9.9 Joh. 1.29 Psal 106.13 21. Deur 32. Deut. 32.5 15 16 17. Ephes 1.4 2 Tim. 1.9 Tit. 1.2 Mat. 27.35 Mark 15.28 John 19.28 36 37. 1 Cor. 15.3 4. Heb. 9.9 10.1 10.22 1 Cor. 15.17 1 Pet. 3.21 Rom. 8. Eph. 3.18 Rom. 3.5 6 Act. 13.34 2 Sam. 23. Heb. 6.17 18. Heb. 13.8 Rom. 3. Sacrae Scriptura non movent non persuadent sed cogunt agitant vim inferunt Jo. Pic. Mirand Ep. H●m Barbir Prov. 20.27 Prov. 6.23 Heb. 8.10 1 Cor. Rom. 5.2 Heb. 13.10 15. Psal 43.4 2 Cor. 12.4 Psal 31.19 Isa 64.4 1 Cor. 2.9 Joh. 1.1 3. 1 Tim. 3.10 Rom. 9.5 Col. 1.14 15 16 17 18 19 20. Heb. 1.1 2 3 8. Act. 17.31 Luke 16.17 Mat. 25.3 12. Luke 14.18 Mat. 25.41 Ver. 34. Luke Rev. 6.16 17. Psal 14.1 Jer. 17.9 Psal 36.1 2. Psal 130.4 7. Rom. 6.1 2 Rom. 2.4 5 Mat. 11.27 1. Cor. 12.3 Psal 104.2 1 cor 13.12 2 Cor. 12.4 Exod. 33.19 20. Rom. 1.23 Psal 50.21 Isa 45.9 Acts. 2.23 Matth. 10.29 30. Act. 13.48 Isa 33.22 Psal 150.1 Job 37.16 17. Heb. 11.1 3 Job 11.7 8. Joh. 17.3 Rom. 3.26 4.5