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B08242 Saints duty discoursed, from 2 Pet. 3. 18. and the saints dignity handled, from Eph. chap. 1. v. 7. with directions to both, delivered from a chatecheticall dialogue by him that was, and is ... R. A. 1649 (1649) Wing A27B; ESTC R176488 27,390 80

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blacknesse and darknesse of sinne The forgivenesse of sinnes The forgivenesse not only by the bloud of Christ have we redemption h Col. 1.20 or sanctification i Heb. 9.14 but remission also as in the Text so k Col. 1.14 in whom we have redemption by his bloud even the forgivenesse of sinnes John in his Revelation l Rev. 1.5 confesses that Christ washed us from our sinnes by his bloud and to fetch the record bearing witnesse to this truth as high as heaven m Rev. 5.9 the foure and twenty Elders acknowledge Thou wert slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy bloud out of every kindred tongue people and Nation Agreeing to this is that of n 1 Joh. 1.7 and the bloud of Jesus Christ his Sonne cleanseth us from all sinne Hath a poore soule need to be healed Christ is a Physitian to cure him doth thy soule parch and burne within thee Christ is a fountaine to refresh thee art thou laden with the unsupportable burthen of thy sinnes Christ is righteousnesse to ease thee if thou fearest the stroke of death he hath for thy poore beleeving soule the gift of eternall life and if thou walk mournfully apprehending damnation for sinne he hath redemption for thee from sinne as in the Text. The Reasons follow Christ only acceptable to God the Reas 1 heavens are not cleane in his sight he chargeth his Angels with folly the quire of Heaven and Saints in earth are not well-pleasing in his sight distinct from Christ he is the Son of his Love he the Son of his complacency of his delight in whom only he is well-pleased o Mat. 3 17. and in the verse before my Text he hath made us accepted in the beloved all the oblations Legall and offerings Ceremoniall had a redolent savour in the pure nosthrils of the Almighty as they stood in reference to Christ Without God none could please God saith Ambrose whatever is presented to the Father without the Son is said to be unprofitable and unacceptable as the High-priest offered all in the time of the Law so the Lord Jesus presents all in the time of the Gospell without him nothing is accepted therfore of him the Saints have all to and of redemption This is the first Reason the second followes Reas 2 He only able to satisfie divine justice thousands of Rammes ten thousands of rivers of oyle unsatisfactory to give the fruit of the body for the sinne of the soule and the first-borne for my transgression p M●c 6.6 It will neither be pleasing to God nor satisfactory to divine justice the leaprous person was to be cleansed by the bloud of the little bird q Lev. 14.51 and the leaprous soule is to be purified and redeemed from all its sinne and uncleannesse by the bloud of Jesus Christ that bird of Paradise the coelestiall Pellican that sacrificed himselfe to death to save his to everlasting life when sinne was to be remitted it was to be put upon another none must expect a satisfaction in or from himselfe the sinnes of the people were to be put upon the Scape-Goat Thus they were delivered r Lev. 16. to teach us under the Gospell our sinnes must be put upon Christ to be the only satisfaction to Almighty justice Two things are required of such as satisfie Gods justice First he that satisfies must be free from all sinne if any man under Christ saith he have no sinne he deceives himselfe and the truth of God is not in him 1 John 1.9 Christ in every thing like us sinne only excepted his enemies being Judges he hath done all things well so he he only free from sinne can satisfie Gods justice Secondly that which satisfies must be pure only pure in the offering and such oblations sacrifices poore mortals cannot tender to their God there is iniquity in their holy things they are unprofitable and come short of grace now and must of glory for ever if the Lord be not freely gracious in accepting as bestowing Oh the wants and weaknesse in our hearing praying in our duties graces uncleane uncleane imperfect imperfect in all but Christ a pure and holy offering unto the Lord hence in the Law when the High-priest went for an atonement he only entred into the Sanctum Sanctorum in the Gospell Christ trode the wine-presse of his fathers wrath alone ſ Isa 63.3 and that 's the second reason Reas 3 Thirdly that the glory of our redemption may redound to the praise of God in Jesus Christ whose is the worke 't is fit theirs should be the honour Hos feci tulit alter honores is injustice rich mercy full merit is the ground worke and foundation of all our excellency The Saints good and comfort ariseth from the free grace of the Father and the full merit of the Sonne and why to man or Angell should the glory be given when Scriptures speake any thing of this spirituall blessing redemption or forgivenesse of sins there is usually annexed a doxology or blessing as t Rev. 1.5 6 So Rev. 5.9 12. Col. 1.12 14. 1 Cor. 1.30 31. with this in the Text as appeares in the third verse and thus of the third Reason That the Type might correspond Reas 4 with the Antetype the Law and the Gospell might answer one the other In the Law the bloud was sprinkled round about the Altar to intimate that nothing is of worth but by the force of Christs bloud and as without bloudshedding no remission a Heb. 9.22 so no forgivenesse of sinne but by the bloud of Christ herein is a large field but I hasten to the Uses Instruction Use instr If the bloud of the Saviour be the redemption of the Saint learne we first what an unhappy and cursed thing sinne is the forgivenesse whereof cost no lesse then Christs dearest hearts bloud it deludes us to defile us it defiles us to destroy us that our poore yet precious soules should perish for ever without remedy but for Christ in whom we have c. Sinne Dalilah-like speaks fairly acts friendly for her advantage but when opportunity serves then shall Sampson smart for it Adam bemocks himselfe to a being made immortall and doomes his selfe and posterity as low as death and deep as hell When he had faire promises to be as God high as heaven lofty as Eternity by eating the forbidden fruit fruit though pleasant in the taste bitter in the bowels as everlasting burning cursed sinne as a leaprosie and plague infects and overspreads all degrees faculties persons estates souls bodies insnaring millions to the eternall infernall tortures of devouring Tophet as impossible to avoid as intolerable to endure without the bloud of Jesus Christ in whom we c. Oh that the Lord would enlighten our understandings to see sinne in its nakednesse then we would as purity it selfe hate it with a perfect hatred Did we consider aright that Christ is so long in