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A70857	Christos angasmos, or, Christ our sanctification faithfully explained, fully confirmed, and practically applied ... being the substance of several lectures or meditations / by Tho. Pichard ...	Pichard, Thomas.; Pritchard, Thomas, M.A.	1667 (1667)	Wing P3524; ESTC R10560	136,857	229

1.5 6. Rom. 5.8 9. Cum multis aliis c. Before I proceed to the fifth General propounded to be spoken to I think it not unnecessary to enquire Forma dat esse what is the form of Christs satisfaction which renders it satisfactory to God and justificatory to man I answer The infinite merit of what he did and suffered which infinite Merit stands 1. In the dignity of his Person the fulness of the God-head dwelt in him bodily Col. 2.9 14. Now for the work of a servant to be don by the Lord of all renders his active and for him to suffer as a Malefactor between Malefactors who was God blessed for evermore Renders his passive righteousness infinitely meritorious Acts 20 28. 1 Joh. 1.7 No wonder the blood of Christ cleanseth from all sin for it is the blood of God by the figure ca●led by the Ancients 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Communication of properties the blood of the Man Christ Jesus is called the blood of God And this is the reason why the righteousness of one redounds to all the Elect for the justifi●ation of life Rom. 5.18 19. The doings and sufferings of this Glorious Person the Lord our righteousnesse though for a few years were in●●●it●ly ● more value than all that all the creatu●●s in Heaven o● Earth could have done o●●uff●red to eternity Heb. 1 6. the very Man Christ Jesus is above all the Angels for he is the Man Gods fellow an high Word Zech. 13.7 And this infinite worthiness of the Redeemers Person ye have excellently described as the irradiating and infinitely exalting all he did and suff●red Consult these Texts Heb. 1.1 2 3. Phil. 2.6 7 8 9 10. 2. The righteousness of Jesus Christ is of infinite merit and a meer supererogation of an infinitely Glorious Person 1. His active Righteousness stood in his obedience to the Ceremonial and Moral Law 1. His obedience to the ceremonial Law was a meer supererogation What for the substance to comply with the shadows for the Anti-type to do homage to its own Types besides he submitted to those Ordinances the end and institution whereof supposeth Guilt what ●ore-skin of iniquity had he to be cut off by Circumcision what filth to be wash't away in Baptism Luke 1 21.2● Luk. 3.21 yet he was circumcised and baptized and his Mother offered for her purification 2. His obedience to the moral Laws Although it must be granted as man it was his duty yet it was not his duty to become man Gal. 4.4 his incarnation was a work of supererogation the Law did never command that the eternal Son of the living God should take upon him the form of a Servant keep the Law suffer and die This cond scention of his was wholly free and arbi●rary what but his own infinite love could move the eternal Word to pitch his Tent in our Nature What else could move the Lord of the World to become a servant the Antient of Dayes to become a Childe or the Son of God to be the Son of Mary And as his Active so also his passive righteousnesse was a meet supererogation What had divine Justice to do with the holy Childe Jesus Had it not been for his own eternal compact with the Father he was a sinlesse Person the Lamb of God without spot he suffered not for himself Dan. 9.26 he that knew no sin was made sin for us i. e. a sacrifice for our sins that we might be made the righteousness of God in him 2 Cor. 5.21 3. The stamp of Gods Appointment highly dignifies as to us Christs righteousness and renders it acceptable to God and meritorious for our benefit The Assignment and appointment of God the Father sets a great value on it God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing to men their trespasses 2 Cor. 5.19 the reconciliation or justification of a sinner is as much the Fathers as the Sons Act. Christ frequently declares in the Gospel of John John 6. that he came into the world to do the will of him that sent him Christ received his mission and Commission from the Father for our justification Mark that notable place Heb. 10.6 7 9 10. In burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure the Lord did not delight in the blood of Bulls Goats or Calves those bruitish sacrifices vers 7. then said I the words of Christ Lo I come in the Volume of the Book it is written of me to doe Thy Will O God Mark that ver 9. Then said he lo I come to do thy will O God He taketh away the first the first sort of sacrifices that he may establish the second viz. sacrifice of his Son vers 10. by the which Will we are sanctified i. e. saved through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all Dr. Owen in his Death of Deaths and Mr. Caryl in his Lectures on Job Some of our Great Divines judiciously judge that much of the merit of Christs Passion doth arise from the eternal Compact and assignment of the Father not excluding the other considerations Now we pass on 5. To the fifth Query and that is this what are the severall causes concurring to our justification A. I answer The causes of our justification are these four chiefly 1. The Efficient 2. The Material 3. The Formal 4. The finall Cause 1. The Efficient cause and that is two-fold either principal or instrumental 1. The principal God the whole Trinity Father Son and Spirit Justification being an outward action ad extra respecting the creatures is the common Act of the whole Trinity God the whole Trinity doth justifie as Law-giver and Judge Jam. 4.12 There is one Law-giver able to save and to destroy he is the Judge of all the Earth by sin we became Gods Doctors and owed him many thousand Talents Christ our Surety payes our Debts and God dischargeth us by sin we were enemies and ungodly Christ our Mediato●● reconciles us enemies In summa nemo ad fidei justitiam perveniet nisi qui in se erit impius Calv. in Rom. 4.5 and just●fies us by Nature ungodly yea God in Christ reconciles us to himself not imputing to us our tr●spasses 2 Cor. 5.19 And this is both a gracious and a righteous Act of God 1. A gracious act Rom. 3.25 we are justified freely by his Grace 2 Tim. 1.9 Ephes 2.5 we are saved by Grace 2. A righteous act of God hereby he eminently declares his Righteousness Rom. 3.26 the Apostle brings it in with an ingemination to declare I say his righteousnesse that he might be just and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus the righteousness of Christ making plenary yea redundant and superabundant satisfaction to offended justice his justice being satisfied yea honoured with Christs righteousness Now he is not only merciful but also faithful and just to forgive us our sins 1 John 1.7 Now there is a blessed

accomplished Though your wills be perverse and obstinate God can bend and bow them God never made a Creature too strong for himself he that hath begun the good-work in you will perfect it he is able to do this thing in us Phil. 1.6 and for us and he is faithful in the performance of his Promises to us 1. He is able Who hath resisted his will Rom. 9.19 Isa 59.1 Phil. 3.21 1 Thes 5.24 Heb. 10.23 His hand is not shortned He by the mighty power of his Spirit can subdue us and all things to himself 2. He is faithful Faithful is he that hath promised who also will do it Believe O ye doubting desponding Souls in the veracity fidelity and immutability of the great and good God Hear what God and not what the Tempter speaks God hath promised to work in you to will and to do 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Et velle perficere These words are a M●osis Phil. 2.13 That Assertion carries along with it the nature of a Promise Hath not the living and true God Promised in the New Covenant to sprinkle you with clean water to circumcise your hearts to put his Law into our mindes to write his Law in our hearts to take away the heart of stone to give us the ministration of his Spirit not to quench the smoaking Flax that is to kindle it not to break the bruised Reed that is to strengthen it and to send forth Judgement unto Victory that is to carry on the work of Sanctification in the Soul in spight of all opposition till it be compleat in Glory Oh then What remains but that we should all act Faith upon Gods power and faithfulness in making good his Promises or else wee shall discomfort our selves needlesly and dishonour God exceedingly And withal remember 't is very expedient to turn these Promises into Prayers and act Faith on them in Prayer The Promises are as so many Bills under Gods own hand which in the name of Christ we ought to present to the Father and to put them in suit at the throne of Grace Thus come in Faith and ye shall go away with Comfo●t Use 5 As a consequent of the former let such as are distressed through the sense of Sin and for want of holiness look up to Christ Jesus for Sanctification he of God is made unto us Sanctification Joh. 6. Joh. 14.1 believe in the Mediatour in him whom God hath sent honour the Son as ye honour the Father God hath so appointed it Look up to him all ye the ends of the Earth and be saved Isa 45.22 so look up to him and ye shall be also sanctified be daily looking up to Jesus the Authour and Finisher of your Faith the Alpha and Omega of your holiness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aspicientes in illum Isa 61.1 1 Joh. 1.7 Heb. 12.2 Look up to Christ for the Spirit of Sanctification from Christ if ever ye would partake of his Unction The Christal stream wherein we are washed and made clean flows out of Christs own heart The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin Faith makes Application of this blood and so it purifies you may be poring long enough on your own filthiness and be filthy and dejected still unless you look up to this Fountain and see Christ given of God for your Sanctification you must apprehend him as the Lord your Righteousness and also as the High-Priest of your holiness else your Consciences will never be pure nor peaceable Naaman by the Prophets order was to go down and dip himself seven times in Jordan if he would be cured 2 Kings 5.10 So by Gods order and appointment you must go down daily by the renewed Acts of believing to this Fountain and bathe and wash thy unclean Soul in the streams of this Jordan I mean Christs blood if ever thou wouldest be healed of thy sinful Leprosie My sixth Use shall be to press us all to a serious sense of Use 6 our absolute need of holiness Sanctification is not a thing indifferent which a man may have or not have and yet be happy no such matter You must be holy if ye will be happy 't is the unum necessarium the one thing needful Luk. 10 42 Prov. 4.7 Sanctification is the principal thing Sanctification is the Wedding-Garment which renders ye amiable in the eyes of the King of Heaven without this the King will say Binde him hand and foot and cast him into outer darkness Mat. 22.12 13. Certainly this Wedding-garment is woven of the glorious beams of the Sun of Righteousness 't is both the Righteousness of Christ imputed and imparted Christs Righteousness say others with Faith and Holiness So Calvin and other Modern Writers The Graces of the Spirit are as Parliament-Robes The Peers say some by rule of Peereage are not to sit in Parliament without their Robes The Graces of the spirit are the Jewels of the Covenant and Robes of Heaven No living or reigning there no sitting in Heaven as Peers of State as Kings and Priests without these Robes of Glory the Righteousness of Christ for Justification and the Graces of Christ for Sanctification without all this white Linnen the Righteousness of the Saints Sanctification is the Seal or Mark of Heaven There is a Necesse est put upon Sanctification 1. For the honour of God of each Person in the Trinity 2. For our own happiness 1. For the honour of the Father that his choice be not disparaged 2. For the honour of the Son that his Members be not deformed nor polluted 3. For the honour of the Holy Spirit that his charge may not miscarry or fall short of Glory 1. For the Honour of the Father whose choice we are we are chosen in Christ to be holy Ephes 1.4 and chosen to the Sanctification of the Spirit 2 Thes 2.14 Meere morality hath something of Majesty in it in the eye of nature Those abominable Bruits at Rome could not practice their filthy lascivious pranks while grave Cato was on the Theatre the most carnal men have some inward respect for holiness for all their quarrelling with it and dislike of it Now should not Gods chosen be an holy People and live holily they would be a dishonour to his Name a scandal to his Gospel a cloud to his Glory God therefore chiefly aims at our holiness in all his dispensations I shall instance in these three 1. God Chuseth us 2. Calleth us 3. Correcteth us that we might be holy 1. God Chuseth us the chosen Generation are to be an holy Nation and to shew forth Gods vertues God chuseth us that we should be of a choice Spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 virtutes 1 Pet. 2.9 he loved us with a singular love that we should be persons of singular lives to him 2. God calleth us that wee may be holy that hee may put the honour of holiness upon us in the eye of the whole