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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67258	Of the benefits of our Saviour, Jesus Christ, to mankind	Walker, Obadiah, 1616-1699.; R. H., 1609-1678.	1680 (1680)	Wing W405; ESTC R18640	157,560	244

commemoration of him how much more in that above is it solemnized for us by himself our High Priest That as the bow was set in the Cloud that God looking upon it might remember his Covenant and forbear to bring a second deluge upon the earth Gen. 9. 16. and the blood of the Paschal Lamb was stricken on the door posts that the Lord seeing it there might pass over them with his plague So when he beholds these wounds given our Savior for our sin displaid before him he may forbear to revenge sin any more upon his Brethren And if Pilate shewing that our suffering Savior with an Ecce Homo thought the beholding such a pitiful and cruel spectacle was enough to have melted the hardhearted Jews his malicious enemies into some mercy and compassion so as to prosecute his death no further How much more will such a pale and wanner sight as was seen afterward upon the Cross of an only Son voluntarily undergoing all this for our sin move a pitiful and merciful father no further to prosecute the vengeance thereof upon his brethren upon his own members A second Action there is sprinkling of his blood upon and before the Mercy-Seat not 7 nor 77 times but continually and note that all blood-shed when it comes before the Lord hath a loud cry See the blood of the Saints Rev. 6. 10. And Abels Gen. 4. 10. And the Apostle compares the sprinkling of our Saviors blood for its speaking and crying unto the sprinkling of Abel's tho His cried not the same way for it pleaded for mercy as the other for vengeance For we receive a true attonement are sanctified are purifyed as many of us as serve the Lord by the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus See 1 Pet. 1. 2. Heb. 12. 24. -13. 12. Not that our Savior there really sprinkled his blood for us let none grossly imagine this for flesh and blood enter not into heaven 1 Cor. 15. but that he now by it poured out by him on the Cross in the heavenly Sanctuary procures all the effects obumbrated by the former sprinkling of the blood of the legal Sacrifices Therefore t is observed that the Apostle saith he entred by it not with it Heb. 9. 12 23. Who is therefore called for this Celestial ceremony before the propitiatory or throne of grace our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 propitiation 1 Jo. 2. 2. and our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 propitiatory Rom. 3. 25. Thus he sprinkled his blood to make attonement for and to sanctify us but as we read that the legal High Priest purified also the Sanctuary it self and reconciled the Holy place said to be defiled by being in the midst of the peoples uncleanness See Lev. 18. 25 28. the Apostle makes this also run parallel for our Savior Heb. 9. 23. by which as is signifyed the purifying of all the Creatures and particularly of all our imperfect holy services unto us so perhaps something more may yet be gathered from Col. 1. 16 20. -2. 10. Job 15. 15. -4. 18. -25. 5. 2 Pet. 3. 7 12. Rom. 8. 22. well considered for all Principalities and Thrones i. e. Angels were made by him at first and for him and by him they now consist and of them also he is the head and by him they are said to be reconciled thro him they are now confirm'd in grace and perhaps at the last day thro him shall be advanced in glory And perhaps the upper regions of the world may be said in some sense to be contaminated as the earth by mans or the faln Angels sin to which heavenly things also the vanity bondage groaning of the Creatures mentioned Rom. 8. may extend which also are said by Peter to be reserved and that they shall be dissolved and as it were purified by fire But abscondita Domino Deo nostro manifesta nobis 3. After this appearing there with this Sacrifice and sprinkling of his blood follows his Intercession also there for us Rom. 8. 34. Heb. 7. 25. Esai 53. 12. -59. 16. another office of the Priest for the People whose making attonement was not without praier since this also is called making attonement Exod. 32. 30. and so where we translate making attonement the vulgar renders it praying for c. See Lev. 16. 7 34 17. Quando Pontifex sanctuarium ingreditur ut roget prose pro universo coetu Israel see Job 42. 8. Gen. 20. 7. which appears also by the continual practise of the Priests and Prophets praying fo●… the people Jer. 7. 16. -27. 18. Ezra 10. 4. Joel 1. 13 14. -2. 17. 2 Chron. 30. 27. 1. And this first in presenting continually his own praiers to the Father for us in which respect he is called also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our Advocate with the Father as well as the Holy Ghost is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Advocate to the Father here on earth with or in us As the spirit is also stiled by his title of Intercessor here as he there Rom. 8. 26 27. and therefore what office in prayer when any one sins or suffers this Advocate doth here on earth residing with us 1 Jo. 5. 7 8. see Rom. 8. 26. the other Advocate doth the same in heaven residing with the Father and with the same unexpressible zeal The better to conceive which imagine Aaron Numb 16. 47. when wrath was gone out from the Lord standing with his Censer in his hand between the living and the dead and staying the plague or Moses that great type of him Deut. 18. 15. like unto me his pathetical intercessions and deprecations so many times for the sinning Israelites continuing 40 daies at a time with the Lord in supplication for them and for their Priest see Exod. 32. comp with Deut. 9. 18 20. Numb 14. 13. c. and proceeding even to wishing himself accu●…ed in their stead as also did St. Paul but our Savior only was he that really became also a curse for others and then be sure our High Priest now makes the same nay far greater as much more concerned in our safety being Master over the house in which Moses tho a faithful yet was but a servant The exact matter and manner of whose intercessions above tho it is not manifested unto us yet what esteem of it and confidence in it may we not have therefore our Mother the Church thinks fit to finish all her prayers in it if we consider first that infinite love wherewith he now loveth us How can it be silent Eph. 3. 19. from which neither things present nor things to come neither heights nor depths c. can ever separate us Rom. 8. 38 35. comp with 34. 2. The promises which he made in that last comforting Sermon immediately before his death and departure from hence the summ of which is to assure his Disciples and consequently all believers see Jo. 17. 20. of the great care he would take for them in heaven where also he particularly

subject of whose songs is almost nothing else but Christ as we see from the expositions of them in the new Testament And because the promises were made more fully to Abraham and to David therefore hath our Saviour more chiefly the title of the seed of Abraham and of the Son of David then of others See Matt. 1. 1. And David was followed by the goodly fellowship of the Prophets whose light shined brighter and brighter 2 Pet. 1. 19. in those former darker ages so that some of them are called rather Evangelists then Prophets till the open day of the Gospel at last ascended upon the Earth in its full lustre and perfection And let this be observed to the glory of the mercies of God everlasting certain never-failing neither by Satans polices nor by mens sin how at a certain distance of time God alway mindful of his covenant with his elect For though God is no accepter of persons Act. 10. 34. Gal. 2. 6. for any external considerations of nation c. nor internal of properties and parts for the reason why any have these better then others is purely because he gave them yet he is an admitter or receiver of one mans person not anothers of one nation not another they being in all things equal or mostwhat he whom he receives some way inferior to gratuital favors for his own to us unknown pleasure no way grounded upon any thing in the person He preaccepteth none in point of justice so as to do wrong to any or deny to any their merit and due tho due only upon his promise by which he hath tyed himself to reward industry and our right use of his former gifts Matt. 25. 29. see Matt. 20. 13 14 15. But in point of liberality he doth so as to do more good to some then others without any cause at all that is in the person Rom. 9. 11. -3. 3. -11. 29. Esai 41. 2 4. Nor is this said as if he did not ordinarily give more with respect to some former gifts of his either those of nature or those of grace those acquisit by mans industry or infused by Gods mercy that are in such or such a person see Matt. 25. 15 29. but that he hath not tyed himself to give only where are former gifts and many times doth otherwise out of respect of the superabundance and overflowings of his mercies and of his Church upon earth which his everlasting purpose had determined notwithstanding mens frequent Apostacies to maintain from the beginning to the end of the world Rom. 3. 3 4. -11. 29 36. even then when he had most reason of all to desert it after it had begun to decline to idolatry Atheism c. sent new preachers of this Covenant and renewed the true Religion by them And how not in the best of times for a reward of obedience but in the worst ever out of a necessity of repair not in the growth but the decadency of former piety his eternal pitty still visited the world with new light and new Ambassadors Some 600 years after the Creation the world then full of ungodly sinners both in words and deeds Jude 14. Enoch was sent a Prophet who walked with God and in whom was shewed to the world the reward of righteousness and who denounced the last judgment day against the then wicked Again at a certain distance from Enoch before the flood when now not only the rest of the world but also the holy race was corrupt with oppression and violence from Gigantick people Gen 4. 23 24. and illegal conjunctions upon multiplication of women Gen. 6. 2. comp 1 4 ●…3 Mal. 2. 15. God sent Noah who walked also with God and was a Preacher of righteousness 367 years after the flood Idolatry also now growing rife and Shems holy race fallen away into it Josh. 24. 2 14. Gen. 31. 30 53. God called Abraham who commanded his children to keep the way of the Lord Gen. 18. 19. c. 430 years after this Gal. 3. 17. when the children of Israel were full of the Idols whoredoms and abominations of Egypt sacrificing unto Devils c. see Josh. 24. 14. -5. 9. Lev. 17. 7. Ezek. 20. 7 8 9 14. -23. 3. The reason why they were so prone to it at Sinai and upon every occasion so ready to start from the Lord God sent Moses but not for any merit of theirs at all therefore are they every where so frequently told of it See Deut. 9. 4 5 6. c. Not for thy righteousness nor for the uprightness of thine heart for thou wert c. but to perform the word which the Lord sware And Ezek. 20. and Ezek. 36. 21 22 31 32. where God saith when they would not cast away their abominations c. that he nevertheless wrought for his name sake and caused them to go forth c. see vers 8 9 10 14. c. see the like story Psal. 106. 8 43 45. comp with the rest of the Psalm Ps. 78. 38. comp 36. the reason of his compassion not their goodness but their mortality vers 39. 65. Jer. 30. 8. c. comp 15. -31. 19. Nor were their children he carried into Canaan better then their fathers Ezek. 20. 21. for which consider that strange passage Amos 5. 26 of which the modesty of Moses hath said nothing in the story the secret carrying along with them besides the Lords the effigies and Tabernacle which they made to themselves of Molech and Chiun c. But yet for his name sake c. vers 22. And see vers 37 40 41. How God promiseth after the expiring of his punishments and weariness of asflicting very frequent in the Prophets before any at least acceptable repentance of theirs a restorement of them to all his mercies and blessings upon which restorement saith he ye shall remember your waies and loath your selves when I have wrought with you for my names sake not according to your wicked waies vers 43 44. see Ezek. 16. 59. c. Not as if he did not require our repentance for to obtain the return of his favours especially to challenge or expect it which is so effectual to hasten his mercies and cut off the remains of justice See Lev. 25. 39. Ezek. 6. 8 9. But if this be not Mans impenitence or unbelief shall not frustrate for ever Gods faith promise glory Rom. 3. 3. But he will create new hearts in us rather and we shall repent after his mercies at least when not before and St. Paul shall cry out O the depth Who hath first given unto him Rom. 1l 35. For he who hath tyed himself upon repentance to shew mercy hath not tyed himself not to shew it but only upon repentance And indeed Gods judgments many times particularly war making men worse and his punishments by our desperate malignity increasing sin whence could any reformation begin but from himself who is forced at last when our sin contends in