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A sermon preach'd at the parish-church of St. Helen's, London, May the 19th, 1700 by George Keith.
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Keith, George, 1639?-1716.
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Christ in two distinct Natures but undivided and most Gloriously and Inseparably United for ever It was an Ancient Heresie most justly Condemned above Twelve hundred Years agoe by the Orthodox Fathers That Christ had but one Will from which they were call'd Monothelites i. e. such as did hold that Heresie That Christ had but one Will. They were also call'd Eutychians from Eutyches the Author of it They conceited that Christ's Manhood-Nature was transmuted or melted into his Godhead-Nature and consequently that the Will of his Manhood was transmuted or melted into the Will of his Godhead which is an abominable Error for the Transmutation of any one Created Substance into another Created Substance is impossible then surely as impossible is it that the Substance of Christs Manhood can be transmuted or changed into his Godhead It is to be fear'd that too many do not well Consider nor well and duly Meditate upon this two-fold Love of Christ so as to have their Thoughts fix'd upon it that it may have the greater influence upon them If ye rightly understand and consider and deeply ponder this two-fold Love of Christ the one where with he loves you as God and that love of his is one and the same in nature with the Father's Love and the other wherewith he Loves you as Man as he is now Glorified in Heaven in the true intire Glorified Nature of Man consisting of a Glorified Soul and Body the same for Substance he had on Earth tho' wonderfully changed in Manner and Qualities yet no ways changed in his Love towards Man but rather heightened and increased that will have a double force and influence upon you much greater than if ye should consider his Love singly either as he is God or as he is Man As they have not a right knowledge and belief of Christ who only believe that he is God and do not believe that he is Man also and will not allow that his Manhood having a created Soul and Body is any part of him whereof he consisteth as the intire Christ and Saviour Nor have others a right knowledge and belief of Christ who only believe that he is Man and not God also both such sorts of men have not the true Faith but Err greatly concerning the Faith and too many of both sorts are now in this Nation so they have not a right knowledge and belief of the Love of Christ who do not believe it in both respects above mentioned Thus then we are with true Faith Love and Devotion to consider our Lord Jesus Christ in his two-fold Nature as he is both God and Man and as each Nature acted its part in the work of our Redemption and that it behoved so to be that the Author of our Eternal Salvation should be both God and Man Had he not been Man he could not have died for us which the justice of Gods Law required that he who should be our Saviour should dye for us and undergo the Curse that was due to us for our Sins as accordingly he did and had he not been God his Death and Sufferings had not been of that Merit and Value before his Father for our Reconciliation and Eternal Salvation But yet more particularly I think to lay before you how and after what manner the Death and Sufferings of Christ and also how and after what manner the Love of Christ are the effectual means whereby he bringeth true Believers to this high Dignity and Priviledge and High and Holy and Heavenly Calling not to live unto themselves but unto Him who Died for them and Rose again His Death and Resurrection are only exprest in the Text but by a Synecdoche of the part put for the whole his whole Active and Passive Obedience is understood from his Descent and Conception in the Virgins Womb to his Ascension and Glorification in the Heavens But his Death being a principal part that is it which here and elsewhere is most frequently mentioned in Scripture First The Death of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was an effectual means to advance us to this high Dignity above mentioned that it was a perfect Attonement for us wherein he made a full and plenary satisfaction to Divine Justice for our Sins and did purchase and procure by way of Merit our Reconciliation with God Having made Peace through the Blood of his Cross and having Reconciled us in his Body of Flesh through Death to present us Holy and Vnblamable and Vnreproveable in his sight Col. 1.20 21. And by the Merit of his Death having obtained the Remission and Pardon of our Sins for he dyed in our stead the Just suffering for the Unjust and being our Surety he paid our Debt and became a Curse for us But this is not so to be understood that any are actually Pardoned Justified or Reconciled unto God before that Faith and Repentance and a real work of Conversion is wrought in them but the Pardon was then purchased for all tho' it is not given unto any until they be actually Converted and sincere Faith and Repentance is wrought in them Secondly That the Merit of our Saviours Death and shedding of his precious Blood did procure and purchase to us the Holy Spirit with the saving and sanctifying Graces thereof by which he applieth to us the vertue and efficacy of the same for our Conversion Regeneration Justification and Eternal Salvation Now it was necessary that what Christ Did and Suffered for us should be done in Love as accordingly it was done in the highest Love both to God and also to us As it was this his exceeding great and high Love that made it so acceptable unto the Father so it is the same that doth most effectually work upon our Hearts and Souls to Love him and to Live unto him who Died for us and Rose again That the Apostle adds to Christ's Dying his Rising again doth Instruct us That his Resurection was as necessary as his Death If Christ had Died and had not Rose again from the Dead he could not have been our Saviour He was delivered for our Offences and Rose again for our Justification He behoved to overcome Death by rising from the Dead and not only by his Rising but by his Ascending to the Father he gave full evidence that what he Did and Suffered for the Sons of Men was fully accepted by his Father and that he was a Sacrifice of a sweet smell unto God But what ever Vertue Merit or Efficacy Christ's Death and the Love which moved him to dye for us hath before God in order to procure or purchase our Reconciliation with God Pardon and Justification and the Grace of Sanctification yet it hath not that influence upon us or any to cause us to live to him and to God through him but as his Death and Sufferings and Love which moved him to dye for us are made known to us In the time of our Ignorance of this great Mystery how God so