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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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without which cur Faith is vain and we are yet in our Sins void of any sufficient Plea to answer the Charge of the Law of Righteousness at the dreadful Tribunal of the Divine Majesty The manifold unfearehable Wisdom of God in the Administration of the Riches of insinite Grace exceeds what Creatures can ask or think The most large and advantagious Pardon from an Earthly Soveraign to a Rebel cannot reclaim a Felon's Mind or alter a Traitor's Heart But they who are in Christ Jesus and free from Condemnation they have the Spirit of Christ by which they are made new Creatures and enabled to walk nor after the Flesh but after the Sprit This is the Comprehension of the Love of God in Christ extended to all Saints Yet the primary Reason of the Death of our Lord Jesus Christ was to make Satisfaction to the Justice of the holy Creator for the Sins of Rebel Apostate Creatures It then became a consequent Corollary of our Lord's Death to awe from Sin and represent the abominable Sinfulness of Sin In all the righteous Administration of Rewards and Punishments supreme Justice obtains the first and necessary Consideration so that if there were no Persons to be deterred from future Crimes yet Justice requires severe Animadversion upon the present Malefactor otherwise How shall God judg the World God cannot be unrighteous in taking Vengeance upon the Damned in everlasting Torments where there is no place for Repentance nor Capacity for the Benefit of a deterring Example The happy Sum of the Doctrine of Man's eternal Redemption and Salvation is That God hath given us the sure Mercies of David He hath made with us an everlasting Covenant ordered in all things and sure and this is all our Salvation where no proud Pharisee can assume or impute to himself nor any humble repenting Sinner doubt or despair Wherein God willing more abundantly to shew unto the Heirs of Promise the Immutability of his Counsel confirmed it by an Oath that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lie we might have a strong Consolation who have fled for Refuge to lay hold upon the Hope set before us which we have as an Anchor of the Soul sure and stedfast Jesus Christ the same yesterday to day and for ever Amen Now for a Corollary to the precedent Discourse that it may be evidenced not to be a private Opinion but the Doctrine of the Church of England according to the Scriptures here are subjoined the Expressions of the Homily of the Salvation of Mankind only by Christ our Saviour from Sin and Death Everlasting Homily Because all Men be Sinners and Offenders against God and Breakers of his Law and Commandments therefore can no Man by his own Acts Works and Deeds seem they never so good be justified and made righteous before God But every Man of necessity is constrained to seek for another Righteousness or Justification to be received at God's own Hands that is to say the Forgiveness of his Sins and Trespasses in such things as he hath offended And this Justification or Righteousness which we so receive of God's Mercy and Christ's Merits embraced by Faith is taken accepted and allowed of God for our perfect and full Justification For the more full understanding hereof it is our Parts and Duties ever to remember the great Mercy of God how that all the World being wrapped in Sin by breaking of the Law God sent his only Son our Saviour Christ into this World to fulfil the Law for us by shedding of his most precious Blood to make a Sacrifice and Satisfaction or as it may be called amends to his Father for our Sins to asswage his Wrath and Indignation conceived against us for the same But here may Man's Reason be astonied reasoning after this fashion If a Ransom be paid for our Redemption then is it not given us freely For a Prisoner that paid his Ransom is not let go freely for if he goes freely then he goeth without Ransom For what is it else to go freely than to be set at liberty without paying of Ransom This Reason is satisfied by the great Wisdom of God in this Mystery of our Redemption who hath so tempered his Justice and Mercy together that he would neither by his Justice condemn into the everlasting Captivity of the Devil and his Prison of Hell remediless for ever without Mercy nor by his Mercy deliver us clearly without Justice or Payment of a just Ransom But with his endless Mercy he joined his most upright and equal Justice His great Mercy he shewed unto us in delivering us from our former Captivity without requiring any Ransom to be paid or Amends to be made on our parts which thing by us had been impossible to be done And whereas it lay not in us that to do he provided a Ransom for us that was the most precious Body and Blood of his own most dear and best beloved Son Jesus Christ who besides this Ransom fulfilled the Law for us perfectly and so the Justice of God and his Mercy did embrace together and fulfil the Mystery of our Redemption And of this Justice and Mercy of God knit together speaketh St. Paul in the third Chapter to the Romans All have offended and have need of the Glory of God but are justified freely by his Grace by Redemption which is in Jesus Christ whom God hath sent forth for us for a Reconciler and Peace-maker through Faith in his Blood to shew his Righteousness And in the 10th Chapter Christ is the End of the Law unto Righteousness to every Man that believeth And in the 8th Chapter That which was impossible by the Law in as much as it was weak by the Flesh God sending his own Son in the similitude of sinful Flesh by Sin damned Sin in the Flesh that the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us which walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit In these aforesaid places the Apostle toucheth specially three things which must go together in our Justification Upon God's part his great Mercy and Grace Upon Christ's part Justice that is the Satisfaction of God's Justice or the Price of our Redemption by the offering of his Body and shedding of his Blood with the fulfilling of the Law perfectly and throughly And upon our part true and lively Faith in the Merits of Jesus Christ which yet is not ours but by God's working in us So that in our Justification is not only God's Mercy and Grace but also his Justice which the Apostle calleth the Justice of God and it consisteth in paying our Ransom and fulfilling of the Law And so the Grace of God doth not shut out the Justice of God in our justification but only shutteth out the Justice of Man that is to say the Justice of our Works as to be Merits of deserving our Justification And therefore St. Paul declareth here nothing upon the behalf 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. 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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