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A54378	The redemption of mankind, by the passion of our Lord A sermon, preached on Palm-Sunday, at Kintbury, in the county of Berks. By Jos. Perkins, late vicar of Hill, in Gloucester-Shire.	Perkins, Joseph, b. 1658.	1692 (1692)	Wing P1558; ESTC R221441	13,606	33

may be effected and who can tell how oft he offends in a Day Then for the Satisfaction of one Days Sin a whole Life is not sufficient Sufficit ad Meritum scire quod non sufficiant Merita sed ut ad Meritum satis est de Meritis non praesumere sic carere Meritis satis est ad Judicium Concerning Merits It is sufficient to know that they do not merit Heaven but to want good Works is sufficient for Condemnation The Devil doth labour by Two Seducements to weaken our Faith First He would perswade us that good Works are the Cause and Means of our Salvation If he cannot succeed this Way then under a Pretence of Faith he would draw us from true Obedience and suggests it into our Minds That if we have Faith let us be indulgent to all Affections and commit all Offences yet Faith will bring us to an everlasting Kingdom But we are taught that real Sanctity of Life is never separated from a free Remission of Sins and we who are interressed by Faith in the Right of Inheriting by Works are wrought to the actual Possession of eternal Bliss Sanctification is a true and inseparable Companion of Justification For whom he hath justified them hath he also sanctified For how can a Christian be perswaded that he is beloved of God unless he be certain that he loveth God with an unfeigned Heart And who can love God who is not willing to perform and obey his Will and Precepts If ye love me keep my Commandments saith our Saviour Tho' we say that Children or Infants may be saved out of the Depth of Perdition by the Depth of God's Mercies without the Works of the Law yet let those to whom the Lord hath lent the length of Days think that he will exact an Account of their Stewardship how they have spent their Time how they have imployed their Talents which he in his Mercy had bestowed upon them Since our Redemption is of so high a rate that Christ's Blood was shed for it since the Malady of Sin is so cruel a Disease that nothing could cure it but the Death of the Physitian it behooveth us who are washed with his Blood to look to our ways and take heed of Vnrighteousness It is already manifest that our own Works are no causes of Redemption but rather the Fruits thereof 5. Now let us fall a little into Consideration of the Passion of our Lord and Saviour Christ and hear what great things he hath done for us And here I find him Buffetted Crowned with Thorns Spit upon Reviled Blasphemed Condemned Executed Dead and Buried Civis Romanus sum was enough to save a Citizen from Scourging and so St. Paul tryes the Experience of it Yet Christ that was Lord of Heaven and Earth and the only Door by which we enter and are made free Citizens of the new Jerusalem he was Whipped Who but our Saviour would have spent his Blood for our Sakes Who but our Saviour could have satisfied for our Sins and renewed us by his Spirit conferring infinite Graces upon us when we lay Dead in Sins and Trespasses Who but our Saviour could get Life into us and that by the sprinkling and shedding of his most Pretious Blood like the Pelican which is a Symbol of Christ Plutarch reports That the Senate durst not accuse Caesar for conspiring with Cataline and his Confederates against the State for if Caesar had been convented he would sooner have saved others than have suffered himself In like case it was an Happiness for us that Christ was Indicted for our Sins who was able to repel all the fiery Darts of Satan and to Triumph over him that had the Power of Death that is the Devil Heb. 2.14 A Mystery it is that our Saviour should vanquish both Death and the Devil by Death which proceeded from the Maliciousness of the Devil that he should make the Devils Glory his shame his Power his Overthrow his Kingdom his Undoing What could the Prophet David in all his Zeal for God wish more against reprobate Men Trayterous to Christ and his Gospel than thus to wish Let their dainty Tables be Snares to take them and let their Prosperity be their Ruin Even thus Christ hath vanquished the Devil He hath spoiled Principalities and Powers and hath made a shew of them openly and hath Triumphed over them in the same Cross Behold Christ once again and consider Dilectionem in discendendo Mansuetudinem in Patiendo Fortitudinem in animose Perferendo Vtilitatem in mala Poenae et Culpae auferendo All the Punishments which we had deserved were inflicted upon our Mediator and he hath quit the Score So whatsoever Afflictions befal the Godly in this Life they are not Punishments but Fatherly Chastisements and Corrections for our Humiliation and Amendment Yea Death her self is spoiled of her Sting and is become to the Godly only a passage into a more Blisful Life The Afflictions of the Wicked in this Life make them readier for greater Torments in the World to come for they tend only to revenge but the Corrections of the Godly make them afterwards more Cautelous and tend to their Instruction Saul was punished by the taking away of his Kingdom David was amended by the loss of his Child Ferulis Verberantur Filij non ut mulctam delictorum Deo persolvant sed ut inde ad Resipiscentiam proficiant as Judicious Calvin hath it When we lay strugling in the midst of all Miseries Let us remember what our Jesus hath done for us and then it will be to us as we have believed The Heathen Philosopher could say None is of Strength to raise himself some Man must lend his Hand and then he shall be lift up The Mind of Man cannot be without some Refuge and as we say of the Elephant cannot rest unless it hath something to lean upon Let Christ be our rest which is the chief Corner-Stone of his Church and we shall never fall and let us so rest that we be not idle but obedient to his will and fructifying to good works Themistocles said of himself That the Athenians used him like the Plane-Tree to which in a Tempest they ran for Succour but the Storm being passed and fair Weather succeeding they tear down his Leaves and tread on them Let it not be so said of you who finding no other Remedy for your afflicted burdened Conscience but the Merits of Christ's Passion his Mediation but when the Storm is past and you begin again to find in your selves that Peace of God and Conscience which Passeth all Vnderstanding you should return again with the Dog and Sow to the Vomit and trample under feet the Blood of the New Testament and make a mock of the Passion of Christ who was so kind for you as to pay all those huge Sums wherein you stood bound to God and that without either Price or Prayers of ours but according to the Riches of his Grace Our Election into

not believed the Truth he shall believe Lies till Vanity wash away his Years and he fall into Eudless Destruction 2 Tim. 2.9 Who will not believe since God hath sealed those that are his Signamus quae elegimus Merchants set their Seals on their Merchandise which they would distinguish from others but their Seals are set for their own Gains whereas God Seals us as a Loving Father to assure us of Everlasting Salvation I have spoken sufficiently of the Apprehension of Redemption It is our Apostles intent in this Place to shew how our Redemption was wrought in Christ by the Oblation of his Body and Effusion of his Blood Which Redemption according to our proposed Method is now to be considered In the work of our Redemption we see the manifold Wisdom of God For in our Creation he only said fiat and it was done But there be diverse courses in Redemption and turnings that seem almost Contradictory in his Eternal Decree He elected the Gentiles yet at the Creation he suffered them to be made the Vassals of Satan He promised Salvation to Adam and his Posterity by the Seed of the Woman and afterward he elected Abraham and his Seed rejecting the rest He chose the Israelites for his People Who would have thought that they should be cut off that we might be ingrafted yet this is the Mercy of the loving Lord and it is marvelous in our Eyes This Redemption was wrought freely in respect of us saith Bp. Sanderson none of our Money went to this Purchase Not for Price nor Reward Isa 45. But ye shall be redeemed without Money The Meaning is not that there was no Price at all paid but that there was none paid by us We laid out nothing to this great Purchase there went none of our money to it But otherwise that there was a Price paid the Scriptures are clear Ye are bought with a Price saith St. Paul 1 Cor. 6 20. and he saith it over again Chap. 23. He that paid it call'd it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Ransom that is as much as to say a Price of Redemption And his Apostle somewhat more 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 20.28 which implieth a just and satisfactory Price full as much as the thing could be worth of any Mans Money Yet not paid to Satan in whose Possession we were for he was but an Usurper he had indeed the Dominion over us but he had no right thereunto He had but bought of us and we by our Sale could convey no more right to him than we had our selves which was just none at all Our Redeemer therefore would not enter any Capitulation with him or offer to him any terms of Composition but thought good rather in pursuance of his own Right to use his Power and so he vindicated us from him by main Strength With his own right Hand and with his holy Arm he hath gotten himself the Victory and us Liberty without any Price or Ransom paid him But then unto Almighty God his Father and our Lord under whose heavy Curse we lay and whose just Vengeance would not be appeased towards us for our greivous Presumption without a condigne satisfaction to him I Say there was a Price paid by our Redeemer and that the Greatest Price that ever was paid for any Purchase since the World began not Silver and Gold saith St. Peter 1 Pet. 1.18 which being corruptible things are not Valuable against our immortal and incorruptible Souls But even himself in whom are absconditi Thesauri amassed and hidden all the Treasures of the Wisdom of God and even the whole Riches of his Grace Coll. 2.3 Treasure enough to Redeem a whole World of sinners take it collectively or distributively Singula generum or Genera singulorum this way or that way or which way you will in Christ there is Copiosa Redemptio Plenty and enough for all if they will but accept it take all Mankind singly one by one He gave himself for me saith St. Paul in one place Take them all together in the Lump He gave himself a Ransom for all in another This Redemption is signified by this Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and was most lively and punctually prefigured by the Deliverance of the Children of Israel from Pharoah Pharoah there Representing the Devil and Moses Representing Christ The Israelites were there delivered from the cursed Tyranny of Pharoah We are freed from the Curse of the Law from Blindness from Sin from Corruption which is the Punishment of Sin We are so freed from this Death that we cannot be holden of it From the First We are freed by Christ's Obedience and fulfilling the Law From the Second By the Preaching of the Gospel From the Third By the Donation of Faith and Grace From the last At the day of the Resurrection by God's Almighty Power Christ at his Coming freed us from the Ceremonial Law the Performance whereof was only exacted till Christ was exhibited Eph. 2.14 For he is our Peace which hath made both one and broken the stop of the Partition Wall in Abrogating through his Flesh the Hatred that is the Law of the Commandments which standeth in Ordinances Coll. 2.14 Putting out the Hand-writing of Ordinances which was against us which was contrary to us he even took it out of the way and fastened it upon the Cross They which were under the Law were subject to that Terrible Gurse Pronounced Deut. 27.26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the Words of the Law to do them But we are freed from this strict Exactness and Rigour of the Law Gal. 3.23 Christ hath Redeemed us from the Curse of the Law being made a Curse for us We are still bound to observe the Moral Law yet if we fail in Performance we are freed from the Rigour and Curse which it imposeth because Christ hath performed the Law in our Names Ye are not under the Law but under Grace Rom. 6.14 What then shall we sin because we are not under the Law but under Grace God forbid Ver. 15. Do we then make the Law of none effect through Faith God forbid Yea we establish the Law Rom. 3. Ver. 3. Libertines they are that under the Pretence of Christian Liberty let loose the Reins to sin when as the Liberty tends to the Peace of Conscience and to encourage us with greater Alacrity to do good Works Those which think themselves tyed to the strictness of the Law are like unto Servants which can do nothing Pleasantly because they know when they have done their Best their good Works will be imperfect But Christians being confident that Christ hath satisfied the Law in their behalf are perswaded that their Obedience will be approved by their indulgent Father and therefore they offer unto him their best Works as a pleasing and acceptable Sacrifice tho' imperfect And thus it behooveth us to do for amidst those Terrours where it is doubted whether God be offended with us or reconciled to us in