Heb. 7.25 Q. Whereby doth the willingness of Christ to save sinners so exceedingly appear A. It appears as many ways as it is possible to have a willingness to any thing discovered in particular By his 1. Expressions 2. Affections 3. Actions Q. By what expressions of his doth his willingness to save sinners appear A. By his x importunity in calling upon us to believe in him for Salvation and his y Complainings of us when we refuse so to do x Cant. 5.2 Apoc. 3.20 y Mat. 23.37 Joh. 5.40 Esa 65.2 Q. By what Affections of his doth Christ declare his willingness to save Sinners A. By his ardent z longings to accomplish the work of our Salvation by his a Joy when we accept of it and by his b Grief when we refuse it z Luke 12.50 a Luke 15.5,9,20,23 b Mar. 3.5 Q. By what Actions of Christ is his willingness to save Sinners discovered A. By his willingness to come down c from Heaven and making the Salvation of Sinners his d great business into the world and by his willingness e to suffer what their sins deserved when he was upon the earth c John 16.28 Heb. 10.7 d 1 Tim. 1.15 Mat. 20.28 Luke 19.10 John 10.10 e John 10.18 Phil. 2.7 Q. You have given me a sufficient account of the free tender of Jesus Christ in the Gospel to every sort of Sinners and of the encouragement they have to come unto Christ for Salvation I would now know of you that since we are by nature in a state of damnation how comes it to pass that there is this way of life and happiness by Christ yet left us A. We are indebted for it to the f Eternal and free love and favour of God who g ordained us to it before the World began f Joh. 3.16 1 John 4.9,10 g Ephes 1.4,5 1 Thes 5.9 Q. Are all Sinners ordained to life in and by Christ A. No some in justice are passed by Rom. 9.13,22 Jude 13. Q. May not this discourage you as to believing in Christ A. No it ought not to discourage me for as much as God tendereth Christ to all but doth not discover their particular reprobation to any Q. But how can it stand with God's justice to save you by Christ since the wages of your sin is death A. Very well because this wages was h willingly received by Christ and so i justice is fully satisfied by him k our surety although not by us sinners who are the principals h John 10.18 Esa 53.5 1 Cor. 15.3 i Mat. 3.17 k Heb. 7.22 Q. Was Jesus Christ then a man that he was capable of suffering and dying A. Jesus Christ was Man John 1.14 Heb. 2.14,15,17 Q. Had he no sins of his own that he could be accepted to suffer for the sins of others A. Jesus Christ was free from all Sin both l Original and m Actual l Luk. 1.35 m Mat. 3.15 Heb. 7.26 1 Pet. 2.22 Q. Could the sufferings of one man how sinless and holy soever satisfie God's justice for the sins of so many A. If Christ had been only Man he could not have done it but Christ was also n God as well as Man which made his sufferings of an o infinite value n John 1.1 Rom. 9.5 0 Act. 20.28 Q. How do the sufferings of Christ become yours A. By God's free and gracious imputation 2 Cor. 5.21 Rom. 3.24,25 Q. But is there nothing required to Salvation but that sin be suffered for A. Yes an absolute and a perfect p Righteousness which is also in q Christ and in r none else and it is in Christ for s us God graciously imputing it unto us p 1 Cor. 6.9 Rom. 5.17 q Mat. 3.15 Heb. 7.26 1 Pet. 2.22 r Eccles 7.20 s 1 Cor. 1.30 2 Cor. 5.21 Phil. 3.9 Q. Can you believe in this Christ and so partake of the benefits that come by him upon your own strength A. No t Faith is the gift of God t Jam. 1,17 Eph. 2.8 Phil. 1.29 Acts 18.27 Q. Why then is the Gospel Preached and why are sinners by it called upon to believe A. Because the same Gospel which God appoints to call upon sinners to believe is God's ordinary u Instrument to work faith in them u Rom. 10.17 Joh. 5.25 Q. What place hath Faith in the business of your Salvation and in what sense is it said to justifie A. Faith is only an Instrument of God's forming in us and is said to justifie us only in a relative sense as it apprehends Christ and no otherwise Our life and happiness being in the object not in the act in Christ not in believing Q. Do you think you do well to lay the whole work of your Salvation thus upon the Free Grace of God in Christ A. I know I do well because the Gospel lays it x all there and whosoever doth not seek Salvation in this y way shall never find it x Acts 4.12 1 Cor. 3.11 y John 14.6 Q. What if a wicked man give over his sinful courses as to be drunk no more swear no more c. will not this save him A. No it will not for were it possible for a man to sin but once and ever afterward to live as innocently as Adam before his fall yet would not this save him Q. What is your reason for this A. My reason is because that one sin deserves z Hell and shall not be remitted without a satisfaction z Rom. 6.23 Gal. 3.10 a Exod. 34.7 Q. But if a sinner forsake his sins and withall heartily repent him of them is it not enough to save him A. It is not for a man not brought to Christ is yet under the b first Covenant that of Works where all the repentance in the world goes for nothing b Gal. 4.24 Q. How do you prove that Repentance under the first Covenant and consequently that the Repentance of a Man out of Christ goes for nothing A. Because true and acceptable repentance is a Grace of the c Gospel The Law gives no grace to repent it makes no promise to repentance yea it gives not the least space to repent the d Tenor of it is Sin and dye c Acts 5.31 Ezek. 36.26 Zach. 12.10 d Gen. 2.17 Jude 6. Q. Suppose then that men cannot come up as high as to believe is it all one whether they be Drunkards or Sober Covetous or Liberal c A. As to their Eternal Condition it is all one for to come short of Christ is to come short of e Salvation yet have we ground to f believe that the greatest sinners shall have in Hell the greatest torments e Acts 4.12 f Mat. 11.22,24 Mat. 23.14 Q. But what if a man do not only leave his sins but doth also set himself to perform good duties shall not such a one be saved without believing A. No because no performance of an unbeliever can be g good the Tree must be good or else the h Fruit cannot and no man is a good Tree but he that is