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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04101	The Christian sacrifice by Iames Barker ...	Barker, James, fl. 1639.	1639 (1639)	STC 1418; ESTC S113337	35,264	174

and please God whilest he sees his name honored in your conversation their conviction Old things are past behold all things are become new new estate new nature new name new life Estate happy the merit of Christ hath purchased that nature holy the spirit of Christ hath sanctified that name heavenly the love of God hath bestowed that life godly the grace of God hath wrought that happy estate holy nature heavenly name godly life man is now a sonne by grace not unworthy to be own'd of so great a Prolis tanto non in ficienda parenti Father At length I have brought you to the height of Gods love and Mans Dignity Gods Love never so Et quidem deitatis erga nos dignatio tanta est ut scire nequeat quid potissimum imitari debeat creatura utrum quod Deus ad nostram deposuit servit utem an quod nos ad suae divinitatis rapuit dignit at em Pet. Chrys ser 72. manifest as in making us his sonnes the utmost we could hope for was pardon not for preferment but to debase the naturall sonne in making him like us that he might honor us in making us like him is love without measure which we are as unable to conceive as we are unworthy to receive the expression is too meane and low to say it was paternall a it Et sicut omnem ut scriptum est paternitatem in Coelo in terris a scipso volvit nominari fic a nobis patris in se affectum voluit cognosci quid dicam patris imo potius plus quam patris a Sal. di guber dei lib. 4. pag. 121 was more then mothers love and was what himselfe is infinit Man never so dignified who am I and what is my fathers house saith David that I should be Sonne in law to a King what is fraile man that he should be exalted to the dignitie of Gods son called to the hope and invested with some possession of eternall life what a happinesse is this above the rest of mankind who through ignorance and unbeliefe abide still in misery and I would to God he would perswade the hearts of all men to account this their chiefest honour to be Gods sons religion is and ever hath been the honor and safety too of kingdomes familyes and particular persons and this of Gods sonne preferred before the most glorious titles It was the Religious boast of the Emperor Theodosius malo esse membrum Aug. de civi dei l. 5. c. 26. eccelesiae quam caput imperij and in the most magnificent it is an addition to their honor to be Gods sonnes the greatest in the world is nothing if he be lesse the meanest is enough if he be so much and so much is every true beleever for to as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sonnes of God even to them that believe on his name Jo. 1. 12. How is it then this priviledge is so sleighted and undervalued of many and carnall alliance and kindred so much stood upon by all men account their carnall pedegrees and if they can reckon a great man of their house how they glory in it whereas there is greater cause of boasting to be of Gods family then to be descended from the loynes of Princes for carnall affinity is but transitory it abideth not Kingdomes and families have their periods and in death there is a dissolution of al kindred after the flesh the mightiest man alive must one day say to corruption thou art my Father Job 17. 14 to the worme thou art my Mother and my Sister but our alliance here by faith death nor the grave hath no power over 1 Cor. 15. 55 and as it is begun on earth by grace in our adoption so shall it not be ended but perfected in heaven by glory in ful fruition when all the adopted sonnes shall be like the naturall sonne and their bodies made conformable to his glorious body according to the mighty working whereby he is able to Phil. 3. 21. subdue all things unto himselfe Many excellent things are spoken of you ye sons of God! but what man lives that dares challenge to himself this priviledg seeing every man is a sinner if a sinner no son for he that is borne of Ro. 3. 23. God sinneth not 1. Jo. 5. 18. how sinneth not sinneth not at all God never gave any such priviledge to the regenerate saith Oecumenius for the Oecumcinus in locū best of Gods Saints speakes in his own name and others If we say we have no sinne we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us Wee sinne daily and hourely the best of us but the best of us sinne no otherwise 1 Jo. 1. then Gods children may sinne Not totally with a fulnesse of consent quasi ad peccatum vacantes but over come through infirmity with strength of tentation Nor finally ad mortem they sin not that is sin not untodeath that sin for which the holy Ghost hath said thou shalt not pray In all their sinnes there is still place left for their humiliation and Christs Intercession so still they are innocent from the great offence for although many lesser sins do passe them without their knowledge and many greater sinnes be committed with their knowledge yet in the escape of those lesse and the committing of these greater they are patients not Agents not obedient to the rule of sinne but overmastered by the rage of sinne here is St. Pauls case just Ro. 7. malum quod nolo facio they sinne unwillingly and their unwillingnesse to sinne will appeare in their heavinesse for sinne when the remembrance is grievous unto them the burden intolerable then is the waight not charged on them but laid upon him who hath satisfied Gods justice for it by bearing it on his owne body on the tree for whose sake lesser and unknowne sinnes charitate absconduntur are in charity covered and our greater and well known sins poenitentia abluuntur are by actuall and unfained Bernard repentance purged who then shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect It is God that justifieth who is he that condemneth thus the sons of God they are sinners and no sinners No sinners for being justified by faith they have not onely a plenary remission of all sinnes that are passed actually purchased by the blood of Jesus but also a preservation from sinnes to come effectually promised by the spirit of grace But sinners in regard of that inherent corruption which against their wils doth lead them captive into actuall transgressions For as there is semen gratiae a seed of grace in the regenerate which will not suffer them totally to sinne So also there is semen peccatia seed of sin which wil not suffer them wholy to be sanctified Christ by his death indeed hath wholy taken away both reatum suppliciun the guilt and eternal punishment of