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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44575	A discourse concerning the imputation of Christ's righteousness to us, and our sins to him with many useful questions thereunto pertaining, resolved : together with reflections more at large upon what hath been published concerning that subject by Mr. Robert Ferguson in his Interest of reason in religion, and by Dr. John Owen in his book styled, Communion with God / by Thomas Hotchkis ...	Hotchkis, Thomas.	1675 (1675)	Wing H2890; ESTC R4137	132,797	236

refused commuting with them but would have given them the benefit of his Righteousness in exchange for their parting with their own unrighteousness And because as our Saviour speaking concerning the worshipping of God in Spirit and in truth says The Father seeketh such to worship him so Christ himself seeketh such Chapmen as will forsake all their sinful ways that so they may win him and the benefit of his Righteousness I will therefore speak a few words whereby to drive the bargain betwixt the Saviour and the sinner to which end my advice to every sinner is as followeth 1. If ever you mean to drive a saving bargain with Christ or by bartering with him gain the benefit of his Righteousness you must know the market-rate or to speak in the language of Scripture Luke 14.28 You must sit down and count the cost And in the name of the living God I beseech you to take heed of thinking That it is enough for you to lay down your sins at the cross of Christ upon his shoulders or to give up your sins to Christ in the guilt of them which some use to call An applying of Christ to our selves For if this be all I may well say in allusion to those words of our Saviour Mat. 5.47 What do you more than others more than those others who said Lord Lord. 2. You must rightly understand what are the commodities that Jesus Christ doth offer or expose and withal the true value and worth of them they being the fruits of his Righteousness Remission of sin Reconciliation with God Redemption Justification unto life Everlasting salvation It is the office of Gods Ministers faithfully to acquaint sinners that although Christ hath done his work in bearing the burden of their iniquities in the punishment thereof nevertheless there is a certain burden or yoke of duty to which every sinner is to submit his neck and shoulders that would have the benefit of Christs sufferings actually confer'd upon him which yoke and burden for our comfort our Saviour assures us is easie and light 3. You must after a due deliberation and count of the cost come to a fixed resolution to come up to the market-price and to bid no less than Christ doth demand For if we mean to barter with him we must not think to bring him down to our terms the wearing of his Livery professing his name doing some more cheap easie external duties but we must come up to his terms i.e. we must deny our selves take up our cross and follow him as he hath from the beginning told us Mat. 16.24 For though we may cozen or cheat our selves yet Christ will neither cozen us nor would he that we should be cozened by our selves or by any others 4. Let no man deceive you with vain words as if the doing according to the foresaid Resolution were a bartering with your selves and not with Christ or a taking of the work out of Christs hand and ascribing it to your own faithful performances For this is but to do our own work under Christ and by his helping grace this is to be workers together with God this is under Christ to do our own part for the saving of our selves which every sinner must do who expects to be saved through Christ Acts 2.40 1 Tim. 4.16 'T is true as the Doctor says That the work which Christ came to do in the world was to bear our iniquities and to lay down his life a ransom for our sins but withal it concerns us all to remember that we have a work or works to do that the benefit of that his ransom and sufferings may be ours whereupon as to us they may not at last prove in vain and we reproached as those who have rejected or frustrated the counsel of God against our selves Luk. 7.30 Our only work is not to give up our sins to Christ to lay them upon his shoulders or to believe that he hath born them We can never barter or commute with Christ meerly upon such terms Nor let us regard such vain words as are here suggested by the Doctor as if repenting for our sins and doing our duty that we may be saved by Christ were in effect to say Our repentance our duties shall bear our iniquities The truth is in these four things 1. Whether we repent or not repent whether we do or not do our duty most undoubtedly Christ hath born our iniquities 2. If Christ had not born our iniquities although we had done our duty in repenting our repentance would have been to no saving purpose for we must still our selves have born our iniquities notwithstanding 3. Though Christ hath born our iniquities nevertheless repentance for sin and converting therefrom to God in Christ are our duties and duties of such indispensable necessity that unless we do repent and be converted we our selves must bear our iniquities in the eternal punishment thereof 4. To repent and to do our duty that we may not our selves in this sort bear our iniquities is not in any rational construction to say as the Doctor it seems doth interpret it That our repentance and duties shall bear our iniquities I have been the more copious in answer to the said passages of the Doctor that I might preserve or rescue the souls of men from being ensnared thereby And although I expect no thanks for my pains from many but contempt and derision rather nevertheless forasmuch as I look upon the said passages as dangerous gins and snares suited in their own nature to entangle sinners instead of tending to their edification in ought that is good I shall not repent of this my work and labour of love I will now proceed to the proposal of such useful Questions as in the beginning of this Chapter I intimated should be the subject of several the Chapters following CHAP. XIX In what sence may it be truly said That we are interessed in Christs Merit or Satisfaction In answer hereunto it is said That three things may possibly be meant by the Merit or Satisfaction of Christ which being distinctly specified the Question is accordingly determined FOrasmuch as such sayings as these are ordinarily heard from the mouthes and to be seen in the printed Sermons of many popular Preachers Believers are interessed in the Merits of Christ They may lay claim to his Merits Christs Satisfaction is theirs They may challenge it as their own and forasmuch as such sayings are by the common sort of Hearers and Readers not to mention any the Authors accustomed to such words either not at all understood or mis-understood and indeed forasmuch as such sayings do need a due explication as well therefore to promote the truth as to prevent error in the minds of people by their mis-conceptions I will propose and answer the following Question Quest In what sence may it be truly said That we are interessed in Christs merit and satisfaction or That we may challenge and lay claim thereunto as Ours Answ Although