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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81101	The Christian laver. Or, a discourse opening the nature of participation with, and demonstrating the necessity of purification by Christ By T. Cruso.	Cruso, Timothy, 1656?-1697.	1690 (1690)	Wing C7434; ESTC R225717	25,680	95

considering its Infinite value may well be represented as a Sea deep enough to drown all our guilt in according to that Promise in the Prophet Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the Sea Micah 7.19 Christ's Blood is to our sins as the Red Sea was to the Egyptians a perpetual Grave from which they can never be raised again Now that Blood which stifles the Guilt even in so doing washes the Person Jer. 33.8 I will cleanse them says God from all their Iniquity and I will pardon all their Iniquities Pardoning and cleansing are the same thing and the Blood of the Cross is the only consideration with God upon which 't is done If that had not been pour'd out Isa 1.18 the Dye of Scarlet and Crimson sins could never have been turn'd into the whiteness of Wool and Snow All things by the Law says the great Apostle are purged with Blood Heb. 9.22 and without shedding of Blood is no remission The same Method holds under the Gospel as before under the Law so that there is neither Real nor Typical neither Ceremonial nor Spiritual remission or purgation but by Blood shed Typical and Ceremonial by the Blood of Calves and Goats c. Real and Spiritual by the Blood of Christ. Secondly By the sprinkling of Christs ' Blood upon the Conscience of every Believer they come to be actually washt For there must be a particular application of the Merit of that Blood to every one by Faith or else no one can have any advantage by it We must through the operations of Gods Grace in and upon us positively concur to the sprinkling of Christs Blood upon our hearts though the shedding of it upon the Tree was wholy without us That great multitude of whom John speaks Rev. 7.14 are said to have washed their own Robes and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb. This intimates a Believers betaking of himself and flying for refuge to the satisfaction of Jesus Christ for till then sin is not actually remitted nor the preson justified If this were not a necessary antecedent qualification for Actual forgiveness how is it to be understood that God hath set forth Christ to be a propitiation through faith in his Blood Rom. 3.25 And that we are justified by Faith c. 5.1 We are therefore commanded to draw near to God Heb. 10.22 having our Hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience i.e. not only having a pardon procur'd and prepar'd for us by Christ but brought home to us by believing in him And the Blood of Jesus thus apprehended and laid hold of by Faith is called the Blood of sprinkling c. 12.24 Hence it is that we read of our being Elected through the sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1.2 as a means to attain the end of Election It is one of the excellent Characters given to Moses Heb. 11.28 that by faith he kept the Passeover and sprinkling of Bolld For after the Sacrifices were offered he took of the Blood Exod. 24.8 and sprinkled it upon the people David very plainly alludes to this in that famous Penitential Pasalm Isal 31.7 Purge me with Hyssop and I shall be clean because that was used by Gods appointment in the cleansing of the Leper Levit. 24.47 to sprinkle the Blood upon him All this signifies the particular exercises and actings of Faith upon Christ as the Lamb slain and so our washing of Justification is compleated Secondly There is a washing of Sanctification which is also the work of Christ 1 Joh. 5.6 This is he says the Beloved Bisciple whocame by water as well as by blood A lively Emblem whereof was the water which came out with the Blood Joh. 19.34 when the Souldier pierc'd his side with a Spear Therefore the Prophet describes him by a Fountain opened to the House of David Zech. 13.1 and to the Inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness He cleanses us not only from our Guilt but from our Corruption too This he does principally by his Spirit and instrumentally by his Word and Providences First Christs washing of us as it respects Sanctification is principally performed by the Spirit It was promised under the Old Testament Ezek. 36.25 Then will I sprinkle water upon you c. This is expresly interpreted in the New Testament Joh. 7.33 39. of the Effusion of the Spirit He is the great Operator employed by our Lord Jesus in the purifying of defiled Souls According to his mercy he saved us by the washing of Regeneration Tit. 3.5 6. and renewing of the Holy Ghost which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour Nature in its present depraved state neither can nor will ever purge it self Solomons Challenge is not to be answer'd Prov. 20.9 Who can say I have made my heart clean He that first made the heart must now make it clean We are no more able to be our own Cleansers than our own Creators for this is such a kind of work Psal 51.10 Create in me a clean heart oh God was Davids earnest request after his Fall Gen. 1.2 It was the Spirits moving upon the face of the waters which produc'd this beautiful World 'T is the influence of the same Spirit which must produce an holy Comeliness in us Job 26.13 God by his Spirit garnisht the vifible Heavens and Christ by his Spirit must fit us to inhabit the Invisible Nor does the Merit of Christs bloud appear more in our forgiveness than its vertue and efficacy does in our renovation Secondly Christ washes us instrumentally by his Word and Providences 1. By his Word This is a Divine Instrument consecrated by a Divine Authority to this very purpose Psul 12.6 The words of the Lord are not onely pure words in themselves but are often blest and succeeded for the working of purity in us So our Lord tells his Disciples sciples Joh. 15.3 Now ye are clean through the word that I have spoken unto you he does not onely tell them that they were clean but by what means they came to be so Thus the Apostle Paul says that Christ gave himself for the Church Eph. 5.25 26. that he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word Two great Truths are evidently contained in this Text 1. That our Sanctification is the price of Blood Our Living to God is the effect of Christs dying for us if he had not given himself the Spirit had not been given 2. That the word of Christ is ordinarily made use of by him in the cleansing of those whom he designs to save It hath his special Institution for this end these waters of the Sanctuary are the pool which we must come to and where we must wait to be heal'd of our Impurities This is Gods way for the cleansing of our own way Psal 119.9 Not

the righteousness of Faith 't is necessary that he should expect from us the Duties of Obedience David an holy Prince Ps 101.4 resolv'd that he would not know i.e. not tolerate or countenance a wicked person and can we imagine that our Lord Jesus will fall short of his Type and shelter the workers of iniquity under his wing or give protection to those that renounce his Dominion It becomes a good Magistrate to make his best Subjects his onely Favorites and shall the Kingdom of Christ be worse order'd than the Kingdoms of Men Is not the Scepter of his Kingdom Heb. 1.8 a Scepter of Righteousness and must he turn it into a Rod of Wickedness by gratifying the Lusts of those that would be a blemish and reproach to him Surely Christ will not prostitute his own Name and dignity as he is exalted to be a King nor so far give up that Office as to lay them in his bosom who trample his Laws under foot He cannot suffer a contempt of his Authority in those that are partakers of his Grace Thirdly As Christ is the Mediator of an Holy Covenant he must look after and require a performance of the necessary terms God and Man are the two Parties in the Covenant he medeates between both and engages as a Surety for both He undertakes not onely for God's Reconciliation to us but for our return to God if there be a failure on one part there can be no accomplishment of the other if we remain impenitent God must remain implacable and Christ's Suretiship will be of no use or advantage to us His great business in the World was to confirm the Covenant with many i.e. Dan. 9.27 the New Covenant which though it be not strictly a Covenant of Works yet works are not altogether excluded by it Works are thrust out from being the meritorious condition of our blessedness but they are taken in as a needful qualification for it The Covenant of Grace does oblige us to all holy services as well as assure us of a glorious Salvation it tends to deliver us from being slaves to sin as well as from being Prisoners in Hell It is manifest therefore that we continue under the Old Covenant while we are unpurged from our old sins when we are brought into the bond of the New Covenant God does infuse new frames and dispositions itno us A sinner in his filth is evidently a stranger to this Covenant we may gather thus much from what God says by the Prophet Ezek. 16.8 9. I sware unto thee and entred into a Covenant with thee a Covenant different from that at first c. Then washed I thee with water yea I throughtly washt away thy bloud from thee Rom. 6.14 Sin hath dominion over those that are under the Law but not over such as are under Grace So that Christs ratifying of the second Covenant makes Sanctification necessary to our partaking with him Fourthly As Christ must present us to an holy God it is requisite that he should first make us an holy people The Church must be sanctified and cleans'd by Grace Eph. 5.27 that it may be presented a Glorious Church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but holy and without blemish Concerning this act of Christ the Presentation of Souls to God the Scripture speaks in several places To present you holy and unblameable Col. 1.22 and unreprovable in his i.e. in the Fathers sight Jude 24. To him that is able to present you faultless before the presence of his Glory with exceeding joy This is done more privately and particularly at our Death Eccl. 12.7 for then the spirit returns unto God that gave it and Jesus Christ sends his Angels to convey the Soul from Earth to Heaven where at its arrival he immediately presents it unto God 'T is done more publickly and solemnly at the End of the World when there shall be a General Assembly of Christssanctified ones then Christ will stand at the head of his whole flock Heb. 2.13 and say to God Here am I and the children which thou hast given me Christs Kingdom as Redeemer which is subordinate unto Gods and consequently distinct from it was appointed to continue no longer than this world when the world to come takes place His Kingdom is to be delivered up and his fidelity to his trust must be accounted for and therefore all the Souls wherewith he was entrusted by the Father are to be presented to him the Father gave them to him and when he hath finished his work upon them he must give them back to the Father Now can we think that a God who is glorious in Holiness will receive us if we are defiled by Sin Will he that loves Righteousness accept of those that are far from Righteousness Will he acquit his Son in the execution of his Office if so great a branch of it is the washing us from our filthiness be neglected and undone Fifthly As Christ is no lodge us in an holy place he must fit us by Holiness to be the Inhabitants One of the ends of his Ascension was thus express't by himself I go to prepare a place for you John 14.2 but the work of Christ would be no more than half done if he did not send his Spirit in his stead to prepare us for that place Our Lord purchast an Inheritance for us by his Death he went to take possession of it for us when he ascended upon high And is it not after all as necessary now that we should be made meet for his Inheritance Colos 1.12 Vessels of Wrath are fitted for destruction before they are punish with it and must not the Vessel of Mercy be prepared unto Glory before they are advanc't to it Rom. 9.22 23. What an Hell would Heaven be to those that rejoyce in Iniquity and have pleasure in unrighteousness What a Prison would Paradise be to those that love to wander What delight could the Old man take in the New Jernsalem The Souls of the Unsanctified are now the Habitation of unclean spirits what agreement therefore can be hereafter between them and the habitation of Gods Holiness How unfit must we be to dwell in the presence of God at last unless we are made living and sacred Temples for God to dwell in here The Holy Ghost hath put this bar upon the Gate of the City Revel 21.27 There shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth Angels were expelled out of it assoon as they sinned can we then suppose that God will take up sinners from hence and admit them into it It is styled Gods holy Heaven Ps 20.6 't is his peculiar Palace and Throne which he will not have stain'd by the approach of any uncleansed Soul The purity of that State does call for answerable purity in us There is a necessity of being undefiled in the way Ps 119.1 if we would be