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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54378	The redemption of mankind, by the passion of our Lord A sermon, preached on Palm-Sunday, at Kintbury, in the county of Berks. By Jos. Perkins, late vicar of Hill, in Gloucester-Shire.	Perkins, Joseph, b. 1658.	1692 (1692)	Wing P1558; ESTC R221441	13,606	33

THE REDEMPTION OF MANKIND BY THE Passion of our Lord. A SERMON PREACHED On Palm-Sunday at Kintbury in the County of Berks. By Jos Perkins late Vicar of Hill in Gloucester-Shire LONDON Printed and are to be Sold by Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1692. EPHES. I. VII In whom we have Redemption through his Blood the forgiveness of Sins according to the Riches of his Grace PAUL an Apostle of Jesus Christ had no sooner planted a Church at Ephesus and sown the Seed of the good Word of God but the Devil who commonly Erects a Chappel where God hath laid the Foundation of his Church like the Envious Man in the Gospel came in the absence of Paul and instead of good Seed cast Tares amidst the Wheat and infected the Ephesians with pernicious and erroneous Opinions St. Paul in his Preaching defended the Doctrine of justifying Faith Afterwards arose Jewish Seducers which taught that Salvation was not only from Faith but came by the observation of the Mosaical Law Our Apostle forbad the abuse of Christian Liberty after this there arose Corrupters of the Gentiles which perswaded the Ephesians that Fornication Covetousness and Drunkenness were no Sins but natural Inclinations That the Ephesians might avoid the danger of these malicious Instruments of Satan Paul writes an Epistle unto them containing the confirmation of Doctrine and the information of Life wherein he proves and directly manifests that God's gifts and graces proceed not from any merit of fore-seen Work of ours but from his own Mercy and favourable Grace And so beginning with Election which is the cause of our rejoycing that our Names are written in Heaven Luk. 10. vers 20. be descends to our Redemption where we are to consider 1. The meritorious Cause in the first Particle of my Text In whom 2. The subject of our Redemption in the word We. 3. The effect it self and that specifically set down Redemption even the forgiveness of Sins 4. The manner how our Redemption was effected through his Blood 5. The Cause moving our Redeemer to this Act of Redemption according to the Riches of his Grace 1. Christ the second person in Trinity the Son of God and the Son of Man is the Saviour of miserable wretched and damned Mankind in whose Incarnation Life Obedience Passion and Death we have Redemption from the eternal Sorrows of Death and Hell This sacred Saviour consisting of a divine and human Nature being both God and Man hath by his Sufferings reconciled God to Man whom Disobedience the first and Mother of all Sins had set at variance An Angel could not effect this Office of a Mediator for an Angelical Nature was not ordained for this Service Man could not become Intercessor for Man for grant there should be such a Phaenix in the World as a Man without Sin yet an infinite Nature was offended therefore it must be an infinite and divine Nature that must satisfie Nevertheless so Divine as there must be an union of Natures that as Man trespassed so Humanity must suffer Indeed the efficient cause of our Salvation is God the Father but the meritorious cause is Christ our Mediator by whom God effects all that he doth Our former Integrity was so far from Redeeming us that it was rather Ignominy to have had it and then to lose it than having lost it to glory we had it Miserum est fuisse Christ is made to us Wisdom Justice Sanctification and Redemption Wisdom because he hath Revealed his Fathers Will Justice because he hath offered up himself a Sacrifice for Sin Sanctification because he hath given us his Spirit Redemption because he hath appointed a day to vindicate and free his Children out of the hands of Corruption into the Liberty which is Glorious It is the Lord strong and mighty that hath done these things for us For who is God besides the Lord and who is Mighty save our God 2 Sam. 22. vers 32. Caesar said of the Gauls in one Battle They had overcome if the Romans had not been their Enemies So we may truly say That Hell Death and Destruction had swallowed us up quick if Christ had not been our Captain and Enemy to Satan and his Complices Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the Sins of the World A Lamb in Patience but a Lyon in Victory That our Faith may find a sure ground of Salvation in Christ a Threefold Office of our Mediator is considerable two Offices of his Humiliation and one of his Exaltation The First Office of his Humiliation is Prophetical whereby Christ instructs his Church and is thereby termed the Word and Orator of the Father The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me therefore hath the Lord anointed me He hath sent me to Preach good Tydings unto the Poor to bind up the broken Hearted to Preach Liberty to the Captives and to them that are bound the Opening of the Prison Isai 6. ver 1. At sundry Times and in divers Manners God spake in the old Time to our Fathers by the Prophets In these last Days he hath spoken unto us by his Son Heb. 1. ver 2. The Second Office is his Priesthood Prophesied by King David in his 110. Psal ver 4. The Lord hath sworn and will not repent Thou art a Priest for ever after the Order of Melchisedek He is that Priest who offered up his own Body for a Sacrifice for Sins The Priest was the Sacrifice because none other could satisfie God and the Sacrificer was the Priest because no mortal Priest was worthy to offer so precious a Sacrifice He remains still a Priest through whose Intercession all our Sacrifices of Prayer and Thanksgiving are consecrated unto God The last Office is his Kingly Office foretold by David Psal 89. ver 6. and prefigured by Solomon Yet here we must not dream of an Earthly but of an Heavenly and Eternal Kingdom Miserable Jews they are that still expect a Messias to restore the Kingdom of Israel He is the Hope of all the Ends of the Earth the Honour of the World the common Joy of Men that said John 28.36 My Kingdom is not of this World By this Office Christ triumpheth over his Enemies and administers his Spiritual Gifts and Graces to us which are his Members Vnto every one of us is given Grace according to the Measure of the Gift of Christ Ephes 4. ver 7. If you will see an excellent short Sum of those Benefits which we have received in Christ consider that we have our Salvation in the Name of Christ Gifts of the Spirit in his Anointing Redemption in his Passion Absolution in his Condemnation Satisfaction in his Sacrifice Mortification in his Grave Newness of Life in his Resurrection Security and enjoying all Good in his Kingdom Now God's Justice is satisfied so that he is a just Judge but not with any Satisfaction proceeding from Sinners but by the Death of his Son So that he is a merciful Father to us-ward If for us the Son

Christ we can never do any thing faithfully for whatsoever is done doubtfully is not of Faith and whatsoever is not of Faith is Sin It is our Comfort and our Wisdom we care for no Knowledge in the World but this that Man hath sinned and God hath suffered That God hath made himself the Son of Man and that Men is made the Righteousness of God God Poureth his Wrath upon all as long as he reputeth them Sinners Behold the Lord's Hand is not shortned that it cannot save neither is the Ear heavy that it cannot hear But your Iniquities have separated between you and God and your Sins have hid his Face from you that he will not hear Isa 59.1 2. Here we see Sin to be the Division between God and Man and Man is Enemy to God till he be reconciled in Christ Now God was in Christ and reconciled the World to himself not imputing their Sins unto them and hath committed unto us the Word of Reconciliation 2 Cor. 5.19 Redemption taken for the Remission of Sins is all one with Justification For St. Paul expounds it in his Sermon Acts 13. ver 28. Through Christ is Preached Remission of Sins and from all things by which he could not be justified by the Law of Moses by him every one that believeth is justified we are justified not by any inherent or infused Righteousness but by imputed Justice and by Remission and Forgiveness of our own injustice God looks on his Servants as they are the Members of Christ cloathed with his Righteousness For as Jacob did not deserve the Birth-right in himself and in his own right but received the Blessing and Inheritance in the Garments and Apparrel of Esau his Eldest Brother to whom the same did properly belong so we receive the Blessing of God and are accepted to Eternal Life in the Garment of the Righteousness of Christ for whose sake and sufferings God looks upon our Sins with a discerning not a revenging Eye Howsoever our Sins cleave to our Souls let us hate them as we hate Hell for thence they are and the Devil worketh them Yet though they are many in Number and grievous in their Nature our hopes are not in our own Persons but in the Body of Christ into which we are Grafted and in which there is no spot nor blemish but perfect Righteousness By this Perfection he hath delivered us out of a more than an Aegyptian Thraldom for we were lyable to that Servitude and Punishment where Hell should be our Prison the Devil our Jaylor Sin our Crime our own Conscience our Accuser and perpetual Torments our Punishment Thanks be to God who hath given us Victory through Jesus Christ our Lord. If Christ have paid a Ransom for all it followeth that all without Exception even Mary Christ's Mother were Captives all Sinful none absolutely Righteous in themselves but were absolutely Righteous in Christ. If one have died for all then all were dead in Sins We are not to rejoyce that we are Just but that we are Redeemed Not that we are without Sin but that our Sins are forgiven us For the first Man that was made the first Man that was born he sinned Death which is the Punishment of Sin seizeth upon all therefore all are Sinners And if we were not all Captives and Sinners we should need no Redemption at so high a rate as through his Blood which Blood tho' it wash and purge us yet it doth not take away the stain and infection of Sin but only the Guilt thereof It maketh us not to fulfil all the Law but causeth that which is not done to be pardoned When thou hast done all that thou canst nay all that thou wouldest nay all that Men can or will say Thou art an unprofitable Servant and hast need to be washed with his Blood 4. Blood is taken for the Effusion of his Blood and it is spoken by a Synechdoche implying the Sacrifice and Oblation of his Body and besides all this all the Sufferings which he endured in his aboad upon Earth which Expiation was finished upon the Cross when he said Consumatum est This Sacrifice was paid unto God For He it was whom we offended and He it was who had the Power to condemn us therefore his Justice was to be satisfied But he paid nothing as was said before to the Prince of Darkness who held us Captive but only broke his Power and triumphed over his Kingdom with a mighty and streached-out Arm. As soon as we were absolved and reconciled to God the Tyrant was compelled being but the Jaylor to restore us God's Justice could not be satisfied without the Effusion of this Blood For Debts which do not wrong the Majesty of the Owner may be remitted without any Recompence or Satisfaction but those Debts which do detract from the Dignity of the Creditor as Sins are repugnant to the Majesty of God cannot be released without a Mediator Now as Adam makes us Sinners in his Seed so Christ justifieth us in his Blood The Israelites were instructed of Necessity to seek a Mediator by the Priests Office for they could not come to offer their Prayers Vows or Gifts but by the Mediation of the Priest for whom it was unlawful to enter into the Temple with empty Hands but he must needs offer up Blood or other Sacrifice all which Sacrifices were ended in Christ whom they did prefigure being Types and Shaddows of the true Body It is not possible that the Sacrificers should think their Salvation might be wrought by the Blood of Sheep or Goats but expected a Lamb sent from God to be slain for the People Christ alone worketh in them the Work of Man's Salvation Our own Works are rather the Fruits than Causes of Redemption For Men are not therefore the Sons of God because they do good Works but they have the Grace of God fructifying to good Works because they are the Sons of God As a Princess invested with Kingly Ornaments and thereby distinguished from Vulgar Women is not therefore the King's Spouse because she is adorned with gorgeous Apparel but she is cloathed with soft Raiment because she is the King's Spouse We exclude good Works from Meriting not from Being Our own Merits and Satisfactory Actions are excluded from free Remission of Sins For he is said to remit who expungeth the Debtors Name without any Payment And this is God's own Testimony that of meer Favour he remits our Offences Isaiah 43. Ver. 25. I even I am he that putteth out thine Iniquity for mine own Sake and will not remember thy Sins And let every Man's Conscience be at Peace with God when he is perswaded of that We read Isaiah 53.6 All we like Sheep have gone astray we have turned every one to his own Way and the Lord hath laid upon him the Iniquity of us all What Peace of Conscience where Man's Satisfaction is required The least Satisfaction that can be imagined requireth a Days Labour wherein it