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A28288 The love of God manifested in giving our Saviour for the redemption of mankind a sermon preach'd before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen on Nov. the 29th, 1696, being the first Sunday in Advent / by L. Blackburne ... Blackburne, Lancelot, 1658-1743. 1697 (1697) Wing B3067; ESTC R11620 10,822 27

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Clarke Mayor Martis primo die Decembr 1696. Annoque R. R. Will. Tertii Angliae c. Octavo THis Court doth desire Mr. Blackburn to Print his Sermon Preached on Sunday last before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and the Aldermen of this City at the Guild-Hall Chappel Goodfellow The Love of God manifested in giving our Saviour for the Redemption of Mankind A SERMON Preach'd before the Lord Mayor AND Court of ALDERMEN ON Nov. the 29th 1696. Being the First Sunday in Advent By L. BLACKBVRNE Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty LONDON Printed by Tho. Warren for Thomas Bennet at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1697. Published by the same Author THE Vnreasonableness of Anger A Sermon Preached before the Late Queen at White-Hall July the 29th 1694. ERRATA PAge 3. line 19. for to read so p. 4. l. 18. for not r. to Vs for Difference r. different p. 16. l. 20. for and r. an A SERMON Preach'd c. John III. 16. For God so lov'd the World that He gave His Only Begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him shou'd not perish but have Everlasting Life THat a Being infinitely Perfect shou'd delight in the work of its own hands that Goodness it self shou'd have Inclinations of Tenderness and Love for a Creature made after its own Image Just and Upright is but what that Creature might reasonably expect from the consideration of God's Nature and of its own But that a reasonable Creature fall'n willfully from that Uprightness given over to Sin and polluted with Wickedness shou'd with all those spots and stains about it be the Object of God's Love to such a degree as that he shou'd give His Only Son a ransom for it the Son of his Love for a Miserable Wretch the greatest contradiction to his Infinite Purity and the hopelesly devoted Sacrifice to his Everlasting Vengence This were enough to startle a forward Faith were it not that he has said it who cannot fail he has spoken it who cannot be deceiv'd who is himself both the Gift and the Assurance of it who to the manifold expressions of his Goodness to us has added That of even this opportunity of reviving the dying Images of our shatter'd and on every side assaulted Faith and inflaming our Hearts with a warm and penetrating sense of his astonishing and unbounded Love with a sense which is not to be had but by the means of Faith the only proper Instrument for exciting it as it is the only condition of attaining that Everlasting Life which is thus offer'd to our acceptance For God so lov'd the World that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him shou'd not perish but have Everlasting Life There are two things eminently remarkable in these words The Gift God gave to the World His Only Begotten Son and the End for which he gave it that whosoever believeth in Him shou'd not perish but have Everlasting Life And if we duly reflect upon the Principle from which that Gift proceeded and the Means appointed for applying it to the End there will arise from thence some noble and useful considerations towards the right acknowledgement of the One and the full attainment of the Other In the first place it will concern us to inquire how Our Saviour is the Gift of God For The Three Divine Persons in the adorable Trinity being Coeternal and Coequal it may seem inconsistent with that Equality that One of 'em shou'd have Power or Authority over the Other For equal Powers will be in a capacity of making equal Resistance and Powers Eternally to will be for that Reason ever above all Force from each other Yet there is nothing more common in Holy Scripture than the Expressions of this subordination and Dependance this Mission and Gift of the Son by the Father The spirit of the Lord is upon me says he Isaiah 61.1 for he applies that Text to himself in the 4th of St. Luke ver the 18th The spirit of the Lord is upon me because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings to the Meek he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted to proclaim liberty to the Captives and the opening of the Prison to them that are bound So the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews says Heb. 5.5 That Christ glorify'd not himself to be made an High-Priest but he that said unto Him Thou art My Son this day have I begotten Thee On this account it is necessary for us to distinguish between their Natural and their Oeconomical State for there is a very great difference between the one and the other and a Subordination and Inequality induc'd by the voluntary acceptance of Offices Ministerial to the great work of Our Redemption which is not founded in the Divine Nature consider'd simply and absolutely in it self but in the Relation only which their Personal Properties bear to each other and not with respect to the differen● and unequal Charges they have graciously been pleas'd to take upon 'em for the compassing that End Consider'd in their Natural State they are all equally God Infinite in Being Power and Perfections and being equal in Essential Power and Dominion are as such by consequence not subject or subordinate to one another from whence St. Paul says of Our Blessed Saviour that being in the form of God he thought it no robbery to be equal with God But in the Dispensation of our Redemption they have voluntarily taken upon 'em the Adminstration of Vnequal Offices The Father being the Fountain of the Godhead and in Relation to the Eternal Generation of the Son First in Order of Nature took upon him the Office of the supreme Governour of the World The Protector of his Laws and the first Director in the work of our Salvation In his Infinite Wisdom and Mercy he laid the Plan of our Redemption and design'd that inestimable Victim for us which alone cou'd satisfy his offended Justice And the Office of the Father being thus by the very Nature of its Functions more excellent in the Pre-eminence of Power and Dignity it was fit that the Son who was to be the Mediator between God and Man shou'd receive his Commission for that Office from the Father upon whose good pleasure only the receiving satisfaction to infinite Justice from any other hands than those of the offenders themselves intirely did depend So that in respect of that Designation and that Commission from the Father our Saviour may be said to be his Gift though fully equal to him in all the inherent and essential perfections of the Godhead He may truly on that score be said to be sent by him though he voluntarily enter'd into that Covenant and accepted of that Office though He gave Himself a Ransom for all Now a Gift in its own Nature must be free independent on any Law that may oblige to it or any Merit that may deserve it and such in all respects was this of our Mighty Deliverer In