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A47098	A plain and familiar discourse on justification being the substance of four sermons, preach'd at the morning-lecture, at Pinners-Hall, in Broad street, the third, tenth, seventeenth, and twenty fourth days of September, 1693 / by Elias Keach.	Keach, Elias.	1694 (1694)	Wing K110; ESTC R13909	34,472	38

considered that Man is in a lost and undone State i. e. all Mankind by reason of the Fall and Transgression of our first Parents are brought into a state of Sin and Death besides our own actual Sins by which we have aggravated our Misery and strengthened those Cords that bound us under the wrath of God This must be taken in that all Men are concerned with Adam as considered in his Loyns and his Apostasie from God He was a publick person and did personate all Mankind that should proceed from him His Standing was our Standing his Fall was our Fall his Gain had been our Gain Our Stock was all put into his Hands and into his keeping and he proved Bankrupt and broke and lost all and we by his Sin are brought into a state of Sin prone to Sin and bound over to eternal Wrath having rebelled against God and grieviously offended that holy Law-giver This the Apostle shews at large in the same Chapter from Verse the 10. to 19. how miserable we are by Nature how sad and woful our case is by reason of Sin 2. This must also be considered that Mankind You and I every one of us by Nature are Children of Wrath and stand charged at God's Barr where we must plead and either must be Justified or Condemned we having proved Traytors and Rebels to the Sacred and Divine Majesty and he will call us and most Righteously will he judge us and we must plead He will call us to an account for our Sins and Rebellions because they were against him Now when the Sinner comes and appears be-before God and is accused and charged with horrid Guilt and Crimes even of the highest and greatest Treason and Rebellion that ever was committed I say when the Sinner shall appear before God and is thus charged what will he then plead For he must plead either guilty or not guilty Now to prove that he is guilty there appears against him three substantial Witnesses First God himself is a Witness against the Sinner Mal. 3.5 I will be a swift Witness against the Sorcerers and against the Adulterers c. saith God He that knows every vain Lust and unprofitable Thought he that sees in the dark as clearly as at Noon-day and hath an account of all the works of Iniquity In whose memory is recorded all the Thoughts that ever thou didst think all the words that ever thou didst speak he will be a swift Witness against thee that thou art guilty of many grievious Sins And his dreadful Justice will pursue thee as the Avenger of Blood did persue the Man-slayer under the Law So I say will God's Justice persue the Sinner and by substantial Evidences will manifest that the Sinner is grieviously guilty Secondly as God will be a witness against thee so the Law will accuse the Sinner The Law is broken and trampled upon and that will rise up against the Sinner and will plead against him that it was despised and trampled under foot There is one saith Christ that accuses you even Moses in whom you trust The Jews trusted in their own works that were agreeable to the Law they rested on their external Obedience to the Law of Moses And this saith Christ will plead against you Though you trust in him yet this very Law will condemn you Moses accuses or his Law accuses every Soul who continues not in all things contained therein to do them Gal. 3.10 That Soul must perseveringly continue in doing all things that the Law requires that expects to be Justified by it For if you step but one Inch awry you are under the curse of the Law and the Law broken will be a swift Witness against the Law breaker The Law was added because of Transgression Gal. 3.19 Not only to deterr and restrain from Sin but it was added to condemn even to aggravate the heinous Crimes and abominable Offences on the Soul of the Sinner The Law was added to make Sin appear exceeding sinful it was not given that we might be Justified by it but to shew us the need we have of another Righteousness and the deplorable state we were brought into by the breach of it Not but that the Law is holy just and good What shall we say then saith St. Paul is the Law Sin God forbid because the Law is said to discover Sin and to strengthen Sin is it therefore Sin God forbid Nay saith he I had not known Sin by the Law i. e. I had not known Sin so fully and so clearly The Law of Nature it is true doth convince of all Immoral Acts of Sin but not so fully as the written Law doth especially as it opened in the Gospel The Law written in Men's Hearts cannot convince them of all Sin nor of any Sin so fully and so clearly as the Law opened in the Gospel We had not known the Spirituality of the Law in that degree had it not been for the Law The Law is called The strength of Sin 1 Cor. 15.59 How the strength of Sin Yes because it makes Sin more strong against the Sinner so that he sees he cannot help himself for the Law curses him And therefore in this case the Law is said to strengthen Sin Why because it strengthens the accusation of Sin it strengthens the guilt of Sin therefore it is said that the Law is the strength of Sin Thirdly This must also be considered every Man's Conscience will also naturally accuse him not only God will be a swift Witness against the Sinner and his Law but the Sinner's own Conscience doth accuse him now and it will accuse him at the great Barr of God's Justice if the Soul be not Justified Rom. 2.14 15 16. The Apostle speaking of the Gentiles saith he For when the Gentiles which have not the Law do by Nature the things contained in the Law these having not the Law are a Law unto themselves which shew the work of the Law written in their Hearts their Conscience also bearing Witness and their Thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another in the day when God shall judge the Secrets of Men by Jesus Christ So that you see that Conscience will accuse the Sinner if he be not Justified Then Conscience will receive a clear Light that he may Sum up all the Crimes and wicked Acts and Speeches and Thoughts that ever the Sinner was guilty of If therefore the Sinner should deny the matter of Fact that he is not guilty or that he is not guilty to such a degree yet you sind God hath Witnesses for it Then will be Conscience ready to prove it against you and we need have no other Witness to prove the Charge against us then our own Consciences for that will be more then a Hundred Thousand Witnesses But 3. It is necessary to Consider what the guilty Sinner must do in this case Suppose the Judge of Heaven and Earth should say Sinner what hast thou to say why the Sentence of

have been bruised our selves And he was oppressed the Hebrew word imports he was exacted But 3. This doth further appear because it is said he was made Sin for us who knew no Sin tho' he had no Sin inherent in him yet our Sins stuck to him by Imputation 2 Cor. 5. ult He was made Sin for us that is 1. By a Metonomy of the cause for the Effect he bore the Sins of many i.e. the punishment due to the Sins of many vide 1 Pet. 2.24 Who his own self b●re our Sins in his own Body on the Tree c. Nay if he was not guilty of our Sins by Imputation he had never bore our punishments Who his own self bore our Sins in his own own Body on the Tree c. i. e. the punishment so well as the Sin imputed he bore it for us in his own Body on the Tree he was made Sin for us who knew no Sin 2. To hold forth a Sacrifice for Sin he was made a Sacrifice for Sin for our Sin Our Crimes did all meet in him and were all charged on Christ and he was to satisfie for them there had been no need for his bearing punishment if had not Sin in him or Sin imputed to him Now he had none inherently in him but he had the Sins of all the Elect imputed to him Therefore as I say our Sins are charged on him and he satisfied for them not as the Socinians foolishly and simply cavil who say Christ was made Sin to signifie that the World esteemed him a Sinner I say it is not so the 2 Cor. 5.21 overthrows this Sence utterly for as our being made Righteous thro' Christ is not that the World looks upon us to be Righteous but in a Law Sense in God's account we are constituted thro' Christ so to be and so Christ was substituted by the Father in our stead and in a Judicial Sence is charged with our Sins But 4. That Christ's Sufferings was in our room and stead appears yet further because he suffered for us Rom. 4. ult Who was delivered for our Offences c. How Why into the Hands of Justice For what For our Offences Rom. 5.8 Christ dy'd for the Ungodly i. e. He died in the room and stead of Ungodly Men and Women Such that were wicked in themselves see Rom. 8.32 speaking of God the Father saith the Apostle Who spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all How for us all Why for all of us that are concerned and interested in the Covenant made betwixt the Father and the Son the Just for the Unjust to bring us to God 1 Pet. 3.18 The just Person he suffered and that in the room and stead of the unjust and that on purpose that we might be Reconciled to God Tit. 2.14 Who gave himself for us c. 1 Tim. 2.6 Who gave himself a Ransom for us c. He gave himself he yeilded up himself that he might suffer in our stead and to Ransom and deliver us from suffering I lay down my Life for the Sheep saith Christ John 10.15 I freely offer my self to the stroke of Justice for my Sheep and again saith he This is my Body which is broken for you Alas his Body was broken for our Sins Mark my Beloved it is not for our Good only as Christ did die as some say He gave himself for us that is say they for our Good to purchase or procure an easie Law that by keeping it we might be Justified No no not for our Good only but in our room also For scarcely for a good Man will one dare to die i. e. Die in his room die to save his Life But 5. It further appears that Christ's Suffering was in our room because it is said he bore our Sins Isa 53. Now in all the Old Testament where God threatens they shall bear their Sins it is meant the punishment of their Sins Vide Levit. 20.18 19 20. and 22.9 Least they bear their Iniquity for it and die Now Christ is said to bear our Sins in his own Body our Sins stuck to him by Imputation 6. It further appears Because Christ is said to be a Propitiation for our Sins 1 Joh. 2.2 A Propitiation for our Sins what is that Why one that has made Attonement for our Sins that hath offered a Sacrifice Holy and Acceptable and so made Attonement to pacifie God's wrath like as Jonah when he was cast into the Sea Now Jonah was a Type of Christ Jonah and the Company that was in the Ship was in a groat storm and they could not tell what to do in their great strait but at last they conclude that he that was guilty should die and Jonah was found out and he was cast into the Sea and there became a great Calm Now do you see we are all in a dismal case by nature under the Wrath of God and Jesus Christ is our Jonah and all our Sins stick at him and God's Wrath cannot be satisfied till he is cast into the Sea and he was thrown into the Deluge of Wrath He is I say our Jonah to appease God's Wrath. 7. This doth further appear because we are said to be Redeemed with the Blood of Christ bought with that price 1 Pet. 1.18 19. See 1 Cor. 6. ult to be Redeemed by Blood to save our Lives by one dying in our stead all know the purport of that We my Beloved were in Prison and Captivity and were condemned to die and Christ to Redeem us died in our stead and thus we are said to be Redeemed thus we pay our Debts and thus we satisfie the Law He gave his Life to what end For a Ransom for many 8. By the Sacrifices under the Law it appears that we are Reconciled by Christ's Death and not by our Obedience not by Evangelical Obedience or his Obedience to Evangelical Rules Thus from all it appears that Christ died not for our Good only but in our room and stead also tho' some conclude that Christ died not to fulsil the Law which Man had broken nor to satisfie as our Surety But that he fulfill'd the peculiar Law of the Mediator so far as to bring in easier terms of Life by way of Evangelical Obedience But let me speak a little by way of Application and so conclude at this time 1. O Saint Look up and take a view behold how Justification is by Christ alone O see what Free Grace runs in this Channel 1. That he that was God as well as Man should become our Ransom● 2. That rather than we should perish he would die for us in ou● room and stead 3. And this he did for us while we were Enemies and 〈◊〉 4 Nothing could move him to do it but his own Love 〈◊〉 Grace and meer Pity But 2. Sinners see what Love this is will you not receive this Christ is not this Christ worthy of your Embrace Is not he worthy of your Love Is