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A60234 Freedom from fear of death, through the death of Christ a sermon preached at Guild-Hall-Chappel, on Good-Friday, A.D. 1681 / by William Sill ... Sill, William, d. 1687. 1681 (1681) Wing S3787; ESTC R12824 20,138 46

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what his undertaking the Office of Mediator did teach us to expect might fully answer our Wants and our Expectation from it All the promises of God are in Christ Yea 2 Cor. 1.20 and in him Amen Every Declaration of the Favour and Love of God the Father to us is to have its Completion through Christ in whom as his beloved Son Mat. 3.17 he is well pleased and in whom alone he is Propitious to us Luk. 2.14 And this Declaration of Peace on Earth and Good will towards Men is so surely Founded and firmly Ratified in Christ that we are taught to ground our Expectation of it upon the Faithfulness of God In so much that in the general every Act of a truly Christian and lively Faith by which we receive the Testimony of Christ is a setting to our Seal that God is true Joh. 3.33 and in particular If we confess our sins which will contain our Acknowledgment of Guilt and Obnoxiousness to Divine Wrath and our looking upon Christ as the Propitiation for our Sins together with that true Repentance and sincere Affection of the Heart which this Confession as being made not to Man but to God doth require we are then taught to look upon God as one that is faithful and just to forgive us our sins 1 Joh. 1.9 and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness But now As all this declares the Faithfulness of God and the Excellency of Faith which not only ascribes the greatest Honour to God but receives that Honour from God as to have no less Evidence of its Certainty than there is of the Unchangeableness of God himself seeing that it is impossible but that God should Accept what he hath freely declared that he will accept on our behalf from him whom he hath appointed the Mediator between himself and us So all this doth suppose that this Mediator doth faithfully perform what as such he undertakes to perform in order that it may be Accepted of by God And therefore seeing that the Holy Spirit of God in Scripture hath declared Rom. 3.25 26. That God hath set forth Christ to be a Propitiation through Faith in his Blood to declare his Righteousness for the Remission of sins that are past through the Forbearance of God That he might be just and the justifier of him that Believeth in jesus It becomes necessary according to this wise Appointment of God and the agreement between Himself and the one Mediator between God and Men that this Mediator should be made like unto us and in this likeness that is in our nature suffer for our sins That he might be a faithful High Priest that he might in truth and reality and in the rigor of Justice perform all in things pertaining to God which was thus necessary to make reconciliation for the sins of the People Even all that as our High Priest he had undertaken to perform for our Perfect and Full Reconciliation and without which God was not obliged by any thing that he had freely Promised to Accept of his Offering in our stead For from what hath been said and from the farther evidence of that Place with which I will shut up this point It pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell Col. 1.19 20. and having made peace through the blood of his Cross by him to reconcile all things to himself it is put beyond all doubt that the Fathers Reconciling all things to Himself by the Son was no otherwise in the purpose and decree of God practicable but by the Peace which Christ made by the Blood of his Cross In all this we may discern much though we cannot reach to the whole of that astonishing Wisdom and Goodness which is in the Scripture set forth to us in that the eternal Son of God took upon him our nature that in that Nature he might by Death deliver us from that Bondage to which we were subject through Fear of Death from which we have the greater security because though it could be performed in his humane nature only yet the Dignity of his Person added an inestimable value to his sufferings It was the Eternal Son of God Bp. Pearson on the Creed p. 186. Gal. 4.4 Joh. 1.14 Act. 3.15 very God of very God who when the fulness of time was come was made of a Woman was made under the Law It was the Word which was made Flesh and dwelt among us It was the Prince of Life the Lord of Glory 1 Cor. 2.8 who suffered in humane nature which he Assumed into the Unity of his Person being put to death in that Flesh Rom. 1.3 4. according to which he was made of the Seed of David but as considered in an inseparable Conjunction with that Spirit of Holiness according to which he was declared to be the Son of God with Power by the Resurrection from the dead And now Psal 116.12 what shall we render unto the Lord for all his Benefits towards us What is Man O merciful God and gracious Redeemer that thou should'st thus magnifie him and that thou should'st set thine heart upon him Job 7.17 How should this give us such a deep sense of the great things of our Religion as may quicken and encrease in us all requisite Graces as may shew us our Misery by nature and lay more closely before us the Hope of Righteousness by Faith Gal. 5.5 which through the Spirit we wait for How should this encrease our Humility our hatred of Sin our Gratitude and an unfeigned Resolution of the most universal Obedience that we can possibly yield to the Faith and to the Truth and to the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ Who besides all the other Obligations he hath laid upon us to obey him doth now more especially call upon us not only to consider that Victory which through him we have over Death Sin and the condemning Power of the Law but also to consider him as the Captain of our Salvation giving us a signal instance by those sufferings he did voluntarily undergo of that Obedience in which we must always be ready to imitate him whatever the Tryals of it may be that our Heavenly Father may think good to call us to and that indispensably if we expect any benefit by what he hath done and suffered For so the Apostle tells us Heb. 5.8 9. That though he were a Son yet learned he Obedience by the things which he suffered And being made perfect he became the Author of eternal Salvation unto all them that obey him Which Obedience that we may ever judge our selves infinitely obliged to pay and be heartily willing to pay it to the utmost let us ever have in our thoughts what he hath suffered for us and that our sins were the Cause of all the Meritorious cause of his Sufferings and that which gave the sharpness to them but especially let us be mindful of that incomparable Love which this proceeded from That so from the pleasing force of its constraint as by a compendious way and yet no less expressive of all those Bonds of duty which the Mercy we this day commemorate doth lay upon us not permitting any Circumstance of it to want its due moments of weight we may as from the joynt sense of all be prevailed with to live as those that expect that Deliverance which our most compassionate Saviour hath by his own Death obtained for us That we may live in all Holiness of life and die with comfort Looking for that blessed Hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ Who gave himself for us that he might Redeem us from all Iniquity and Purifie unto himself a peculiar People Zealous of good Works Tit. 2.13 14. To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be ascribed as is most due All Praise Honour and Glory henceforth and for ever Amen FINIS