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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81890	Christ crucified, or, The marrow of the gospel, evidently holden forth in LXXII sermons, on the whole 53. chapter of Isaiah wherein the text is clearly and judiciously opened up ... / by ... James Durham.	Durham, James, 1622-1658.	1683 (1683)	Wing D2799; ESTC R229132	829,417	572

as to the manner how he is affected so he hath the true nature and sinless affection of a man and so hath bowels to be wrought upon which kythed while he was on earth although we cannot take up the manner how he is touched yet he is touched otherwayes then God abstractly considered can be and otherways then an angel in heaven can be touched as we may see Heb. 2.17 and 4.15 We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was in all things tempted as we are yet without sin And it behoved him to be like unto his brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful High Priest and have compassion on the ignorant and them that are out of the way He is Sinners friend that is Intercessour and such an Intercessour that interceeds from the impression that the holy and inconceivable sympathie which he hath with his members hath upon him as his expression to Paul speaks forth Act. 9. Saul Saul why persecuts thou me counting himself a suff●rer with his people which cannot but have it 's own influence on his Intercession and add to the consolation of his People that what he interceeds for the procurement of to them is some way on this ground as being a favour to their glorified head 4. Beside this sympathy he hath a longing to speak so to have all the wants and d●fects of his people supplied and made up and to have all the promises made to him in behalf of the Elect fulfilled Not any such longing as may in the least incroach on or be inconsistent with the glory and glorified state of our blessed Lord Jesus but considering that there is a near relation betwixt him and his followrs he being the head and they the members and that he hath a sympathy and affection according to that relation It is answerable and suitable that he should desire and some way long for the perfyting of his body the Church which Ephes 1. is called The fulnesse of him who filleth all in all And he hath no question though a most pure and regular yet a most kindly and strong desire and longing to have his Body perfyted to have the Elect gathered and brought in As he had on earth a longing to have the work finished which was given him to do And this cannot but be a weighty part of his Intercession and very comfortable to his people his longing to have such and such a person converted such and such a person more mortified and more perfyted and made more confirm to him There is a word Heb. 10.13 that gives ground for this From henceforth expecting till all his enemies be made his footstool And what is spoken of this expecting of what is there mentioned may be applyed to other things He is sure expecting till all these promises concerning his seeing of a Seed and the justifying and glorifying of many be fulfilled because that was promised him in the former verse and expecting till he divide the spoil with the strong as is promised in the former part of this verse Now our Lord Jesus having laid down his Life what is he doing in heaven even longing till these promises be fulfilled Not that he hath any longing that implyes a defect in him simply for he is absoutly glorified and gloriou● yet such longing as is consistent with his glorified state as if we may make the comparison though in every thing it be not suitable the Souls in heaven are perfytly glorified yet they have a longing for the union of their bodies for the perfyting of Christs body mystical and for the union of all the members in a Soul and Body with the head So Christ considered as Mediator God-man in heaven hath a longing and holy desire which agrees with his Office and is a qualification thereof and doth no ways interrupt his happinesse that what concerns his Elect may be perfyted Therefore it 's said in the verse before He shall see of the travel of his soul and shall be satisfied importing that it 's a kind of new satisfaction to him to get a Sinner brought in to believe in him and that he was waiting and longing for it 5. He hath an actual willing and continuing desire that what he hath purchased to such and such persons may be applyed And this is not simply to will for he had that on earth but a declaring of it in heaven that such and such things may be forth coming and made effectual for the behove of his members that what he intended in laying down his life may be brought to pass It 's the Mediator God-man willing whose will as man being perfytely conform to the will of God cannot be to speak so gainsaid in whatsoever he willeth for the persons given him and this is answerable to that John 17.24 Father I will that these whom thou hast given me may be with me where I am c. I will that such and such things ingaged to me for them may be made good That such and such persons be pardoned and brought through that they may be preserved from tentation may have their prayers heard that they may be made to persevere and may be glorified So that we cannot imagine a case wherein Gods People have need and a promise in the Covenant but there is an actual willingness in Christ to have the need suppl ed and the promise applyed according to the terms of the Covenant 6. We may take in here not only Christs willing that such a thing be done but his effectual doing of it And as this is a piece of his Intercession so it holds him forth to be a notable Intercessour compare John 14.13.16.26 15.26 67. In the 14. Chap. verse 13. he sayes Whatsoever ye ask in my name I will do which we suppose respects Christ as Mediator to be trusted as great Lo d D●puty in our nature to answer the prayers of his People when put up according to the will of God The 16. Chap. verse 26. Speaks of the Fathers sending the Comforter and Chap. 15.26 Of the Mediators sending the Comforter So doth Chap. 16.7 In one place it is What ye ask I will do and in another place it is that the Father will do It 's all one but it is to shew that what the Father doth he wil do it by the Son the Mediator and he wil actually perform it And these three expressions I will pray the Father And I wil send and the Father shall send hold out this That as the Father doth by the Son so that this is a part of Christs intercession effectually to procure and send out to us what we have need of 7. In all this there is in the Men Christ an adoration of the Father which though it be not such as is unsuitable to his exalted and glorified state yet is it becoming well him that is Man and in that respect is at his right hand to give

to procure this of him but he freely and willingly and with delight payed your debt when ye were in the hight of malicious opposition to him doing all that might scarr him from it And had it been possible that man's malice despising and despite could have scarred him he had never died for one sinner but he triumphed openly in his grace over that and all that stood in his way 3. We have here a confirmation of that truth that holds out mans malice and desperat wickedness And can there be any thing that evidenceth man's wickedness and malice more Then 1. To have enmity against Christ 2. To have it at such an hight as to despise him and count him smitten and plagued of God And 3. To be at the hight of malice even then when he out of love was condescending so low as to suffer and satisfie Justice for him ye may possibly think that it was not ye that had such malice at Christ But saith not the Prophet We esteemed him smitten of God Taking in himself and all the elect which might give us this Observation That there is nothing more desperatly wicked and filled with more enmity against Christ in his condescending love and against God in the manifestation of his grace then when even elect souls for whom he hath suffered despise him and count him smitten of God and afflicted It 's indeed very sad yet very profitable to walk under the deep apprehension and soul-pressour of heart-enmity against God and Christ Are there any of you that think ye have such sinful and wicked natures that dispose you to think little of Christ to despise and reject him and his grace Gods Elect have this enmity in their natures And if such natures be in the Elect what must be in the Reprobat who live and die in this enmity If this were seriously considered and laid to heart O but folk would be humble nothing would affect the soul more and stound to the very heart then to think that Christ suffered for me through grace an Elect and a Believer and that yet notwithstanding I should have so despised and rejected him and accounted him smitten of God and afflicted Let me exhort all of you to look back on your former walk and to lay this enmity to heart for the day is coming when it will be found to be a biting and conscience gnawing sin to many 4. In that he aggravates their enmity from this Observe this truth which is also here confirmed that there is nothing that gives sin a deeper Dye then that it is against grace and condescending love that is against Christ when suffering for us and offered to us O! that makes sin to be exceeding sinful and wonderfully abominable and thus it is aggreged Heb. 2. As greater then the contempt of Moses his Law And Heb 6. It 's accounted to be a crucifying the Son of God a-fresh and a putting him to an open shame And Heb. 10. it 's called a trod●ng him under foot an accounting the blood of the Covenant to be an unholy thing and a d●ing despite to the Spirit of Grace These two last Scriptures look mainly to the sin against the Holy Ghost yet so as there is somewhat of that which is said in them to be found in all unbelievers their despising of Christ It 's a sin some way hateful even to the Publicans and Sinners to hate them that love us to do ill to them that do good to us How much more sinful and hateful is it to despise and hate him who loved us so as to give himself for us and when he was giving himself for us There are many sins against the Law that will draw deep but this will draw deeper then they all even sinning against Grace and the Mediator interposing for sinners and manifesting love to them And the reckoning will run thus Christ was manifested to you in this Gospel as the only remedy of sin and set forth as crucified before your eyes and made offer of to you in the Gospel and yet ye despised him and esteemed him not And let me say it to Believers that it 's the greatest aggravation of their sin It is true in some respect that the sins of Believers are not so great as the sins of others they not being committed with such deliberation and full bensil of will nor from the dominion of sin yet in this respect they are greater then the sins of others because committed against special Grace and Love actually communicated and therefore when the Believer considers that he hath requit Christ thus it will affect him most of any thing if there be any suitable tenderness of frame 5. From considering that it is the Prophet that expresseth this aggravation we may Observe that the Believer that is most tender and hath best right to Jesus Christ and his satisfaction and may upon best ground apply it will be most sensible of his enmity and of the abominable guilt that is in despising and wronging of Jesus Christ Therefore the Prophet brings in himself as one of those that by Christs stripes were healed taking with his guilt we despised and rejected him we esteemed him not we judged him smitten of God The reason is because interest in Jesus Christ makes the heart tender and any wrong that 's done to him to affect the sooner and the more deeply the scurf that sometime was on the heart being in a measure taken away and interest in Christ awakeneth and raiseth an esteem of him and produceth a holy sympathy with him in all the concerns of his glory even as the members of the body have a fellow-feeling with the head Make a supposition that a man in his madness should smite and wound his head or wrong his Wife his Father or his Brother when that fit of madness is over he is more affected with that wrong then if it had been done to any other member of his body or to other persons not at all or not so nearly related to him There is something of this pointed at Zech. 12.10 They shall look unto him whom they have pierced and mourn for him as a man doth for his only Son As if he had said the stroaks they have given the head shall then be very heavy and grievous to be born and will be made to their feeling to bleed a-fresh They thought not much of these woundings and piercings of him before but so soon as their interest in him is clear or they come cordially to believe in him they are kindly affected with the wrongs done to him The Use is That it 's a mark to try if there be indeed an interest in Christ and if it be clear The man whose interest is clearest 1. His wrongs done to Christ will prick him most if the wrongs be done by others they affect him if by himself they some way faint him Wholeness of heart under wronging of Christ is too great an evidence that there is