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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36929	Three sermons preached in St. Maries Church in Cambridg, upon the three anniversaries of the martyrdom of Charles I, Jan. 30, birth and return of Charles II, May 29, gun-powder treason, Novemb. 5 by James Duport ...	Duport, James, 1606-1679.	1676 (1676)	Wing D2655; ESTC R14797	53,659	86

merits and mediation Indeed 't is the free Grace and Mercy of God that is the prime and principal proegumenous cause whereby God is inwardly mov'd and enclin'd to give a discharge and release to Sinners and to grant pardon and forgiveness o' Sin and 't is the all-sufficient merit and mediation of Christ that is the prime and principal procatarctic cause the only impulsive meritorious cause whereby God is mov'd and induced to show pity to poor Sinners 'T is Christ alone that is our Advocate with the Father and he is the propitiation for our sins says St. John though if Socinus say true the blood of Martyrs may avail almost as much for the expiation and pardon of Sins as the blood o' Christ yet the same Apostle tells us that not the blood of Martyrs but only the blood of Jesus Christ the Son of God cleanseth us from all sin Without shedding o' blood his blood no remission o' Sin not of the Sin of Blood-shed and Murder this Sin to be sure 't is his blood alone can wash out this blood the guilt and stain of this Crimson and Scarlet Sin especially the stain of innocent and Royal blood the Sin of this day 'T is not the blood of all the Martyrs and Holy men that ever were slain since the beginning o' the world not all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of our righteous King Charles the First that can make an atonement or propitiation for any one Sin The blood of Saints and Martyrs may cry aloud to Heaven for vengeance but it can never cry for mercy no that 's proper and peculiar to the blood of Christ alone No other propitiatory nor deletory of Sin but only the blood of that immaculate Lamb. Nor have we any other Advocates in Heaven that we know on nor Mediators of intercession no more than of Redemption but only that one Mediator between God and men the man Christ Jesus I say no other Advocates nor Mediators in Heaven yet we have a sort of inferiour Advocates and Intercessors on earth viz. our fellow Christians that may and do make intercession for us and are daily Orators in our behalf at the throne of Grace praying to God for us that he wu'd not impute our Sins unto us Some on earth then we have that intercede and pray for us but none in Heaven but our Saviour Christ I mean none that pray for us in particular though in the general the Church Triumphant in Heaven may pray for the Church Militant here on earth yet I scy no Saints departed pray for us in partkcular for ought we know and Viventes pro viventibus ergo Defuncti is no good consequence by the Cardinal 's leav for they that live and converse with us here on earth may see and know our wants or we may impart our thoughts and desires our needs and necessities to 'um but that the Saints in Heaven either know my wants or hear my Prayers I ha' no ground to believ because no warrant at all in Scripture therefore I cannot in Faith call upon 'um nor pray unto 'um to pray and intercede for oe and though St. Stephen's Prayer might prevail for his Persecutors while he was upon earth yet it cannot prevail with me to say Sancte Stephane or a me now he 's in Heaven However this benefit and advantage we have by that Article of our Creed the Communion of Saints that we who are members of the Catholic Church here on earth reap the fruit of one anothers Prayers Nor is this sweet perfume of the Prayers of the Saints confin'd within the verge and pale o' the Christian Church but extends it self to the benefit even of Jews Turks Infidels and Heretics so that when this alabaster box is broken and these Prayers pour'd forth the whole world is fill'd with the odour of the Oyntment Though then the mediation and intercession of Christ in Heaven be the sole meritorious cause of a nè imputes of not laying sin to the sinner's charge yet by the vertue of his merit and mediation the Prayers and Intercessions of Holy men upon earth are very prevalent and impetratorious in their kind as motives and inducements to God to give a discharge not as meriting but procuring causes or rather not causes but occasions of the remission of Sins and not only of their own but even of other mens Sins Yet is not this done per saltum neither but by degrees I mean by some previous qualifications and conditions requisite to be perform'd by the Sinner himself to render him capable of so great a favour as this non-imputation such as godly sorrow and hearty repentance and an unfeigned purpose of amendment o'life therefore Qui vult finem vult media he that prays for another that God wu'd not lay his sins to his charge is presum'd to pray withal that God wu'd give him Grace to repent of his Sins this latter being the way and means to procure and obtain the former for as without shedding o' blood the blood o' Christ so without shedding o' tears the tears of a Sinner i. e. without godly sorrow and repentance there is no remission So then the Prayers of the faithful are a powerful and prevalent means whereby God is mov'd and enclin'd to give repentance to Sinners and consequently remission of Sins Let the Elders pray over the sick person says St. James and the Prayer of faith shall save the sick and if he have committed sins they shall be forgiven him therefore saith Simon Magus to Simon Peter here i' the next Chapter Pray to the Lord for me meaning as appears by the context that his Sins might be forgiv'n him And Pray not thou for this people says God to the Prophet implying that the Prophet's praying for 'um was the ordinary means to move God to give 'um a pardon and not to lay their sins to their charge That Austin ever was St. Austin he might partly thank his Mother Monica for her Prayers and Tears Fieri non potest ut filius istarum lacrymarum pereat So powerful and prevalent are the Prayers and Tears of holy Men and Women of Saints and Martyrs to obtain repentance and salvation for others the Prayers of Martyrs especially for as Sanguis Martyrum semen Ecclesiae so Oratio justi clavis coeli As the soil of the Church is manur'd and made fat by the blood of dying Martyrs so being blown and breath'd upon by the soft gentle gales of their Prayers especially of those Prayers they make for their enemies it becomes more fruitful by a new addition o' Converts and Proselytes who by observing both the constancy and charity of these holy men at their deaths by seeing their patience in constant suffering for the truth and by hearing or rather God's hearing their charity in such servent praying for their persecutors are effectually wrought upon converted