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Christ crucified, or, The doctrine of the Gospel asserted against Pelagian and Socinian errours revived under the notion of new lights : wherein also the original, occasion and progress of errours are set down : and admonitions directed both to them that stand fast in the faith and to those that are fallen from it : unto which are added three sermons ... / by Paul Lathom.
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conceive and bear a Son c. The Jews of late have endeavoured to evade the force of this Text by corrupting it telling us that the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which we render a Virgin doth onely signifie a Woman but this as it doth offer great violence to the word here used so also to the scope of the Text and Context For the words are spoken as a signe to Ahaz Now what signe or wonder would it have been to tell them that a Woman should conceive or bear a Son But for a Virgin to conceive and yet continue a Virgin still that is a wonder and fit to be given as a Signe Now this also was fulfilled in that Jesus in whom we believe as the Scripture shew Mat. 1.18 The Angel of God came to a Virgin whose name was Mary and told her Behold thou shalt conceive in thy Womb c. and when She asked Luk. 1.34 35. How can this be seeing I know not a man It was answered The Holy Ghost shall come upon Thee and the Power of the Highest shall overshadow Thee c. 3. The Messiâ—h was to be born in Bethlehem Thou Bethlehem Ephrata Mic. 5.2 though thou be mean amongst the Tribes of Israel yet out of thee shall he come forth who shall be Ruler of my people The Jews were sensible of this and therefore the Scribes and Elders directed the Wise-men thither Mat. 2. Luk. 2. and cite this place of the Prophet for it Now Jesus was born there and it is the more observable because of that Providence which brought Joseph and the blessed Virgin hither without any thoughts of him that called them thither 4. It was foretold that the Messiah should have John Baptist to go before him Behold I will send my Messenger before thy face Mal. 3.1 which shall prepare thy way before thee and then The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come into his Temple And elsewhere Isa 40.3 he is called the Voice of one crying in the Wilderness Prepare the way of the Lord make his paths straight Now Jesus in whom we believe had John Baptist to be born six months before him Luk. 1. Mal. 3. and he is said to begin a little before Jesus began to Preach and he Taught in the Wilderness of Judea the Baptism of Repentance for the Remission of sin Mark 1.1 2. And it is observable how St. Mark begins his Gospel as it were taking at these Prophesies of Isaiah and Malachy The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as it is written in the Prophets Behold I send my messenger before thy face c. 5. The Prophet fortold that when the Messiah should come he should confirm his Doctrine by many and great Miracles Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened Isa 35.5 6. and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped then shall the lame man leap as an Hart and the tongue of the dumb shall sing Now Jesus did confirm his Doctrine with these and many other Miracles as I have shewed But to apply his Miracles particularly to this Prophesie He opened the eyes of the blind Matt. 9.27 he unstopped the ears of the deaf Mar. 7.32 he made the lame to walk Matt. 15.30 and the dumb to speak Matt. 9.32 6. It was foretold that the Messiah should enter into Jerusalem in a kinde of a triumphant manner That they should cry to him Hosanna Zech. 9.9 Psal 118.25 26. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. For the word Hosanna signifies Save we beseech thee and in the Original of that place of the Psalm the word Hosanna is used And this also was fulfilled in Jesus Christ as you may see at large Mat. 21. 7. It was foretold that he should be betrayed by one of his own Servants As David in his own person speaketh Psal 41.9 Yea mine own familiar friend in whom I trusted who did eat of my bread hath lift up his heel against me Zech. 11.13 And that he should be sold for thirty pieces of silver with which thirty pieces the potters field should be purchased Now this was exactly fulfilled in Jesus for Judas one of the twelve went to the Chief-priests and said What will ye give me Mat. 26.14 15. and I will deliver him unto you and they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver with which after Judas in remorse of conscience had restored it Mat. 27.7 8 9. they consulted together and bought the Potters field to bury strangers in And whereas there may be some scruple here in that the Greek cites Jeremy the Prophet when the words are not to be found in him but in Zechariah for the resolving of this see Junius in Parallelis Doctor Hammon in loc and other Commentators 8. It was foretold that the Messiah should suffer death Isa 53.12 vers 5. that he should pour out his soul unto death that he should be numbred with transgressors that he should be scourged to the end Psal 22.17 that by his stripes we might be healed That he should be crucified I may tell all my bones they look and stare upon me this crucifying was such a torment as did as it were put all his bones out of joynt That he should be mocked by his enemies as he hanged upon the Cross vers 7.8 Psa 69.21 Psal 22.19 That he should have vinegar mingled with gall given him to drink That they should divide his Garments among them and cast lots upon his Vesture Now these things were all fulfilled in Jesus Christ as we may see if we consult the story of his death in the Evangelists and in particular Mat. 27.15 26 34 35 38 39. 9. It was foretold that the Messiah should rise again from the dead the third day That when he had made his soul an offering for sin Isa 53.11 he should see his seed and prolong his days And some take those words in Hosea to foretel his rising the third day Hos 6.4 After two days he will revive us and the third day we shall live in his sight That he should ascend into Heaven Psal 68.19 Thou hast ascended on high thou hast led captivity captive and received gifts for men And some take that other place to be a prophesie of the same Psal 24.4 5. Lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye ever lasting doors and the King of glory shall come in Now this also was fulfilled in Jesus Christ Matt. 28.1 who rose again from the dead the third day and ascended into heaven before divers witnesses Mar. 16.19 Lastly it was foretold that the Mesliah should be God as well as Man as I have shewed fully before Isa 9.6 by those Names that are given to him Now Jesus in whom we believe as he was evident to all that knew him to be truely man so is he affirmed to be over all God
and to the end of his coming into the world viz. to take away the sins thereof 4. The greatest and most Authentick Testimony that can be defired or imagined is that of the Father from Heaven concerning him This is my well beloved Son Mat. 3.17 Chap. 17.5 in whom I am well pleased That he was truly man was evident to those that were about him that he was God was evident by the Testimony of God himself who is the God of Truth 5. The passages of his life upon Earth doth shew him to be both truly God and truly Man His hungring and thirsting his weariness and faintness his sighing and weeping and such other fruits of humane infirmity were sufficient Arguments to prove him to be truly man And all the miraculous works of his Power which he wrought upon earth of which I have spoken before as they shew him to be the Messiah Isa 35.5 6. that was foretold by the Prophets of whom it was foretold that he should work such miracles so also that he was truly God Joh. 5.36 as himself argues 6. The Testimony of the Evangelists and Apostles doth confirm this Of St. Peter Mat. 16.16 Acts 2.36 Chap. 3.17 18. and Chap. 4.11 12. and Chap. 10.43 1 Pet. 1.19 20. Of St. Paul Acts 9.22 and Chap. 13.23 34. Rom. 15.8 2 Cor. 1.10 2 Tim. 2.8 Of St John 1 John 2.22 and Chap. 5.2 15. Of St. Stephen the Proto-martyr Acts 7.52 Of St. Philip Acts 8.32 And many more Instances of this sort might be alledged but these are some of the chief 7. The general consent of the Catholick Church of Christ in all Ages ever since the time of Jesus and his Apostles who have held this Truth and made it a main Article of all their Creeds The concurrence of all Pious and Orthodox Fathers and Councils beside the chearful and undaunted sufferings of many thousands of Martyrs for the Profession of this Faith This I say together with the former Testimonies do argue this foundation of our Faith to be laid as so sure a Rock that The gates of Hell Mat. 16.18 shall never be able to prevail against it and that we may comfortably venture our selves upon this Truth that the same Jesus in whom we believe is both Lord and Christ God and Man Hypostatically united Secondly Let us proceed to the other Head viz. to prove that Christ did fully and in a true and proper sense make satisfaction to Gods justice for our sins And that Salvation is to be expected from him and no other way 1. It is very evident that the Apostles in the New Testament do affirm us to be reconciled to God and justified in his fight by the merits and sufferings of Christ Rom. 5.10 When we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son Which as it shews plainly that there was an enmity between God and man through the Fall and this enmity mutual God offended by mens transgression and man alienated from God by the depravation of his Nature So it shews whereby the Reconciliation was wrought between God and man even by the death of Christ the Son of God who did both by the merits of his death satisfie Gods justice and also by the efficacy of his Death and Resurrection take from us the stony heart and give us an heart of flesh And it is very observable Vers 19. how afterward the Apostle makes a direct Antithesis between the first and the second Adam the misery that befel us by the transgression of the first and the benefits we receive by the obedience and sufferings of the latter As by one mans disebedience many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous Which words as they do suppose the Communication of the guilt of Adams sin to all his posterity whereby they are said to be made sinners and liable to Gods justice So they do plainly express the benefits of Christ's death to be communicated to the justification of as many as do believe in him And what can be a plainer proof of the point in hand Secondly The New Testament speaks of the blood of Christ being shed to make an attonement for us Phil. 2.8 Being found in fashion of a man having taken our Nature upon him and set himself in our stead in this nature and in our stead He humbled himself and became obedient to death even the death of the Cross And that we may know that he died for us shed his blood to make attonement to Divine Justice for our sins 1 Joh. 1.7 St. John tells us That the blood of Jesus Christ his Son 1 Pet. 2.24 cleanseth us from all our sins And St. Peter tells us That by his stripes we are healed Not healed only in a moral sense as good examples tend to heal and take away corrupt manners as if Christ had come into the world onely to give us an example of Holiness in his life and of Humility and Patience at his death and that were all the benefit which we were to expect by him But we are so healed by his stripes that our sins are thereby pardoned being punished on his back He suffered the just for the unjust to the end that he might justifie the ungodly that believe in him So himself tells us Luk. 22.20 that his blood was shed for many for the remission of sins He died that he might purchase at Gods hands the pardon of our sins by undergoing that punishment which we had deserved To this agrees that Character which the Baptist gives of Christ Joh. 1.29 Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world This sheweth plainly that he was slain and offered up as a Propitiatory sacrifice to expiate the guilt of our sins 3. The New Testament sets him forth as the Substance of all the Legal purifications and ceremonial Oblations and Expiations which were used by the Law of Moses And this argues that he made an Attonement for us Certainly the great God of Heaven and Earth did not take their Cattel from the Jews because he had need of them or because he delighted in shedding the blood of innocent Beasts that were no wayes accessary to the sins of their Masters But we have reason to believe there were further matters intended by these Ceremonies of the Law God did appoint these Ceremonial washings and expiations after legal defilements that the people might be put in mind of the defiling nature of sin and might be warned to take heed of it as that which defiles the soul and accordingly might endeavour after they had fallen into it to wash their souls with tears of Repentance and Contrition He charged their Estates and caused them to sacrifice their Cattel that they might learn that Sin is very displeasing to God and did expose them to that and a worse death then the innocent beast did sustain And yet further to put