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A29103	The nature of that salvation, which the Gospel offereth, and the method of obtaining it, by a mediator a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, March the 6th, 1698/9, being the third, for this year, of the lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. / by Samuel Bradford ...	Bradford, Samuel, 1652-1731.	1699 (1699)	Wing B4116; ESTC R19719	15,399	36

The Nature of that Salvation which the Gospel offereth and the Method of obtaining it by a Mediator A SERMON Preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. PAVL March the 6th 1698 9. Being the Third for this Year of the Lecture Founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq By SAMUEL BRADFORD M. A. Rector of St. Mary le Bow LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers Chappel 1699. Mr. BRADFORD's SERMON Preached at St. Paul's March the 6th 1698 9. 1 TIM I. 15. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the World to save Sinners IN treating on these Words I propos'd by God's Assistance to make good the Apostle's assertion viz. that the Saying mention'd by him is both certainly true and fit to be entertain'd by us with all readiness and thankfulness and that whether we consider the intrinsick Evidence it carries along with it or the external Attestation which hath been given to it I began with its intrinsick Evidence viz. its credibility from its manifest agreeableness to those Notions which we naturally have concerning God and our selves And to make this appear I propos'd the following Method First To consider who the Persons are whom Christ Jesus came into the VVorld to save Secondly What kind of Salvation he proposeth to them Thirdly In what way and manner he hath by his coming into the world wrought out this Salvation for them The first of these I have dispatch'd shewing that the Persons whom Christ Jesus came into the VVorld to save were both Men and Sinners under each of which denominations I endeavour'd to make it appear that they were fit Objects of the Divine Care and Compassion to be exercised in some extraordinary manner I proceed now to consider in the second place what kind of Salvation Christ Jesus proposeth to these Creatures concerning which I shall not need to add much after what hath been discours'd upon the former head For by a little reflection upon the condition of Sinners 't will be easie to discern what kind of Salvation they stood in need of which is the very same which our Saviour hath propos'd to us in his Gospel his design in coming into the World being to provide for the necessities of fallen Men with reference to which Necessities Salvation must imply both a Deliverance from those many Evils to which Sin had exposed them and a Restitution of those many Blessings which by their transgression they had forfeited Thus for Instance The Salvation of Men by Jesus Christ consists in his delivering them from the just displeasure of their Maker and all the terrible Effects of it together with a complete Restoration of them to the Divine favour and giving them a Title to all those Blessings which are proper for humane Nature when accepted of God in the setting them free from all that disorder and irregularity which had been introduc'd into the several Faculties of their Souls together with the dissatisfaction and uneasiness of Mind which necessarily follow'd as also from those inconveniencies and miseries to which their Bodies likewise were expos'd either as a consequence or a punishment of the corruption of their Minds in restoring perfectly that frame and temper of Spirit which is natural to an intelligent and reasonable Creature together with that healthful and vigorous state of Body that sound constitution of the whole Man which would have been the Effect or the Reward of Innocency and Integrity In a word Salvation consists in reconciling God to Men and Men to God and in all the blessed Fruits of such a Reconciliation which how many and how great they will be we are not able in this imperfect State so much as to conjecture This will be best understood by such as shall partake of this Salvation when it shall be fully accomplished In the mean time it may satisfie and encourage us to believe that they will bear a proportion to the Bounty of God and the Capacities of Men. And as this is the Salvation which the Gospel offereth to every particular Man to whom it is Preach'd so it assures us that all those who shall embrace the offer shall be thus saved and that the consequence of this will be a Renovation of this part of the World which has been so miserably disorder'd by the Sins of Men a Restitution of whatsoever has been decay'd in it the expelling sin and misery out of it the subduing and confining the great Enemy of God and Man who has so long usurp'd dominion over it Rom. 8.20 the delivering the Creature it self even this whole lower Creation from that vanity and bondage of Corruption to which it is at presented subjected and under which it groans and travelleth in pain into a glorious Liberty in a word 2 Pet. 3.21 the creating New Heavens and a New Earth wherein nothing but Righteousness shall dwell and finally the complete and everlasting happiness of an innumerable company of intelligent and reasonable Creatures who by the craft of their subtile Enemy and through their own weakness and folly had once fallen from God and the state in which he had placed them and been in imminent danger of utter Perdition All this is so evidently propos'd by the Gospel of our Saviour as the design of his Undertaking and so expresly and fully declar'd thereby that I need not spend time in producing any particular Proofs And all this is without question highly worthy of so great and so good a Being as God is Had the Christian Revelation told us that Almighty God had sent his only-begotten Son from Heaven only to secure to us the pleasures of the Elysian Fields or a Mahometan Paradice to provide for us a full and perpetual Enjoyment of Sensual Entertainments and Delights whosoever had any just thoughts of the divine or humane Nature might reasonably have disputed nay boldly denyed the divinity of such a Revelation But when on the contrary it assures us that our Saviour came into the World with such noble and generous designs as these to cause the displeasure of God to cease to heal the diseases of immaterial and immortal Spirits to repair the divine Image in them to restore both them and the Tabernacles they sojourn'd in to their primitive Integrity and Soundness to repair the ruins of Nature to make the Beauties of the Creation in this lower World conspicuous to destroy the Works of the Devil to recover such of God's Creatures as should be found capable of a Recovery to introduce and settle Everlasting Righteousness and Peace and finally to make a considerable number of the children of Men Eternally happy in the Enjoyment of their Maker these are all of them things so well becoming the Majesty and the Benignity of the Everlasting Father and his only-begotten Son and at the same time so beneficial and grateful to humane Nature that we have all the reason in the World to hearken to