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sin_n	adam_n	law_n	transgression_n	5,599	5	10.5016	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88578	A Christians duty and safety in evill times Delivered in severall sermons, upon four texts of scripture, viz. Christ's prayer the saints support, on Iohn 17 15[.] A divine ballance to weigh all doctrines by, on 1 Thes.5. 21[.] A Christians great enquiry, on Acts 16.30, 31[.] A description of true blessedness, on Luke 11. 28[.] By that faithfull messenger of Jesus Christ, Mr Christopher Love, late minister of Laurence-jury, London. Whereunto is annexed The saints rest, or Their happy sleep in death. As it was delivered in a sermon at Aldermanbury, London. Aug. 24. 1651. By Edmund Calalmy. B. D.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.; Calamy, Edumnd, 1600-1666. Saints rest.	1653 (1653)	Wing L3147; Thomason E1434_3-4; ESTC R209589	82,542	242

Enquirie after Heaven then how few in the World shall come to Heaven Vse 2 Secondly from the Resolve that the Apostle gives to the Jaylors Question Believe on the Lord Iesus Christ rest on Christ for thy Salvation on his Merits on his Blood and on his Righteousnesse Hence learn what a great benefit and priviledge the children of men have by liveing under a Covenant of Grace for although they cannot be saved by what they can doe themselves yet they may be saved by what Iesus Christ hath done for them Thou canst not bee saved by all thy doing but thou maist be saved by believing by resting and relying on Jesus Christ expecting salvation by what hee hath done and suffered in thy stead in thy behalfe Had wee layn under a Covenant of Works then it had been Doe this and live but a Covenant of Grace saith Believe and live The condition of the Covenant of Workes is That we should give an exact and perfect Righteousnesse of our own unto God the Righteousnesse of another will not serve the turn And in this Covenant little will not be accepted for much the will for the deed the Sentence of Absolution shall be pronounced if ye be found without spot or blemish compleatly righteous but the Sentence of Condemnation if ye be found unrighteous in the least tittle This Covenant speaks not one word of Hope or Help Mercy or Peace to the poore lost sinner but pronounceth him accursed for the least transgression for the least deviation from the righteous Law of God and there is no place left for Repentance no place left for Mercy upon the breach of the Covenant Adam by one sin made all his posterity miserable and the Apostle saith Gal. 3.10 Gal. 3.10 Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the Law to doe them So that there is no possibility of life by the Covenant of Workes because in our lapsed estate in our estate of corruption the Covenant of Workes is impossible to bee fulfilled by us since the day that sin came into the world that Adam eat the forbidden fruit never did any man fulfill the Covenant of Workes for there is no man that sineth not 1 Kings 8.46 2 Chron 6 36 2 Chron 6.36 There is not a just man upon the Earth that doth good and sineth not Eccle. 7.21 Eccl. 7.20 In many things we off end all Iames 3.2 Iames 3.2 O then what cause have we to admire the infinite unspeakable mercy goodnesse of God in makeing this Covenant of Grace with man a sinner this new Covenant when the former was violated which is as it were a plank after a ship-wrack that when man had voluntarily transgressed the righteous Law of God and thereby justly deprived both himselfe and his posterity of that life and blessednesse which was promised in that Covenant and was fallen under the Death and Curse which God had threatned for the breaking and transgressing of that Covenant yet notwithstanding that such should bee the infinite Mercy of God that he should not insist upon the forfeiture that he should not binde us up to the Covenant of Workes but take us out of the hand of his justice and put us into the hand of his Mercy not dealing with us according to our deserts but according to the exceeding riches of his Grace in his unsearchable Wisdom when Men and Angels were at a losse finding out a Remedy to help and relieve a poore forlorn lost sinner that is cast by the Covenant of Works not sparing his only begotten Sonne Jesus Christ the righteous the Mediator of the New Covenant Heb. 12.29 Heb. 12.24 who hath satisfied Gods justice slain that enmity which was betwixt God and us and made peace for us For in this Covenant of Grace the righteousnesse of Christ and satisfaction made by Christ is held forth and tendred unto the justice of God the Surety is punished and the Debtor is spared Esa 53.6.5 Esaiah 53.6.3 the Lord hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquity the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes wee are healed And the Apostle saith 1 Iohn 2.1.2 1 Iohn 2 1.2 If any man sin wee have an Advocate with the Father Iesus Christ the righteous he is the propitiation for our sins So that here mercy may be found to help and relieve a poore sinner which is lost in the Covenant of Workes ●in this Covenant of Grace God accepts of the Will for the Deed hee doth not stand so strictly upon it as to cast the sinner out of favour for every transgression but as a father pittieth his children so the Lord pittieth them that feare him Psa 103.13 Psal 103.13 that is those that are faithfull with God in Covenant those that strive to doe the Will of the Lord and flie to his grace for pardon and acceptance those that repent of their transgressions and promise and perform upright obedience For in this Covenant here is place for Repentance and mercy for the penitent Acts 3.19 Acts 3.19 repent that your sinnes may bee blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. And Proverbs 28.13 Prov 28.13 whoso confesseth and forsaketh his sinnes shall have mercy But under a Covenant of Workes there is no place left for Repentance nor mercy for the penitent Here then wee see the inestimable the unspeakable benefit wee have by a Covenant of Grace for now by laying hold on Jesus Christ by a true and lively faith by resting and relying on what hee hath done and suffered in our stead and in our behalfe we may lay a rightfull and infallible claim unto the Kingdom of Heaven Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved FINIS A DESCRIPTION OF True Blessednesse Text. Luke 11.28 But hee said yea rather blessed are they which bear the Word of God and keep it IN the obscure humanity of Jesus Christ there did break forth such a glorious lustre of his Divinity that though as to his person he was deemed despicable and contemptible yet the words that he spake and the works that he did declared him to bee no lesse then the Son of God The words hee spake declared it his enemies themselves being judges John 7.46 Iohn 7.46 The Officers answered never man spake like this man And for the workes he did the miracles he wrought of them it is said That it was never done thus from the begining of the World As upon his healing of the man born blinde say they Iohn 9.32 It was never heard that a man born blind could afterwards see His miracles wrought admiration in the hearts even of those men The coherence of the words in whom it wrought envy The miracle he wrought in this chapter which was the disposessing of the

asleep while they were stoning of him When he died he prayed and while he prayed he died But what made Stephen die thus quietly Read the 55 verse and you shall see the reason of it Being full of the Holy Ghost he looked stedfastly into Heaven and saw the glory of God and Iesus standing at the right hand of God Behold saith he I see the Heavens opened and the Son of man slanding at the right hand of God This made him die with such a sweet quiet and calm temper he saw Jesus Christ standing at the right hand of God ready to receive his Soul and that made him die with such an extraordinary quietnesse of minde Death in Scripture especially the death of Gods children is often compared to a sleep It is said of David that he slept with his fathers And it is said 1 Thes 4.13 I would not have you ignorant concerning them which are asleep that is concerning them which are dead And 1 Cor. 11.30 For this cause many are weakly and sickly among you and many sleep that is many die This expression is a metaphorical expression and will afford us many rare and precious instructions about Death And therfore the grace of God assisting me I desire to spend the rest of the time in the opening of this Metaphor Doctrin The Observation is this viz. That when a child of God dies though his death be never so unnaturall and violent yet it is nothing else but a falling asleep Or The death of a child of God though stoned to death though burnt to ashes though it be never so violent unnaturall is nothing else but a falling asleep When he had said this he fell asleep Somnus est mortis imago Sleep is the image of Death There are many notable resemblances betwixt Sleep and Death some of which I shall speak to at this time 1 Sleep is common to all men there is no man that can live without sleep a man may live long without meat but no man can live long without sleep So it is true of death death is common to all it is appointed for all men once to die and therfore David said he was to go the way of all flesh Statutum est omnibus semel mort Omnibus est calcanda semel lethi via All men must sleep the sleep of death or else be changed which is a metaphoricall death 2 As sleep ariseth from the vapors that ascend from the stomack to the head tie the sences hinder their operations so death came into the world by Adams eating the forbidden Fruit and by the poisonfull vapor of sin that brought death upon him and all his posterity By one man sin entered into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned Rom. 5.12 Had Adam never sinned Adam should never have died but in illo die said God in that day thou eatest the forbidden fruit thou shalt die the death Sinne brings omnimodam mortem all kindes of death it brings death temporall death spirituall and death eternall Now because all men are poisoned with the poison of sin therfore all men must sleep the sleep of death it is sin that hath poisoned all mankinde 3 As a man when he goeth to sleep puts off his clothes and goeth naked into bed so it is with us when wee come to die We came naked into the world and we must go naked out of the world As we brought nothing with us into the world so we must carry nothing with us out of the world And therefore Death in Scripture is called nothing else but an uncloathing of our selves 2 Cor. 5.4 Death to a childe of God is nothing else but the putting off of his cloaths The body of man is animae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vestimentum it is the souls cloathing and death is nothing else but the unclothing of the soul it is just like a man going to bed putting off his cloaths St Peter cals it The putting off our earthly tabernacle 2 Pet. 1.14 Our bodies are the souls tabernacle and death is the putting off of this tabernacle Beloved when we come to die we shall be stript naked of three things 1. We shall be stript naked of all our worldly honour riches and greatnesse 2. We shall be stript naked of our bodies And 3. Which is above all we shall be stript naked of our sins And that is the happinesse of a childe of God he shall put off not only his mortal body but the body of sin 4. In the fourth place observe As no man knoweth the time when hee fals asleep a man fals asleep before he is aware So no man can tell the certain time when he must die There is nothing so certain as that wee must die nothing so uncertain as the time when we shall die Death comes suddenly even as sleep comes upon a man before he is aware 5. Observe As children and infants because they do not know the benefit of sleep are very loth to go to sleep many times the mother is fain to whip the child to bed even so it is with most of Gods people because they do not study the benefit of death that death puts an end to all our miseries and sins and opens a door to let us in unto everlasting happinesse and that we shall never see God or Christ before we die I say because Gods people do not study the benefit of death therefore they are like to little children loth to die loth to go to bed And therefore death is called The King of terrors Death is terrible to many of Gods children because they are but infants in grace and because they do not know the benefit of death 6 Observe As when a man is fast asleep he is free from cares and free from troubles Let it thunder as it thundred not long since as you know yet a man that is fast asleep while hee is asleep hee hears it not Let the house bee on fire while the man is asleep he sees it not neither is be troubled at it So it is with the death of Gods children when Gods children sleep the sleep of death they are free from the thunders of this world they are free from all cares from all troubles they goe to their graves as to their beds and rest in quietness and are not sensible of any troubles that are in the world For Abraham knew us not Isa 63.16 So 2 King 22.20 Thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place When a childe of God sleeps the sleep of death hee doth not feel nor is he sensible of any of the calamities or sad providences of God upon the Earth 7. When a man goeth to sleep he goeth to sleep but for a certain time in the morning he awakes out of sleep So it is with the sleep of death