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A29503 Six sermons preached before the late incomparable princess Queen Mary, at White-Hall with several additions and large annotations to the discourse of justification by faith / by George Bright ... G. B. (George Bright), d. 1696. 1695 (1695) Wing B4675; ESTC R36514 108,334 272

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this and something else if God give life and health may find another opportunity SERMON VI. 2 COR. V. 19. To wit that God was in Christ reconciling the World to himself not imputing their Trespasses unto them IN these few words we read the most important part of the Design of Christian Religion The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 indeed the glad Tidings which the Gospel hath brought to the World Now do we hear the joyfull News and the best that ever sounded in the Ears of Mankind The Sovereign Lord of Heaven and Earth who is only able to save or destroy us Eternally looks towards us with a Countenance full of Compassion and good Will Here we have the Completion of that Prophetical Hymn sung at the Birth of the Great Jesus by a Choire of Angels Glory be to God on high on Earth peace good Will towards men and very fitly repeated by all hearty Christians whose Minds are enlightned and Hearts sensibly touched after the Communion in that Service i. e. the sending of such a Person as the Ever-blessed Jesus and with such a Design would one Day redound to the Glory of the Divine Wisdom and Goodness both Heaven and Earth sounding aloud his Praises It would also be peace on Earth just Cause of unspeakable Comfort and Joy in all Men who should hear the News that the Eternal God an infinite offended Majesty did lay aside his frowns and regard them with a serene and mercifull Countenance or Peace on Earth i. e. between all Mankind Jew and Gentile Greek Barbarian and Scythian there was now to be no Hatred Contention or Strangeness in respect of Religion All were to be united in the Service of the same God and Lord. Christ was to be the Peace or Peace-maker breaking down the Partition-wall Eph. 2. Finally good Will towards Men in Consequence to God's gracious regard what Acts of Grace and Favour might not Men then expect Great were the Blessings and Benefits now more especially which God was preparing for the Sons of mortal and sinfull Men. Who ought to echo back the Celestial Hymn in such words as that of the Psalmist O sing unto the Lord a new Song sing unto the Lord all the Earth sing unto the Lord bless his Name shew forth his Salvation from day to day Ps 96. 1. Most of the words in the Text may afford us matter of excellent Observation These five I. The Act Reconciling II. The Author God III. The Parties God and the World IV. The Instrument Christ V. The principal Instance or Effect of this Reconciliation not the onely one Not imputing their Trespasses unto them I. The Act the Design the Business to be done Reconciliation This supposeth some Aversion and Enmity in the Parties to be reconciled God and the World The Parties were Enemies This we ought a little to explain and shew in Propriety of Speech 1 How man was God's Enemy and 2 how God may be Man's It needs not much explication or proof that Mankind hath been and in greatest part still is the Enemy of God Enmity imports 2 things 1 A Contrariety of Nature and Will 2 and more strictly mischievous Designs Intentions and Actions according to ones Power In both these respects Man was and is generally still the Enemy of God In the 7 th Chapter to the Romans is an excellent Comment Rom. 7. 12. upon this Enmity between the Divine Nature and Laws and the unregenerate Man for in such Sense St. Paul speaks of himself And the same Apostle tells us That the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh Gal. 5. 17. The degenerate and regenerate Nature are contrary one to the other Ephes 4. 22. The old Man is corrupt the new Man is created after God in Righteousness and true Holiness Most expresly and plainly Rom. 8. 7. The carnal mind is Enmity against God for it is not subject to the Law of God neither indeed can be And the Gentiles which were almost all the World nor were the generality of the Jews inwardly much better amongst other their abominable Qualities are termed Haters of God Thus we see how man is the Enemy of God But how is God man's Enemy i. e. sinfull and degenerate Man 1 It must be acknowledged that God's Nature Will and Laws are as contrary to Man's as his is to God's 2 That God hates a sinfull Nature as such to speak after the manner of men infinitely more than the wicked Man doth the holy and pure Nature of God A wicked man is not so perfectly and in so high a Degree wicked and sinfull as God is righteous and holy and so it is every where express'd in the Scripture God's Soul hates the wicked Prov. 15. 9. It must be acknowledged 3 that God often treats wicked Men in some respects as a Man useth to treat his Enemy He punisheth and destroys them too when irreclaimable But then more generally he useth them like one who beareth their Persons good Will for he pities their blindness and perverseness he bears them with the utmost Patience In the midst of their highest Injuries and Provocations he continues his Blessings corporal and spiritual the good things of this Life oft-times in plenty and the means of Repentance and Salvation his word and spirit He in kindness chastiseth them to the same purpose All these are the Effects of his Benevolence and love of good Will to them even while Enemies Indeed after all this if they grow senseless obdurate and contemptuous He oft-times makes them Examples in this World however in the next He utterly destroys them Body and Soul not their Being but all for which it is desirable But this Treatment proceeds not from any Malice in God against their Persons but from Love and Care of the rest of his Creatures It is only when it becomes necessary to the Government of the World when wicked Men ought not to be any longer born when their mischievous Impiety and Example becomes intolerable Thus we see the difference between wicked Men's Enmity to God and God's to Men. On God's part what there is is most just and necessary but on Man's horribly unjust However an Enmity there is but not irreconcilable For God was in Christ reconciling the World to himself And that 's the II. Thing The Author God He began the Design immediately after the Apostacy and degeneracy of Man and hath been ever since prosecuting of it and that in or by Christ too as we shall presently mention and here we are to observe that it is but one of the parties at Enmity that design'd and endeavour d a Reconciliation and that is God Stupendious Goodness God an infinite Majesty Sovereign of Heaven and Earth desires a Reconciliation with man the meanest of his own reasonable Creatures God infinitely holy wise and good Man unholy foolish and wicked God neglected and forgotten and most part wilfully injuriously offended and even insolently despis'd Man his unnatural and ungratefull