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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68657	The price of our redemption A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, the sixt of Aprill last, 1617. By Charles Richardson, preacher at Saint Katherines neere the Tower of London.	Richardson, Charles, fl. 1612-1617.	1617 (1617)	STC 21015; ESTC S106048	53,639	140

wherein soeuer he is able For many This is the last circumstance noting the persons for whome our Sauiour Christ paide this price where we are taught that all haue not benefite by the death of Christ This our Sauior testifieth in another place when hee instituted and administred his last Supper in deliuering of the cup he said Math. 26 28. This is my blood of the new Testament that is shed for many for the remission of sinnes If any man shall demand who these many are I answer they are all the beleeuers and all that do belong to Christ As hee himselfe saith Iohn 3 16. God so loued the world that he hath giuen his onely begotten Son that whosoeuer beleeueth in him should not perish but haue euerlasting life And this was signified by the angell before hee was borne Mathew 1 21 in the giuing of his name Thou shalt call his name Iesus for he shall saue his people from their sinnes Whereby it is plaine and euident that hee saueth none by his death but them that are his people Iohn 10 15. So hee saith in another place I lay downe my life for my sheepe But wee know that all are not the sheepe of Christ Mat. 25 32 33 There are manie Goats that belong to another folde But it may be obiected that Christ gaue his life for many and the beleeuers are but few as our Sauiour saith in diuers places as namely The gate is straite Mathew 7 14 and the way narrow that leadeth vnto life and few there be that finde it And againe he saith to his Disciples Feare not little Flocke for it is your Fathers pleasure to giue you a kingdome Luke 12 32. The flock of Christ then is but a little flocke I answer that if the children of God bee compared with the multitude of the wicked then indeede they are but a fewe euen an handfull A small remnant Isaiah 1 9. as the Prophet Isaiah saith but if wee consider them in themselues they are innumerable as it is said in the Reuelation where besides the manie thousands Apoc. 7 ● 9 euen 144000 that were sealed for the seruants of God of the Tribes of Israel there was a great multitude which no man could number of all Nations and kindreds and people tongues which stoode before the Throne and before the Lambe clothed with long white Robes and palmes in their handes 2 Cor. 5 15. But it will bee further obiected that the Scripture saith plainely that Christ dyed for all I answere that there the Apostle speaketh of the Church or of the elect alone Beza vniuersallie considered And therefore of necessitie the particle or note of generality must be restrained to the point whereof the Apostle intreateth And this is verie vsuall in the Scripture Our Sauiour alledgeth a place out of the prophesie of Isaiah in this maner Iohn 6 45. Isaiah 54 13. It is written saith he in the Prophets and they shall all be taught of God Now in the Prophet it is thus And all thy children shall be taught of God That which our Sauiour speaketh vniuersally the Prophet restraineth onely vnto the children of God Againe it is certaine that our Sauiour Christ died for all sorts of men of whatsoeuer nation degree or condition they are According to that speech of Peter in his sermon to Cornelius Of a truth I perceiue Act 10 34 3● that God is no accepter of persons But in euery Nation he that feareth him and worketh righteousnes is accepted with him And this is agreeable to other places of Scripture where the word All is restrained in this manner Genesis 7 1. As where it is saide That euery beast and all cattle and euery thing that creepeth and moueth vpon the earth and euery Towle and euery bird came into the ark vnto Noah Now it is certaine that all the beasts and all the cattle and all the soules that then were did not vniuersally come into the Arke for there came but two and 9. 21. a male and female of euery kind and all the rest were drowned in the flood And therefore the meaning of the place must needs bee that there came all kind of cattle and fowles c. into the Arke So likewise it is said of our Sauiour Christ That he healed euery sicknesse Math. 4 23. and euerie disease among the people Now there is no man can imagine that hee healed all diseases generally for doubtlesse there were many died in his time but he healed all kinds and sorts of diseases So when it is saide that our Sauiour Christ died for all wee may safely vnderstand it that he died for men of all sorts and conditions whether they be high or low rich or poor bond or free But it wil be obiected again that our Sauior saith Iohn 3 16. God so loued the world that he gaue his onely begotten Son c. and therefore hee was giuen for the whole world I answer that our Sauiour saith in another place I pray for them that is for my disciples Iohn 17 9. I pray not for the world Heere the worlde is excluded from the benefite of Christ his prayer So that wee haue a Worlde opposed to a World There is a World of them that shall bee saued for them Christ was giuen there is a Worlde of them that shall bee damned for them Christ doth not pray I doe not deny but that the death of Christ is sufficient to saue al men for his blood as wee haue heard is of infinite value But it is not effectuall to saue all because many do reiect it trample it vnder their feete This serueth for the reproofe of them that thinke that all shall be saued by the death of Christ It is a fearefull error where-with the deuill carried many thousandes of poore soules to hell But they shall finde and feele the contrarie to their woe vnlesse they preuent it by repentance For certainely there are many in the world to whome it may be saide as Simon Peter saide to Simon Magus Acts 8 21 They haue neither part nor fellowship in this businesse There are vessels of wrath prepared to destruction Rom. 9 22 23 as well as vessels of mercy prepared vnto glory Iude verse 4. There are some that were before of olde ordained vnto condemnation that were appointed to bee damned before euer they were borne There are many vngodly personnes 2 Thess 7 8 9 Which know not God and obey not the Gospell of our Lord Iesus Christ which shall bee punished with euerlasting perdition from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power And our Sauiour describing the maner of his comming to iudgement telleth vs plainly that at that day there shall be a separation made betweene the sheepe the Goats though heere they graze all in one pasture and the Sheep shall be set on his right hand and shall heare a most comfortably sentence Math. 25 32 33 34. Come ye blessed of my Father inherite yee the kingdome prepared for you from the foundations of the world But the Goates shall bee set on his left hand shall heare a fearefull doome denounced against them Depart from mee ye cursed into euerlasting fire 41. which is prepared for the deuill and his Angels And therefore let euery one of vs be admonished according to the exhortation of the Apostle to giue al diligence to make our calling and election sure 2 Peter 1 10. We are very careful to make sure our outward estates in the world and we had neede to doe so in respect of this cunning and subtle age wherein we liue Much more should we make it our cheefe care by all good means to assure our hearts that we are in the number of those that shal be saued by the death of Christ Otherwise wee can haue no sound comfort neither in life nor in death FINIS