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A68657	The price of our redemption A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, the sixt of Aprill last, 1617. By Charles Richardson, preacher at Saint Katherines neere the Tower of London.	Richardson, Charles, fl. 1612-1617.	1617 (1617)	STC 21015; ESTC S106048	53,639	140

death of Christ come to passe Nay why should not the omnipotent God letting passe innumerable other meanes which he could haue vsed to redeeme vs chiefely and principally make choise of it where neither anie thing was changed or diminished frō his Deity by assuming of his manhood so great a benefite was conferred and bestowed vpon men that the eternall Sonne of God being also the sonne of man should pay a temporal death vndeserued thereby to deliuer vs from euerlasting death And againe * De agone Christiano They are fooles that say why could not the wisedome of GOD redeeme man otherwise vnlesse his Son should become man and be borne of a woman and suffer all those thinges at the hands of sinners To whom we say he could without question But if hee should haue done otherwise it would likewise haue displeased your folly And then he concludeth This remedy that God hath prouided for men is so excellent as cannot be imagined For what pride can bee healed if it bee not healed with the humilitie of the Sonne of God What Couetousnesse can bee cured if it bee not cured by the pouerty of the Sonne of God What impiety can bee helped and remedied if it bee not helped by the charitie of the Sonne of GOD c. By this that hath beene spoken is confuted that abhominable doctrine and practise of the Papists who ioyne the afflictions of the Saints to the sufferings of Christ and besides doe boast of a super abundance of merites and satisfactions which do not onely profit the liuing but are beneficiall also to the dead that are in Purgatorie But this is a couzening deuice of Satan and an intollerable profanation of the blood of Christ a great derogation from the merites of his passion Yet they labour to proue it by that speech of the Apostle Colos 1 Coloss 1 24. 24. where he saith Now therefore I reioyce in my sufferings for you and fulfill the rest of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his bodyes sake which is the Church Heere say they wee see that the Apostle suffered for the Church c. To this I answer That there is no such sence to be gathered out of this place as they intend For first it is directly contrarie vnto other places of Scripture which doe plainly teach vs that Christ onely suffered that which was to bee suffered for our sinnes Isai 53 4 5 6 8 10. The Prophet Isaiah telleth vs that Hee hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrowes that he was wounded for our transgressions and broken for our iniquities and with his stripes we are healed That the Lord laide vppon him the iniquity of vs all That for the transgression of Gods people hee was plagued That hee made his soule an offering for sinne c. And the Apostle sayeth Heb. 9 26. that he appeared once to take away sinne by the sacrifice of himselfe And Saint Iohn saith 1 Iohn 2 2. That hee is the reconciliation for our sinnes and not for ours onely but also for the sinnes of the whole Worlde And our Sauiour Christ immediately before hee gaue vp the Ghost said It is finished Iohn 19 30. Whatsoeuer was to be suffered for the sinnes of men it was fully accomplished and the price of our Redemption was fully paid and therefore wee neede not any of the sufferings of the Saints Againe if this sence of theirs be admitted a verie grosse absurdity wil follow namely that the Apostle suffered all that was wanting and therefore nothing now remaineth for any body else to suffer For he saith he fulfilled the rest of the afflictiōs of Christ Their great doctor Thomas Aquinas though otherwise he fauoured the doctrine of merit yet hee vnderstandeth this place more soundly * Part. 3. sum quaest 48. artic penult The suffrings of the Saints saith he doe profit the Church not by way of redemption but by way of example and consolation according to that of the Apostle 2 Cor. 1 6. If we be afflicted it is for your consolation and saluation And he saith it is hereticall to affirme the contrary And the ordinarie Glosse expounds it thus I reioyce in my sufferings for you that is to say * Pro vobis i. confirmandu in doctrina Euangelij to confirme you in the doctrine of the Gospell And in this sense the Apostle suffered that measure of afflictions which God in his owne counsell had appointed for him Now whereas they are called the rest of the afflictiont of Christ it is not so to bee vnderstoode as though the sufferings of Christ were imperfect and that something were wanting in them for as the Apostle saieth By the shedding of his blood he obtained eternall redemption for vs but because of that sympathy that is betweene Christ a Christian in their sufferings The afflictions of his Saints go as neere him and he is as sensible of thē as if a man shold touch the apple of his eye Zachary 2 8. And therefore he saide to Paul when before his conuersion he made hauock of the Church Saul Saul why persecutest thou me Acts 9 ver 4. Our Sauiour in his owne person was in heauen at the right hand of his Father and therefore hee was out of his reach yet he acknowledged himselfe to be persecuted in his members And this is that which the Apostle saith in diuers places If we suffer with him Rom. 8 17. wee shall be glorified with him Whatsoeuer our sufferings are we doe not suffer alone but Christ suffereth with vs. And in another place Philip. 3 10. hee desireth to know the fellowship of his afflictions And againe 2 Cor. 1 5. The sufferings of Christ abound in vs. Our sufferings are not ours alone but they are Christs as well as ours By this that hath beene spoken wee see the doctrine concerning the sufferings of the Saints doth fall to the ground Now wheras they boast of the superabundance of their merites it is most blasphemous For the Apostle saieth plainly Rom. 8 18. Beza I account that is to say hauing compared the Reasons on both sides and cast vppe my accompt I conclude that the afflictions of this present time are not worthie of the glory which shall bee shewed vnto vs. Whereunto agreeth that saying of Origen * Si quis omnem obedientiam impler●t c. If a man should performe all obedience and yet withall should suffer and endure all miseries and punnishments that can befall to the nature of man as Iob did yet these things shall not bee worthy of the future glorie If all our sufferings if martyrdome it selfe cannot merite our owne saluation surely much lesse shall wee bee able thereby to merite saluation for others As the Prophet Dauid saith Psalme 49 7. A man can by no meanes redeeme his Brother hee cannot giue his ransome to God Let vs therefore renounce this cursed and damnable