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A95930 The only deliverer from wrath to come, or, The way to escape the horrible and eternal burnings of Hell By Thomas Vincent. Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678. 1671 (1671) Wing V446C; ESTC R43945 22,465 40

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and this cannot be removed until Gods Justice be satisfied the other is perfect actual obedience unto Gods Law and without this there can be no attaining eternal Life and Glory the first Covenant of works so Man in his fallen State being still in force Do this and Live and the Soul that sinneth shall dye now man being finite cannot satisfie Gods justice for his sins and being a Sinner cannot yield perfect actual obedience to Gods Law but the Lord Jesus Christ hath done both for man 1. Christ by his sufferings and death upon the Cross did make satisfaction unto Gods justice he being made a curse for us Gal. 3. 13. And undergoing equivalent punishment punishment unto the damned storment and being God-man though the humane nature only did suffer yet the Divine nature in the same person did put an infinite value upon the sufferings of the humane and so became a sufficient satisfaction unto Gods infinite justice and hereby he hath purchased remission of sins and deliverance from wrath to come 2. Christ hath yeilded perefect actual obedience unto the Law he hath fulfilled all righteousness that not having a righteousness perfect of our own his might he made ours and we might attain life thereby this passive and active obedience of Christ which you should labour to understand and that Christ had not this righteousness for himself he had no sin of his own to suffer for but it was in our stead and as our surety and this righteousness was intended for us and being the righteousness of such a person is highly efficacious to attain that for which it was designed as will appear by the Covenant 3. Labour for a thorow understanding of the Covenant and that both the Covenant which God made with Christ in the behalf of man and the Covenant which God hath made with man through Christ 1. Acquaint your selves with the Covenant God made with Christ in the behalf of man whatever worth and value there was in the righteousness of Christ yet God might have required a personal righteousness and satisfaction and Christ's righteousness might have stood us in no stead but God did eternally Covenant and agree with Christ that if he would take Humane nature and work out a righteousness for fallen man it should be accepted that if he would take to him the body he should prepare for him and make his Soul an Offering for sin that is suffer what his justice did require for the sins of Man that he should see his Seed and justifie many Isa 53. 10 11. It is through this Covenant with Christ that Christ righteousness is accepted in the behalf of Sinners God having agreed before that so it should be 2. Acquaint your selves with the Covenant God hath made with Man through Christ wherein upon the account of Christ God hath promised remission of sins and eternal life Heb. 10. 16 17. This is my Covenant that I will make with them saith the Lord I will put my Laws into their hearts and their sins and iniquities I will remember no more 1 John 2. 25. This is the promise which he hath promised even eternal life If ever you be saved from eternal wrath and attain eternal life it must be by vertue of this New Covenant of Grace wherein God doth engage himself to give what his Son hath purchased 3. Labour to be acquainted with the nature and use of faith which is the Tenour of the Covenant of Grace the Tenour of the Covenant of work was Do and Live the Tenour or that required to give an interest in the Covenant of grace is Believe and Life Faith joyns the Soul unto Christ the Mediatour of this Covenant and giveth an actual interest in him and his purchase and whatever is promised through him in the Covenant Faith is a resting of the Soul alone upon Christ and an application of the promises of Pardon and life unto the Soul Faith is not only a discerning but applying or laying hold on Christ's righteousness without us whereby it is imputed to us or accounted once by God as if it had been our own personal righteousness If ever you would be justified that is have your sins pardoned and your persons accepted as perfectly righteous in the sight of God it must be by Faith renouncing your own righteousness as imperfect and insufficient apprehending and applying resting and trusting in Christ's perfect righteousness 4. Apply your selves unto God in Prayer that he having given his Son for you would also him give to you and that he would give you Faith to receive him and apply him beg this again and again with confession of your sins and sense of your want of Christ and never leave asking until you obtain attend also upon the Word where it is Preached most purely and powerfully for the working of Faith which cometh by hearing Rom. 10. 17. And then in the strength of the Lord put forth the hand to lay hold on Christ and labour to cast your selves upon him resigning withall your selves up unto him not only to be saved but also taught and ruled by him Obj. I know it will be objected that if we seek thus to be delivered from wrath to come by Jesus Christ and Faith in his righteousness without us and not by internal righteousness and that of works that this will open a door to Licentiousness Ans I Answer That this is an old Objection against the Doctrine of justification by Faith even in the days of the Apostles when the Doctrine was first Preached But as then so also now this Doctrine doth not give any liberty to sin for however we cannot be saved by inherent righteousness and any of our good works yet we cannot be saved without them none assert more highly that there must be Regeneration and Sanctification a new heart and new life otherwise there can be no admission into Heaven no escaping of the damnation of Hell Yea further we say that the same Faith which is an instrument of justification is also a part of Sanctification being a heart purifying grace Act 15. 9. That as Faith is a hand to lay hold on Christ's righteousness without us so it is a hand to receive supplyes of grace and spirit from Christ for the quickning of us unto newness of Life yea I may say there can be no real inherent righteousness withou an interest by Faith in Christ's imputed righteousness there may be some thing like it a righteousness of some kind there may be but not of the right kind not a righteousness which springs from the true principle which is saith and therefore not a righteousness that is pleasing unto God for without Faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 11. 6. So that if you would have inherent righteousness and walk so as to please God you must belive in the Lord Jesus and fetch grace from him in whom all fulness doth dwell Col. 1. 19. If you would have lust mortified the world crucified and overcome the Devil who endeavoureth by his temptations to draw you unto sin you must by Faith draw vertue and strength to do it In a word if you would deny Ungodliness and Worldly lusts and live soberly righteously and Godly in this present evil world you must do it by Faith But how to attain the principle and practice of Godliness I may else where give direction Had I room I might speak much by way of exhortation to such as have attained an interest in Christ and the deliverance purchased by him in a word learn to admire free grace to be very thankful and watchful to endeavour the bringing others to Christ to adorn your profession to be blameless and harmless the Disciples of Christ without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse Generation among whom you should shine as Lights in the World here that so you may shine like Stars yea like Suns in the Kingdom of your Father for ever FINIS Books of this Author Printed God's Terrible Voice in the City being a Re-Plague and Fire in London Christ's certain and sudden appearance to Judgement Fire and Brimstone from Heaven in the Burning of Sodom formerly From Earth in the Burning of Aetna lately In Hell to Burn the wicked eternally These Printed for George Calvert and to be Sold at his Shop at the Golden Ball in Duck-lane Words whereby we may be Saved and Words of advice to young Men. Printed for T. Parkhurst and to be Sold at his Shop at the Golden Bible on Londen-Bridge The Foundation of God Standeth Sure or an Answer to W. Pens Sandy Foundation Shaken
have it 's ten thousands this is too broad and hath it's thousands besides the more sober amongst the Heathens who belived a future state of happiness and looked to arrive to it by the moral Righteousness besides the Papists who assert justification by works and that we are no otherwise justified than as we are made internally righteous and this expressing it self in acts of obedience and besides Socinians and other Sects together with the Quakers who plainly affirms that we must be saved by a righteousness within which the Quakers call Christ within all which do fundamentally erre in their judgements concerning the righteousness which alone can save I say besides these it is natural unto all to seek Salvation this way all are born under a Covenant of works they are under the Law and not under Grace and when any think how they shall be saved they presently run to work and seek after a righteousness of their own and to fulfil the Law themselves and hope if they repent and lead a new life though they have sinned that God is merciful● and he will pardon and save them It is an ordinary thing even where the light of truth doth shine most clearly and the Gospel is Preached most powerfully when any are convinced of sin by the beams of this light and awakened out of their security by some powerful Sermon discovering their danger of eternal ruine as the just desert of Sin they will cry out with the Jaylor what shall we do to be saved and however they be directed as he was to believe yet the most do rest in doing and not believing they fall presently upon confession of sin and sorrowing for it they fall upon reforming they will not now be drunk or swear or commit Adultery or break the Sabbath or defraud in their dealings now they begin to hear the Word and Pray in their Families and pray in their Closets and keep days of Fasting and conforms unto all the External acts of Devotion and if they can attain unto some kind of flashy affection they think all is well and if they find their hearts dull and cold and hard they may also be troubled for it not upon a right Gospel account but because they feel they want such a righteousness to present God withall as they desire or through some secret fear that their righteousness will not hold water but all this while these persons seek after salvation through a self righteousness and Christ is left out and his righteousness either unknown or utterly disregarded and neglected by them and thus many go to Hell in a way of duty their duties are the occasion of their damnation through their resting in them and expecting Salvation by them It may seem strange that any should have hopes of Salvation by imperfect servings but this I suppose may come to pass either because they don't mind the imperfections of their services for want of understanding the Law in the Spirituality of it and examining themselves by it or through apprehensions that Gods mercy revealed in his Word will Pardon them not considering that all his special Mercy in pardoning and saving is through Christ not considering that God is infinitely just and righteous as well as merciful and that there is no room for the exercise of Mercy towards Sinners until Justice be satisfied that Gods justice requireth a perfect righteousnes otherwise there cannot be a perfect justification that there must be full satisfaction to Gods justice for the breach of Gods Law otherwise there can be no clear remission and that there must be perfect righteousness made out some way otherwise we cannot be accepted by God as righteous Since therefore this satisfaction to Gods justice cannot be by our selves because being finite we cannot make an infinite compensation which infinite justice doth require and since perfect righteousness which must include both original and actual cannot be in us who are guilty both of original and actual sin and the least sin rendering for ever a personal perfect righteousness impossible and the Law curseth every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the Book of the Law to do them and therefore as many as are of the Law that seeks justification and Salvation by the way of works or righteousness of the Law are under the curse Gal. 3. 10. It is clear that whoever do expect to be saved from wrath to come it must not be by their own righteousness but by anothers righteousness namely the righteousness of Christ If you would attain an interest in Christ you must be sensible of your need of him and his righteousness upon this account 2. Labour for a thorow acquaintance with the nature intendment and efficacy of the righteousness of Christ The Apostle saith of the Jews Rom. 10. 2 3 4. I bear them record they have a zeal of God but not according to knowledge for they being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God for Christ is the end of the Law for righteouness unto every one that believeth And as it was with the Jews of Old so it is with many nominal Christians now who may be led only by a blind zeal to work out their own Salvation in a way of doing and it is through their ignorance of the righteousness of Christ called here the righteousness of God either because it is the righteousness alone which God will accept or which God hath found out and provided for men which sence it must have Rom. 3. 21. 22. But now the righteousness of God without the Law is manifest even the righteousness of God which is by Faith in Jesus Christ c. That is the righteousness which God doth accept and hath appointed for our justification or it is called the righteousness of God because it is the righteousness of Christ who is God-man no other righteousness than of such a person being sufficient for man in his fallen estate I say through the ignorance of this righteousness of Christ many Christians seeking after a righteousness in order to their Salvation they go about to establish their own righteousness that is a personal righteousness and endeavour the gaining of Heaven in a way of doing and so do not submit themselves to the righteousness of God It is through Pride so natural unto every one that they are loth to be beholding wholly unto another and therefore they would have something of their own to commend them unto God and therefore they do not submit unto the righteousness of Christ which God hath provided for them Therefore you must labour to be clear in your understanding what this righreousness of Christ is there are two things requisite and absolutely necessary unto fallen man The first is satisfaction unto Gods Justice for his sins and without this there can be no escape of eternal death and misery because guilt doth oblige unto punishment