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B02482	Christ alone exalted in the perfection and encouragements of the saints, notwithstanding sins and trials. Volume III. / Being laid open in severall sermons by the late spirituall and faithfull preacher of the Gospel, Tobias Crispe, D.D.	Crisp, Tobias, 1600-1643.; Cokayn, George, 1619-1691.; Pinnell, Henry.	1648 (1648)	Wing C6959; ESTC R233167	185,508	400

sons of men that they might have discharge from sin he doth make it manifest that all he doth aske of the Father he doth ask according unto justice nay Christ makes it to appear that justice is as much satisfied in discharging of Believere from their sins as it is in the damnation of the Reprobates in hell for their sins Justice 〈◊〉 no more right in their damnation then it hath in the others acquittance and discharge In the damnation of the Reprobates in Hell to satisfie justice there is no more but the wrath of God revealed from Heaven and executed upon them Now for those Believers that are the members of Christ and are discharged by Christ from their sins the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven and poured out upon his Son in their behalf who sustained in respect of the proportion of justce equivalently to all the torments the Repriobates in Hell do sustain So that Christ hath as fully satisfied the justice of God for his elect as it is satisfied in the damned in Hell who suffer in their own persons Surely there had been no need of Christs coming into the world if Believers might have been saved and justice violated without satisfaction But now justice had been violated had not a proportionable recompence been made before the sin had been discharged from off the person committing the same Therefore the Psalmist speake admirably when he saith M●rey and Truth hath met together and Righteousnesse and Peace have kissed each other This place is appropriated unto Christ shewing that in managing the work of Redemption of the sons of men as he doth ex●● M●●cy so he doth not diminish Justice and Righteousnesse but carries the businesse so that they both of them have their due and both of them have so their due that they agree one with another nay they do imbrace and kisse each other they come to rejoyce and triumph in the satisfaction of each other And therefore it is but an ignorant imagination in the hearts of some men that God will grow more remisse in respect of the sins of his own people that God is not so much offended with the nature of sin after Christ died as before For God hath all the abhorring detesting thoughts of sin in the nature of it since Christ is dead as he had before he died It is altogether as abominable unto him as before it was Christ did not come to make sin lesse fil●●● to the Lord or to make a person where sin is more lovely or lesse hatefull before God but rather declares and sets forth the wrath of God 〈◊〉 sin in the highest degree Where eve● th● Lord seeth sin and not Christ upon the pers●n taking away that sin the Lord cannot but hate both the sin and the sinner All the pleasure the 〈◊〉 takes in the sons of men proceeds from a purity Christ put upon them and the taking away of that sinfulnesse from them which otherwise could not but stir up indignation and wrath in the Lord against the per●●ns where he findes it I say this is the ground upon which Christ plead● justice that so it might appear there is no violation of it but the Lord is as well satisfied as if the person transgressing had lain under the wrath deserved in his own person I could wish I were able to speak to you in so sull and clear language that not one dram of this glorious mysterie of this Gospel of Christ might be hid for the comforting and refreshing of your spirits The thing I drive at being that all the people of Christ might know wherein lies their strong consolation not in themselves as if they did not sin nor in themselves as if they could m●ke amends for their sins but in him who hath made perfect amends for them and in whom they are accepted with the Father as if they themselves in their own persons had made this amends who hath presented them so compleat in himself unto the Fathers eye that the Lord is pleased to looke upon them as upon his own innocent Son and to take pleasure in them with the same pleasure that he takes in his Beloved And if ever you mean to have your consciences and your consolations established and well grounded concerning the pardon of your sins you must see that Christ hath onely pleaded and doth plead out your acquittance and discharge and this your indemnity even to the sans● 〈◊〉 of justice it self For if justice be not yet 〈◊〉 if the Lord hath yet a plea against your ●ouis if Christ hath not fully answered it but lef●● us plea with God who shall stand up before him Christ being silent to plead for you Gods jur●ce comes in and pleads terribly against you and will exact satisfaction of you therefore you must receive this principle if you will be established in consolation that as there is mercy in respect of us who bring nothing in consideration of our sins so there is righteousnesse and justice in forgiving of sin in respect of Christ our Advocate that doth manage his office and makes it known for this very end that in knowledge thereof we might have the stronger consolation SERMON V. 1 John 2. vers 1 2. My little children these things I write unto you that you sin not And if any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins WE have formerly as some of you may remember entered upon these words wherein the Apostle makes the proposall of the Grace of God in Christ the encouragement unto people to forbear sin The first thing we noted therefore from hence was this That the knowledge of an Advocate that becomes a propitiation for sin even for such as do commit sin I say the knowledge of this Grace is so far from opening a gap unto a licentious life that indeed it is the best means and help in the world to keep us from sinning The last day we fell upon the matter of the Argument which the Apostle useth to disswade little children from sin If any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous Herein we proposed to be considered First what this Advocateship of Christ is and how Christ doth manage this office of Advocateship Secondly whose cause it is that Christ doth here plead Thirdly how Christ is gifted and qualified for this office of Advocateship Lastly what the issue of this Advocateship of Christ is proposed in the last words of the Text He is the propitiation for our sins Concerning the first what this office of Advocateship is the summe is briefly this The office of an Advocate is to plead out the cause of a man as it is in justice and right so that the Advocateship of Christ consists in pleading forth the discharge of his people even from the principle of right and justice Whereas it is objected and indeed seems a thing unreconcilable namely that

difference And in the 51. Psalme and the 14. verse you shall see beloved David hath such a confidence in the righteousnesse of Christ and doth so make it his refuge as that in the greatest of sins as he was ever overtaken with he betakes himself unto that Deliver me O Lord from blood-guiltinesse and there you shall finde he doth expresse himself thus namely The God of my righteousnesse these you shall plainly see deliverance from blood-guiltinesse is ascribad 〈◊〉 the righteousnesse of God and he wai●s for his deliverance even out of the power which that rightcousness hath with God For that purp of in the 71. Psilme and the ● vers and in the 19. verse or there abouts First you 〈…〉 here makes the 〈◊〉 hereus●●● 〈…〉 ●●emity Deliver me O Lord in thy righteousnesse and afterwards you shall 〈…〉 this righteousnesse 〈…〉 not leave it My mouth shall shew forth thy right 〈◊〉 And I will make mention of thy righteousnesse and thine only s●●th th● Tex● there v. 16. Mark the expression well set David be in what condition be will he veilmake no other pl●a in the world but this I will make mention of thy righteousnesse and thine only Whether you will understand it of Gods righteousnesse s●●ply as Judge or of Christs righteousnesse as he is the Advocate they come all to one reckoning For i● God d●●●eliver in a righteoussentance or according to righteousnesse deliverance doth proceed from righteousnesse plended So that I say if you understand of the Lord then you must conceive the righteousnesse of Christ is the ground why God pronounceth a sentence of righteousnesse And in the 143 Psalme and the 11. verse you shall set David doth there againe ascribe his deliverance unto righteousness still Quicken thou mee O Lord for thy names sake and for thy righteousnesse sake saith he bring my soule out of trouble The Prophet Isaiah coures behind none in Evangelicall sweet 〈…〉 comfort of Gods people he is marvelous full concerning this thing namely the 〈…〉 of the people of God by the righteousnesse of Christ Look into Isaiah Chap. 1. verse 27. Sion saith the Lord there shall be redeemed with judgement c. and the converts with righteousnesse Here you see beloved that the Church of God shal be brought to judgemens Judgement you know is a sentence passed by a Judge and there shall be redemption unto Sion even by judgement and this sentence of a Judge must be pronounced for the deliverance of the client This is our comfort we shall be saved by righteousnesse saith the Text. In Isaiah 41. you shall fee how the Lord sets out Christ in this very term Who hath raised up the righteous man saith the Text in vers 2. and hath set him as his feet I the first and the last saith the Lord in ver 4. Christ I say is held forth unto men as the righteous man raised up for the good of the sons of men In the 51. of Isaiah the Holy Ghost tells us about the 5. 6. verses that God will make judgement to rest as a light upon the people that is when the Lord brings his people unto judgement it shal be a lightsome day unto them and though a lightsome day yet who can stand before his Judgement Mark the ground of the lightsomness of the day when they shall come unto their trial My righteousness is neer saith the Lord my judgement is gone forth my salvation is gone forth therefore it should be a lightsome day because there shall be righteousness in that day to plead out that judgement that shall be given on the behalf of the clients of Christ In Isaiah 53. vers 11. He shall see of the travel of his soul and he shall be satisfied that is God shall see the travell of the soul of Christ and God shall be satisfied But how comes it to passe that God is pacified by beholding the righteousnesse the travel of the soul of Christ By his knowledge saith the next words shal my righteous servant justifie many There is a great deal of difference to understand the meaning of the phrase righteous servant By his knowledge shall my righteous servant just ifie many For my own part I think the plain sense doth carry much light in it as much as to say Christ knows so much concerning the prevalency of his own righteousnesse that he pleads so with the Father by it that he shall be sure to carry the cause in the behalf of his client when he pleads it he knows so much I say of the prevalency of his righteousnesse that he is sure he shall carry the cause for their justification when they come to their triall In the 59. of Isaiah and 16. verse you have an excellent expression there the Lord saith the Text wondered that there were none that he could finde never an Intercessor therefore as it follows my arm hath brought salvation But how doth his arm bring salvation my righteousnesse so it follows it sustained me Observe it well there is none in the world to deal with God on the behalf of men but the Son of God Christ himself there could not one come in to help him There is a mighty charge laid against poor Believers containing such a bulk of transgressions with so many aggravations that Christ himself had sunk under them being alone had not his righteousnesse sustained him this was that which held him up in the whole plea till the sentence was given on the behalf of his clients for be put on righteousnesse as a brest-plate In the 51. of Ieremiah and the 5. 6. verses of that Chapter Behold the dayes come or In those dayes I will raise up a righteous branch unto David In those dayes Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely and the name wherewith he shall be called is The Lord our righteousnesse Here is a righteous branch raised up this follows next th●● shall be sav●d How to In that there is a righteous branch 〈…〉 for it Israel shall 〈…〉 shall be saved in the word and from 〈…〉 but in that 〈…〉 up Judab that be 〈…〉 himself that 〈…〉 Judah when the 〈…〉 God himself 〈…〉 not only 〈…〉 Jerusalem 〈…〉 shal not cast our 〈…〉 is raised no which shal in 〈…〉 Judah to dwel safely And the reation of all this is not abley rendered nam●●y in that this righteousness is become our 〈◊〉 and he is so become our righteousnes that his very name is The Lord our righteousnes It is very well worth your observation how still the last refuge is fastened upon this eighteousnesse of Christ In the 9. of Daniel and the 24. verse Yet seventy weeks are determined unto thy holy City to what purpose to sinish transgression to put an end to sin to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousnesse Mark it well this sealing up or the Vision that is the establishment or the forgivenesse of sins and the finishing of transgression I