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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54378	The redemption of mankind, by the passion of our Lord A sermon, preached on Palm-Sunday, at Kintbury, in the county of Berks. By Jos. Perkins, late vicar of Hill, in Gloucester-Shire.	Perkins, Joseph, b. 1658.	1692 (1692)	Wing P1558; ESTC R221441	13,606	33

of God hath fulfilled all Righteousness who had no need to undergo such Service for himself should not the same Righteousness be imputed unto us Where any thing is in the Nature of Duty or Debt it is at the Discretion of him to whom it is due to accept one Man's Performance for the Discharge of the other Therefore Christ's Performance being acted in our Name we are the Subjects and Partakers of Redemption 2. Man invested with the Robes of Righteousness disrobed himself of that Dignity and fell into a Sea of Misery It is a Favour to have a Petition Granted but when we were plunged in our Sins and wretched in our selves when we neither considered nor requested a Mediator God out of meer Mercy sent his only Begotten Son to be a Ransom for many God so loved the World that he hath given his only Begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have Everlasting Life John 3. ver 16. Whatsoever Man had wrought in himself was Evil and deserved eternal Punishment But God had respect unto his own Work unto his Creature unto Man whom he himself had made Man had disfigured himself but God had not forgotten to be Merciful Meliùs judicavit de malis benefacere quàm mala nulla esse permittere He thought it more agreeable to his Nature to pardon Sinners than to suffer no Sin saith St. Augnstin When the Citizens of Laurentum delivered to Romulus the Murtherers of certain Ambassadours he notwithstanding let the Murtherers depart saying That one Murder was requited by another for Tatius was killed for the Death of those Ambassadors Plot in Romulus Our Case is not much unlike the former we might be Indicted for Rebellion against the King of Heaven and Earth But he will not the Death of a Sinner It is sufficient that one even Christ Jesus dyed for our Disobedience For with his Stripes we are Healed Ah Sinful Nation a People laden with Iniquity wicked Seed corrupt Children Isaiah 1. ver 4. All these Appellations agree to us all yet so wide are the Bowels of his Compassion inlarged that he sends a Redeemer to us St. Paul speaks in my Text in the first Person saying We have Redemption We that is the Faithful of the Jews in which Number I rank my self And in the 13. Verse he extends the Benefit to the Gentiles also Intimating that they also after that they had heard the Word of Truth were partakers of that Liberty purchased to the Praise of his Glory We have Redemption i. e. the Faithful God's Elect which are the Members of Christ's Mystical Body The Angels which fell from that pure Estate wherein they were Created could never attain unto it again But such was the rich Favour of God towards Man that he united humane Nature to Christ's Divinity and gave to Men that Dignity to be called his Sons Shall we think that God hath indued Man with so many Excellencies more not only than any but than all the Creatures of the World besides to leave them in such Estate that they had been happyer if they had never been born We have a Righteous Judge and rather than he proceeded in Rigour of Judgment he will provide a Sacrifice for himself to be offered up in our Names and all the Benefit shall redound to us and our Posterity Yet all Men are not Redeemed but some of all sorts Christ dyed sufficiently for all but effectually only for some In his Death he intended a Price of such extent in Value and Worth as should be of Power to save all and therefore should be offer'd indifferently to all But in his eternal Counsel and Love he paid this Price only for them to whom in Love he intends Fruit and Benefit thereby There is a World of Men of whom John 17. ver 9. Christ saith I pray not for the World but for them that thou hast given me out of the World If all Men had the Gifts of Grace and the Merits of Christ's Passion where were God's Justice If no Man had Redemption and Hope of Salvation where were his Mercy Deus in suâ Misericordiâ voluit omnes servare per Potentiam potuit sed non potuit per Justitiam In his Mercy he might save all but in his Justice he could not Neither is God the Cause why any Man doth perish For Christ was a sufficient Sacrifice to save all Men But Death and Destruction came from the Incredulity and Unbelief of Men. As the Sun is in its self sufficient to enlighten all Men yet the Blind for want of Sight cannot enjoy the Use thereof So Christ's Death was a sufficient Ransom for all but the Reprobate for want of Faith cannot apprehend it An easie Condition of so great a Benefit He requires us not to earn Peace but to accept it of him What could he give more What could he require beside of us With Men it is a good Rule to try and then to trust With God it is contrary We must first Trust Him as most Wise Omnipotent Merciful and try Him afterwards Eusebius reports an Answer of Thaddeus one of the 70 Disciples framed to Agbarus the Governour of Edessa in this manner Because thou has greatly Believed in the Lord Jesus which sent me therefore am I sent unto thee But in Case thou believe in him and in his Fathor as yet thy hearty Petitions according to thy Faith thou shalt obtain Agbarus answered I have believed in him and in his Father To whom Thaddeus replyed Therefore in the Name of the Self-same Lord Jesu I lay mine Hand upon thee Which when he had done he forth-with was Cured of his Malady and delivered of the Pain that oppressed him grievously It is Faith that incorporates us into Christ's Body it is Faith whereby we do not believe generally our Salvation which with the Papists is to believe as the Church doth but we believe particularly and apply it to our Selves as St. Paul doth in this Place saying We have Redemption where he brings Redemption home to his own Breast Fides in Dei Christi cognitione non in Ecclesiae reverentiâ jacet Devils know the same things which we believe and the Minds of the most Ungodly may be fully perswaded of the Truth But the things which we believe are by us apprehended not only True but also Good and that unto us As Good they are not by them apprehended as True they are Whereupon it followeth that the Christian Man the more he increaseth in Faith the more his Joy and Comfort aboundeth But they the more sure they are of the Truth the more they quake and tremble at it Let us believe firmly that God is good unto us if God hath promised Eternal Life to those that walk faithfully before him let us believe his word above all times in Immortality he hath established a Dwelling for his Saints Whosoever brings a wavering Heart to God's Promises the Sentence is pronounced against him Because he hath