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A50394 Love to the life, or, Some meditations upon loving, and washing in the blood of Christ together, with a tast of gospel-promises, as the churches stock, or, believers patrimony. By R.M. the Benjamin of his Fathers house. Mayhew, R. (Richard) 1674 (1674) Wing M1440; ESTC R217769 43,513 159

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inquiry after these six things What these Gospel-Believers are Method 1. that have a Gospel-right to promises What these promises are unto which Gospel-Believers have a Gospel-right Whether Gospel Believers have a Gospel-right to Gospel-promises How Gospel-Believers have a Gospel-right to Gospel-promises Why Gospel-Believers have a Gospel-right to Gospel-promises What use may be made of this That Gospel-Believers have a Gospel-right to Gospel-promises What these Gospel-Believers are that have a Gospel-right to promises I would hope to arrive thee at a Discovery of a Gospel-Believer under a Discussion of a Gospel-Faith There is the Habit of Faith and the Act of Faith There 's the Habit of Faith There 's the Seed of Faith or Faith in the Seed The Heart that 's the Soil and Grace that 's the Seed Being born again 1 Petr. 1.23 not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible Grace is the Seed Faith is a Grace if no thee Grace for 't is the leading Grace the Grace that lead the Van of all other Graces Grace is the Seed and this is incorruptible As there is no Grace in Sin so there is no Sin in Grace There 's the Act of Faith As there is the Habit of Faith so there is the Act of Faith Gal. 5.6 As there is the work of Faith so there is a working-Faith But Faith which worketh by Love But what manner of Faith Question is this Faith 'T is a Faith that hath Christ for Object Solut. 1 That He might be just Rom 3.26 and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus This Faith hath Christ but not the lying vision of the heart for its Object 'T is a Faith of the Operation of God Faith is a work but 't is Gods work Col. 2.12 'T is expresly called a Faith of the Operation of God As Faith is Gods will so 't is Gods work 'T is a Faith that 's wrought not only by the power of God but by the exceeding greatness of Gods power And what is the super-eminent magnitude of his power to us-ward Eph. 1.19 20. who believe according to the working of the might of his power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead There is concerned in the working of Faith a power aequivalent unto and aequipollent with that power which gave a Resurrection to Christ Jesus 'T is a Faith that hath a Train of good works Jam. 2 18. Shew me thy Faith without thy works and I will shew thee my Faith by my works By works I mean works from a right Principle to right Ends that is works from a gracious Principle to a gracious end works from a Principle of the Grace of God to a promotion of the Glory of God Now though such works are not Essential unto Faith yet they are Evidential unto Faith though they are not the Essence of a lively Faith yet they are the Evidence that Faith lives Jam. 2.26 For as the Body without the Spirit is dead so Faith without works is dead also This is a Gospel-Faith and he or she that hath this Faith is a Gospel-Believer What these promises are unto which Gospel-Believers have a Gospel right Promises they say are Absolute or Conditional Absolute promises are Spiritual Absolute and Caelestial As Grace and Glory Redemption and Remission Sanctification and Salvation Conditional promises are temporal Conditional and corporal As Health and Honour Prosperity and Plenty Seed and Substance c. But in short there 's a three fold promise Civil Religious and Divine Civil This is a word passed from Man to Man Civil A Civil promise is a word passed from Man to Man for the performance of some lawful thing as in Contracts and in other affairs Thus Laban made promise to Jacob to give him his Daughters Thus Saul made promise to David not to hurt him and hunt his Soul to take it Thus also Jonathan made promise to David 1 Sam. 19.1 2 3. Religious This is a word passed from Man to God Religious A religious promise is a word passed from Man to God concerning some Duty relating to his Honour This is called a Vow If a Woman also vow a vow unto the Lord. Thus the Psalmist Psa 66.13 14. I will go into thy house with burnt-offerings I will pay thee my vows Which my lips have uttered and my mouth hath spoken when I was in trouble Divine This is a word passed from God to Man Divine A divine promise is a word passed from God to Man concerning the fulfilling of some Good or removing of some Evil Spiritual Psa 119.38 49 50. or Temporal Stablish thy word unto thy Servant who is devoted to thy Fear Remember thy word unto thy Servant upon which thou hast caused me to hope This is my comfort in my affliction for thy word hath quickened me Now Gods promises are Legal or Evangelical Legal Do this and live Thus God passed his word Legal to give eternal life and Creature-Comforts upon condition of performing the Law Honour thy Father and thy Mother which is the first Commandement with promise But these are not the promises Eph. 6.2 spoken off in the Text To Abraham and his Seed were the promises made Evangelical Thus when God passeth his word freely to give Evangelical freely to give Christ and together with Christ all things freely to give Whereby are given unto us but what promises yea precious promises yea great 2 Pet. 1.4 and precious promises yea exceeding great and precious promises Now these are they they are Gospel-promises unto which Gospel-Believers have a Gospel-Right Of these my Text speak To Abraham and his Seed were the promises m●de Whether Gospel-Believers have a Gospel Right to Gospel-promises It were no hard Task to produce a cloud of witnesses But in the mouth of two or three shall every word be established Gal. 3.22 For instance The Scripture hath concluded all under sin that the promise by the Faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe Gal. 3.29 If ye be Christs then are ye Abrahams seed and heirs according to the promise Now Gal. 4.28 we Brothren as Isaac was are the Children of promise How Gospel-Believers have a Gospel-Right to Gospel-promises Through Grace Free-Grace gives a right to the promise Through Grace Promises are Donatives they are free gifts Gal. 3.18 If the Inheritance be of the Law then 't is no more by promise but God gave it to Abraham by promise Here the Inheritance is given that is under promise and the promise is given under which the inheritance is God gave it to Abraeham by promise Through Christ Christ is he first and great Heir Through Christ he is Heir of all things and through ●im Believers inherit the pronise 'T is the Prince of life ●hat gives a propriety in the promise of life For this cause Heb. 9.15 ●e is the Mediatour of
regenerate and renew As to pardon so to purifie As to deliver from the Guilt so from the Filth of Sin Thus Tit. 3.5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of Regeneration and renewing of the holy Spirit But both these justifying and Sanctifying you have connected and connexed 1 Cor. 6.11 And such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God Now thus if I mistake not you are to understand it in the Text who washed us that is who justified us from the Guilt and sanctified us from the Filth of our Sins in his own Blood And washed us from our Sins in his own Blood What this Sin is that is washed from in Christs own Blood Sin in the Nature and Motion of it is a Transgression of the Law Sin supposeth a Law in being Rom. 4.15 For where there is no Law there is no Transgression But where there is Sin there is a Law and a Transgression of that Law 1 Jo. 3.4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth the Law for sin is a Transgression of the Law Yea Sin is not only the Transgression of a Law but of a good Law Rom. 7.12 For the Law is holy and the Commandement holy and just and good Yea the Transgression not only of a good Law but of Gods Law Psa 89.30 31. If his Children forsake my Law and walk not in my Commandements If they break my Statutes and keep not my Commandements Now the Law not only forbids the doing of evil whether in thought word or deed but also commands the doing of Good so that to omit the Good commanded as well as to commit the Sin forbidden is Sin whatever therefore doth transgress the Law of God in whole or in part is Sin whether it break an Affirmative or a Negative precept that is whether it be the Omission of Good or the Commission of Evil. From this all this Christs blood washeth And washed us from our Sins in his own Blood Whether Christ washeth from Sin in his own Blood As it is true none in Heaven nor on Earth nor under the Earth could open the Book and unloose the seven Seals thereof it is as true none in Heaven nor on Earth nor under the Earth can justify a guilty Soul and sanctifie a filthy Soul but Christ unto this my text speaks Who loved us and washed us from our Sins in his own Blood Eze. 16.9 Then washed I thee with water yea I throughly washed away thy Blood from thee thy Bloods from thee according to the Margent Then when when I passed by thee Eze. 16 6. When I passed by thee and saw thee polluted or troden under foot in thine own Blood I said unto thee Live Yea when thou wast in thy blood I said unto thee Live But what I is this This Jehovah God Thus saith Jehovah Eze. 16.3 God unto Jerusalem c. Now this Je●ovah is God or Christ for the Son hath the same name with the Father Jer. 23.6 This is the name whereby he shall be called Jehovah our Righteousness 'T is Christ that washeth Eze. 36.25 26 27. I will sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness and from all your Idols will I cleanse you A new heart will I give you and a new Spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my Statutes and ye shall keep my Judgements and do them But in short If to wash be to justifie then Souls are washed in Christs own Blood Rom. 3.24 Being justified freely by his grace but how through the Redemption that is in Christ Jesus And if to wash be to sanctifie then Souls are washed in Christs own Blood H●b 13.12 Christ that he might sanctifie the People with his own blood suffered without the Gate How Christ washeth from Sin in his own Blood Christ washeth three wayes by his Word by his Spirit and by his Blood By his Word Christ hath appointed and approved his word as a means leading unto this end Jo. 17.17 Sanctifie them through thy Truth thy word is Truth As to wash is to justifie so to sanctifie Now though the word can do nothing without Christ no more then the Instrument can without the hand yet this Instrument together with the hand can justifie a condemned Creature and sanctifie a cont●minated Creature By his Spirit The word that 's as the wax the Spirit that 's as the Seal upon that wax The Spirit indeed is the principal verb in the Sentence Sanctification properly is the work of the Spirit For as it is the proper work of the F●ther to elect and of the Son to redeem so of the Spirit to sanctifie those Elected and Redeemed 'T is therefore called the Sanctification of the Spirit Ye are chosen unto Salvation 2 Thess 2.13 through Sanctification of the Spirit By his Blood As Christ washeth through his Word and through his Spirit so through his Blood But how may Christ be said Question to wash from Sin in his own Blood There is a virtual Solut. and an actual washing in Christs blood That is there is a Satis●action given to God for Man and a sanctification wrought in Man Virtual There is a satisfaction given to God Beloved There is the Active and Passive Obedience of Christ concerning his Active himself speaks I have finished the work Jo. 17.4 which thou gavest me to do Concerning his Passive himself also speaks It is finished Jo. 19.30 Here was the Cross and Crucifixtion of Christ as the Complement of All. These two his Active and Passive Obedience were jointly and equally concerned in giving Satisfaction to infinite Justice Now concerning these two his Action and Passion if I mistake not God saith Mat. 3.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased Or according to the Greek in whom I acquiesce God did acquiesce in him as Son as Mediator of the promise as one that did and dyed and so satisfied Christ himself did not only arrive at a Satisfaction by his Action and Passion but if I may speak it without Levity and with a holy Reverence arrived God at a Satisfaction by his Doing and Dying and that for All for whom he gave himself and unto whom he hath given and shall give himself Both which I think are legible in that o● the Prophet Isa 53.11 He shall see of th● Travel of his Soul and be ●atisfied by his knowledge shall m● righteous Servant justifie many for he shall bear their Iniquities Actual There is a Sanctification wrought in Man A there is a Satisfaction give