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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27592	A conciliatory discourse upon Dr. Crisp's sermons on the observation of Mr. William's dissatisfactions in them : in which the unsearchable riches of Christ ... / by T. Beverley.	Beverley, Thomas.	1692 (1692)	Wing B2134; ESTC R34407	34,697	34

Good Works to the Eleventh Hour or that he fits them not to such Abundant Services Eminency and Exemplariness therein as he doth other of his Saints He hath an Infinite Fund to supply them out of viz. the Righteousness and Obedience of Christ and Power of Grace to Accomplish them to their Measure Head 16. Our Good should be intended by Good Works Conciliation Our Good should be intended by them as they are Manifestations of the Grace of Christ in us and suitable to that Law he influences his Servants by his Spirit according to In the want of which we have great reason to Mourn as giving Fear and Suspition Christ is not in us of a Truth and that he leaves us to do the things very displeasing and offensive to his Holy Nature and the Rule of Life and Action his Grace governs his Servants by but yet they are not of themselves our Title but our Evidences only of our Title which is Christ alone and if we are his we shall certainly be born up to what He as our Mediator Surety and Testator hath thought necessary to our Salvation and will accept and supply the want of by himself Yet all is and ought so to be carried that we may be urg'd and press'd to our Duty as under the Holy Rectory of God and Christ and according to all the Rules of his Word Head 17. Assurance is by Gospel-Marks and not by a Voice within us Conciliation Marks are according to Scripture yet so that they are but few of any of the Servants of God but have reason to fly to the Witness of the Spirit and its Voice crying Abba Father and to appeal to Infinite Grace seeing in the midst of our Falls Failings and Imperfections we cannot otherwise discern where Sincerity and Perfect Obedience divide one from another and what is enough in our many Corruptions to constitute Sincerity Besides seeing our Staple-hold is the Righteousness of Christ without us our Supreme Testimony depends upon his Spirit witnessing within us indeed yet from what is without us viz. Free Grace Head 18. God charges Sin on Men and they should repent for Repeated Pardons Conciliation This is among the Wise Holy and Gracious Methods of God and Christ in this present Low State of the Redemption appearing until its Glory in the Kingdom of Christ that Sin is charg'd and Pardon repeatedly begg'd in Daily Prayers But all notwithstanding is secur'd in the unchangeableness of Electing Love of Justifying Grace of the daily Issuing Pardon of the New Covenant immediately ready and thus express'd as if it issued out upon the very Sin I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses and their Sins and Iniquities I will remember no more Heb. 8. 12. Before David had said any more than this I have sinned against the Lord Nathan said from God The Lord hath put away the Iniquity of thy Sin Thou shalt not Dye 2 Sam. 12. 13. The Grace of the Covenant went forward therefore in him as in all Saints to the Composure of his Heart to that great Penitential Psal 51. So that in a way of Consolation of Saints and Encouraging of all to Come into Christ there may be great Freedom of Expression us'd in which some Things may need Review and Correction as Humane and yet the main Scope and Intention preserv'd as consistent with sincere Design to promote Holiness most livelily flowing from the Grace of the Covenant and the Death of Christ into the Hearts and Lives of Believers there being hence much more hope both in Conversion and Renewed Repentance than in any thing within Men themselves whenever they have fallen into Sin after conversion or while in an unconverted estate Head Sin may hurt Believers and God afflicts for Sin Conciliation While we look down to the present State and to God's present Government of the World this must be acknowledg'd and yet when we lift up our Hearts to the Consideration of the Supreme Grace of God in Jesus Christ the very hurt Sin does Believers or even the Elect is made to serve the Triumphs of Grace and all their Afflictions for Sin are Salutary Dispensations All which must needs be granted on close reasoning these Points and will bear out many Amplifications of this Grace in Discourses declararatory of it tho' on the other side a very different way of speaking of them must be submitted to in this Atmosphere this Dark and Foul Place of the Apostacy we are yet in and it is born out by a very general way of Scripture-speaking Head 19. Sincere Holiness is not Dung nor does the Apostle include such Holiness in that so great Scripture concerning Evangelical Righteousness Philip 3. 7 c. Conciliation For the clearing of that great Scripture and the Points dependent upon it I must first take the freedom to assert That the Apostle doth in that Context lay down at full and at large the two great Points of Justification and Sanctification In that of Justification he rises to the heighth and so in that of Sanctification and these are both handled so distinctly that they cannot be confounded For the Apostle had fallen severely upon the Concision by whom he most probably means those who compounded the Profession of Christianity with the Works and Ritualisms of the Law as if Christ were not enough without them for Acceptance with God for Righteousness in Justification and Holiness in Sanctification and therefore he calls them not The Circumcision meaning Pure and Perfect Jews but the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Concision as a Peculiar Brand of Reproach upon Them and calls Himself and Sincere Christians The Circumcision viz. The Spiritual Circumcision who Worship God in Spirit who hold the True Righteousness of Faith of which it was the Seal Rejoyce in Christ Jesus alone and have no confidence in the Flesh that is in Creature Righteousness In the same sense Flesh is taken Rom. 4. 1. What shall we say that Abraham our Father hath found according to the Flesh viz. according to his own Righteousness not only Ceremonial but Moral For if Abraham were justified by Works c. So But if he had no other way but to believe on him that justifieth the Vngodly It is evident it was not Ceremonial Ritual Works the Apostle discoursed of but Substantial Works of Righteousness opposed to Vngodliness Thus the Apostle reckoning up his own Priviledges first gives indeed those which were External and Ritual but adds Moral in those words According to the Righteousness of the Law which was not only Ceremonial but Moral He was Blameless which words may be expounded by those I have liv'd in all good Conscience before God to this day Acts 23. 1. Now upon all this he sits as an Accountant with his Tables before him and what had been Gain or Riches in his Account he now writes it All Cypher And then by way of Triumph and in a mighty Elevation of his Discourse he adds Yea doubtless I count not only

Fault of Sin resting upon the Sinner Sure those Acts of Dishonour do not remain upon the beautified Believer in Christ How then can it be removed The Acts of Holiness a Believer does cannot purge it for there is Impurity in them nor are they able to rase the Records If then they be taken off surely it must be by the Supreme Obedience Righteousness Sanctification of Jesus Christ by the transcendent Act of Holiness and Resignation to the Divine Will the Glory and Honour and Perfection of which imputed to the Believer is able to sanctifie him as Christ said John 17. I sanctifie my self I draw up my Obedience to the highest point of Holiness by that absolute perfect Resignation to the Will of my Father for their sakes that they by the Communication of that very Holiness might be sanctified in Truth that is the Moral Impurity and Obliquity and Dishonour of the Sins they have committed may be removed So Sanctification thus spoken of may be something higher than a Justification only in Foro Poenae if I may so speak in the Court where punishment is consider'd but in Foro Honoris in the Court of Honour where Attaints are purg'd off and Blood as they speak restor'd If there be only acquittal from Guilt binding over to Punishment even the Blemish the Stain Taint and Dishonour Sin brings and leaves is not effaced This the high Honour of the Holiness and perfect Purity of Christ especially in obedience to Death even the Death of the Cross fully purges off as imputed to all his by which they are not only delivered from Punishment but constituted Righteous Rom. 5. By the Will of God so fulfill'd they are sanctified in the sense given and he hath by one Offering perfected or consecrated ennobled them in Blood to be Kings and Priests by the Imputation of the Honour of Holiness to Them that are sanctified and that he might sanctifie his People by his own Blood he suffered without the Gate He hath loved and washed us from our Sins in his own Blood to make us Kings and Priests Heb. 10. c. 13. From them all the Labes the Macula the Spot of Sin is taken off and he presents his Church without Spot Wrinkle or any such Thing and without Blame Ephes 5. Coloss 1. This is the Highest and most Honourable Notion of the Redemption of Christ and may deserve a Rhetorick that may seem extravagant like David's dancing before the Ark not so grave and so solemn that may 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 constrain or transport rather it being before so gracious a Redeemer Now if Christ takes off the Stain and Dishonour of Sin it must be laid upon Him on which account it is said Esay 53. He was Number'd among Transgressors as a shade of this Truth and it is spoken of Christ though he was separate from sinners yet as if he offered for his own sins he needed not daily as those Priests Heb. 7. 27. offer for his own sins and God laid upon him the Iniquities of us All and he was made sin for us who knew no sin And he was in the likeness of sinful flesh And it is made the Distinction of his Second Appearance that he appears the second time without sin to salvation Heb. 9. 28. thereby signifying his First Appearance was as much under sin as it could be without inherent sin He went as a leprous a defiled an accursed Person a Criminal of Dishonour without the Camp and without the Gate all under a Divine Ordination to put him to open shame as under the dishonour of sin By all which it appears Christ as our Surety and Mediator as our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 every way bare as deep a share of adherency in our sin as could consist with an unspotted Purity from any inherency of sin in himself and hereunto all Scripture expression even labours And if Humane Speaking endeavouring to fathom and expound such Expressions as may most be to the Capacity and to make impression upon Hearers For is there not a cause If there be something Humane found and not with the admirable exactness of Scripture it ought not to be so much expos'd for I doubt not our Expressions fall generally more too short of the Divine Sense of Scripture in these things than other good Mens exceed it being always to be firmly believ'd no good Man while he so spoke could have it once enter into his thoughts That there could the least shade of proper Inherent Filth fall or enter into the Humanity of the Mediator united to the Eternal Word However Scripture however he might thus speak as hath been declar'd But these things cannot since the speaking of Scripture it self if we go about by Preaching to enlarge upon them be spoken of so accurately but we either add or diminish from speaking this thing as it is nor shall we be able till within a short time That as it were new Song be sung on Mount Zion Rev. 14. Then I trust we shall learn it Even so That our Sins are our own and not Christs is most true in the sense intended yet that they became Christs in his great Offering for Sin and that they are neither Believers nor Christs when he had born them off in a sense worthy of and agreeable to the Gospel The setting out Sin then as our own for Humiliation Faith and Repentance is most Evangelical So to set them out so Christ's in his act of suffering as to represent him a perfect Offering for them and neither ours nor Christ's when he had born them away and God upon it so acquitted Christ as to cast them into the depths of Sea so that when they are sought for there shall be none to be found and plainly none Jer. 50. 20. This is most Evangelical also and must be the sublimest Evangelical because abating the short moments of time in which it may be otherwise represented it is eternally so So in the state of separated Spirits with Christ so in the Kingdom of Christ when it is granted to the Lamb's Wife to be arrayed in Linnen white and clean which is the Righteousness of the Saints Rev. 19. and to each Saint to appear in Robes washed white in the Blood of the Lamb. And so in the Kingdom of Eternity Deliver'd up to God all in all And Leave is given to the Preachers of the Gospel to describe things as in God's Eternity and if not to speak the most in number yet the most important and significant of Scripture words For why should we keep our selves and hearers so close muffled up in this thick Atmosphere of time and not let out more into the open Air of Eternals This stifles and smothers nobler Thoughts and Elevations of Mind and the lofty Considerations for Holiness as well as Consolation But to go on further The Sins of Believers were in the fulness of Time most conspicuously laid upon Christ as it was an Act of God in Time as the