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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02460	A sermon preached at Nevvport-Paignell in the Countie of Buckingham. By R.H.	Hacket, Roger, 1559-1621.	1628 (1628)	STC 12590; ESTC S119751	27,838	60

he might haue a nature wherein he might suffer and might satisfie Gods iustice for the sinne of man in the nature of man that he might make vs of the sonnes of men the sonnes of God it was most expedient that our Sauiour should be man Thus haue you heard of the mediator that is betwixt God and man the man Christ Iesus now are we to harken of the meanes by which this Christ recōcileth vs vnto God his father which is first in that he which knew no sinne was made sinne for vs secondly in that wee which knew no righteousnesse were made the righteousnes of God in him In that our Sauiour is saide to know no sinne his meaning is not that sinne is to him a matter strange a thing which he did neuer know for he taketh knowledge of sinne else how should he reproue the world because of sin how should he be the iudge of the world to giue to euery one according to his works But as it is saide of the virgin Mary which knew man and did conuerse and liue amongst them that yet notwithstanding shee knew no man that is after a carnall fleshly manner like as Adam is said to know Eue and Elkanah Hanna which was his wife In like sort it is said of our Sauiour that although he toke notice of sin did reproue it yet he knew no sinne as other men by louing and liking of it by being many waies polluted and defiled with it And therfore he saith vnto the Iewes which of you can reproue me of sinne nay although the prince of the world which is the diuel come euen to winnow and sifte our Sauiour yet he can find nothing in him for as the author speaketh to the Hebrewes he is holy harmeles vndefiled seperate frō sinners and made higher that is purer then the heauens And in deed how should he holy others which is vnholy in himselfe sanctifie other when himselfe needeth to be sanctified he needed not to be sanctified but for vs therefore that we might be holy euen as he also is holy he holied and sanctified himselfe Yea that he might purge our consciences frō dead works through the eternall spirit he offered himselfe without spot vnto God his father Thus he knew no sinne neither was there guile found in his mouth thus neither could the Iewes reproue him of sin neither the prince of the world finde sinne in him thus was he pure holy vndefiled separate from sinners and without spot And in truth so it behoued him for to be that so he might be made a sacrifice for sinne that is as the Apostle here speaketh sinne for vs. For as in the old law it behoued that the sacrifices for sinne should be most pure without spot and blemish so it behoued that he which gaue himselfe a sacrifice for our sinnes should be also without spot or blemish and as in the old law the sacrifices for sinne were called sin not because in their natures so they were but because they had sinne imputed to them euen so our Sauiour here is made sin not because he hath cōmitted sinne or sinne was inherent in him as in vs but because he was made not of man but of God a sacrifice for our sinnes which were imputed vnto him And therfore Austin when Christ was no sinner hee made him sinne for vs read the place diligently saith that father and least happily thy booke be corrupted or thy Latine interpreter haue erred looke in the Greeke and thou shalt finde not Christ to haue committed sinne but to be made sinne of God the father for vs that is a sacrifice for our sinne and a litle after for thou shalt find in the bookes of the olde testament the sacrifices for sinne to be called 〈◊〉 In this sence the calfe which was to be offered at the consecrating of a priest is in the English called a sinne offering but in the originall a sinne in like sorte if any of the people had wittingly sinned then he was to offer an hee Goate if by ignorance a she Goate and the partie that had sinned was to lay his hands vpon the head of the sinne offering to slay the sinne offering before the Lorde and the reason is added because it was a sinne offering In like manner the hee Goate in sundry places of the seuēth chapter of the booke of Numbers is called in our vulgar translation a sinne offering but in the originall sinne Now then if the sacrifices in the old law were called sinnes when yet in their nature they were not sinnes but sacrifices onely for sinne in like sorte may Iesu Christ the onely vnspotted and immaculate lambe of God in whom all the sacrifices in the law were but figures and in whom they had their end and accomplishmēt like as they were called also sinne especially when he is the onely sacrifice auailable for to put away sinne their was no power in al the sacrifices of the law to do away sinne but onely in this that they had respect and reuerence vnto him Thus then you see how that Iesus Christ which knew no sinne but was most pure and most holy and in all partes obedient to his fathers will is yet notwithstanding made sinne that is a sacrifice for sinne And in this that he which knew no sinne is yet notwithstanding made a sacrifice for sinne apparent it is that he was not made a sacrifice for the sinne of himselfe for he knew no sinne but was most innocent and free from blame but he was made a sacrifice for the sins of other and had not onely their sinnes imputed to him but bore the punishment of them in his most blessed soule and body From hence beginneth euery Christian to comfort himself in the mercies of his God when he seeth his sinnes imputed vnto Christ therefore cannot be imputed vnto him for when man had sinned that which was done could not be vndone yet such is the mercy of God shewed towardes man in the fauour of Christ that hee imputeth not vnto man his sinne but hath it in that account as though it had neuer beene so that although as the scholeman spake a thing done cannot be but done if we respect the act yet in the repute of God which neuer thinketh nor accounteth of it it is as though it had beene neuer done The which that the Lord our God might perswade vnto vs sometimes he saith our sins are bound in a bundle and cast into the bottome of the sea sometime that he hath put away our transgressions as a cloude and our sinnes as a mist somtime they are remoued from him as farre as the East is from the West sometime that he hath cast them behind him sometime that he will remember them no more that they shal be vnto him as though they neuer