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A45368 A cordial for Christians traveling heavenward being the substance of some sermons upon the eight chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans / preached in the city of Edinburgh by a minister of the Gospel there. Hamilton, Alexander, d. 1696. 1696 (1696) Wing H475; ESTC R35978 131,544 244

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meant of the Righteousness of God that is the Punishment due to sin by vertue of Gods justice for it is all one Punishment that is due by vertue of divine justice or by Vertue of the Threatning Law Now this Punishment due by Law is said to be fulfilled in us by Gods Punishing sin in Christ For though God did dispense so far with the severe Threatning of the Law as that he would not inflict that severe Punishment on the Transgressor himself yet these severe Punishments for kind that were Threatned by the Law against Transgressors God in Punishing Christ he inflicted these upon him and therefore Heb. 2.14 It is said that he behooved to become man that he might bear Death the particular Punishment threatned against the sin of man by the Law And therefore the Scripture asserts that Christ bore no other Curse but the Curse of the Law for the Law threatning was the Rule by which Justice did proceed in inflicting punishment on the Mediator And therefore it is said Gal. 4 4 He was made under the Law Now for the necessity of this Method that God has fallen upon to justifie the Sinner in a way consistent with Law The Words express it thus Because the Law as a Covenant could not justifie the sinner it being weak and insufficient to do it by reason of the corrupt state of Man and this is clear First because neither the Natural Law delivered to Adam nor the Moral Law delivered on Mount Sinai could justifie the sinner because both these Laws though the same as to the matter did require that the Acts of Obedience should First Be Perfect 2ly Constant If the Creature were to obtain Justification thereby Now the Acts of Obedience of the sinner cannot by reason of Corruption be perfect without Defects because they cannot flow from the love of God in the heart Love being imperfect where any Corruption remains 2ly Neither can Obedience be constant where Corruption remains And if it be said that the disobedient sinner may be justified by Law by bearing the punishment threatned by it It is Answered frail Nature is not able to bear the extremity of Punishment threatned by the Law neither is it able of it self to overcome Death which is the particular Punishment threatned by it against sin Likeas corrupt m●n cannot bear the extream Punishment due to sin sinlesly for the extremity of Misery irrirates their Corruption to murmure and repine against God under their sufferings Vse 1st To diswade Folks from seeking Justification by the Law for if we do this we say Christ dyed in vain Gal. 2. and last And 2ly Our doing of this makes Christ to become of no effect to us Gal. 5 3 4. It keeps us from submitting to the Righteousness of God and approving of his device Rom. 10.3 It makes the motions of sin which are by the Law bring forth Fruits unto Death and it marrs our bringing forth Fruit unto God by vertue of our Marriage with Christ Rom. 7.4 It makes all our external Obedience in order to this end useless for our good Paul reckoned all his Obedience while he was in a Legal state loss and dung Phil. 3.8 And it brings us under a spirit of Bondage Gal. 4. and last But if it be said shall the Believer cast at the Law It is Answered he should live under it as a Rule of Life but not as a Covenant If it be said For what then should he obey the Law if not to be justified by his Obedience Answer he should do it 1st To please God Col. 1.10 2ly To Glorifie their Heavenly Father John 15.8 3ly Because it is the Way to promote Holiness Rom. 6.19 and the Way to the enjoyment of Salvation It is the notifieing Evidence that they have right to Life Rev. 22.14 For though Obedience to the Law cannot justifie us from the charge of being in part Transgressors of the Law yet it may justifie us from the Charge of Hypocrisie Obedience may justifie us as to the reality of our Faith and we may obey in order to that end that by it we may know we have true Faith 1 John 2.3 But it is only the Righteousness of Christ that justifies our Person in a Legal Way Likeas we may obey that by our Obedience we may attain to further manifestations of the love of God John 14.21 Likeways we may obey to edifie our Neighbours 2. Use of Reproof to the Unconverted that seek to be justified by the Law and such are they who do expect that they shall be free of wrath and merite Heaven either for their Morality or external Righteousness as the Scribes and Pha●isees did Or 2ly Such as are formal Hypocrites that lean to their external Acts of Worship see Isay 58.23 Or 3ly Such as are superstitious leaning to their Arbitrary Devotions Or 4ly Such as these who continue in their Prophanity and yet lean to Acts of Charity Or 5ly Such as lean to their Legal Sorrow Or 6ly Such as lean to the Exercise of their Gifts for promoting of the Gospel Matth. 7.22 Or 7ly Such as lean to their Zeal to promote a Good Work contrary to Nehemiah's Practice Nehem. 13.22 2ly This reproves the Godly who degenerate into a Legal Frame and this they do when they Found their Expectation of Heaven their Immunity from wrath the acceptation of their Persons Prayers and Services upon any Performance of their own when they think because of their Charity their Repentance their Devotion and exact walking God is obliged to them to free them from Hell and give them Heaven It is true Gods free Promise to Believers in Christ makes these things the Rewards of Grace to the Obedience of his own but that is not done for the Intrinsick Worth of the Acts of our Obedience Rom. 8.18 because the Reward is counted of Grace and not of Debt Rom 4. and their greater alse well as their lesser Rewards are given on the account of their Adoption and not as an Hyre for their Work Col. 3.24 Now we come to speak to the Method it self And 1. To the Preparation for this Method God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful Flesh and for sin Where Observe that the Person made use of for the Justification of the sinner is Gods own Son or his only begotten Son John 1.18 It was convenient it should be so First That we might be more certain of the Revelation of the Gospel made by him John 1.18 2ly The World was made by him John 1.2 Heb. 1.2 And therefore it is fit the world should be restored by him to its primitive Beauty which it lost by the Son of man 3ly The Elect behooved to be sanctified and the sanctifieing Spirit is the Spirit of his Son 4ly God intended to Adopt his Elect and Adoption must be founded on our Union with the only Begotten Son of God Gal. 4.5 5ly This contributes to the Expiatory Vertue of his Sacrifice and the prevalency of his