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Carracters [sic] in blood, or, A bleeding saviour held out to a bleeding sinner wherein he may know whether he hath been called by, and followed after the leadings of the spirit : being a draught of the spare-hours of a lover of the faithful / by R.O.
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Ottee, Robert, d. 1690.
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Wing O534; ESTC R17854
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Carracters IN BLOOD OR A Bleeding Saviour Held out to a BLEEDING SINNER WHEREIN He may know whether he hath been called by and followed after the leadings of the Spirit Being a draught of the Spare-hours of a Lover of the Faithful By R. O. London Printed for the Author 1671. Academiae Cantabrigiensis Liber To all those into whose hands this may fall whether Teachers or Learners MY earnest Request to all is that you would take every one his Portion as you find it according to Truth what 's not Truth let that be returned to me or blotted out but if thou find ' si it truth when brought to the test of Holy Write then I advise thee to receive and embrace and put it in practice and if thou dost not resolve so to do lay it down and 〈◊〉 no further whether it be reproof to any or conjolation to any be sure not to reject it it may be it may meet with some that will cry tear it cut it burn it to the Law and to the Testimony Man if it agree not with that I say so too but if it agree with that take heed as for thy life thy Soul Man or Woman what thou dost whatever Men say Man that 's insignificant thy great concern is to hearken what God the Lord speaks if he speaks Peace man say not thou there is no peace and if he say return no more to folly take heed and venture not for Gods speaking Peace to any admits of no liberty of Sin though this be the very guise of Professors at this very day I shall say no more to thee now only begg thee to be serious and not dally with the things of thy soul R. O. 1 Cor. 5. 7. For even Christ our Pass-over is Sacrificed for us THere is not a necessity of opening the design of the Apostle in this Chapter therefore I shall not take up time nor room in it but in the Words you may please to take notice of five things First Of a Pass-over Secondly Who the Pass-over is and that is Thirdly The Service to which he is appointed and that is to be slain or sacrificed this may be proved else where as 2 Acts 23. Fourthly The end for which he is slain that is 1. To declare the glory of Gods grace 2. To work our Salvation Fifthly Here are the persons for which all this is done and that is for Believers and that is gathered from those little words us and our for even Christ our Pass-over is Sacrificed for us what us Paul and the believing Corinthians time is precious with me or else I might a little shew you the import of a Sacrifice and what it doth denote and also shew the necessity of poor Believers Offering a Sacrifice But I intreat to be excused here and that I may discourse a little Methodically let me gather up my design in a plain conclusion from the Words though many may be drawn clearly out of them and 't is this that the sins of Believers are passed over or acquitted by vertue of the Sacrifice of the Lord Jesus I shall First Prove this to be truth from the Word of Truth Secondly Show a little why it is so Thirdly Improve this point for Soul advantage First Prove that Christ is a Sacrifice for believers sins 3 Rom. 25. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation By vertue of what or through what why his blood through Faith in his blood Pray you mark he doth say through Faith in him no then he might have done away sins and not have dyed and bled I but 't is through Faith in his Blood not through the Vertue of his Life but through his Death and if you read on you shall see that this was for the remission of sins or the passing over of sins for it will bear that sence so in Rom. 5. 6. In due time Christ dyed what for not to be an example only not for the testimony of his Doctrine but for the Ungodly he dyed and he dyed for the Ungodly yea saith Paul and the believing Romans Vers 8. When we were Sinners Christ dyed for us Mark this for sinners not for the righteous and them that be perfit but for sinners and while they were sinners us that are now Believers were Sinners when Christ dyed for us us believers that are now justified by Faith Vers 1. so Heb. 9. 12. Not by the Blood of Bulls and Goats not by the tears of our repentance and sorrow no nor by our blood but by his own Blood not our own but by his own Blood whose blood Christ the High-Priest who hath obtained eternal Redemption for us and Vers 15. For this cause he is the Mediator what cause that by means of death he might redeem the Transgressors that were under the first Testament and Ver. 26. But now once in the end of the World hath he appeared to put away sin by the Sacrifice of himself not to bring the news of sinners putting away sins by the sacrifice of themselves but by the sacrifice of himself and he was offered to bear the sins of many Vers 28. where are they then that take upon them to assert he did not bear believerssins are not these plain words need they any interpretation and here is not one single Text only but 't is the whole scope of the Apostle many more might be produced but I 'le only mentionone more and then I hope their Sandy Foundation will be shaken that build on their own faith and repentance as if that bear the burden of sin from us 1 Pet. 2. 24. Who his own self bear our sins in his own body on the Tree here 't is plain as words can make it certainly thou must renounce thy reason to deny so many plain sillables this the Prophet David prayed for and dost thou think the Spirit of God doth things in vain in the Sam. 24. 10. O Lord take away the inlquity of thy Servant so Job 7. 21. And why dost not thou take away my iniquity Dost thou think sin and the burden of it can be taken away and not be born on no back shoulders or arms how then should it be taken away and if it must be taken and born away dost thou think the Holy God the infinite first being absolutely considered in his own essence and nature in an abstractive sence disunited to the Humane nature dost thou think the God head purely considered will come under sin to bear it away no purity it self is to pure to look on sin much less to touch sin as it were no no poor deluded Creature God in his simple essence and being cannot bear sin but clothing himself with our nature he can hear sin away for which cause he is called the Lamb of God that taketh away Sin John 1. 29. A Lamb is queit and dumb before the Shearer which place will well serve to expound that place Isa 53. 7. Which thou wilt not have understood
that pâ—rtaineth to thee First I will shew thee a little what thou shalt be delivered from Secondly What thou shalt partake of and be priviledged too very briefly First Thou shalt be delivered from the vengeance threatned against the wicked Ah soul let me tell thee it shall be ill with the wicked Isa 3. 11. 'T is true the Godly man may be afflicted for his sin for God doth not willingly afflict nor grieve the children of Men Lam. 3. 33. No 't is for some sin he will visit you sometimes the Godly Man shall not go altogether unpunished Jer. 30. 11. But here is their comfort I will not make a full end of you no many at time hath he turned away his anger and did not stir up all his wrath Psal 78. 38. It may be he let out a little of his anger like the leakings of a Floodgate but yet he did not let open the Flood-gates of his wrath that the full stream might sweep all away before it but now he opens the Flood-gate upon the wicked he reserves them for the stroke of wrath he takes away the wicked with his stroak The wicked is reserved till when tell the day of destruction Job 21. 30. Yea he shall be brought forth to the day of wrath or as the Hebrew is the day of wrath's That is more then one wrath upon wrath one upon the neck of another oh wicked man hear and consider and tremble if these lines fall into thy hands that there is wrath upon wrath for thee and whilst ' thou livest in thy lust and thy sin thou dost but Treasure up wrath against the day of wrath Rom. 2. 5. Yea wrath to thy soul man as you may see in Verse 9. I put in that now because I have met with some that have disputed it that only the bodies of men shall be punished and not the soul Oh but here is a word that there is not such another in the whole Book of God to confute thee so emplatically laid down Terribulation and anguish upon every soul that doth evil upon every soul of man that doth evil Where art thou now that wilt cavil against the souls being punished where is the soul that shall not suffer now if it be of an evil man Oh I am afraid the hearts of many speak this that the soul shall not suffer as doth plainly appear by their lives but 't is clear as the day that the wicked shall suffer Psal 9. 17. The wicked shall be turned into Hell and all the Nations that forget God Oh thou that forget God God will not forget you to turn you into Hell and make you that forget God shall have the same portion with the wicked God's wrath is hot against them that forget him hearken you that forget to pray to God Mark what 's your doom nothing but wrath Jer. 10. 25. Pour out thy wrath or fury on whom on the Heathen that know thee not and on the Families that call not on thy Name Oh hearken you prayerless Families you are reckoned with Heathens on Gods account count your selves what you will wrath shall come upon you certainly sinners shall be destroyed if wrath will do it Psal 37. 8. The transgressors shall be destroyed together and the end of the wicked shall be cut off You that have transgressed together you that have been unclean together you that have been jovial and carous'd it together profaned my day together why you shall be destroyed together and your end shall be to be cut off and he that hardeneth his neck against this or other reproof shall be destroyed without remedy a Godly man hath Christ for his remedy I but a wicked man hath no remedy he never looks after Christ for his remedy and therefore he shall be destroyed without remedy Prov. 29. 1. Oh Sinner there are hundreds of threat's against thee but I shall stand to give thee but one more Isa 1. 28. They that forsake the Lord shall be consumed Not may be but shall be consumed a Godly man may be afflicted but he shall never be consumed God will not make a full end of him but a wicked man may be shall be consumed but now oh soul thou that art in Christ thou shalt be delivered from all these threatnings much more from the things threatened that will unavoidably come on the wicked and when ever thou readest any threatnings else that would require abundance of time for me to recite thou may'st look on them and say these I am delivered from and is not here comfort soul soul remember I have told thee a Godly man may be afflicted but a wicked man shall be consumed I 'le wind up this head with a Sentence they that hold thee Faith of Christ may suffer persecution 2 Tim. 3. 12. But they that cast off the Faith of Christ they have damnation 1 Tim. 5. 12. That 's the first thing for thy comfort Secondly Thou art delivered from sin from the power of sin â—ow and shall be delivered from sin perfectly they for whom Christ is slain have their sin taken away if not out of their conversation yet out of their consciences 1 Cor. 15. 3. For I delivered to you first of all how that Christ dyed for our sins that was it that made Paul triump and say Oh Death where is thy sting now the sting of Death is sin and Christ hath taken away that therefore he is called a Lamb that taketh away the sins of the World and his name is called Jesus For he shall save his People from their sin Mat. 1. 21. Now oh soul is it not a mercy to be saved from thy sins is not this comfort for thee thou dost not save thy self but another loveth thee Mark he shall save his people not save himself by the light within himself but he shall save his people that is those whom the Father giveth him Now if sin doth sometimes overthrow thee yet Christ will help thee up again that it shall not destroy thee thou shalt be the Conquer or at last and therefore though the Devil and Sin doth upon some advantage foil thee yet say to him in the words of the Church Mic. 7. 8. Rejoyce not against me oh mine enemy when I fall I shall arise I have one to help me up When a wicked man falls he cannot rise again he has none to help him up but here is comfort for the Godly man he hath one to help him up Solomon saith Eccl. 4. 9. Two are better then one why so for if they sall one will help up his fellow but wo to him that is alone Wo to that man that falls and hath no strength to rise again and more he hath none to help him up â—o to him that is alone but the Godly man hath another to help him up a now soul hast thou this Christ is he indeed slain for thee here is comfort for thee then thou art delivered from sin that it shall