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A81101	The Christian laver. Or, a discourse opening the nature of participation with, and demonstrating the necessity of purification by Christ By T. Cruso.	Cruso, Timothy, 1656?-1697.	1690 (1690)	Wing C7434; ESTC R225717	25,680	95

is more distinctly explain'd Christ fulfill'd all righteousness for us and so the Righteousness of the Law is said to be fulfilled in us we may observe that 't is no such Evangelical Righteousness consisting in Faith Repentance and new obedience which some are pleased to call the works of the Gospel as is made use of to pervert the Genuin Doctrine of Justification but the Righteousness of the Law It was necessary that such a Righteousness should be fulfill'd one that was imperfect how sincere soever could not suffice it was impossible that we should fulfil such a righteousness in our own persons after we were disabled by the fall when the Law as to it's justfying power is said to be weak through our flesh God therefore appointed that his Son should do this in our stead and when he had so done God accepted it on our behalf and we are therefore lookt upon in Christ and for his sake to be as just and righteous as if we had done all our selves We have the benefit of all that obedience which fill'd up and adorn'd the Life of Christ Fourthly it imployes our being sharers in his Absolute victory over all our Spiritual Enemies sin and Satan death and Hell This ought to be laid down as an unquestionable truth that Jesus Christ did not overcome these Enemies so much for himself as for us as God he was not lyable to be assaulted by them but as Mediator he freely and voluntarily Submitted to their assaults to shew how easily and effectually he could over power them and disarm them from hurting Beleivers The Devil could not have tempted him Death could not have seiz'd him no not for so short a time not for the smallest moment unless he had so far unchain'd them and yielded himself but his End was to make his own Victory the more conspicuous and ours the more secure All the Souldiers of Christ overcome by vertue of their Captains overcoming because he baffled our Adversaries we cannot be worsted by them Heb. 2.14 15. Christs destroying of him that had the power of death was a delivering of us from the just fear of death When the Apostle had reckoned up a great many evils which Christians lye open to he says Rom. 8.37 In all these things we are more than Conquerers through him that loved us His Conquest is ours the Scripture often intimates this The same Apostle makes twice a solemn acknowledgment of it 1 Cor. 15.57 Thanks be unto God who giveth us the Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ And again Thanks be unto God 2 Cor. 2.14 which always causeth us to triumph in Christ His bruising of the head of the serpent enables us to trample on him too Fifthly It includes our Everlasting Fellowship with Christ in his Kingdom and Glory To have a part with him is finally to enjoy the same reward and to communicate in the happiness of his Exalted State This is to be according to that lofty Expression Joynt Heirs with Christ Rom. 8.17 He himself says that the faithful Servant shall enter into the joy of his Lord not another joy different from his Matth. 25.21 23. but his joy that which he as our forerunner is entred into already for us He animates and excites us to follow him in this World by this consideration relating to the next John 12.26 Where I am there also shall my Servant be This he repeats and confirms afterwards I will come again ● 14.13 and receive you to my self not to any separate Inferiour Mansion in my Fathers House but to my own presence that where I am there you may be also The nearer we come to the conclusion of the Bible the more and greater assurances we have of this Phil. 1.23 Having a desire says Paul to depart and to be with Christ this is a proper description of the Nature of the Heavenly felicity the same he gives to his Thessalonians so shall we be ever with the Lord 1 Thess 4.17 't is plain that he means that Lord Jesus who as we read in the foregoing words shall descend from Heaven with a shout v. 16 and snatch up all that survive at his last coming thither Timothy is supported under his sufferings by this that we shall both live and reign with Christ 2 Tim. 2.11 12. And the most transporting passage of all is yet behind Revel 3.21 To him that overcometh says our Lord in that Epistle to the Church of Laodicea will I grant to sit with me in my Throne even as I c. Herod stretcht very far and shew'd his mighty affection to the Daughter of Herodias when he said that he would give her whatever she askt Mar. 6.23 to the half of his Kingdom Christ goes much farther as his Kingdom is much better the whole of it shall be as much ours his He was partaker with us in our Infirmities and Sorrows we shall be Partners with him in his Glory and Blessedness The second thing is to shew How Sinners are washt by Christ that this Proposition may be fully cleared If I wash thee not c. Ans Christs washing of us is Twofold according to the double disadvantage which we lye under of Guilt and Impurity the one renders us obnoxious to God's Justice the other makes us odious to his Holiness For the removal of both these there must be a washing of Justification and of Sanctification and both of them are and must be performed by our Lord Jesus As will particularly appear First There is a washing of Justification which the Holy Ghost ascribes to Jesus Christ Ye are washed ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus 1 Cor. 6.11 c. The same Apostle who says this says indeed likewise Rom. 8.33 It is God that justfieth 't is properly the Authoritative Act of the Soveraign Judge but he does it in the name of his Son as he is said to send the Spirit in his Sons Name i.e. upon his Sons Account John 14.26 who hath obtained by his sufferings the remission of our Sins This is asserted very often 1 John 1.7 The Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin Revel 1.5 Again To him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own Blood i.e. Jesus Christ as the foregoing part of that verse shews Now this Washing or cleansing by his Blood is effected both by the shedding and by the sprinkling of it First By the sheding of Christs Blood above 1600 years ago upon the Cross All Believers were virtually and meritoriously washt There was then a General Expiation made for all their sins and one Sacrifice offered to God which would never afterwards need a Repetition There remains no more Sacrifice now the Work was finisht and perfected by that Christ then purged our sins Heb. 1.3 and made way for our free pardon by his full satisfaction Therefore the Blood of Jesus

excus'd Lord dost thou wash my fect He might very well admire that Christ should stoop so much be low himself And therefore our Lord does calmly admonish him ver 7. What I do thou knowes not now but thou shalt know hereafter q. d. There is somewhat more in it than the bare act of washing which thou dost not at present see into but when the Spirit is poured out thy understanding shall be more enlighten'd in this and other misteries One would think that Peter should have been satisfied with this and readily complyed as John Baptist is said to forbid Christ at first when he came to be baptized fo him Mat. 3.14 15. but when he heard Christ's answer he suffered him This Apostle on the contrary does peremptorily oppose v. 8. Thou shalt never wash my feet q. d. I will not yeild or consent to it From whence by the way might be noted that Men may have much seeming humility in the matters of God which yet is very absurd and preposterous arising meerly from carnal reason Peter once before ran into this Extreme Luk 5.8 when he fell down at Jesus his knees Saying depart from me oh Lord for I am a sinful man which was in effect to wish the greatest calamity to himself that could befal him How fatal would it have been if our Lord had grantted that request and banisht him out of his society or if Peter's word had stood in the present case but Christ lets him see in his Reply to this rash resolution the danger of such a refusal If I wash thee not thou hast no part with me For the opening of the words three Questions should be breifly Discussed First Quest 1. What was the scope and meaning of our Saviour in this Act of washing his Disciples feet Answ He did not institute this as a standing Ceremony though it be kept up under such a pretence in the Roman Church but he seems to have done it at that time upon some or all of these following accounts 1. As an instance of his Great Lowliness of mind which they were to imitate him in So he presses it v. 14 15. If I your Lord and Master have washed your feet you also who are fellow servants ought to wash one another's feet For I have given you an Example c. This was one of the meanext offices and employments always performed by Inferiours to superiours but never by superiours to Inferiours as Abigal said of her self with repect to David 1 Sam. 25.41 Let thine Handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my Lord. Therefore this was a proper testimony of Christ's remarkable self-abasement 2. It might presignify to his Disciples that Baptism of blood which they were to undergo in conformity to him The ointment which was poured on his body Mat. 26.12 he interpreted as done for his burial so this washing of their feetwas a kind of Preparative to their being drencht in deeper sufferings Christ had told James and John that they should be baptized with the baptism Mark 10.39 which he was baptized with 3. If it were as some suppose a little before the Institution of the Lords supper it shews the Purity which is required in those who celebrate that ordinance and the pains which should be taken in order to it Exod. 12.15 Upon the first day of the Passover the Jews were commanded to put away leaven out of their Houses accordingly if we would keep this feast aright 1 Cor. 5.7 8. which comes in the room of the Passover we must first purge out the old Leaven Therefore this washing might be a very seasonable act 4. It did fitly represent that Inward Cleansing which is necessary to every one's Salvation and this is that which our Saviour principally aim'd at The washing of the feet like the many Ceremonial washings under the Law was but a Figure of the purifying of the soul whereing his main work as Redeemer did consist Secondly Quest 2. why does our Lord passe so severe a sentence upon Peter as that he should have no part with him meerly upon the supposition of his denying to be washt by him does so small a crime springing also from a sense of unworthiness call for so heavy a punishment Answ In two things 1. The Contempt of any command of Christ how little soever it may Appear to be deserves that the Contemner should be excluded from Christ All wilful disobedience to our Lord 's revealed will is destructive if persisted in and admitts of no excuse To suspend our practise of any duty till we understand the reason of the Precept is indeed worthy of an everlasting Hell 2. The weight of the threatening lyes upon that which is intended by this washing q. d. unless I purge thee Peter from those remaining dregs of Corruption which are about thee thou wilt be cut off from having any thing to do with me Peter had discovered a great deal of weakness and sin before Mat. 16.22 23. as when he took upon him Satan's office and rebuk't his Master for speaking of his Passion insomuch that Christ told him Thou savourest not the things of God but of men There was as great deal more sin which this Apostle betrayed afterwards such as Chap. 26.33 Too good an esteem of and too much confidence in himself Though all men be offended yet I never will shameful drowsiness and sloth ver 40 Could ye not watch with me one hour Furious and inconsiderate zeal ver 51 witness Malchus's ear struck off by his sword ver 70 Excessive fear and cowardise ver 72 which plunged him unto those repeated denials and Abjurations of this Lord. ver 74 All these evils which yet stuck to Peter he needed to have washt away that he might not be accursed from Christ for ever Thirdly Quest 3. It may be also Enquired whether Christ's washing of Peter would sufficiently secure Peter's partaking with Christ our Lord says here If I wash thee not c. the Question is whether it hold on the other side that If I wash thee thou hast a part with me Answ 1 If we understand it of External washing onely it must be affirmed that any of the Disciples notwithstanding that might have been shut out from having any fellowship with Christ The putting away of the filth of the flesh will not save the soul from Hell Judas might have his feet washt and yet his Consicience continue defiled This of it self would have signifyed no more Luke 13.26 than Eating and drinking in Christ's presence which will Entitle no worker of Iniquity to the kingdom of God 2. If we understand it of Internal Purification as it is indeed especially to be understood this is always accompanied with a saving interest in Christ If we can prove that He hath cleansed us we have evidence enough that He is ours His Blood is never spent upon Cast-awayes like water vainly spilt upon the