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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64337	A treatise relating to the worship of God divided into six sections / by John Templer ...	Templer, John, d. 1693.	1694 (1694)	Wing T667; ESTC R14567	247,266	554

others in dignity there mast be a kind of infinity in that penalty which was laid upon him Now what can be more efficacious than this to remove all contempt from the Laws and put a check upon that aptitude which is in Men to take encouragement from a bad example to violate them Who dare lightly think of that the vindication of which cost no less than the Death of the Lord of Life That Authority will not easily be disvalued when it is manifest That the crime in neglecting of it was expiated upon no easier terms than the Passion of the Son of God Who will not be afraid to affront that Order which the Divine Wisdom has established when he considers the drops of Blood which fell from the face of our Blessed Lord the wounds which were made in the most nervous parts of his Body the greatness of the Agony which he suffered As the damage done by Sin to the Laws is repaired by the Passion of Christ so likewise the mind of the Supreme Rector is fully appeased and reconciled A Reconciliation is attributed to his sufferings in the Holy Scriptures This reconciliation must import a reconciliation of God unto us The Apostle in his Epist to the Romans speaks of our receiving the atonement c. 5. v. 11. We then receive it when we lay aside our enmity and are converted unto God and therefore this atonement must be made before our enmity be deposited The thing received is always antecedent to the act of receiving and by consequence it can import nothing but God's reconciliation to us by the Blood of Christ provided we comply with the terms of that Covenant of which he is the Mediator For this reason mention is made of a reconciliation thro' the blood of the Cross Col. 1.20 And then after follows another reconciliation when we cease to be enemies in our minds to God v. 21. parallel to this is what is expressed 2 Cor. 5.19 God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself And then v. 20. We pray you in Christ's stead be ye reconciled unto God Here are evidently Two Reconciliations One of God unto us in case we perform the conditions of the New Covenant The Other of us unto God when we are converted Then that Reconciliation which was before conditional becomes absolute and we fully stated in the possession of the Divine favour Now this reconciliation of God unto us can import no less than that his mind is fully satisfied and his displeasure appeased in consideration of the Sufferings of Christ Upon this account our Blessed Lord is stiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 3. He is a cover to the Law and prevents the Penal part of it from being executed upon us He is said to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a propitiation for our sins God is made by his precious blood 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hilaris or chearful in his countenance when he looks upon a sinner He who before was angry is now propitious His righteousness being declared and the authority of his Law as fully vindicated by the Passion of Christ as if we had suffered He is satisfied and contented upon the terms of the Gospel to make us the objects of his favour Crellius in opposition to what has been asserted affirms 1. That the Apostle in his Ep. to the Romans speaks of Conversion and because Conversion expresseth only the amicable temper of our minds towards God he useth the word Reconciliation to import That if there be a friendship wanting on God's part by reason of our hostility to him in an unconverted state it is then when we are converted fully completed 2. The Apostle in his Epistle to the Celossians cannot speak of a reconciliation of God unto us in a proper sence because in the reconciliation there mentioned things in Heaven are concerned namely Good Angels who were never in a state of enmity to God 3. When the Apostle says in his Epistle to the Corinthians That God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself 2 Ep. 5.18 19. the meaning is That God did promote Conversion by the preaching of Jesus Christ as afterwards he did by the Preaching of the Apostles 4. When Christ is said to be a Propitiation the word cannot import any placation of the Divine Anger The love of God in sending Christ evidently demonstrates a reconciliation antecedent to the mission and coming of Christ into the world To all which I reply in order 1. The granting That the word Reconciliation is used with a design to express That if there be any friendship wanting on God's part it is completed at our Conversion is a concession of the whole cause The Spirit of God doth not use to speak conjecturally He has a full comprehension of all the Mystery of Godliness Had he not known That there is a reconciliation of God unto us as well as of us unto God he would not have used a word with a design to express so much Now this reconciliation is not imputed to conversion but the Death of the Son of God as the procuring cause and therefore to receive the atonement can be nothing but to receive the reconciliation and friendship of God which is merited by the sufferings of Jesus Christ 2. By Things in Heaven there is no necessity to understand Angels There were Men in Heaven as well as Angels who had been in a state of enmity to God These God was reconciled unto by the Blood of his Son when they were upon the earth and now they were in a state of fruition reaping the advantages of his atonement 3. When the Apostle says God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself something more must be meant than the promoting Conversion by the preaching Christ Our Blessed Lord did not preach unto the World but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel If the reconciling by Christ did import no more than the converting of Men by his Preaching then it might have been as well said That God was in the Apostles reconciling the world unto himself It will be difficult to prevail with any to believe That there is not something peculiar in this expression which cannot with justice to the honour of our Redeemer be attributed to any other 4. The Love of God in sending Christ is no argument of a reconciliation in God antecedent to the sufferings of Christ When so much love was expressed to Eliphaz and his two friends as to appoint Job to be an Intercessour for them and to direct them to offer up Seven Bullocks and Seven Rams at that very time the wrath of God was kindled against them The Plague an undoubted testimony of divine displeasure was at that time upon Israel when God sent his Prophet to instruct David how to stop the spreading of the Contagion All which can be reasonably deduced from the mission of Christ is a design or purpose to be reconciled and not an actual reconciliation And now if we look back