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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34898	A cabinet of spirituall iewells wherein man's misery, God's mercy, Christ's treasury, truth's prevalency, errour's ignominy, grace's excellency, a Christian's duty, the saint's glory, is set forth in eight sermons : with a brief appendix, of the nature, equity, and obligation of tithes under the Gospell, and expediency of marriage to be solemnized onely by a lawfull minister ... / by John Cragge, M.A. ...	Cragge, John, M.A.	1657 (1657)	Wing C6783; ESTC R4552	116,039	199

love-tricks to what his Soul endured O all ye that passe by the way behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow Alasse what can we see of thy sorrowes we can no more see thy pain than endure it only this we see that what the infinite sins almost of infinite men committed against an infinite Majesty deserved in infinite continuance of time all this Thou in the short time of thy Passion hast payed for to the full and we are bought with a price O dear Christians how ought these Earthy Rocky Adamantine hearts of ours rent in pieces at this Meditation What all these tears and pangs and groans are for us yea from us Shall the Son of God thus smart for our sins yea with our sins and shall not we grieve for our own How far were our soules gone that could not be ransomed with an easier price If thy Soul had been in His Souls stead what had become of it it shall be if His were not in stead of thine Go too now thou lewd Man that makes thy selfe merry with uncleannesse thou little knowes the price of one sin which made thy blessed Saviour cry out to the amazement of Angells and horrour of men My God my God why hast thou forsaken me But now we are bought with a price And if we be bought with a price then away with those Jubile Proclamations of Rome I mean the Supererogatory sufferings of Saints to pay forth this price a blasphemous and beggerly Principle as learned Fulk calls it Some modest Doctours of Lovain would have minced it affirming that the suffering of Saints are not truly satisfactory but only motives to move God to apply unto us Christs sufferingss but they were soon charmed by four severall Popes as their own Cardinall confesses and commanded to speak home with Bellarmine Passionibus Sanctorum expiari delicta that by the sufferings of Saints our sins are expiated and that by them applyed we are redeemed from those punishments we yet owe to God Blasphemy worthy of tearing of garments How hath Christ payed the price if we must supply the defect But we are bought with a price Take up then a Song of deliverance far more glorious than that of Moses Deborah or Gideon Art thou afraid of Satan Christ hath spoyled Principalities and Powers Art thou affraid of sin Christ was made sin that is a price for sin for thee Death Hell and the Grave are conquered that thou maist triumph Hell where is thy sting Death where is thy victory Nay this price hath payed for the abolishment of the Ceremonies of the Law Away then with New Moones Sacrifices and the rites of Judaism the vail of the Temple is rent That conceit of Theophylact is witty at least That as the Jewes were wont to rend their garments when they heard blasphemy so the Temple not enduring those execrable blasphemies against the Son of God tore her Vail apieces But that is not all The vail rent is the observation of the Rituall Law cancelled I say not that all ceremonies are cancelled by this price but the Law of Ceremonies and Jewish It is a sound distinction of the Antients that some are Typicall foresignifying Christ some of order and decency those are abrogated not these The Spouse of Christ cannot be without her laces and chains and borders But thou O Lord how long shall thy poor Church through contentious spirits finde her ornaments her sorrowes How much better were it to revive the sweet spirit of divine Saint Austine turning this contention into grar●dation glorifying God for these mercies which is the next Proposition and the last of the three Ye are bought with a price therefore glorifie God All things ought to begin for to terminate in Gods glory which is the end of all our actions the centre of all our motions The Angells sounded this Trumpet at his Birth when the price was but offered shall not we for his pretious Death and Passion when it was payed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Glory be to God on high This glory is Gods First a debito for we are his and that triplici jure by a threefold right of Creation as Men of Redemption as Sons of Sanctification as Saints Secondly ab integro from the whole we are composed of two parts Body and Spirit are Gods both in body and spirit therefore must glorifie him both in body and spirit Thirdly a lytro from the Ransom Empti sumus We are bought by a Synecdoche quasi redempti redeemed and re-bought and that by an Emphaticall Pleonasme pretio with a price And thus what one ought to have done a three-fold cord must move us to do to glorifie God We are Gods both in body and spirit Gods because we are redeemed both in body and spirit by the Son of God This is the main and cardinall reason let us prosecute it What mercy was ever like this for a God to sell his own Son that he might redeem his Enemies What more dear than a Son what more hatefull than an Enemy Yet oftentimes we see that the hate of an Enemy is drunk up of the love of a Son O my son Absalom would God I had dyed for thee Fulvius a Roman Senatour slew his Son for conspiring with Cateline but in Christ was no guile found Manlius adjudged his Son to die for violating the Law of Armes Christ kept the whole Law Aegeus sent his son Theseus to conflict with a Minotaur to free himselfe and his Country from deserved bondage God sent his Son to conflict with Satan Death and Hell who was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 free from all bondage The Israelites sacrificed their Children to Moloch Agamemnon his daughter Iphigenia to Neptune but they had more But God when he had no more gave his onely Son for a price Besides the infinite disproportion betwixt God and Man An act of mercy in Scripture in History not to be found the like unparallel'd unlesse a Type in Abraham and but a Type I know saies God to Abraham thou lovest me because thou hast not spared thine onely son Isaac And then shall not we O holy Father know thou lovest us that hast not spared but given thine onely Son Jesus Gods love to Christ was infinite Abraham's to Isaac but finite God gave his Son willingly Abraham as it were constrainedly God gave his Son to an ignominious death Abraham to a holy Sacrifice Isaac was in the hands of a tender Father Christ of barbarous enemies Isaac was but offered in shew Christ payed the price indeed O the infinite disproportion St. Chrysostome is rapt hereat and calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an excesse of love that is a pin to low Pareus calls it por●entum amoris a miracle of love that is yet too short St. Paul waft upon Seraphick wings styles it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 love surpassing knowledge that that 's it What can we do in lue but to the point in hand glorifie God like