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A96661	Mount Ebal levell'd or Redemption from the curse. Wherein are discovered, 1. The wofull condition of sinners under the curse of the law. 2. The nature of the curse, what it is, with the symptomes of it, in its properties, and effects. 3. That wonderful dispensation of Christs becoming a curse for us. 4. The grace of redemption, wherein it stands, in opposition to some gross errors of the times, which darken the truth of it. 5. The excellent benefits, priviledges, comforts, and engagements to duty, which flow from it. By Elkanah Wales, M.A. preacher of the Gospel at Pudsey in York-shire.	Wales, Elkanah, 1588-1669.	1658 (1658)	Wing W294; Thomason E1923_1; ESTC R209971	189,248	382

not this judged the act of the whole body He was the Tree we the branches when the tree falls all the branches fall with it * Corruit cuncti simul in genitore cadente corruimus 3. We do all actually break the Law in our own persons and that 2 wayes 1. in the frame and disposition of our natures which are corrupt filthy crooked wholly broken off and turned aside from conformity and subjection to the Law Our disobedience in Adam draws along after it a woful depravation of our natures so that we are all bred and born transgressours Psal 58.3 Isa 48.8 Adam begat a son in his own image a sinner like to himself Gen. 5.3 David in his penitentiall confessions after his grievous fall bewails this as the rise of all the mischief Psal 51.5 This leprosie this poyson hath overspred all mankind and the whole nature of it all sorts sexes states degrees and not one free and all the parts and powers of every man in soul and body throughout Our first Father being a corrupt tree hath infused corruption into all the branches and being a poysoned fountain hath shed his poyson into all the streams flowing from him Hence every man is born not onely destitute of all goodnesse but also wholly averse from it not onely prone to all evil but also full of it as a Toad is full of poyson Rom. 1.29 and this sinful stain is as fresh at this day and so will be till the worlds end as it was at the first it is renewed in every succeeding generation with advantage 2. in the course and practise of our lives we do according to our kind the bad tree brings forth bad fruit the corrupt spring brings forth unwholsome waters if the powers or habits be depraved the operations and actings which proceed from them can be no better * Laesae facultates lasae actiones Prov. 21.4 all the workings of man in his corrupted estate are evil and sinful like himself See Psal 14.1 2.3 * Laesae facultates lasae actiones Prov. 21.4 All our wayes in reference to the fi●st Table are unholinesse in reference to the second unrighteousnesse It were easie to demonstrate this by running over all the Commandments We are still breaking the Law 1. In thought all the buddings and imaginations of our minds are onely evil continually ⸫ Pro. 24.9 Gen. 6.5 Matth. 5.19 Tit. 1.15 2. In affection the motions and actings of our hearts are perverse and wicked We love the evil and hate the good Mich. 3.2 so our trusts fears joyes c. they all run crosse and counter Jer. 17.9 3. In speech evil corrupt loose unprofitable communication falshood flattery pride scorning censuring and a thousand extravagancies of the tongue Psal 5.9 and 36.3 Rom. 3.13 4. In action we commit evil and omit good or marr it in the making Psal 14.1 abominable works none that doth good not one Gal. 5.19 c. These and such like are the sparks which do dayly fly out of the hellish furnace of our wofull natures as Hos 7.6 And thus much of the second proposition III. All men are found guilty of sin by the light and verdict of the Law The Law of God is a right line which at once discovers what is straight and what is crooked ⸫ Index sui obliqui As it shews unto man what is good and what the Lord requires of him Micah 6.8 so when man hath swarved and transgressed it shews him his contrary evil and chargeth him with doing that which he ought not to have done It 's a glasse which might both let him see his native beauty if he had any and his deformity and spots which he hath brought upon himself It 's a finger which both points at the right way and discovers to the traveller the wrong way As it is in humane Laws the very same Statute that forbids treason murther theft c. doth also when any of these facts are committed charge them upon the Actours and the ordinary Rule and Warrant to proceed by in trying the parties is this or that Statute or Law of the land so it is in the Law of God it hath a voice whereby it can cry aloud to the conscience of the sinner and tell him This is a misdemeanour and that is a miscarriage for which thou must answer Thus it was with our first Parents as it may very probably be inferred from Gen. 3.7 And yet it is not materiall as to the truth and authenticknesse of the verdict whether the sinner see this light and hear this voice or not the Sun sends forth his light although all the world were blind the candle will shine although all in the room were asleep so the righteous Law of God cryes out of violence and wrong although sinners be deaf and cannot hear it and chargeth them with iniquity although they wretched souls be so blockish that they will take no notice of it In brief the Law chargeth all the world to be under sin and guilty before God Rom. 3.9.19 Thus of the third Proposition IV. All men being found guiltie by the verdict of the Law doe therefore stand accursed by the doome of the same Law for there is a necessarie connexion betwixt guilt and curse If Adam and his posteritie be justly chargeable with sin against the Law then are they also justly liable to the Curse of the Law for the Law breaths out a curse against all the sonnes and daughters of Adam and claps it on their backs because of sinn so that they are all under the curse even the curse of Almightie God revealed and expressed in the Law To cleare this further let us look upon it 1. in the sentence 2. in the execution of it 1. In the sentence This is the voice of the Lord sounding out in the Law which both threatens it to the transgressours and declares them to be accursed The Law pronounceth the curse against all sinners in the Name of the Lord it tells Adam and his posteritie that they are accursed it saith to every one in particul●r without respect of persons to Kings and subjects to fathers and children to Masters and servants to rich and poore c. Thou man thou woman art accursed se Deut. 27.15.16 c. Gen. 4.11 Jer. 11.3 Psal 119.21 It is the flying Roule 20 cubits long and 10 cubits broad which goes forth over the face of the whole earth Zach. 5.2 c. 2. In the exicution as the Law declareth and denounceth the curse so the Lawgiver strikes the sinner accordingly Look what the Law speakes the Lawgiver makes good he executes by his own hand or by his instruments the judgement written as Psal 149.9 As the just judge on earth executes the sentence passed upon the Malefactor according to the Law so doth the Lord the Judge of all the world he inflicts the curse which the Law awards in such manner and measure as he pleaseth thus he

doe this and they doe it He blinds their minds hardens their hearts and works in them powerfully Eph. 2.2 Indeed they spitt at him and say they defie him yet neverthelesse they are his drudges and carry his pack and doe his worke And while they professe that they scorne to serve him yet even then they serve him willingly and with both their hands Oh miserie beyond all expression 3. Unfruitfulness towards God He may complaine of Mankind as once of Israel Jer. 2.21 I had planted the a noble Vine wholly a right seed how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange Vine unto me All our fruit is fruit unto death we can bring forth no fruit unto God The curse of the Law hath blasted us we are as it were Thunder-struck and made unserviceable We can doe nothing that is truly good or wel pleasing to God Rom. 8.8 When Christ came neere to the figtree and saw nothing on it but leavs he cursed it and then it withered Mat. 21.19 So the Lord seeing Adam and his posteritie now by their Apostasie become degenerate plants pronounced a curse upon them saying Never fruit grow on you any more and so we are become no better than withered stumps Thou thinkest that thou dost good duties this and that good work thou hadst thy hand in such and such good fruits thou canst shew but alas it s nothing so thou art a drie and a barren tree 4. Liablenes to all the plagues and judgments of God The curse setts us in such a posture as we are continually exposed to some mischiefe or other The ground which brings forth bryars and thornes being neere unto cursing its end is to be burned Heb. 6.8 The foolishman thinks his tongue is his owne to use as he will Psal 12.4 But Solomon tells him his mouth is neere to destruction Pro. 10.14 See Ezech. 7.5 6 7. 2. Pet. 2.3 Speaking of false Teachers he saith their judgment lingers not but is hastening on its way their damnation slumbreth not it keeps waking to seize on them in due time And indeed what is it that hindreth vengeance from falling on sinners but onely the Lords patience Tha● consuming fire is at hand readie to lick thee up and to destroy thee there is but one stepp betwixt thee and death The Lord might forthwith stop thy breath an● then thou art gone for ever the ladder i● every moment like to be turned tho● hangest but by one weake threed and whe● that is broken then thou droppest into th● flames of hell 5. Punishing sinne with sinne a very sad effect of the curse when the Lord hath determined to set home the curse upon a sinner with a witnesse then he leaves him to himself for his former provocations either to run himself deeper into the same sinnes or else to fall into more vile and vicious courses and so to heap up wrath against himself As sometimes a father saith of an hopeless child Seeing he will not be reclaymed let him take his course let him run himself out of breath and hasten to his owne ruine Thus he scourged the Gentiles for their wilde courses against the light of Nature Rom. 1.26.28 And the Jewes for their contempt of the word Psal 81.11 12. And their opposing the Gospell 1. Thes 2.15 16. Thus the Lord deales with many of the secure sleepie sinners they give no regard to the offer of mercie therefore the Lord shutts them up in ignorance and saith let him that is ignorant filthy carnall be so still they are not bettered by mercies or judgments therefore they shall be made worse The close deceiver becomes a grosse robber and God gives him over to lying swearing forswearing c. The immoderate use of the creatures becomes grosly riotous God gives him up to beastly drunkenness mispending of his time wasting his estate yea sometimes to wantonness and bodily filthyness to hatred yea scorning of good counsel and the like abhominable practices 6. Hellish terrours startlings of conscience feare of death and of the Judgment to come These are the sparkles which flie up out of these everlasting burnings while the furnace is in heating to devoure the ungodly of the earth Isa 33.14 Fearfulness surprizeth the hypocrites Heb. 2.15 It s one maine branch of mans naturall miserie that through feare of death he is all his life subject unto bondage Act. 24.25 When the Aostle Paul preached of the Judgment to come Felix trembled The sinner feeles many a privie nippe while he is walking on in the wayes of his owne heart he hath gripings in his spirit that torment him and he feeles the flashing of hell fire sometimes in his conscience so that he is appaled with the foresight of the wrath to come His heart smites him and tels him that Vengeance lyes in wait for him because of ignorance drunkenness contempt of the Gospell c. The thoughts of death and judgment damp him and strike him to the heart and he saith oh I must once goe downe into the dust what shall then become of this poore soule * Animula vagula blandula Quae nunc ab●bis in loca I must be brought to judgment how shall such a sinful wretch as I look the great Judge of heaven and earth in the face Alas poore sinner thou settest a good face on the matter before men but thy heart knowes that it is thus 2. The strange properties or qualities of the curse Strange properties of the Curse are especially these 5. I call them strange because 1. Most of them lie out of the road of the naturall mans apprehension and beliefe they are hid from his eyes he will not easily be perswaded of them 2. Yea the godly themselves doe not so clearly discerne nor so carefully observe or make use of them as they might 1. It is a grievous and a bitter curse Can there be any thing more grievous and bitter than the abandoning of the creature from God It was a very girevous curse which Shimei the Benjamite shott against King David as David himself termes it 1. Kin. 2.8 A strong sore forcible curse so the originall word signifies How much more rightly may all this be spoken of the curse of Gods Royall Law When the Angel of the Lord would measure out a curse against the Merozites according to the bredth of their sinne he bids curse them bitterly Jud. 5.23 Gods curse against sinners is bitter Jer. 4.18 It s made up of gall and worme-wood * Ier. 8.14.9.15 When Solomon would give warning of the danger which may come by the ensnaring of an whorish woman he tells us that in his owne experience he finds her more bitter than death Eccl. 7.26 If he had knowne any thing more bitter he would have mentioned it Now the curse of the Law is the death 〈◊〉 ●he sinner Gen. 2.17 The curse of the people upon Merciles self-seeking persons is grievous it bites sore Pro. 11.26 28.27 Oh

reason of frequent neglects faylings wandrings swarvings from the rule of the word since his conversion Oh saith the godly soul I can do nothing aright how often do I miscarry in the manner motives and ends of obedience Methinks I am fettered that I cannot go a foot pace much less run in the way of Gods Commandements To some kinde of evill ready and free enough to some kinde of good too often dead and sluggish If I be redeemed indeed why am I thus or what comfort can I have in the work of Redemption while I am in this case Doth the prisoner when he is released feel the shackles still on his legs If Christ by undergoing the curse of my former bondage hath brought me into liberty why am I still in bondage who shall answer for me now or where is the ransome for it But now consider if these distempers are the unavoidable workings of remaining corruption which cannot be wholly shaken off The best Saints may finde in themselves an indisposedness to good and forwardness to evil especially about those things which are most spiritual and require much self-denial in their carnal and earthly interest of ease credit and other outward enjoyments as in a constant course of secret prayer private reproof of others upon just occasion acknowledging a miscarriage to their own disgrace putting up wrongs for the maintaining of peace and such like Why is thy heart dejected for that which is the common lot of all the godly Thou mayest think it is well that the Lord hath not left thee to grosser sins and although thou hast many failings yet the Lord looks upon thee according to thy better part he will own his own grain in the midst of much chaffe And here is the crown of thy comfort Christ Jesus hath offered a sacrifice for every one that erreth and for him that is simple Ezek. 45.20 and he can reasonably bear with the ignorant and those that are out of the way Heb. 5.2 and he will carry on his work in thy soul till thy sinful distempers bee wholly subdued and thou shalt have no more cause to complaine Sect. 2. Comfort against inward terrours reproaches of men and outward afflictions 2. AGainst inward fears and terrours of conscience arising from sense of guilt and liableness to Gods displeasure Even the Lords redeemed may have shrewd remainders of the spirit of bondage upon them their spirits are sometimes startled and terrified with the fear or feeling of Divine wrath God lets Satan loose against them to bring their old sins to remembrance or to roar upon them as a Lion for new miscarriages And when he meets with a timorous unbeleeving heart he plies it so long with his fiery darts till at length he bereaves the sinner of all comfort Sometimes he is dejected and laid low in the sight of his own vileness Sometimes he is tossed and disquieted as the Sea with storms and tempests Sometimes he is even swallowed up with waves of soul-trouble as a ship ready to sink so that Satan seems to have his will of him Lam. 3.18 and he saith My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord. A sad and unwelcome business I confess yet many of Gods dear servants have been thus put to it as both Scripture and experience do testifie Job complains that God held him for his enemy and made him to possess the iniquities of his youth Job 13.24 26. and therefore the poyson of his arrows did drink up his spirit and the terrours of God did set themselves in array against him Iob 19.25 Chap. 6.4 yet elsewhere he professeth his faith in the Redeemer David cries out that Gods arrows stuck so fast in him and his hand pressed him so sore that there was no soundness in his flesh nor rest in his bones Psal 38.3 4. The like we may see in Heman the Ezrahite Psal 88.3 6 7 14 15 c. But let the afflicted soul now have recourse to this harbour of Redemption and there he shall finde good shelter against all these storms What hast thou to fear save the curse of the Law why but that is removed and gone Thy Surety hath freed thee from it by making an end of thy sins No sin no curse If the Lord hide his face and frown upon thee it will bee for a moment for a small moment but he will return and with everlasting kindness have mercy on thee And for this thy Redeemer hath ingaged his word Isa 54.7 8. As for Satan that Lion of hell when he can neither hold nor recover his prisoners it is his next policy to disquiet them and to make their lives uncomfortable But tell him that thou art Christs devoted servant by vertue of a dear ransome and he hath nothing in thee neither shall hee rule in thy conscience he may go lash and torment his own marked slaves but thou art out of his reach And if the Lord and Satan do still pursue thy soul with terrours remember that thy Master Christ hath drunk of this bitter cup before thee and be assured that he will plead thy cause with his Father and at length he will take that roaring Lion under-hand and rend him as he would rend a Kid as it is said of Sampson Judg. 14.6 Know it dear Christian for thy comfort there are no storms in heaven 3 Against the cursings evill speakings reproaches contradictions of the men of the world Their tongues are set on fire of hell and they are very eloqu●nt in the hellish art of cursed language especially against the Lords Redeemed ones smiting them with bitter words and heaping upon them the basest indignities which either the Devil can suggest or their malicious hearts invent Hast thou been acquainted with such unwelcome salutations Do thy prophane neighbours open their mouthes against thee And dost thou hear the words of cursing and bitterness yet be not troubled at it These arrows though they be very sharp and sent from a strong arm yet they shall not reach to pierce thy heart these coals of Juniper though they keep in the fire a whole year yet thou needest not fear scorching by them the malignity of them is taken away by the grace of Redemption If the curse of Gods righteous Law be voided to thee much more is the curse of mans unrighteous law If the Lord hath reversed and disanulled his just sentence passed against thee in heaven will he suffer the unjust sentence of sinful man on earth to stand in force against thee If the curse which is deserved shall not come much less shall that which is causeless Prov. 26.2 Say thou to God as David Let them curse but bless thou Psal 109.28 thou mayest hope that the Lord will requite thee good for their cursing as 2 Sam. 16.12 when the children of Israel were brought out of Egypt and upon their way to the promised Land Balaam was hired to curse them but the Lord turned the curse into a

hath in himself that which God hateth namely sinne not his own but ours And therefore I conclude That Christ was made a Curse for us not onely by the ignominious manner of his death but by suffering in our stead the Curse due to our sinnes The Lord give us grace so to study Christ's being made a curse for us that by faith in him and love to him we may be freed from it and the blessings of Abraham may be our portion Thy servant in Christ Jesus Edm. Calamy TO THE READER ALthough this Treatise in regard of its worth and weight might without any Testimonial have adventured it self even upon this censorious and froward generation yet seeing something by way of recommendation is desired I look upon it not onely as a duty but an honour that I may be serviceable in leading forth so usefull a book into the world as I apprehend this to be and certainly I can make no better use of my Name than to prefix it to this discourse if it may be an inducement unto any one to read it The Authour concerning whom my affectionate esteem will not suffer me to be wholly silent is a person of long standing in the faith and much experience in the things of Christ now passing the seventieth year of his age and about the forty fifth year of his Ministery And having well-nigh fulfilled the dayes of our yeares which are said to be Threescore and ten Psal 90.10 being within sight of Eternitie he hath set before his eye the infinite obligations of eternal Redemption and not thought it sufficient to serve his own generation by preaching the Gospel but hath been perswaded to leave this labour of Love as a Legacy to the generation to come that the people yet to be borne may know and praise their Redeemer The work thou hast in thine hand is the fruit of a well-grown tree that brings forth fruit in its old age and though the leaves and branches thereof may not be so seemingly fair and luxuriant as some younger plants do afford yet taste of the fruit and thou shalt finde it of good relish sound and nourishing It grew indeed in a cold Northern Climate which men think brings little to perfection but it had the advantage of a warme heart which is the best soil and the beames of the sonne of righteousness for the ripening of it If any say It is a common Subject let him remember Titus 1.4 that it is Common Faith and Common Salvation Iude 3. and must be known by more then a common knowledge It 's plain indeed as being reached not to Curiosity but to Conscience but plain work clean wrought is very commendable and many times where is most of Art there is least of Use Yet it is not so plain but the lines and engravings of the Holy Ghost may be discerned in it by an eye well enlightened and although the Treatise was entended mainly for Practise yet our reverend Authour like a wise and vigilant builder hath as the exigents of these times require carried on his work with a weapon on the one hand Neh. 4.17 and a working Instrument in the other defending the Truth against its adversaries as well as recommending its followers Let it not therefore be grievous to thee for it is safe for thee Christian Reader to retire a little from the Curiosities and Contentions of this pretending Age to a serious Consideration of this most necessary and weighty subject For though thou understood all Mysteries and all knowledge and hadst Faith to remove mountains it will profit thee nothing unless thou canst finde this Mount EBAL levell'd zechar 4.7 this great Mountain of CURSES made to thee a plain before the Lord JESUS who buildeth up his Church as an Holy Temple unto God But I will not detain thee from the work it self whith set's before thee DEATH and LIFE a CURSE and a CHRIST The Lord by his special grace incline thine heart unto and establish it in a sincere choise of the Lord Jesus that thy soul may live So prayes Thy servant in the Gospel Edw. Bowles YORK April 19. 1658. To the Inhabitants of PUDSEY LEEDS and BRADFORD Beloved Brethren I Need not say much to you concerning the Reverend Authour of the ensuing Treatise You fully know his doctrine manner of life purpose 2 Tim. 3.10 Faith Long-suffering Charitie Patience That he hath laboured long in his masters Vineyard as with great diligence so not without some success It is the high commendation of blessed Paul that from Jerusalem and round about even to Illyricum Rom. 15.19 he fully preached the Gospel of Christ So our Reverend brother not onely in the populous places near unto us but in lesser Villages hath frequently sounded the Gospel of Salvation not confining his labours to that obscure Congregation wherein he hath officiated as a painful overseer for many yeares but communicating the sweet savour of Christ to many others and let us adde this He hath been so farre from heeding the preferments of this world though tendered him at several times as he hath contented himself with a mean allowance not worthy to be named considering his worth and industry but I shall say no more of him though I might say exceeding much as knowing his modestie to be such as he would rather blame than thank me for it Give me leave to say a little unto you who have so often been partakers of his Ministerial labours and 1. To you of Pudsey whose Pastor he hath been and still is much precious seed he hath sown among you and therefore from you is expected much precious fruit If you after so much Preaching Catechising and expounding be found either ignorant or secure prophane or dissolute as you are left without excuse so the many yeares pains of so faithfull a Teacher will rise up in Judgement against you Luke 12.45 To whom much is given of him much is required God hath given in to you much instruction He exspects from you much knowledge of the best things endeared affections thereunto and abundance of those fruits Matth. 3.8 which John the Baptist calls Fruits meet for Repentance worthy of amendment of life Which I desire may be considered that so you may not be found barren and unfruitfull in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming 2 Pet. 1.18 The goodness of the soil should be seen in the plentifulness of the Crop and the pains of the Pastor in the peoples knowledge of God and Christ in their Faith hope love meekness humilitie patience holiness and obedience 2. For you of Leeds and Bradford as you have all and often participated of his godly labours so I heartily wish and desire it may appear you have not done so in vain and therefore exhort you to remember how you have heard Revel 3.3 and received and hold fast and repent Yea to hold fast these good and ancient truths you have

cast filth upon it therefore I doe remand it from thee it shall no longer abide in that base unworthie soule of thine henceforth let that ugly image of sinne and hell which it seemes pleaseth thee better seize upon thee take it to thee and fils thy self with it Thus we are all alienated from the life of God Eph. 4.18 This part of the curse lyes heavie on the whole soule 1. On the Mind and understanding part which is impotent and unable to conceive the things of God and to discerne of things that differ our understandings are darkened Eph. 4.18 see 1. Cor. 2.14 2. On the Conscience which is defiled Tit. 1.15 being either sensles and so excusing when it should accuse Eph. 4.19 or when awaked wanting just matter of excusing and so unpeaceable Isa 57.21 3. On the will which is rebellious against the truth and wayes of God revealed to the mind depraved in its power of chusing can will onely that which is evil cannot will that which is good see Pro. 17.11 Jer. 5.23 Math. 23.37 4. On the affections which being the Wills Waiting-Maids are of the same temper disordered affecting evil disaffecting good running into extremitie of excesse or defect and so spoyling the conversation Thus man once made upright yet by seeking out many inventions Eccl. 7.29 is become without God in the world Eph. 2.12 ergo accursed 3. When the soule and body are parted then the wretched soule is sent down to hell to take possession of those everlasting flames As soone as ever the first death hath done its office forthwith the doome of the second death passeth upon the immortall soule and then the great Jaylour of hell layeth hold upon it and drags it into the presence of the Almighty on whom it shall look with horror and amazment Thy now sleeping conscience shall then be awakened and all thy sinnes shall be set in order before thee thou wilt not see them now but they shall then stare in thy face yea thy secret sinnes shall be set in the light of Gods countenance and thy most pleasing iniquities shall appeare before thee in their proper black hiew to gaster thy soule into finall desperation No place left for repentance the doore of mercie and the gate of heaven shall be thenceforth shut up against thee for ever thy wretched soul must take up its lodging in the lothsome prison of hell with the Divell and his Angels Luk. 16.22 23. 1 Pet. 3.19 where it shall lie filled with the wrath of God for the present astonished and swallowed up with the apprehension of the eternitie of that to come and tremblingly waiting for the great day of reckoning and the dreadfull houre when it shall be poured downe in full vials upon the whole man III. The curse which comes upon body and soule together or the whole man may be summed up in these 3 particulars also 1. The losse of his right unto and soveraignty over the creatures The Lord invested Adam in the day of his creation into a title and power * Jus 〈◊〉 pot●sta●e v● over the work of his hands especially the creatures here below he had free libertie to use them and they were given to be serviceable to him even the Sun Moone and starres to give him light the garden and all the trees of it except that one for his necessarie and comfortable sustenance and refreshing God hath given the earth to the children of men Psal 115.16 yea the Patent extended to dominion over the creatures Gen. 1.28 in which respect the Psalmist greatly admires the Lords high honouring of mankind Psal 8.4 6. c. But now by the fall Adam hath forfeited all this interest so that the creatures might justly deny us their service the Sun Moon and starres might withhold their light heat and influences from us the fire aire water c. might refuse to act or work for our good yea contrarily the creature setts it self against us in the quarrell of its Creatour as if it owed us a mischeif the Lion Bear Woolf would devoure us the beasts of the feild make head against us yea every worme will turne againe All the hosts of heaven and earth are readie even like to rebell against us This is a curse which all the sonnes and daughters of Adam feele in some measure and sometimes reacheth to the taking away of life limbe and all comforts And although the sinner enjoy the benefit of the creatures both for necessitie and delight yet that is onely by the indulgence of the most High who makes his Sun to shine and his raine to fall upon all and the choicest enjoyments are but as the Accommodations afforded to a Traitour in the Tower there 's a deadly curse lying hid in the bowels of them which will make sad work in the latter end 2. The general Judgement after death which is called the Judgement of the great day Jude 6. The Lord Jesus shall come in the clouds and shall be revealed from heaven with his mightie Angells in flameing fire 2. Thes 1.7 8. He shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the trump of God 1. Thes 4.16 When the trumpet sounded at the giving of the law Exod. 20 18 Heb. 12.19.20 21. it was doubtles to set forth the terribleness of the curse which attends the Law but at this great day it shall sound farr lowder to fill the eares and hearts of sinners which have broken it with the dreadfull report of it to their conviction and confusion Jude 14.15 Their bodies shall be raised out of the dust and united to their soules and their persons shall be presented before this glorious Judge and arraigned at the barr of his great Tribunall The books shall be opened and all their foule businesses although now cast behind their backs and laid to sleep in the darkest vaults of forgetfulness shall be unmasked before the whole world Eccl. 12.14 The processe and result of the transactions of that day will be no small part of this curse when the Goats which shall stand at Christs left hand shall heare him solemnly sounding out that most dolefull sentence Depart ye cursed c. Math. 25.41 3. The full and finall Execution after Judgement As soone as ever this great work of judging the world is over and the last doome awarded then shall follow the execution thereof accordingly then shall the great black curse be poured downe upon sinners all the curses of the Law and Gospell too shall meet together as in one Sea and fall upon the soules and bodies of all impenitent ones in their perfect strength and furie and abide on them for ever this is called everlasting punishment Math. 25.46 and it stands in 2 things 1. Some that 's privative called the punishment of losse * Paenae damni an utter expulsion or banished from the blessed face and presence of God and the glorie of heaven Depart from me Math. 7.23

Sect. 1. The third Conclusion What Redemption is THe third Conclusion or Doctrine is the marrow and summe of the Text. Christ by being made a Curse for us hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law This is the result the issue the fruit of the Lord Christs becoming a curse for us that hereby we are redeemed from the curse of the Law under which we were held This Truth may receive proof from the consent of other Scriptures Let us hear but two or three of the fullest testimonies that thereby it may be established Gal 4 5. God sent forth his Son made of a woman made under the Law to redeem us c. Tit. 2.14 He gave himself for us that he might redeem us c. Heb. 9.11 12. Christ by a greater and more perfect Tabernacle than that under the Law and by his own blood hath obtained eternal Redemption for us Observe here that this Redemption followeth upon and floweth from Christs becoming a Curse for us two wayes 1 In the intention and purpose of God and Christ God the Father in his eternal counsel did propound unto himself this end of giving Christ and Christ in the fulness of time did set before his eyes the same and in giving himself to become a curse that poor inthralled sinners might be redeemed thereby from the curse of the Law 2 In the effect and event of the thing Look what the Lord did intend to work and to bring about by Christs undergoing the curse for us the same was and is throughly wrought and brought about to the full The thing is done as to the making of a plenary satisfaction to Divine justice and so obtaining the benefit of Redemption on the behalf of all those for whom the Lord hath appointed it in his eternal purpose But for a more particular clearing and beating out of this Doctrine I shall endeavour 1 To shew what this Redemption is and wherein it stands 2 To give some arguments or grounds of Scripture-reason for the confirmation of it For the former the Scriptures of the New Testament afford us several words to express the nature of this benefit The most general word is rendred Deliverance and notes out a setting one free by any means whatsoever as in the Lords Prayer Deliver us from evil Mat. 6.13 2 Pet. 2.9 T●e Lord knoweth how to deliver c. This word is used to express the work of Redemption 1 Thess 1.10 Who delivereth us from the wrath to come There is another general word of the same signification 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 12.58 properly it imports a changing from or an alienation It is used once and but once that I know in this argument to wit Heb. 2.15 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There be some other words of a more restrained signification one which is sometimes rendred Delivering as Act. 26.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but properly notes a taking away by force or by an act of justice as 1 Cor. 5.13 Act. 12.11 The Apostle Paul in mentioning this benefit maketh use of this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gal. 1.4 That he might deliver us c. There be other two words more frequent in Scripture which signifie a setting free by paying of a price The former is in reference to Captives or Prisoners who being in bondage to others are set at liberty by the payment of a Ransome This is called Redeeming or redeeming from Luke 1.68 and Rom. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We are all in slavery under sin the Law Satan c. Christ comes and by laying down his life for us payes our ransome and so delivereth us out of their hands The latter word is borrowed from the Condition of such persons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as having been abridged of their former liberty or of such things as having been alienated from their first owners and so being under the power of others are now brought out from that condition and brought into a state of freedome We read in the Law of sundry persons and things who being under the power of others might yet be redeemed as servants which had sold themselves lands and dwelling-houses which were sold by their ownners Levit. 25.23 c. And this Redemption was made by paying a valuable consideration according to the number of years to the Jubilee more or lesse and so buying them out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This is the import of the word here used and seems to be an Allusion to that Levitical Ordinance We had sold our selves to the drudgery of sin and were become Satans servants and so liable to all that curse and wo that attends upon that slavery Now the Lord Jesus comes and because our case is desperate no revolution of years could ever have brought us a Jubilee but we must be bond-men for ever therefore he hath paid an infinite sum that he might buy us out clearly from this accursed servitude and bring us into true liberty we are said to be ransomed not with corruptible things but with the precious blood of Christ 1 Pet. 1.18 19. and to be bought with a price 1 Cor. 6.20 and Christ is said to be slain and to buy us with his blood Rev. 5.9 The Scripture is exact and copious in discovering this great work in the particulars of it shewing us th● different termes 1 From which 2 Unto which Christ hath redeemed us 1 From what hath he redeemed us From sin Mat. 1.21 From all iniquity Psal 130.78 Tit. 2.14 From death Hos 13.14 From the power of the grave Psal 49.15 from the Law Rom. 7.6 Gal. 4.5 and here from the curse of the Law From this present evil world Gal. 1.4 From the earth and from among men Rev. 14.3 4. From the wrath to come 1 Thess 1.10 Out of the hands of our enemies Luke 1.71 74. 2 Unto what hath he redeemed us To himself Deut. 4.34 2 Sam. 7.23 To God Rev. 5.9 to be the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb Rev. 14.4 to be a peculiar people to himself Tit. 2.14 to serve him without fear all our dayes Luke 1.74 75. Yet further the Redemption of Mankinde is considerable in a double respect 1 As it is an act and work of Christ the Mediator and so the immediate product of his sufferings thus it exists in Christ himself as Rom. 3.24 the Redemption that is in Jesus Christ therefore he is called the Redeemer Isa 59.20 Rom. 11.26 and he is said to send redemption to his people Psal 111.9 he hath laid down the price and so effected the business Heb. 9.12 he hath obtained redemption He professeth that he came to give his soul to be a ransome for many Matth. 20.28 and the Apostle tells us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That he gave himself a counter-ransome for all a ransome every way equivalent and full 1 Tim. 2.6 2 As it is a benefit actually brought home applied to elect sinners by