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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45500	The right way of seeking God a sermon preach'd at Great Yarmouth on the 11th of May, 1692, being the day of the monthly fast / by James Hannott ...	Hannott, James.	1692 (1692)	Wing H659A; ESTC R40939	23,535	40

was something that God required of Christ when He substituted himself in our Room to answer for our sins which was his dying for us so there is something that God Requires of us if we would have the benefit of the death of Christ The Gospel does not make void but establish the Law in its preceptive power Christ's dying for sin and our doing the will of God do very well consist For to this end He dyed and rose and revived that he might be the Lord both of the Dead and Living That as he dyed for sin so we should die to sin and have communion with him in his rising by our walking in newness of Life That which God required of Christ was obedience in a way of merit that which God requires of us is obedience in a way of duty Our obligation to obedience is not dissolved but inforced and heightn'd by the mediatory Obedience of our Lord Jesus To. do justly to love mercy and to walk humbly with God ever were and ever will be incumbent on the Reasonable creature and are those things that the Lord requires of them that would Seek him with acceptation and success This premis'd I now proceed to confirm the truth of the Proposition and the proof of it will depend upon shewing these two things 1. The insufficiency that there is in a bare performance of the duties of Religious Worship separate from the duties of justice mercy and humble walking with God to procure the favour of God to a People 2. The necessity that there is of such a People's attending to the practice of those things that are expressive of real holiness and Obedience to God in conjunction with the duties of God s worship in order to that end And first let us consider the insufficiency that there is in a bare performance of the duties of Religions worship separate from the duties of justice mercy and humble walking with God to procure the favour of God to a People to comprimise the difference between God and them to pacifie his Anger and to avert his judgments And because this People in the text talk'd so much of their burnt-Offerings their Calves and their Rams I shall to make this branch of the demonstration more plain and convincing present you with the judgment of God in his word concerning these things whilst this way of worship was in use and shew you of how little account with God these Sacrifices were when separated from the duties of justice mercy and humble Obedience The Ancient Sacrifices are to be considered two ways 1. as they were typical Representation of that real Sacrifice which our Lord Jesus Christ offered to God to make reconciliation for the sins of his offered to when through the enternal Spirit he offer'd himself to God Much of the Gospel as it was Reveal'd in that time was wrap'd up in those Sacrifices They did all refer to and prefigure him that was to come For whereas the holy and righteous Law of God had threatned Sin with Death it could not be reasonably supposed that the blood of Bulls and of goats should take away sin And therefor the Heathens to supply that defect having some natural or rather traditional knowledge of the necessiry of sacrifices to make Atonement for sin did conclude that nothing less than the Life of a Man offered in Sacrifice was sufficient to appease God But indeed this man is no other than the man Christ Jesus the Psalmist is brought in speaking to his Father to this purpose Heb. 10.5 When he cometh into the world he saith acrifice and offering thou wouldst not but a body hast thou prepared me Or secondly they are to be considered as acts of Homage and Worship performed by that People to God and in which they generally rested in a neglect of the weightier matters or the Law And however they though to please God thereby we 〈…〉 testimonies in their own Scriptures which shew how highly God was displeased with them whilst they took up with these in the neglect of Judgment Mercy and Humble walking with God And I 'll begin with that Reproof the Prophet gave King Saul who bore himself much upon this business of sacrificing in the omission of a direct command of God wherein his obedience was concerned 1 Sam. 15.22 Samuel said Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord behold to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of Rams It do's appear by the preceding part of this history that God had sent Samuel to Saul with a command to destroy the Amalekites and that with a total destruction Man and Woman Infant and suckling Ox and Sheep Camel and Ass Saul applies himself to this work but did it negligently and in part only Agag the King he spares supposing it might be for his honour to make him a Prisoner of War to lead him in triumph Also the best of the Sheep and of the Oxen and of the Fattlings and of the Lambs he saves and his pretence for that was that these Fat Beasts would do well to serve God's Altar 't was not fit to slay them any where else What hath the Lord as great delight in sacrifices as in obedience This was the command of God that all of Amalek should be destroyed what meaneth then the bleeting of the Sheep and the Lowing of the Oxen which I hear Oh says he they are for sacrifices to Worship God with No the Prophet tells him God will accept of no such Worship as is besides his command and is founded in a contempt of that To obey is better pleases God more than Sacrifice Better thou hadst throughly obeyed the command of God tho' there had not been a Ram left in the Universe to be offer'd in Sacrifice My second proof for this I take from the 50th Psalm at the seventh verse we find the Lord addressing himself to that people thus Hear oh my People and I will speak oh Israel and I will testifie against thee God had something to speak to them and something to tesitifie against them That which he had to say to them is at ver 8. I will not reprove thee for thy Sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings continually before me It seems they were so punctual in their Sacrifices they would not rob God of a Lamb nor fail him of an hour their burnt offerings were continually before him So that he would not tax them for any remissness or deficiency that way But tho' He would not reprove them for their Sacrifices he would reprove them for their sins and that to purpose asking them what they had to do to declare his statutes or take his Covenant in their Mouth seeing they hated instruction and cast his words behind them Come says God you load my Altar with your sacrifices but at the same time you make me to serve with your sins You are