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A short and sure way to grace and salvation being a necessary and profitable tract, upon three fundamental principles of Christian religion ... : how man was at first created, how he is now corrupted, how he may be again restored : together with the conditions of the covenant of grace, and to whom the promises of the Gospel belong ... / by R. Younge ...
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Younge, Richard.
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among men there is given none other name vnder Heaven whereby we must be saved Acts. 4. 12. The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternall life through Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 6 23. I am the resurection and the life be that believeth in me although he were dead yet shall he live John 11. 25. You hath he quickned that were dead in trespasses and sins Ephe. 2. 1. God so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved John 3. 16. to 20. God commendeth his love towards us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us much more then being now justified by his blood we shal be saved from wrath through him For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his life Rom. 5. 6 to 11. read to the end of the Chapter See more Joh. 1. 29. Acts 13. 39. Rom. 6. 4 to 23. 8. 2 3. 10. 3 4. 1 Cor. 15. 56. Colos. 1. 14. Gal. 3. 22. Heb. 9. 28. 1 Pet. 1. 18 19 20. 1 Joh. 3. 8. Sect. XVIII As Christ was a sinner only by the imputation of our sins so wee are just onely by the imputation of his righteousness Our good works were they never so many and rare cannot justify us or deserve any thing at Gods hands it is onely in Christ that they are accepted and only for Christ that they are rewarded Yea the opinion of thine own righteousness makes thy condition far worse then the wickedest mans alive For Christ that came to save all weary and heavy laden sinners be they never so wicked neither came to save or once to call thee that hast no sin but art righteous enough without him As hear his own words to the proud Pharisees who had the same thoughts of themselvs as thou hast They that be whole need not a Physitian but they theâ—â— are sick I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance The â—â—st sheep of the house of Israel Mat. 9. 13. 10. 6. 15. 24. 18. 11. Nor can any soul be so dangerously sick as thou who art least sensible of thy being sick Briefly untill with Saint Paul thou renouncest thine own righteousness seest thy self the greatest of sinners art able to discern sin in every thing thou canst think speak or do and that thy very righteousnesse is no better then a menstruous cloth Isa. 64. 6. thou canst have no part in Christ And until Christ shall become thine by Regeneration and a lively faith Thou art bound to keep the whole Law actually and spiritually with thy whole man thy whole life or else suffer eternal death and destruction of body and soul in Hell for thy not keeping it So that thou hast yet to answer and I pray mind it seriously for all the sins that ever thou hast committed who art not able to answer for one of the least of them For the wages of sin any sin be it never so small is eternal death Rom. 6. 23. Gal. 2. 16 19 20 21. Neither let Satan nor thy own deceitful heart delude thee in thinking that thou hast faith when thine own words declare the contrary Nor would I ask any more evidence against thee in this then thine own mouth in saying that thou never doubtest in all thy life for this makes it plain that thou never hadst faith nor ever knewest what faith means For he who never doubted never believed and Satan hath none so sure as those whom he never yet assaulted Sect. XIX But this being a main fundamental point which every man is bound to know I will more particularly and fully explain it as thus Man being in a most miserable and undone condition by reason of Originall and actuall sin and of the curse due to both being liable to all miseries in this life and adjudged to suffer eternall torments in hell-fire after death having no possibility to escape the fierce wrath of Almighty God who had already pronounced sentence upon him When neither Heaven Earth nor Hell could have yielded any satisfactory thing besides Christ that could have satisfied Gods justice and merited Heaven for us then O then God of his infinite wisdome and goodness did not onely find out a way to satisfie his justice and the Law but even gave us his own Son out of his bosom and his Son gave himselfe to dye even the most shamefull painfull and cursed death of the Cross to redeem us that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life John 3. 16. A mercy bestowed and a way found out that may astonish all the Sons of men on earth and Angels in Heaven Wherefore wonder at this you that wonder at nothing that the eternall God would die to redeem our worse then lost souls that we might not dye eternally O the deepness of Gods love O the unmeasurable measure of his bounty O Son of God who can sufficiently extoll thy love or commend thy pity or extoll thy praise It was a wonder that thou madest us for thy self more that thou madest thy self man for us but most of all that thou shouldest unmake thy selfe that thou shouldest dye to save us Which salvation stands in two things First in freeing and delivering us from Hell secondly in the possession of Heaven and eternall life Christ by his death merits the first for us and by his obedience fulfilling the law merits the second The parts of our justification are likewise two the remission of our sins and the imputation of Christs righteousness whereby we have freedome from all evill here and the perfection of all good and happiness in Heaven Insomuch that all those Millions of mercies that we have received from before and since we were born either for soul or body even to the least bit of bread we eat or shall injoy to eternity Christ of his free grace hath purchased for us with the price of his own pretious blood For which see Psal. 68. 19. and 145. 15 16. and 75. 6 7. Hear this all you that care to be saved God will pardon all your sins he will give you an eternal crown of glory in heaven if you unfainedly repent and wholly rely upon Christ for your salvation by a lively faith and that because he is just for although the Lord cannot in justice let sin go unpunished for the wages of sin is eternal death Rom. 6. 23. death in the person if not in the surety Yet Christ hath sufficiently satisfied for all the sins of the faithful and paid their debt even to the utmost farthing as is evident by Isa. 53. 4. 5. a Cor. 5. 21. Heb. 9. 26. 1 Pet. 2. 24. Rom. 3. 25 26. 1. Joh.
bring we our lives to the rule Look how many sins are cherished so many false gods there are chosen Look how many creatures thou inordinately lovest fearest trustest rejoicest in so many new gods hast thou coined and wilt thou not thâ—n plead guilty when the first and second Commandement arraigneth thee Thou canst not away with swearing but do'st thou reprove others for their swearing Didst thou never hear Sermons unpreparedly irreverently c Does thy heart upon a Sabbath rest from wordly thoughts much more thy tongue from worldly speeches There is murther of the heart hatred Hast not thou murthered thy Neighbours soul by thy negligence perswasion evil example c. Thou hast not stolne but hast thou not coveted Hast thou been liberal to those that are owners of a part of thy goods hast thou not robb'd thy brother of his good name which is above silver and gold Hast thou not robb'd God of his worship of his Sabbaths of his Tythes c. Lying flattering detracting listning to tales yea not defending thy brothers good name is to bear false witnesse Hast thou kept the Tenth Commandement which condemns the very first motions of sins springing out of our hearts though presently rejected and a thousand the like and yet for every drop of wickednesse that is in the life there is a sea in the heart that feeds it Sect. XVI True if thou lookest on thy sins in Satans false glasse that will make them seem light and contemptible but behold them in the clear and perfect glasse of Gods Law and they will appear abominable Which makes our Saviour call hatred murther a wanton eie adulterie c. Yea consider thy sins rightly and they will appear as the Judasses that betraied the Souldiers that apprehended bound smote and wounded thy Saviour as the gall and vineger in his mouth spittle on his face thorns on his head nails in his hands spear in his side c. This is the way to know thy self sinful and as thus to know thy self is the best Divinity as Demonax said of Philosophy so thus to aggravate thy sins in thine own sight is the onely way to have them extenuated in the sight of God Whence the more holy a child of God is the more sensible he is of his own unholinesse thinking none so vilde as himself as it fared with holy Job Job 40. 4. 42. 6. and with Isaiah chap. 6. 5. 64. 6. and with Saint Paul 1 Tim 1. 15. Rom. 7. 14 to 25. and with holy David who almost in every Psalme so much bewails his sins original and actual of omission and commission Carnal men are onely troubled for those sins that appear to the world but those in whom Christ iâ— formed a new think they cannot be humbled enough for their evil thoughts vain and unprofitable words for the evil which cleavs even to their best actions for sins of omission as the want of faith and love and repentance want of the true fear of God the neglect of preparation and profitable hearing of praying and reading in their families of instructing their children and servants of sanctifying the Sabbath and seeing that all under them do the same their unfruitfulnesse under the means of grace their not growing in grace and true wisdom their not fearing a lie an oath and a hundred the like And thus do all experimental Christians all that have spiritual eies The want whereof I take to be the cause of all desperate wickednesse as what else but invincible ignorance is the cause why wickednesse so abounds in every corner of the Land Sin indeed at first was the cause of ignorance but now ignorance is the cause of sin Swearing and lying and killing and stealing and whoring abound saith the Prophet because there is no knowledg of God in the land Hosea 4. 1 2. It is a people that do 〈◊〉 their hearts saies God Why Because they have not known my waies 〈…〉 10. Yeâ— are decâ—ived saith our Saviour because ye know not the Scriptures neither the power of God Matth. 22. 29. When Christ wept over Jerusalem what was the cause Even their blindnesse If thou hadst known saith he at the least in this thy day those things which now are hid from thine eies Luke 19. 42. Because men know not the wages of evil therefore they do it and because they would securely do it therefore they refuse to know it O that men knew how good it is to obey to disobey how evill for this would soon dispâ—rse and dispell all the black clouds of their reigning sins in a moment If they were wise saith Saint Bernard they would fore-see the torments of Hell and prevent them but they that wander in by-paths declare themselvs ignorant of the right-way of salvation Rom. 3. 17. I grant many that are wicked have a shew of wisdom but let them seem to know never so much yet it is through ignorance that they do so ill Sect. XVII And so having given you a short survey of our wretchedness by reason of Oâ—iâ—inal sin and actâ—all transgressions by which we must confesse to have deserved double damnation I come now to declare the means which God of his infinite goodness hath found out both for the satisfying of his justice and also freeing us from the guilt and punishment of either And that with asmuch brevity as may stand with pâ—â—spicuity First in generall we must undoubtedly know that the sole perfection of a Christian is the imputation of Christs righteousness and the not-imputation of his own unrighteouness as appears by the whole current of Scripture of which a few Even the Son of man came to give his life a ransom for many Mark 10. 45. As in Adam all dye so in Christ shall all be made alive 1 Cor. 15. 21 22. As by one mans disobedience many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous c. Rom. 5. 18 19. As by the offence of one the fault came on all men to condemnation so by the justifying of one the benefit abounded towards all men to the justification of life Rom. 5. 18. Unto Jesus Christ that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood Revel. 1. 5. The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sins 1 John 1. 7. he is the reconciliation for our sins c. 1 John 2. 1 2. He hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him 2 Cor. 5. 21. He was delivered to death for our sins and is risen again for our justification Rom. 4. 25. Who his own self â—â—re our sins in his own body on the tree by whose stripes we were healed 1 Pet. 2. 24. He was wounded for our transgressions he was broken for our iniquityes the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we were healed Isa. 53. 5. Neither iâ— there salvation in any other for