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A94343	A cluster of Canaans grapes. Being severall experimented truths received through private communion with God by his Spirit, grounded on Scripture, and presented to open view for publique edification. / By Col. Robert Tichbourn. Decemb. 25. 1648. Imprimatur Joseph Caryll.	Tichborne, Robert, Sir, d. 1682.	1649 (1649)	Wing T1148; Thomason E543_5; ESTC R203789	224,783	259

was made under the curse of the law in the 13. verse of Gal. 3. The curse and the worke of the law was not separated to Christ when hee came to satisfie justice no more is it to any soule In the 11. verse is a second position of the Apostle which is also a confirmation of the former The position is this That no man is justified by the law in the sight of God the demonstration of this truth followeth in the end of the same verse and in the 12. verse which shews First that God never intended life by the law Gal. 3.21 If there had been a law which could have given life verily righteousnesse should have been by the law this is plaine it is not Gods meaning that righteousnesse should be by the law because he hath not given such a law out of Christ which is able to give life Ephes 2.8 For by grace yee are saved through faith Ephes 2.8 and that not of your selves it is the gift of God All salvation is of grace wholly out of our selves God had another end in giving the law then that the soules of his people should worke life from it and this end is fuller of glory to his own grace and of safety to our eternall soules namely that sin might become exceeding sinfull and grace to be exceeding riches of grace The Apostle tels us he had not known sinne but by the law and had there been no law there had beene no transgression If no transgression had been nor any sin known then the glory of free grace had not beene lifted up as now it is If the law had not discovered sinne the soule had never known the want nor the worth of a crucified Jesus who is the great gift of the free grace of God and a perfect eternall Redeemer of a poore lost soule Secondly As God never intended life to fallen man by the workes of the law Levit. 18.5 Gen. 2.10 so man can never gaine life by the workes of the law Levit. 18.5 Gen. 2.10 There must be a perfect doing of all the statutes and judgements of the Lord by every soule that meanes to live in them and have life from them It is not a tittle lesse then keeping the whole law which can advantage any soule that seekes life from it So as that soule which in it selfe cannot keepe the whole law shall never gain life by the workes of the law Gal. 2.16 Gal. 2.16 The Apostle there speakes positively twice that no man is justified by the workes of the law and that by the workes of the law no man shall be justified This is such a standing truth that nothing which either is or can be done shall contradict it The second observation is this Observ 2 That the law of works condemns every soule in the first Adam but justifies no soule The law speaks only thus doe and live which to fallen man is nothing but the language of death Rom. 7.8 9. A righteous law to an unrighteous soule gives life to the sinne but death to the soule Observe the Text When the Commandement came sinne revived and I dyed By the command sinne became exceeding sinfull A soule fallen from God can in it selfe make no other use of the knowledge of Gods righteous law but to sinne against it consult the Text in this case But sinne taking occasion by the commandement wrought in me all manner of concupiscense As if he had said When once God discovered his holy law that sinfull nature and unholinesse that is in me made use of it by way of opposition to run into all manner of concupiscence though the law of creation justifies a holy Creator yet it condemnes a fallen unholy creature By the workes of the law shall no man be justified in his sight but that soule which lives upon them shall be accursed and condemned in the want of one tittle there lies a curse a condemnation in the law to fallen man but no possibility of being justified by it in the sight of a holy just God But now that we may not be as soules without hope though he strips us here of all our owne righteousnesse and leaves us by nature under the curse of the law yet in the next verse hee shewes us a perfect redemption from the curse of the law by Christ who was made under the law to beare the curse and to fulfill the law for us And here I shall be a little more large then in what hath gone before for I have found by experience that the more cleare knowledge a soule hath in this point the more is the free grace of God with the comfort and safety of a poore soule advanced In this 13. verse the Apostle layes down a third position namely That every elect soule is redeemed from the curse of the law through or by Christs being made a curse for us Deut. 21.23 The Text speaks plainly thus he that is hanged is accursed it is a paralell place with the end of this 13. verse Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree Thus Christ was made a curse now that Christ was thus made a curse for us for his elect body which was under the law Gal. 4.4 5. looke into that Gal. 4.4 5. where the Text saith That when the fulnesse of time was come God sent his Sonne made of a woman made under the law to redeeme them that were under the law that wee might receive the adoption of sonnes None can doubt but that Christ is here meant by the Sonne of God and then the Text speaks plainly that God in the fulnesse of his owne time sent Christ in the flesh made under the law to redeeme his elect body that were under the workes and the curse of the law and to bring them to receive the adoption of sons and in this worke Christ was made a curse for us The first observation from hence is this That what-ever Christ hath borne for a believer that a believer is fully redeemed from It is the Apostles owne argument in this place for sayes he Christ being made a curse for us wee are thereby redeemed from the curse And the same Apostle in Rom. 8.32 33 34. Rom. 8.32 33 34. hath the same Argument If God delivered Christ up to death to dye for us then we are delivered and Christ having dyed for us who shall lay any thing to our charge It is God that justifies and Christ that dyed Christ had not dyed but that God might justifie Christ had not been made a curse for us but that God in justice might acquit us from the curse So in the two first verses of Rom. 8. There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ And the law of the spirit of life in Christ makes the soul free from the law of sinne and death And in John 8.36 Joh. 8.36 If the Son therefore shall make you free you shall be free indeed This is our Saviours

as our compleatnesse and Satan the accuser of the brethren cast ou● he was made a curse and did bare it and overcame it for us and in it satisfied the holy Law and the just God for us if the remainders of the old Adam strugles and conscience joyne with it to accuse us Christ answers you are not complear in your owne duries but in me I am perfect you can finde no spot nor wrinkle in me and in my perfection lies your compleatnesse So that every believing Saint eyeing his oneness with Christ may triumph as Paul in Rom. 8. latter end Who shall condemne Or what shall separate and conclude as he doth Nothing shall be able to doe it for I am compleat in Christ From all this there runneth great consolation to the children of God Wee have here had a view of that perfection and compleatnesse that God in his free-grace hath given unto us and that the eyes of this pure God will behold us in it to all eternity which is the fulnesse of the God-head dwelling bodily in Christ and we in him he compleat as God we compleate in him justice can lay no more to our charge then to Christ for our compleatnesse of justification is in Christ the wrath of God can as soone rise on Christ as on us for hee is our compleat discharge from wrath having borne the curse for us sinne can no more separate us from God then Christ from God for Christ is our compleat attonement our sinnes being taken from us and laid on Christ Death can no more separate us from God then it hath done Christ he bore all the sting of death for us death is to Saints but a dissolution in the flesh that wee might come home and possesse to eternity that compleatnesse with him What can the soul desire for comfort that lyes not in this Christ is full for us and wee compleat in him If God and Christ be enough for thy soule then satisfie it here here is Gods compleatnesse yea that compleatnesse which is God made our compleatnesse what can our soules judge will be the end of this love Truly it will be love without end that love which hath made us compleate in Christ that love will make us compleate with Christ not only glorious Heires but Heires in glory not only decked as the Kings daughter but lying for ever in the bosome of Christ as his Spouse not only to have visious of the Kingdome but possession of the Kingdome mortality putting on immortality will not be all but there shall be added to it a crown of glory It doth not yet appeare sayes the T●x● what wee shall be but when be appeares we shall appeare like him It will be enough surely to be as Christ is Oh then here let our soules ceter no reaching soul can reach after more then is in Christ he is compleat enough to answer all desires to quiet all spirits to fill all hearts to cloath all naked soules hee is bread and bread enough Let us begge a mature steady eye of faith alwayes to behold Christ the fulnesse of the God-head bodily for us and we compleate in him then may we in life and death lift up our heads with joy unspeakable and full of glory in believing Thus to live will be Christ and to dye will be gaine The soule will quietly waite till God loose the body and rejoyce to be dissolved knowing it shall be with Christ the droppings of Heaven will stay the soule quiet here knowing that the compleatnesse and fulnesse of glory that God and Christ is in shall sw●llow it up to all eternity And thus it is and shall be to be compleat in Christ CHAP. VIII Free-grace in God justifieth and redeemeth through Christ Romans 3. vers 24. Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus THe holy Chost doth confirm and explaine that pofitive truth he layes downe in this verse by some verses going before and after as from the 20. to the 28. In the verse before he tels us all have sinned and come short of the glory of God and therefore stand in need to be justified And in vers 20. he tels us that by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in the sight of God Had the holy Ghost stopped here it had been an addition of misery to a fallen man and the sad cries in the soule of man would have been like those evill spirits to our Saviour that hee was come to torment them before their time But Gods designe is love and the holy Ghost is to proclaime it so that all which goes before is but like the Ministery of John to prepare the way for Christ to breake the clouds that the Sunne of Righteousnesse may appear and that Saints may see by an eye of faith that they are no loosers in that the menstruous ragges of their owne duties should not be a justifying righteousnesse to them in the pure eyes of God but that full justification is given of the free-grace of God through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ In the words is a birth the wombe that gives it forth when it had conceived it and the Midwife from whose hands and sides we receive it and all these infinitly holy and glorious the birth is Justification to a soule that hath sinned and come short of the glory of God the wombe that conceives and brings forth this glorious birth it is the Free-Grace of God and the Midwife from whose hands and sides we receive this is a Christ crucified One observation from these three which is this That all the glorious life of an elect soule delivered from the state of a fallen sinner and made a redeemed Saint is from eternity and to eternity wholely conceived and given forth in and from the wombe of the free-grace of God This is demonstrable under these two heads First in considering a soule under a state of nature Secondly under a state of Grace Or if you will in the first and the second Adam in both which I thinke the exceeding glory of that great wombe the eternall iove and free-grace of God will appeare in taking lost creatures out of the first Adam to make them glorious Saints in the Lord Christ that second Adam I know no other light nor rule but the word and spirit to make out any thing of God to any soule therfore first search the word what light it gives us to discerne our state by nature or the naturall condition of fallen men and women To take this in the beginning of holy writ let us turne to Gen. 3.6 7 8 9 10. Here we finde the fall of our first Parents in which we all fell and the effects of this fall in them They fel by difobeying God in eating the forbidden fruit but then obferve the effects of this fall when they knew their nakednesse the only reliefe they sought was aprones of fig-leaves or as it is

not able to act the new creature without Christ no more is it able to conceale the new creature now Christ is borne in me I am now led by the Spirit and I walke in the Spirit and the fruits of the Spirit is love joy peace c. And such are they that are in Christ for they have crucified the flesh with the lusts thereof That is Christ in them hath crucified the flesh and they are dead to it so that their life is in the spirit and they both live and walk in the spirit because Christ lives in them and they live and act meerly from Christ Saints in Christ are branches in the Vine And if Christ be the root then holinesse will be the fruit for no other fruit can grow from that roote The demonstration of this truth may be found in the particulars following the first demonstration is this That it is Gods designe from eternity that such as are united to Christ should be made new creatures in Christ that Christ should worke holinesse in Saints and that Saints should worke holily as created unto holinesse in Christ For proofe to this take that full place of Scripture in Ephe. 2.10 For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good workes which God hath before ordained that we should walke in them In the foregoing verses he tells us that we are saved meerly of grace and though God makes faith the hand to lay hold upon this free-grace of his in Christ yet that faith is the free gift of God as well as Christ which faith layes hold on so wrappes up all salvation in free-grace and in verse 9. excludes workes wholely upon that account But now least the wicked naturall heart of man should conclude thus my salvation is onely upon free-grace good workes addes nothing to it therefore as my salvation is left to Christ so my conversation is left to my self If I beleeve in Christ for to be saved I may live as I list I say to answer this in full arguing of our naturall hearts the Holy Ghost tells us that though holinesse and good workes are not under the account of jstuification yet that the conversation of Saints in truth is as purely out of their owne hands as their just fication is for saith the Text Wee are his workmanship that is Gods created in Christ Jesus unto good workes which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them The holy Ghost speakes methinkes very fully to this truth in this place that it is ordained and decreed by God from all eternity that such as are saved by Christ should be sanctified in Christ as it was the designe of God from all eternity to save soules meerly of his grace through Christ so is it the same designe of God to sanctifie every soul whom he saves through Christ now this is the decree of God that if any man be in Christ and Christ be his justification that Christ shall be in him and his sanctification so that if any man be in Christ he is a new creature for the one is as fully the design desire of the free grace of God as the other holiness it is the worke of God committed as I may say to the hands of Christ The same Apostle tels us That Christ is made to us of God wisdome righteousnesse sanctification redemption And God carries on this decree of his when he calls a soule to lye in his bosome and to have communion with himselfe through the Lord Christ The Apostle makes it an argument in 1 Thes 4.7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanenesse but unto holinesse His businesse in the fore-going verses is to exhort them to holinesse and to avoid the lusts and concupiscence of the Gentiles which saith he knew not God and makes this the argument to his exhortation for God hath called us to holinesse God hath united us to Christ and in that union he hath decreed that we shall be sanctified as well as saved so that to me this is a full demonstration that if any man be truly in Christ he is a new creature for this is the decree of God from all eternity and shall abide to all eternity A second demonstration of this truth may be this That the teachings of Christ in those that are truly taught by him is to put off the olde man which is corrupt according to the deceitfull lusts of the flesh and to put on the new man which is to be renewed in the spirit of their minds after the image of God in righteousnesse and true holinesse The proofe of this doth appeare in Ephes 4.20 21 22 23 24. But you have not so learned Christ If so be that you have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus That yee put off concerning the former conversation the olde man which is corrupt according to the deceitfull lusts of the flesh and be renewed in the spirit of your minds and that you put on the new man which after God is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse By this Scripture it appeares that such soules as have learned Christ and truths as they are in Jesus they are thereby renewed in the spirit of their mindes so as that the olde man which is after the flesh is put off and the new man put on which is after God created in righteousnesse and true holinesse Christ teacheth with power and his teachings make a change from flesh to spirit and from the carnall conversation of the old man to the image of God in the Spirit according to righteousnesse and holinesse Christ he renewes the mind and the conversation when hee teacheth his teachings reacheth the internals the roote receives life from him so that the fruit is the image of God in righteousnesse and true holinesse not a bare form all professed holinesse but a true holinesse that is holinesse in truth which is in Christ the truth it selfe so that the demonstration is full Christ and the new creature alwayes goe together but as if the Apostle had said there may be many formall carnall wretches that may professe Christ and lay claime to him but this is a standing truth they have not been taught truths as they are in Jesus and for their formality and carnality they have that from the old man what ever they professe of Christ for sure I am they have not so learned Christ his teachings are spirituall and his renewings are in the minde which makes the image of God in righteousnesse and true holinesse in the conversation not only a naked professed holinesse for if Christ then the new creature A third Demonstration may be this That God is light and in him is no darkenesse so that whoever hath fellowship with God and Christ walketh in the light as God is light for proof of this take a Scripture or two 1 John 1.5 6. This is the message which we have heard of him and declare unto you