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A89553 A short treatise discovering the prevailing excellency of the death of Christ with the Father, by way of opposition to that doctrine, that Christ dyed alike for all. Declaring in whom only the saints happinesse doth consist by meanes of this their purchased redemption: also their freedome from the guilt and curse of the Law. / Written for the satisfaction of some, if it may be. By Richard Marryat. Marryat, Richard. 1642 (1642) Wing M720; Thomason E61_24; ESTC R13613 22,782 33

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wise give the creature the least glory but spoiles him and makes his comelinesse become rottennesse proclaiming the rest of the Lord as Isa 30.15 burning up all their pride and consuming all their honour Mal. 4.1 Declaring their righteousnesse to be the greatest wickednesse such a one unlesse the Lord in grace open the mystery which neither learned nor unlearned can reade or understand Isa 29.11 12. They look upon such a person as a pestilent mischievous person as an imposter and deceiver as an Hereticke yea a Libertine and what not so deare and precious is their own excellency and so fast and strong a league is there between the Law and themselves and therefore did the Scribes and Pharisees so storm and rage against Christ Jesus when he declared that Publicans and Harlots should inherite the Kingdome of heaven before them nothing filled them with malignity so as did the cleare doctrine of the Gospel which did trample down vilifie and count as drosse and dung their righteousnesse and no greater denyall hath the Gospell at any time then from such persons who have the greatest possessions of this nature so that to make men become dead to this their Crowne and glory it must needs be by a supernaturall heavenly and divine power comming into the soule presenting a surpassing glory even the righteousnesse of Jesus Christ the shining forth whereof causeth repentance from such dead workes as it is written Hee that beleeveth hath ceased from his own workes Heb. brings a man with Elisha from his plough draws out the soul in hungring thirsting after the fatness of Gods house breathing after the person of Christ the fairest of ten thousands even as the Hart panteth after the Rivers of water causeth him then with Paul to count all but drosse dung which was before of so high esteeme Phil. 3.7 and that that was his glory becomes his shame and he seeth it then to be as a menstruous cloth and filthy rags Zach. 3.4 This cannot be effected but by the mighty power of God which raised Christ from the dead as Ephes 1.19 20. Col. 2.12 13. The which power that raised him from the grave can cause things to be that were not and dead things to live so giving eyes to the blind eares to the deafe that they may see and heare those things which the eye of man hath not seene neither the eare of man heard as 1 Cor. 2.9 10. and to this agrees that testimony in Galat. 5.16 If you walke in the Spirit ye shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh The which amongst the rest are the workes of the Law Phil. 3.3 The Apostle saith We rejoyce in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh and then manisests what he meanes by the flesh and amongst the rest he brings in vers 6. The righteousnesse of the Law as a fleshly thing or the work of the flesh and therefore in that foresaid place Cal. 5. v. 18. having spoken those foregoing words vers 16. he interprets what he meanes by the flesh for saith he if ye be led by the Spirit you are not under the Law so that to take a man off from the Law or to make him to be dead unto it must needs be by the commings in of the Spirit of God that must exercise power parting relations though never so neare and deare revealing a surpassing more excellent glory and so transforming from glory to glory as 2. Cor. 3. c So that it most plainly appeares in that the Apostle saith You are become dead to the Law by the body of Christ That all his spirituall power is communicated to the sonnes of glory through the Sacrifice of the body of Christ and to this largely answer many places of Scripture with a joynt harmony as Rom. 6.6 Our old man is crucified with Christ whereby the Spirit of God commends to us that in the crucifying of Christ all his body or Spouse was crucified also That in the sacrificing of himselfe there was a prevailing with God that the old Adam might be destroyed in his people that they might live in him he gave himselfe that he might procure to himselfe a peculiar people zealous of good worth to be a peculiar people is to bee differenced from the world bearing the Image of Christ being heavenly as is the Lord from heaven neither can any be zealous of good workes tell they know what is the good and acceptable will of God which no naturall man can know now all this Christ gave himselfe for so againe 1 Pet. 1.18 There it is manifested that the redemption from the vain conversation comes by the blood of Christ for the vain conversation cannot be taken away but by the mighty operation of the Spirit of God destroying the body of sin as Rom. 8.13 Even this also is imparted through the blood of Christ so also Heb. 9.15 How much more shall the blood of Christ purge your Conscience from dead workes to serve the living God to purge from dead workes must needs be by the breathing in the Spirit of Life wich produceth living workes from the creature to a living Creator till then all workes are but dead workes though performed with abundant zeale and strength the person himselfe being dead from whom they proceed this also comes by the blood of Christ so perfecting of the faith is through it also communicated Heb. 13.20 21. Yea all that grace which is so full of life and power to the Saints comes by Jesus Christ John 1.17 16.14 verses The which grace of the Lord Jesus Christ the Apostle still in all his Epistles sayes that the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ may be with them all 2 Thess 3.17 18. To this end if we consider the nature of Redemption what it commends unto us and then how it is brought about we shall see the same cleared up that all spirituall strength is communicated in by and through Jesus Christ in Isa 35.9 Isa 51.11 Psal 107.2 Rev. 14.3 All which places doe lively set forth that as there is but a number redeemed some being uncleane some ravenous beasts some the earth which are not redeemed so also that all these redeemed either are or shall be able to sing to give thankes to God and to the Lambe that sitteth on the Throne for evermore and only the redeemed shall learne this new song Rev. 14.3 And walk in the way of holinesse which none can doe till made alive in Jesus Christ for a dead thing can doe none of these things as all men by nature being but as a rotten carkasse in respect of spirituall services with which we have to doe and of which only the Lord accounts as 1 Pet. 2.5 John 4.24 2 Cor. 3.17 All the services of naturall men being but fleshly uncleane and dead services though accompanied with never so much zeale but this redemption that is accompanied with this everlasting power comes only by the blood of Christ Ephes 1.7 Col.