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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57159	A sermon preached before the King upon the twenty eighth of March, 1669 by Edward Lord Bishop of Norwich.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1669 (1669)	Wing R1284; ESTC R36786	19,736	44

investigation is far below Angelical Learning But the Mysteries of the Gospel are so great that the glorious Angels gaze upon them with wonder and adoration These things saith the Apostle the Angels desire to look into 1 Pet. 1.12 alluding to the Cherubims with their faces on the Mercy-seat Exod 25.20 To principalities and powers is made known by the Church the manifold wisdom of God Eph. 3.10 This is one Branch of the Mystery of Godliness That Christ is seen of Angels 1 Tim. 3.16 This is one great business of the Angels about the Throne to ascribe power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing to the Lamb that was slain Revel 5.11 12. Again the highest natural knowledge in the world is no way Beatifical A man may as to all such learning be the greatest Scholar living and yet perish But the right knowledge of Christ by the Gospel will justifie and save those that have it By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justifie many Isa 53.11 It is a knowledge which makes perfect Till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man Eph. 4.13 2. The noblest Moral Attainments which men can arrive at by the utmost improvement of natural Reason alone of the most generous Principles of the precepts of the best Philosophers of the examples of the most eminent Heroes will none of it suffice to bring a man to Blessedness The Apostle would not have concluded better things then these to be but loss and dung if he might have been saved by them But there is no other name under heaven whereby salvation is to be had but by the Name of Christ Act. 4.12 Thus the supereminent excellencie of the Gospel of Christ doth appear by comparing it with all other excellent things the excellency of created innocency the excellency of the Law whether Moral or Ceremonial and the excellency of the highest Rational or Moral accomplishments We shall next demonstrate the excellency of the Gospel by considering it Absolutely in it self And here let us first take a view of the supernaturalness sublimity of it It is every where in Scripture called a Mystery the Mystery of Christ the Mystery of the Kingdom a great Mystery of Godliness which signifieth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as St. Chrysostom speaks some wonderful and unknown thing The Apostle calleth it Hidden wisdom the deep things of God beyond the discovery of the noblest created Reason in the world That two natures should be in one Person that God himself should take flesh that a pure Virgin should be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Mother of God as the Council of Ephesus stileth her that he who blesseth all should be made a curse himself who is Lord over all should become a servant himself that the Prince of life should dye and the Lord of Glory be put to shame that the sin should be punished and the sinner pardoned that the Son of David should be the Lord of David and the Son of Mary the Saviour of Mary and he who made the world be born into the World four thousand years after the world was made these were Mysteries shut up in the bosome of God undiscoverable by any created wisdom till he himself was pleased to reveal them Again let us here consider the sanctity of the Gospel as a great Mystery of Godliness The whole design and contrivance thereof being 1. To set forth the glorious righteousness of an holy God that neither his verity nor sanctity might be impaired by his clemency and mercy unto sinners For though he spared them that he might in them shew the riches of his Grace yet he spared not his Son but delivered him up for us all that in him he might declare his righteousness Rom. 3.25 2. Another design of the Gospel was to restore lapsed man unto that primitive holiness wherein he had been created Col. 3.10 for the grace of God which bringeth salvation doth also teach us to deny ungodliness and wordly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Christ gave himself for us that he might redeem us from iniquity Tit. 2.11 14. and from our former vain conversation 1 Pet. 1.18 And this the Gospel doth not onely by the precepts thereof as a Rule of holiness but by the grace thereof as a Principle of holiness helping us to do what we are commanded Efficit Fides quod lex jubet Lex imperat fides impetrat saith St. Austin The Law onely commands but faith obtains help to do what is commanded The Law was given to demonstrate our impotencie but Grace was given to heal and to remove it Again here offereth it self to our view the admirable contexture of justice and mercy the unspeakable contrivance of Redemption and salvation by the Gospel There seemeth to be a kinde of conflict between the Attributes of God as St. Bernard hath observed Iustice and Truth resolved to punish sin Moray and Grace resolved to save sinners No created wisdom could have found out a way to effect this so to sever the sin from the sinner that Iustice might satisfie it self upon the one and Mercy magnifie it self upon the other This could not be done but by such a Mediator and Surety as might be both able and willing to suffer the wrath of God and having so done victoriously to rise up and triumph over Hell and Death All this is sound in the Lord Iesus In him man suffer'd In him God conquered His sufferings valid for satisfaction of Justice and impetration of favour and by the infinite dignitie of his Person made applicable to the persons of all that should believe· Grace given unto them that they may believe and consent to their own Salvation And thus all parties are satisfied and all willing· God satisfied by the obedience of his Son This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased Christ satisfied with the salvation of his body He shall see the travel of his soul and shall be satisfied Believers satisfied with their pardon and inheritance When I awake I shall be satisfied with thine Image God willing to pardon sinners Christ willing to Redeem sinners and sinners made willing by the Spirit of the Father and the Son to enjoy the benefit of so great a redemption and to obey the precepts of so holy a Gospel And thus Mercy and Truth are met together Righteoutness and peace have kissed each other All the Religions that ever were in the world could never shew so glorious a temperament of exquisite Iustice of most gratuitous Mercy of unsearchable wisdom as is revealed in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 4. Let us consider the necessity of the Gospel by the Grace and Righteousness whereof alone we are saved through faith in Christ Eph. 2.8 A thing may be necessary to an end 1. By way of a Temporary mutable sanction So