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A79435	Yahweh Tsidkenu or The plain doctrin of the justification of a sinner in the sight of God; justified by the God of truth in his holy word, and the cloud of witnesses in all ages. Wherein are handled the causes of the sinners justification. Explained and applied in six and twenty sermons, in a plain, doctrinal and familiar way, for the capacity, and understanding of the weak and ignorant. By Charles Chauncy president of Harvard Colledge in Cambridge in New-England.	Chauncy, Charles, 1592-1672.	1659 (1659)	Wing C3739; Thomason E979_11; ESTC R222074	232,660	312

not hasty in concluding that thou hast it And for the discovery of this whether thou art in the faith consider these trials 1 more general 2 more particular 1 More general Consider First Tryals of faith whether thou hast a lower work of faith which although it doth not justify yet it is a step unto the other viz. to beleeve the truth of all the things that are written in the Law and the Prophets Act. 24.14 It thou hast not a dogmatical faith of these thou art worse than the Devils and if thou beleevest them but as the Devils thou shalt have no more benefit by thy saith than the Devils have But if this faith have a tendency to justifying Faith it is of pretious use to thee and causeth thee as it did Paul to exercise thy self to have a Conscience void of offence toward God and man ver 16. This is known very much by your beleeving the Commandements as well as the Promises but see do you beleeve the Commandements hee that beleeves them will set upon the obeying of them Heb. 11.8 yea he will have respect to every Commandement do you beleeve the threatnings Sure then you will tremble at them So David did Psal 119.120 Isa 66.2 5. As when wee see a Childe shooting at us wee fear not his arrows not will stir for him because we beleeve not that hee can or will hurt us But if we see a skilful archer to level at us wee will not dare to stand within bow-shot because wee beleeve hee will hit us So 't is in apprehending Gods threatnings against our sins When he shoots his arrows at us Ps 45.5 certainly if a man beleeves not Commands and Threatnings hee beleeves not with justifying faith Yea see how thou likest the faithful application of the word to thy conscience especially when it is impartial A naughty unbeleeving heart will turn from it 2 Tim. 4.3 at the least hee doth not love to apply it to himself for his profit Heb. 4.2 and such a hearer may sit under the means all his life time and never bee the better 2 See whether thy faith bee a working faith By this thou shalt know whether it bee the work of God if it act vigorously against the allowance of any sin that Faith which lyeth dead and idle is like a dead and unsavory carcass in Gods accompt Jam. 2.22 24. that Faith that works not by repentance Mark 1.15 that works not by love Gal. 5.6 that brings not forth good fruits that bauks any duty and imboldens to any Sin Col. 1.10 Psal 119.1 2. it is not hard for him that shall descend into his own conscience to discern what manner of faith hee hath attained unto 3 See whether your faith bee any other than what you have by natural power and abilities attained unto hee that hath no other hath not this saving faith wrought in him for this is wrought by a divine supernatural power Matth. 16.17 flesh and blood hath not revealed it Col. 2.12 Faith of the operation of God Eph. 1.19 It is true a carnal man may do many duties required of him in the moral Law for the outward performance because hee hath the seeds of the Law left in him but saving faith must bee created and wrought onely by the power of God which shews that the faith of some is but a meer fancy seeing they have no more than meer nature in them there was never any difficulty in the attainment of it 4 It is a grace that is not wrought in the heart unless soundly humbled Neither will ever abide in a proud heart how can you beleeve c. Joh. 5.44 Heb. 2.4 See how the Lord brought down Paul and the Jaylor and those Act. 2. So that until Pride and Self conceitedness and Vain-glory and Contempt of others bee removed yea all glorying in and boasting of our own righteousnesse And unlesse the heart bee brought to some constant frame of humility it neither will or can beleeve And the want of this is the cause why so many Professors turn to errours and prophaneness and a loose kinde of life it comes from the unbrokenness and untamedness of their hearts Now Faith of all other graces is a heart-breaking and soul-humbling grace More particularly There are divers degrees and measures of faith And wee must take heed that wee do not lay stumbling blocks before the eies of weak beleevers by setting down such trials of faith as belong onely to strong beleevers Such as Abraham Moses Job c. When as weak ones cannot finde them in themselves they disquiet themselves without just cause For clearing of which consider some signs of the weakest faith out of Mark. 9.24 where you shall find an example in the poor man that brought his Son to our Saviour Christ to bee healed and made profession of his Faith in which wee may observe these particulars Signs of the weakest faith 1 There is a sound Conviction of his unbeleef hee perceives what an unbeleeving heart hee had and this is the first work of the Spirit of God Joh. 16.8 and a work perceiveable by the weakest beleever now none can convince the soul of its unbeleef but the Spirit of God and this is such a conviction as causeth the sinner not onely to see but to mourn for his unbeleef before the Lord to pray and strive earnestly against it He said with Tears Lord help my unbeleef hee therefore that is not sensible of this sin on the like manner hath not so much as a weak faith wrought in his heart 2 There is a strong desire after faith and grace and Christ So there was in this poor beleever It is ordinary in the Scripture to expresse the nature of the weakest faith by hunger and thirst as Joh. 7.37 38. now that signifies a restless desire after Christ and Grace accompanied alwaies with strong indeavours in the use of the means to attain unto the things desired It is not a lazy and listless desire such as the Sluggard hath which kills him but such as sets the heart and outward man on work to attend diligently on the means of grace to attain unto faith in Christ and that in a greater measure Wherefore let lubberly and lazy Professors take notice of this that they have no true faith in their hearts 3 In this beleever there was a holy jealousy that hee might not bee deceived about his grace that made him so to complain A weak beleever deals like a wise man that is but a young beginner and newly set up in his trade hee fears exceedingly lest hee should bee deceived with counterfeit wares or copper mony so it is with a provident Christian hee is very circumspect and wary lest hee should bee deceived with Copper and Alchymy faith Therefore hee loves a faithful and searching Ministry that will gage his heart and discover the unsoundness of it Joh. 3.21 Hee comes to the light that his deeds may bee made manifest

there is nothing left to trouble our peace and hinder our comfort Isa 35. last The ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Sion with Songs and everlasting joies upon their heads It is a blessed time the ransomed of the Lord have none can hinder their joy and blessedness Rom. 4.6 Psal 32.1 There is nothing can hinder our blessedness but sin and that being slain by Christs death our great enemy is overcome So that the blood of Christ that is available for the pardon of our sins past is also available for the sins that are to come and follow his death Use 3. Lay claim to pardon Instruction to true Beleevers Seeing there is such efficacy in the blood of Christ for the remission of all their sins let them learn this high part of spiritual wisdome to lay claim to this full pardon and let them not charge their consciences with the guilt of their sins for this is in a sort to lessen if not deny the force and vertue of the death of Christ which is to bee abhorred by every Christian Heb. 10.2 They that are once purged have no more Conscience of sin i.e. of the terrours and guilt of sin unsatisfied for if God and his word conclude us to bee under sin then wee must conclude so too but if they discharge us and set us at liberty then shall wee wrong Scripture wrong God and Christ and our own Souls to charge our selves with the guilt of our Iniquities One would think Beleevers need not any advice in matters of this nature but it is a sure rule that the Carnal man and unbeleever thinks it the easiest matter in the World to put over all his sins upon Christ and perswade his heart that his sins are pardoned whereas a Beleever accounts it a difficult business to remove the mountains of sin and as it were by faith to cast them into the midst of the Sea so as to conclude the Remission and Forgiveness of all their sins So that they have great need of this advice and the want of this wisdom is that which breeds so many bad thoughts fears doubts discouragements and darknesse in the hearts of true beleevers When as sometimes they think upon their sins they are ready quite and clean to sink them thus it was with David Psal 38.4 Our Iniquities are gone over our heads c. with Job Job 13.26 Thou writest bitter things against mee and makest mee possesse the sinnes of my Youth Job 14.16 17. Thou watchest over my sins thou sealest up my Transgression in a bag c. and with Moses Psal 90.8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance who speaks there in behalf of the Church then in distresse This is that which is so grievous to Christians in case of temptations and desertions spiritual that they look at their sins as unpardoned or standing in full force against them and so the death of Christ as invalid and not reaching to the pardon of them Truely in such and the like cases I know not what to call it whether Pride or Weakness or Folly that poor Beleevers do frame inditements against themselves and take their debts upon themselves which the Lord Jesus hath discharged And it is like as if some poor man were cast into Prison for debt and some rich friend should lay down a full summe to discharge the debt and cancell his bonds and so set him at liberty and hee refuse the kindness and say nay but this payment is not sufficient but I must discharge it my self or else I will never come out What will you call this Truely this is your case that your spirits are over-whelmed with your sins you go like malefactors with fetters and bolts about their heels Though your liberty is purchased and the Prison doors are set wide open yet you will not bee delivered and come out You account not the pay of Christ current and go about drooping discouraged and uncomfortable disabling your selves for any duties and create needless miseries to your selves Well remember the point and use in hand that the blood of Jesus Christ hath cleansed us i. e. all true beleevers from all iniquities 1 Joh. 1.7 Dan. 9.24 Rom. 5.11 Isa 38.17 Thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back It is a borrowed speech from men when they regard not a thing they cast it behind their backs and thus God doth with the guilt of beleevers sins Object But is not this a ground of looseness prophaneness and incouragement to Libertines Drunkards and Unclean persons for they will say why should wee bee troubled for our sins how many soever wee have committed seeing Christ by his death hath purchased the full remission of our sins therefore they think they may revel carouse swagger drink whore cozen what not and need never bee troubled for their sins Answ This is just the conceit of the Familists and Antinomians that maintain wee need not to bee troubled for our sinnes and that justified persons have nothing to do with repentance any more or if they do repent they do undervalue Christ and his Death as if hee had not sufficiently satisfied for our sins Now to prevent the cavils of ungratious hearts and to give Gods people that portion of Instruction that belongs to them I answer in these particulars Answ 1. There is no unbeleever hath any ground in the Word to conclude the pardon of his sins in the state of his unbeleef or that hee hath any real benefit by the death of Christ If they conceive otherwise they couzen their own souls Heb. 10.38 If any man with-draw himself my soul shall have no pleasure in him that is he will not pardon him Joh. 3.18 Hee that beleeves not is condemned already The sentence is already passed upon every unbeleever in the Word of God yea and in the Counsel of God upon him that shall continue obstinately and finally in the sin of unbeleef whereby such great indignity is offered to Gods Grace and Word and especially such horrid rebellion and unthankfulnesse to the Lord Jesus Christ For so it follows because hee hath not beleeved in the Name of the only begotten Son of God Surely hee that is condemned for sin hath not the remission of sin but is going to execution for sin 2 There is no unregenerate unsanctified or disobedient person but is an unbeleever and therefore destitute of any comfort in Christs death This the Scriptures do clearly hold forth for Regeneration and Faith goe together 1 Joh. 5.1 Whosoever beleeveth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God Psal 32.1 2. Joh. 1.12 13. They that beleeve are sanctified Heb. 10.11 By one offering hee hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified Without obedience there is no faith Heb. 5.9 and dreadful is that place spoken of Christ Exod. 23.21 Provoke him not obey his voice for hee will not bear your transgressions so it may bee rendred hee

so prosperous as a pardoned estate And this right use of pardon stands in deep humility and abasement of our selves Ezek. 16.63 That thou mayest remember and be confounded and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame when I am pacified towards thee for all that thou hast done saith the Lord. 2 Another use of it is in vigilancy and watchfulnesse at all times and in all places against sin Psal 85.8 3 In a resolved care and conscience of obedience for the time to come Jerem. 31.33 38. 4 To love God so much the more as the poor woman Luke 7.47 Now I come to shew you how farre a Christian ought to goe in comforting his soul about the forgivenesse of his sin 1 A beleever holding his integrity should never conceive How farre a beleever ought not to charge his soul with sin or let his heart be perswaded that any of all his sins shall ever bring guilt upon him so as to cause Gods revenging justice to bind him over to wrath If any one shall doe so hee sins and bears false witnesse against God and his own Soul It is one thing to say we are worthy to bee condemned and another thing to say or think we shall be condemned indeed For there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus c. Rom. 8.1 because Christ hath condemned their sin sins guilt is on them as the Viper on Pauls hand which he soon shook off without any hurt Or like the Lions in the Den where Daniel was cast who though they were hungry God shut their mouthes and they had no power on Daniel Dan. 6.22 25. but when they who caused Darius to make the Decree were cast in the Lions tare them suddenly in pieces before they came to the ground Just so it is with the sins of the faithful and the sins of wicked men and unbeleevers the sins of the faithful though they are of a killing and Lion-like nature for the wages of every sin in it self is death yet the Lord Jesus in the behalf of beleevers stops the Lions mouthes and takes away the guilt and the condemning power of it so that it cannot hurt them But when it meets with an unbeleever it soon slayes him Psal 34.21 Evil shall slay the wicked yea sin shall lye at his door Gen. 4.7 the filthinesse of the unclean person shall devoure him the disobedience of the stubborn shall plague him the pride of the haughty and scorner shall rend the very caul of his heart one day c. but so it is not with poor beleevers though their sin hath teeth and jaws and power to make them worthy of condemnation yet it shall never be able to fasten condemnation on them 2 Every faithful soul is bound to perswade his heart that God doth not nor ever will charge any one sin upon him He will never follow the Law upon him here for his hurt curse or mischief in this life God may indeed hide his face from him and write bitter things against him and deal with him as an angry Father with a disobedient Childe but will never prosecute him at his Law as an enemy or Judge but a beleever may say with holy Job chap. 13.15 Though hee stay me I will put my trust in him because he sees no iniquity in Jacob Numb 23.22 What is that Not to trouble you with the delusions of the Familists the meaning is that the Lord takes no notice of the sins of his Israel to impute them or to punish them but only to pardon cover and cure them Isa 53.6 all the sins of beleevers meet in Christ as in the center like so many Diameters of a Circle or as all the Rivers meet in the Sea so all the Sins of beleevers on Christ in the full punishment and curse of them Therefore let every beleever make conscience to consider what God hath revealed in the Promise and take heed that you make not God a Lyar and be sure that you are discharged from all your sins by Christ but let not any unbeleever or prophane person meddle with this priviledge for he hath no part or fellowship with it they shall bear their own drunkennesse scorning Sabbath-breaking and all manner of prophanenesse the Devil is let loose iniquity is upon them and the flying roul of Curses and Divine vengeance is gone forth against them They have sinned and be sure their sin will find them out Num. 32.23 as a Bloud-hound findes out a Thief But you that are beleevers glorifie the name of Christ and his Death and I charge you take heed what you say or think in this case as though God would avenge himself on you or deal with you as an enemy 3 Every true beleever should exempt his soul from any fear of the charge of any sin upon it by any accuser in this world so as to break off the love of God in Christ from him Famous is that bold challenge of Paul Rom. 8.33 34. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect be it Devil or World or Conscience there is nothing can be of such force and power as to affright us as though wee might fall from the love of God whereby hee hath loved us in Christ Isa 26.3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace c. 4 A beleever should take heed of speaking or thinking that God is so displeased with him as to neglect him reject him or forget him for his sins Isa 40.27 28. Why sayest thou O Jacob and speakest O Israel my way is hid from the Lord c. Isa 49.14 Sion said God hath forsaken mee c. yea though he should fall into some foul sin yet hee should not conceive his condition hopelesse and helplesse 1 Joh. 2.1 2. Psal 130.3 though he must see that he repent and bee suitably humbled for such falls but this is his comfort when hee falls he shall arise not perish-through hardnesse and impenitency but be raised by true remorse hearty sorrow and humiliation for his sins or any one in particular that he hath fallen by Vse 4. It is exhortation to the performance of several duties about or concerning the pardon of our sins 1 Wee should learn from hence highly to esteem the pardon and forgivenesse of our sins for these grounds 1 Because it is a peculiar property of God A property of God to forgive sin belonging to the Lord alone to forgive sin that is expressed in the text in these words through the forbearance of God forbearance and remission belong only to the Lord as his Prerogatives royal Exod. 34.7 Forgiving iniquity transgression and sin Isa 47.25 I even I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions c. Mic. 7.18 Who is a God like unto thee that pardoneth Iniquity c. Oh! there is an infinite evil in sin and therefore requires an infinite power to remove it Hence it is made an argument of the God-head of Christ to forgive sin Matth.

a people that have no understanding ● therefore he that made them will have no mercy on them and he that formed them will shew them no favour Yee have no understanding as if he should have said Yee have unmade and undone your selves by your folly wherefore I will not pitty you as my Creatures but if there were any validity in what this Objector saith then the Devils might comfort themselves which are the Creatures of God as well as men but of them and all the wicked of the world is that verified Prov. 16.4 God made all things for himself and the wicked for the evil day Obj. 5. If I must be the everlasting Object of Divine justice and vengeance for my sin I will bear it as well as I can Answ Now wretched creature is it come to that pass dost thou know what thou sayest know the Lyon by his paw Cain said Gen. 4.13 My punishment is greater than I can bear Proverbs 18.14 A wounded spirit who can bear Remember how it was with Job chapter 6.12 Is my strength the strength of stones Again Job 7.14 15. My soul chuseth strangling c. And Hezekiah Isa 38.13 I reckoned till morning That as a Lion so will he break all my bones Psal 88.15 Heman said whilst hee suffered the terrours of God he was distracted Job 31.23 Destruction from the Almighty was a terror unto me and by reason of his highnesse I could not endure Now these men that are last mentioned were precious Saints and Servants of the Lord that had a singular support of divine grace and yet they upon some lesser manifestations of the terrors of God in this life did thus expresse themselves But what is this in comparison of the Sinners of Sion Isa 33.14 15. what is this in comparison of everlasting burnings everlasting punishment Matth. 25. and the last vers streamings of brimstone chains of darknesse everlasting fire c. Matth. 25.41 the bottomeless pit an everlasting death immortal mortality according to that expression Rev. 9.6 they shall seek death and shall not find it they shall desire to dye and death shall flee from them consider but that expression of everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Matth. 25.41 the words are these Then shall hee say also unto them on the left hand depart from me yee cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Mark that word prepared it is spoken as if the Almighty Wisdome did deliberate and as it were set down and devise all stinging and terrible ingredients for a temper of greatest torture to make up that dreadful fire wherein hee meant to torment eternally his enemies do but cast an eye upon the sufferings of the Lord Jesus and his agony and prayer under the sense of his Fathers wrath and judge how well thou art like to bear the wrath of a sin-revenging God In a word let mee shut up this discourse with that of the Prophet Ezekiel Chap. 13. vers 11. Yee speak peace false peace to your own hearts build the Wall and dawb it ever with untempered mortar thus saith the Lord say unto them you dawb it with untempered mortar that it shall fall and there shall bee an overflowing showre and yee O great hail-stones shall fall and the stormy wind shall rent it The great God commands the great hail-stones to throw down the walls and daubings that yee shall say where is the daubing wherewith wee have daubed it All the vain Cavils of impenitent sinners shall bee scattered and do them no good I shall finish this use with a few conclusions following thence Conclusi 1. It is a horrible depth of Satans subtilty to hold an unbeleeving or impenitent sinner in a senseless security without feeling or fear of divine vengeance seeing such a soul is continually subject to bee seized on by the justice of God and that notwithstanding this sinners should bee so desperate that they turn to their course as the horse to the battel Jerem. 8.6 This is suitable to those expressions 2 Thes 2.9 10. where the Apostle tells us of the efficacy of Satan with all power and with all deceivablenesse of unrighteousness in them that perish Now these are Satans plots by which hee deceives souls 1 To procure them secrecy and successe in their wicked enterprizes for secrecy you have a place in Esay chapter 29.15 Their works are in the dark and they say who seeth mee or who knoweth us they dig deep to hide their counsel from the Lord much more from me saith the Prophet surely your turnings of things up and down shall bee as the Potters clay for shall the work say of him that made it hee made mee not Psal 64.5 They incourage themselves in an evil matter they commune of laying snares privily and say who shall see them but God shall shoot at them c. Now for their success in their wickedness and attempts the Devil makes fair promises of that too and for a while it may bee they may prosper Thus Haman Doeg the Scribes and Pharisees for some time prospered so did Julian the Apostate We read of this delusion of prospering in sin in Dan. 8.24 Hereupon the poor deluded wretches strengthen themselves in their wickedness Psal 52.1 2 He draws them by all the Baits hee can to engage them to their lusts to Ale-houses drinking revelling gaming feasting all manner of good-fellow-meetings and Bedlam-fooleries where the Devil himself is present in his Pontificalibus Prov. 1.11 Come say they let us lay wait for blood c. wee shall finde all pretious substance wee shall fill our houses with spoil cast in thy lot c. 3 Hee fills their heads with a multitude of worldly occasions with hope of gathering wealth so hee dealt with Cain in his building and as the Idolaters used when they sacrificed their Children to Moloc to drown the cries of their children with the noise of Drumms so these drown all the noise of Conscience with the lowder noise of the cumber and clutter of those worldly affairs 4 The Devil like a crafty juggler casts mists before the eies of his slaves or else as the Philistims dealt with Sampson puts out their eies that they shall not see the ugly face of sin They call evil good and good evil and so draw on iniquity and Isa 5.19 20. there they challenge God and say Let him make speed and hasten his work c. Let the Counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come c. Oh how miserable is that soul that is thus deluded by the Devil and led captive at his pleasure and what a fearful thing is it to abide one moment in such a condition Conclusi We are to justify God in all his severity 2. Then let us justify God in all the severity of his Commands Threatnings Judgements this was the frame of Davids heart when hee was kindly humbled Psal 51.4 That thou maiest bee justified when thou speakest