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A53508	A sermon preached at St. Michaels, Wood-Street, at the request of some Friends and now published to prevent mistakes / by Titus Oates ...	Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1679 (1679)	Wing O54; ESTC R15541	31,378	28

into the world was to intitle man to all the Acts and Titles of friendship and kindness which are the consequences of this his design of saving lost man which can be received from God by man or given by God to man In this reconciling men to God which was effected by Jesus Christ we shall find these particulars worth our serious consideration First That there was an intention on Gods part that as there was a valuable consideration of the purchase of Christ by him made in procuring mans salvation so it should be appliable to man without any fraud or limitation of the same to them so that by meanes of mans being reconciled to God he hath plainly set forth not only his willingness but his intent and purpose to save them Secondly That he hath put man into a fair possibility of being saved so that if he voluntarily sinneth his destruction is of himself for now he hath taken off from them the guile and condemnation which was brought into the world by Adam's transgression so that the guilt of our first Parents shall not be laid to our charge Thirdly Christ in reconciling man to God procured for them this favour and grace from the Eternal God that they should receive from him such competent measures of strength to do his will and pleasure and act in his Commandments as became the servants of so holy and good a God as he hath been pleased to represent himself in Scripture to be and be by him enabled to repent and believe and persevere in both unto the End so that they might actually enjoy the salvation which Christ designed for them by his death Fourthly in this great work of Reconciliation Christ hath designed that upon the account of repenting for sin and believing in God through the preaching of his Name they may be accounted righteous and blameless in the day when he shall come to judge the World in power and great glory and have the end of their faith even the salvation of their souls for by virtue of the reconciliation purchased by the Blood of Christ of which we now speak all the means of Grace are so sanctified to the very end they may appear prevalent and effectual for mans inheriting that life and glory which we have promised and Christ is gone before to possess for them Fifthly In this work of Reconciliation great joy and confidence is now designed by the Son of God it is apparent that man having obtained this great benefit of being reconciled to Almighty God he hath the ground of the greatest joy and confidence and dependence upon God in all conditions that may or can befall him in this life for now he hath not only occasion of rejoycing in the future hopes of eternal life and glory but also in his very sufferings in that he may if he use the means be assured of this that his afflictions will be made sweet unto him Rom. 5.3 11. Sixthly In this work of Reconciliation to Almighty God Christ did design for man boldness to enter into the Holiest that is with all freeness to approach the presence of Almighty God by prayer Heb. 10.19 Having therefore Brethren boldness to enter into the Holiest by the blood of Jesut and in verse 20. the Apostle as he sheweth that this boldness ●s designed in the Blood of Christ so he sheweth us also by what way this en●rance is to be made even by a new and living way which he hath Consecrated for us that is to say his Flesh The dispensation of the Law could not procure this priviledge therefore in this great work of the reconciliation of man to God Christ our dearest Redeemer h●th procured this confidence and freeness of approaching the presence of the Almighty by a way never known before and that a clear and living way in opposition to the dead shadow● and beggarly rudiments under the Law which might minister matter of discouragement but no consolation and freeness with God in any address whatever made or to be made to his Divine Majesty now all this was design'd and accomplish'd by his breaking down of the partition wall which hindred mans access to God and to this very end and porpose that man might serve and worship this God who thus hath manifested his love to them in his Son whom he sent to save that which was lost with all unfeignedness and fulness of Faith reforming their lives conforming their wills according to the Rules of the word of this Reconciliation which I now Preach that those afflictions dangers that may appear might not cause them to waver in their conformity to the Laws of this Jesus who came to save fallen man from sin and Satan to translate to the happy state of being the Son of God through Faith in him which brings me to the Second Particular 2. A second priviledge that Christ came to invest men withal was the Adoption of Sons for as he came to bring men to the friendship of God and to reconcile them to that God from whom they were gone astray agianst whom they had acted open hostility so he came to renew a Relation in man to God to this end did he deliver man from the Yoke of the Law that he might become a Son of God see Gal 4 4.5 In the fulness of time God sent his Son made of a Woman under the Law to redeem them that were under the Law that we might receive the adoption of S●ns It is true Man was ●he Son of God by Creation but here is a new way that Christ retrieves this Relation forfeited by sin and Disobedience of man to God by contriving his Redemption by his Blood and designing his Eternal Salvation in the world to come upon the performance o● those duties to which he is obliged by vertue of the Redemption Christ purchased for him And to this end that he may be secured that Almighty God owns this his Relation he hath given him the spirit of Adoption whereby they cry Abba Father so that by this state of Sonship to God they are designed to be delivered by Christ from the spirit of Bondage again to sear for it is evidently true that those who were ever in a Jewish state and therefore might have a great right to the promises of God Rom 9.4 were so far from being the Sons of God that at the best they were but in a servil● condition for they were obliged to those performances which were slavish and being but external had nothing at all of any internal goodness in them and these wer● done meerly for fear of disobeydience and being punished with stoning the like which is the condition of Slaves who must do what the Master commands or be beaten if they perform it not and if this were the state and condition of the Jews i● what a Predicament the Gentiles were I leave it to the judgment of rational men certainly the●r condition must be more base and servile haveing little

or no knowledg o● God amongst them therfore their Engagements to the preformances of the Religio● that was proposed in the Law of Nature must not come near for eminency to thos● which the Jews had but Christ our Lord who is above all God blessed for ever hat● engaged and drawn man with more liberal Bands the commands that he layeth upo● Man are sweet and pleasant His yoke is easie and his burden light Matt. 11.29 3● His Cords are the Cords of a man and his Bands the Bands of Love In a word they ar● such as we cannot but judge to be most reasonable and most agreeable with human nature and to them is added as to Sons all such promises of love and kindness as may oblige man to act like a Prince in his station and run on in the course of observing thes● Commands nay the disobeying of these commands are not attended with such servile punishments as of Stoning and the like but Paternal as suspension from Church fellowship and communion which do not tend to mans destruction but his reformation not to the killing of the body but to the saving of the Soul in the day of the Lord Now of this sonship we have sufficient evidence in that they have designed for them by Christs coming into the world the spi●it of adoption which Christ did purchase for man see Rom. 8.15 Ye have not received the spirit of Bondage again to fear but ye have received the spirit of Adoption whereby we cry Abba Father which spirit though received by none but by those that believe yet designed for all those that Christ came to save and those in due time shall be discovered is a disposition of Soul formed in Man by God whereby he expresseth his confidence and dependence on God's kindness to him as a Father to look upon God as tender in his dealings with the sons of men and rich in his Evangelical Promises and offers of grace and Favours in opposition to a more servile State under which men were before Christ came to save that which was lost This Spirit is called the Spirit of Christ see Gal. 4.6 And because ye are Sons God hath sent the spirit of his Son into ●our bearts crying Abba Father From all which I gather this that Man's Relation to God as a Son appears in this that he hath sent the spirit of Christ into their hearts by which they have power given them to call upon God are enabled to make their a●dresses to him not only as God but as their Father the Gospel of our ever blessed Redeemer assuring them that they are no longer under any servile condition of being bound to any legal observances but that God will deal with them provided they keep the terms of Faith and obedience according to the promises made to the Father of the faithful and will justifie them upon the aforesaid Terms without those Deeds of the Law And for a further confirmation of this we shall find the Apostle St. Paul Rom. 8.16 to say The spirit it self beareth witness with our spirit that we are the Children of God 3. As Jesus Christ did come to give the Sons of Men this honour and privledge of being the Sons of God so he came to give them the inheritance of the Kingdom of Heaven for certainly it is a consequence that is natural viz. That if Christ in his coming to save that which was lost did design to bring men to stand in relation to God as Sons then certainly he did design them Heirs of some inheritance See Rom. 8.17 And if children then heirs heirs of God joint heirs with Christ Now this priviledge of mans being designed to the Inheritance by the coming of Christ into the World is further apparent from these six Considerations First God hath prepared it for them for it is apparent that when it pleased God to send his own Son into the world to teach the sons of men what good things he had in tended them he also did give his great Delegate power to inform the World what good was provided for them upon the condition of their obedience to those things he is pleased to propose in his holy Gospel which they have great assurances of enjoying See 1 Cor. 3.9 Eye hath not seen nor Ear heard neither hath it entred into the heart of man to conceive the things that God hath prepared for them that love him And as love is the condition here of ●●oying these great and good things prepared in express terms so let me tell you it i●●●●es all manner of obedience to the Gospel which is offered and preached together with the good things therein contained which man may enjoy because prepared if he doth ●ot render himself incapable through disobedience for certain it is that man by vertu● of this design is an heir not only of the good things of this life whether temporal or spiritual but also of that which is to come and if an heir then it 's certain that this inh●●ritance is provided for him and this provision or preparation that is thus made is made ●●virtue of Christs coming into the World Secondly Christ's coming into the World and fulfilling the will of God purchased th● inheritance for man therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is called a purchased possession 〈◊〉 was bought for man and man for that by the blood of the son of God not with silver a●● gold or with things corruptible but with the pretions blood of the son Jesus Christ as St. P●●● saith 1. Pet. 1.19 and St. Paul in plain terms calleth it a purchased possession Eph. 10 1● Thirdly it is promised to man and therefore he is an heir by virtue of the promise 〈◊〉 an holy God for whom it is impossible to lye Hebr. 6.18 and will undoubtedly perfor●● this promise provided man accepteth of it upon the terms it is offered it is entailed up●● man by an Oath of a God that changeth not so that man hath good security from 〈◊〉 mighty God of this inheritance by vertue of this promise which is confirmed by Chri●● coming into the world to save that which was lost 4. They have all the means of grace tending thereunto they have the Gospel preached 〈◊〉 words adapted to their capacity and meanes by which they may come to the knowle d●● of God in order to their full fruition and perfect enjoyment of this glorious inheritan● and as nature doth nothing in vain so God in his great goodness designs all and every of 〈◊〉 means of grace to tend to the effectual enjoyment of glory and bliss in another wor● 5. They have designed for them the earnest of the Spirit of God which is the earnest of 〈◊〉 purchased possession which if they do not quench or oppose in the Ministry of the wo●● and Sacraments it doth enlighten their understanding and inform them of the height a●● depth length breadth of the mercies of God in reference to another life