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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61813	A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall on Christmas-Day, 1682 by N. Stratford ...	Stratford, Nicholas, 1633-1707.	1683 (1683)	Wing S5940; ESTC R33812	12,795	36

of Judgment and fiery Indignation to devour them For if the word spoken by Angels Heb. ii 2 3. was stedfast and every transgression and disobedience receiv'd a just recompence of reward how shall we escape if we despise so great Salvation There is no possibility of their escape from the Damnation of Hell in the other World who refuse to be delivered from their sins in this World And who can dwell with devouring Fire Who can dwell with Everlasting burnings 'T is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a Revenging God whose Power is equal to his Justice and who lives for ever to take Vengeance 'T was ever a fearful thing but 't will be now more especially so to those who cleave to their sins after God hath so fully discovered how intolerably odious they are to him This will be their Condemnation their Condemnation with a Witness that they still persist in their sins notwithstanding God hath so plainly made known how infinitely dear they shall pay for them Nor is the Consideration of Christ's Death as a Sacrifice for sin more powerful to drive and affright us from it as 't is the most evident Demonstration of God's unappeasable Wrath against sin than 't is to attract and allure us to Holiness As 't is 2. An unparallel Expression of his Love and kindness to sinners of his exceeding readiness to pardon them upon their sincere Repentance and to make them everlastingly happy It would have argu'd great Clemency in the Sovereign Lord of Heaven and Earth had he but given us leave to have petition'd him for Mercy But though he resolv'd to prevent us by his Grace and while we were yet sinners and obnoxious to his Vengeance to make offers of Reconciliation to us had it not been enough to have sent them by one of the meanest of those ministring Spirits that continually attend upon him But if he would love us so much who so much deserv'd his Hatred as to send his only Son out of his own bosom to us Who could have imagin'd but he would have sent him aray'd with Light shining with such amazing Glory and Majesty as might have given the World to understand the supereminent Dignity of his Person But to send him in Flesh and which is yet more vile in the likeness of sinful flesh that in that odious disguise he might deliver him up to the most accursed Death to purchase a pardon for us Miscreants with his own most precious Blood What manner of Love was this Well might St. John say Herein is 1 Joh. ix 1 Love You will say perhaps and in what not Since the love of God is plainly legible in all his works True but herein is love so transcendent that all the love shew'd to Mankind in the works of Creation and common Providence deserves not to be named when compared with it Even our Blessed Saviour himself as if unable to express it speaks of it with admiration So John iii. 16. God loved the World So inexpressibly so inconceivably And is it possible after such a stupendous Testimony of God's love to sinners that the greatest sinner in the VVorld should so much as question his readiness to pardon him upon his sincere Repentance Has God given his only Son to die for us to the end that he may be just and yet the justifyer of him that believeth in Jesus And now Rom. iii. 26. that all the demands of his Justice are fully satisfyed shall he not much more give us a Pardon What can hinder When even Justice it self is now become an Advocate for sinners and pleads for Mercy And therefore St. John saith if we confess our sins 1 John i. 9. not that he is merciful but he is just to forgive us our sins Let therefore the Wicked forsake Isa lv 7. his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon Tho' his sins be as scarlet they Isa i. 18. shall be as white as snow tho' they be red like crimson they shall be as wool And can there be a more potent Motive to Repentance Unless it be that God will not barely pardon but for the redundant Merit of this all-sufficient Sacrifice will also advance us to a more glorious and happy state than that which by sin we lost What Rebel would not relent and return to Loyalty were he unquestionably assur'd that his Prince would be so far from punishing him that he would on the contrary promote him to the highest Honours Such an assurance has God given to all truly penitent Sinners that he will not only be merciful to their unrighteousness and remember their sins and iniquities no more but will take them into his bosom treat them as his Favourites Yea make them Co-heirs together with his Son of his own everlasting Kingdom and Glory And can the most resolute sinner in the World be so obstinate as not to be overcome and yield himself a Captive to such Love And if we are once brought under the Power of Divine Love this alone will raise and unite all the Forces of our Souls against our sins and make us cry out with as much vehemency against them as the Jews did against our Saviour Crucifie them Crucifie them Let not one of them escape alive and let those above all the rest be put to a reproachful Death that we have formerly been most enchanted and led Captive by If besides these mighty Motives which one would think were sufficient to give strength to the weakest and to raise them to the Life of God who are quite dead in Sins and Trespasses any thing further can be needful to this purpose Consider 3. That God as the Purchase of this meritorious Sacrifice hath also sent his Holy Spirit to assist our Endeavours to raise and renew our Faculties and to strengthen us with that might in the inner man by which we may be enabled to get the Victory over our strongest and most imperious inordinate Lusts For certainly the most domineering and prevailing sin hath not gotten such absolute Dominion over us but by the assistance of this Almighty Spirit we may be set free from the Bondage of it We can scarce imagine any persons more under the Power of vile Affections than those spoken of 1 Corinth vi 9 10. And yet how deeply soever they were sunk into the Mire the Apostle tells us v. 11. that they were washed that they were sanctifyed that they were justifyed in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God In the early ages of the Gospel so common and so apparent were the Effects of the Divine Graces in reforming the most outrageously vicious persons that they were matter of great Boasting and Triumph to the Primitive Christians And God be thanked our own Age is not destitute of some famous Instances of this Nature And that we meet not with many more 't is not to be imputed to Gods backwardness to give but to our unwillingness to receive his Holy Spirit and to that Rude and Churlish entertainment we give him when he makes his visits to us Did we but readily comply with his Motions and yield our selves up to be led by them we should soon find it not only possible but easie Yea the most pleasant and delightful thing in the World to deny all Ungodliness and Worldly Lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present World Looking for the blessed Hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purifie to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works FINIS

and by wicked hands was crucified and slain And that he might exactly answer those Sacrifices under the Law by which his was most eminently prefigur'd he not only pour'd out his Soul unto Death but he also suffer'd without the gate of the City like as the Heb. xiv 11 12. bodies of those Beasts whose blood was brought by the High Priest into the Sanctuary were burnt without the Camp Thus he freely gave himself an Offering and a Sacrifice to God And that he gave himself for us to make expiation for our Guilts we are as infallibly assur'd by the word of Truth which expresly affirms That he was delivered for Our offences that Rom. iv 25. he was wounded for our Transgressions was bruised Isa liii 5. for our Iniquities that the chastisement of our Peace was upon him that by his stripes we might be healed That he hath redeemed us from the Galat. iii. 13. curse of the Law being made a Curse for us That we have Redemption through his blood the Eph. i. 7. forgiveness of sins In which words we have not only the persons for whom he dyed but one blessed fruit of his meritorious Sacrifice in all those who truly repent and turn from their Iniquities viz. the forgiveness of sins For if the blood of Bulls and Heb. ix 13 14. of Goats and the ashes of an Heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctified to the purifying of the flesh how much more shall the blood of Christ who through the Eternal Spirit offer'd himself without spot to God purge our Consciences from dead works This I say is one fruit of his Sacrifice for this is not all He bare our sins in his own 1 Pet. ii 24. body upon the Tree to the end that we being dead unto Sin might live unto God He therefore died for our Sins that we might die to them Our deliverance from the Punishment of sin was design'd by God in order to our deliverance from the Power of it that sin might no longer reign in our mortal Body that we should obey it in the Lusts thereof but that being made free from sin we might become the Servants of Righteousness This was that which God principally aimed at and at the other only as a Motive to it Which brings me to the last thing observable in the words V. That God by sending his own Son into the World in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a Sacrifice for sin hath taken the most effectual course for the Destruction of sin in us For the purifying of our Hearts and reforming our Lives that we may not live the rest of our time in the flesh to the Lusts of Men but to the Will of God When the highest Attainments of the Heathen Moralists were to this purpose so unavailable that their own Precepts were a constant reproach to their Practise When the Law of Moses was so weak and unprofitable that the precise Pharisee notwithstanding his Zeal for the observance of it was as great a slave to the sins of the Spirit as the prophane Publican was to those of the Flesh When all those Purgatives of Humane Nature which the wisest men both of the Jewish and Gentile World did most admire and applaud were of so little force to the end for which they were prescribed that the whole World was overgrown with wickedness For the Mortification of sin when all other ways proved so ineffectual that it daily improv'd under them God at length sent his only Son into the World to die upon a Cross for it Which however it is to the Jews a stumbling block and was at the first to the Greeks foolishness Yet to them that are call'd who heartily believe it both Jews and Greeks 't is the Power of God and the wisdom of God The Power of God unto Salvation unto that great Salvation which God primarily design'd for us the saving us from sin The wisdom of God It being incomparably above all other the most advantagious course that the wisdom of God ever contriv'd for the abolishing of it Both as it affords the most powerful Motives to quicken our endeavours to it and as it gives us the most powerful Assistance by which we may be enabled to effect it It affords the most powerful Motives to excite our endeavours to it 1. As it is a most palpable demonstration of God's infinite Abhorrency of sin of his implacable VVrath and inexorable severity against it and of that intolerable Damnation that all those will unavoidably incur who shall notwithstanding persevere in the practise of it God had before taught Mankind by many sensible Experiments that sin was an evil and a bitter thing But never was his wrath so dreadfully reveal'd from Heaven against it as in delivering up his own Son to be an expiatory Sacrifice for it The Destruction of a VVorld at once eight persons only excepted was in comparison but a slight expression of his vengeance For by how much more valuable the single Life of his beloved Son was than that of the whole VVorld of Sinners by so much the more in his Death did the Indignation of God against sin appear The destroying of Sodom and Gomorrah by a Fire as strange as their Lusts what was it to the flaming out of his wrath against him who was as dear to him as himself For the greater the Love of God was to him so much the more was his Hatred of sin thereby declared Should we ascend as high as Heaven or descend as low as Hell neither the Angels thrown down from above nor the dismal Groans of the Souls beneath can so loudly proclaim God's detestation of sin as the strong cryes and tears the bloody sweat and agony of his Son did No Parallel can be found for it no Example that falls not as far below it as the Creature below the Creator And since God was so severe in his Inflictions upon his only Son can we imagine that he will spare us if in contempt and defiance of his Justice we shall still harden our selves in Rebellion against him If he so dreadfully vindicated the Honour and Authority of his Laws on him who had never transgress'd the least of them Himself but out of his immense Charity only interpos'd for those that had Can any man be so sottish as to flatter himself with hopes of Impunity in case he still continues in the wilful Violation of them For tho 't is true Christ gave himself a Ransom for all men the most daring sinner in the World not excepted Yet 't was upon condition only of their sincere Repentance that they were to receive the benefits of his Ransom None shall ever be made Partakers of the Blessed Fruits of his Cross the Pardon of their sins and Reconciliation with God who do not themselves crucifie the flesh with its affections and lusts For those who still cherish them and make Provision for them nothing remains but a certain fearful looking for