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Sichah: or, A continued tract of meditation Being a discussion of the depth of God. Methodized, legible, and intelligible, in the idea of the book. By R.M. Philopolites. The second part.; Sichah. Part 2.
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Mayhew, R. (Richard).
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and Peace of Soul then one of the Depths of God Oh pray pray saith Perkins for the Pardon of thy particular and personal Sins The HEATHENS were wont to flie to the Mercy of their Gods by Petitions and purging Sacrifices They imbibed and espoused this Principle that the GODS were propitious and propense to pardon But none of the Gentile-Gods could ever pardon Sin for the Pardoner of Sin is the God of the Gentiles That the God of Gods is the God of the Gentiles is evident Thus Rom. 3.29 Is he the God of the Jews only Is he not also of the Gentiles Yea of the Gentiles also And that this God is the sole Pardoner of Sin is as evident Thus Mark 2.7 Who can forgive sins but God only The sins of believing Penitents and of penitent Beleivers are pardoned though the Tears of Repentance stand in their Eyes and they cannot read their PARDON Is not Remission then one of the Depths of God Lord saith Luther now do what thou wilt with me for thou hast pardoned me Remission of Sin is of more Validity and ought to be of more Value then all the Crowns and Scepters in the World is it not then one of the Depths of God 'T is more Christ-like and consequently more Christian-like to remit than to revenge The Pardon of Sin is a Mercy invaluable incomparable and inconceivable to all below a GOD Declarativè non Authorativè is it not then one of the Depths of God A Man may pardon Ministerially but not Juditially he may pardon Declaratively but not Authoratatively he may pronounce it but God performs it Is not Remission then one of the Depths of God The Form of a Monkish-Absolution I find to be thus God forgive thee my Brother the Merit of the Lord Jesus Christ and of blessed Saint Mary always a Virgin and of all the Saints the Merit of thine Order the Straitness of thy Religion the Humility of thy Confession the good Works which thou hast done or shalt do for the Love of our Lord Jesus Christ be unto thee available for the Remission of thy Sins the Increase of Desert and Grace and the Reward of everlasting Life AMEN Is not this a Linsey-Woolsey Absolution As one therefore said concerning the Writings of Moses Gen. 1.1 c. In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth c. Quomodo probas Domine Moses Quomodo probas Domine Monache Eris mihi magnus Apollo These are great things but Sir Moses how dost thou prove them so I may write concerning the Absolution of the MONK This is a larg and a long Absolution but how dost thou prove it Sir Monk Prove this Absolution from the sacred Scripture the written word of God and thou shalt have my Subscription if it be valuable that thou art a great Apollo This Sacerdotal Absolution among the Papists is the most hideous dangerous and perfidious Cheat of ROME saith Dr More that ever she could light on for the damning of poor credulous Souls that thus superstitiously depend on the vain Breath of their Priest for the Security of their Salvation GOD only can pardon sin The Pardon of Sin is his Act his proper and peculiar act He can do it and none can do it but He. We read Remission among his royal Titles is not this then one of the Depths of God Thus Exo. 34.7 Forgiving iniquity transgression and sin Here are three words about sin As if GOD would not only pardon all Sinners that cordially repent but also all kinds and degrees of sin whatsoever by what names or titles soever they be styled upon cordial Repentance which is virtually included in the Promise of Pardon Is not this manifest beyond all modest contradiction that not one can be a Pardoner of Sin but he who is vested v. 6. with these preceeding glorious Qualifications Jehovah Jehovah God merciful and gracious long suffering and abundant in goodness and truth keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquity transgression and sin Is not this now one of the Depths of God To offer Works for the Pardon of Sin is the worst SIMONY in the World For a trembling and a troubled Soul a doubting and a drooping Soul a desponding and despairing Soul to see and read his Name in an Act of Oblivion and Indempnity and that of Gods own making is not this then one of the Depths of God The Pardon of Pope Alexander the sixth though it was for thirty thousand Years was not worth two Sparrows and yet they were sold for a Farthing 'T is the God of Gods that gives Pardon to those that believe and that gives FAITH to believe that Pardon 'T is the God of Gods that gives Remission of Sin to those that repent and that gives REPENTANCE for Remission of Sins Is not Remission then one of the Depths of God We read of a Servant Mat. 18.24 Who ought to his Soveraign ten thousand Talents A considerable Summ here seems to be If a Talent according to the lowest Computation be three hundred pounds of Money and if ten thousand times three hundred be three Millions then these three MILLLONS are forgiven as a Debt of three MITES Is not Remission then one of the Depths of God For a Person to be mourning til it can mourn no more Yea after that mourn that it hath no more mourned and for Christ then to say to this Person as he did to that City-Sinner Luke 7.48 Thy sins are forgiven Is not this one of the Depths of God For Persons to be afflicted tossed with tempest and not comforted and for Christ then to say to these as he did to them Jo. 16.33 In me ye shall have peace is not this one of the Depths of God For a Person to be days and nights in the Deep and to be crying out there my SINS are not only innumerable but also unpardonable and for God then to say to this Person as he did Isa 43.25 I even I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own names sake and wil not remember thy sins is not this one of the Depths of God For a Person to be without Sun-light without Moon-light without Star-light Not only without full Shines and Smiles not only without the lest Glance of a reconciled Eye and Glimpse of a reconciled Face but also without a Commemoration that ever God was gracious that ever God and the Soul in a Promise sweetly and savingly met and for CHRIST then to say to this Person as he did to that Woman Mark 5.34 Go in peace and be whole of thy plague is not this one of the Depths of God A Depth of God REMISSION enters now Where is the Man that will not this allow Who hath been sailing by the Gates of Hel And truly then could not his PARDON spel Sins against Man may all forgiven be By Man Himself as Sages do agree Sins against GOD are All by God alone Forgiven Man that He may change his Tone
of the Just and Vnjust is evident And why there shal be a Resurrection of These is as evident in a manifold Respect As to God This God hath promised Thus 2 Cor. 4.14 Knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus shal raise us up also by Jesus and shall present us with you By that Power Christ was raised shal we be raised also and this was the power of God Thus 1 Cor. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 6.14 God hath raised up the Lord and will also raife us up But how By his own power Or by the power of Himself As to Christ As he was raised so he hath preached it Thus Luke 14.14 Thou shalt be recompenced at the resurrection of the just Gazophylacium Christi The poor mans Hand is as it were the very TREASURY of Christ and a Bil of Exchange for Heaven As to the Scriptures The Sacred Scripture is true Thus Col. 1.5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the Gospel As to Faith For these reasons Because the Resurrection of the Body hath been believed As this in Scripture hath been registred and to posterity transmitted so this by Scripturists hath been beleived Faith Eph. 2.8 is the Gift of GOD. Now God gives not Faith to believe a LIE Because there hath been such a Resurrection Thus Mat. 27.52 Upon the Crucifiction of Christ the graves were opened and many bodies of saints which slept arose Because Eaith must not be in vain Thus 1 Cor. 15.14 If Christ be not visen your faith is Vain Because co-incident with Salvation Thus 1 Cor. 15.18 If no corporal resurrection Then they which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished As to the Body For two Reasons Because the Body must be changed Thus Phil. 3.21 Who shal change our vile body Who shal reform transform transfigure and transmute But what The Body of the Vileness of us so the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Body Not in Substance or in Figure in Members and in Lineaments but in Conditions and Qualities so Zanchy That it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body c. The body of the glory of himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so the Greek Which is most clear and splendid so Tirinus And immortal so Menochius Because the Body is part of the PURCHASE of Christ Christ wil lose no Part of his Purchase but if no Resurrection of the Body then Christ should lose a Part of his Purchase 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for he hath bought the Body as wel as the Soul Thus 1 Cor. 6.19 20. What know ye not that your body is the temple of the holy spirit which is in you and ye are not your own For ye are bought with a price The word PRICE is no Pleonasm but added as an Emphasis to intimate the Excellency and Dignity of the Price wherewith we were bought which was not Silver or Gold but the pure and precious Blood of Christ But what follows Therefore glorifie God in your Body and in your Spirit which are God's Is not the Resurrection of the Body now one of the DEPTHS of GOD Ah! how greatly unbeleiving are great Persons about this great Truth the Resurrection of the Body although it be one of the Depths of God That there should be a specifical numerical or individual Resurrection of the Body these eyes these hands these feet but incorrupt is not this one of the Depths of God That some part of the Body should be buried at SEA and this devoured by the Fish there that the rest of the Body should be interred at LAND and this devoured by the Worms there and that God should give this Man a numerical Resurrection it not this one of the Depths of God For part of the Body to be made Dust in the Bottom of the Sea and the rest of the Body to be made Dust in the Bowels of the Earth and for the God of Gods to gather all this Dust together and give this Man an individual Resurrection out of his own Dust is not this one of the Depths of God May I not now write as the Apostle spake Acts 26.8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead Let every Individual into whose hands this TRACT shal providentially and graciously fal be cautioned against such Expressions Yea Conceptions as these that follow That Salvation should be preached in the Name of a pretended God called Jesus who was born of a poor Jewish-Woman and brought up like a poor Carpenters Son who was crucified like a notorious Malefactor between two notorious Theeves who came under the Arrests of Death and like a MORTAL was laid in a Sepulcre when almost all the Nation of the Jews affirm that he is yet under the Power of Death and when so few talk of his Resurrection what Credibleness of this Doctrine of the Resurrection Ah Soul so incredible is this Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body that all the chief HERESIES of old were either against the Divinity of Christ as the Arrians Photinians c Or the Humanity of Christ as the Simonians Manichees Marcionites c Or the Vnion of Divinity and Humanity into one Person as the Nestorians Eutychians and yet the Resurrection of the Body is one of the Depths of God The RESURRECTION of the Body may Pass for a Depth of God I boldly say Foes very many this hath had in Ages Freinds very few of very many Sages This hath not met with general Digestion In GOSPEL-times 't was called into Question Then many said without declared Dread There is no Refurrection of the Dead But there 's a Resurrection of the Just And Vnjust too both sormed out of Dust As there 's a RESURRECTION to Salvation So there 's a Resurrection to Damnation Be wisely-worldly be not worldly-wise Shal not these Eyes and Hands and Feet arise Young ones may die but die the Old ones must Shal these arise who lived long in Lust Out of their own and not anothers Dust Then surely I should not an ATHEIST trust The Dust at Sea and also at the Land Wil God together gather with his Hand He that wil search may in the Scripture find That the same BODY shal arise in Kind In Number too shal the same Body rise 'T is written and cannot be otherwise A Jesus 't is must raise interred Man Whose Days I find compared to a Span. Oh Lord of Lords things easy are to THEE Let this Vile Body here most changed be That so hereafter Seeing I may see This also raised incorrupt for ME. REMISSION Remission that 's one of the Depths of God Pardon of Sin is a signal and a singular mercy a precious and a plural mercy a congruous and a complicated mercy is it not then one of the Depths of God Sin that 's dangerous that 's damnable is not Pardon of Sin then