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A47030	A sermon preach'd before the University of Oxford, upon Act-Sunday, at St. Mary's in Oxford, 1698 by David Jones ...	Jones, David, 1663-1724?	1698 (1698)	Wing J938; ESTC R2577	15,702	30

Truth of it For it is almost six thousand Years since Adam Sinned And we who are at this vast distance of Time from him are as really and truly guilty of his Sin as if we our selves had all been alive when he lived and had actually Sinned with him in our own Persons For says St. Paul Rom. v. 12 19. All men have sinned in Adam and by Adam's disobedience all men were made sinners And if the Sin of Adam who was only a meer Man be really and truly our Sin though we live so long a time after him Then shall not the Crucifixion of Christ who was God as well as Man be really and truly our Crucifixion when it is but so short a Time in comparison to Adam's Sinning since Christ was Crucified For is not Christ more able to save all the Elect who are only a few than Adam was to destroy all Mankind who are so many Yea verily For as the Apostle proves it at large the mischief we receive from Adam's Transgression is not so great as the Benefit we receive from Christ's Crucifixion For says St. Paul Rom. v. 15. The grace of Christ hath much more abounded than the offence of Adam And he gives the Reason for it v. 16. For says he the judgment was by one to condemnation but the free gift is of many offences unto justification That is the Offence of Adam only made Men guilty of original Sin But the Grace of Christ does not only pardon original Sin but it also pardons all the personal and actual Sins of all his People And therefore since we have certainly Sinned with Adam in Paradise before we were born let none of us if we are true Christians make the least doubt but that we were also as certainly Crucified with Christ upon the Cross before we were Born And now having thus acquainted you with these three Things the meaning of the Text which could otherwise have never been understood will be plain and easy to the most ignorant Man and Woman here present For when St. Paul here says I am crucified with Christ he tells us what he means by it Rom. vi 6. where he says that our old Man is crucified with Christ that is the corrupted Self or the corruption of Nature which is commonly called Original Sin is Crucified and Mortified and put to Death in every Believer by the Crucifixion and Death of Christ For the condemning power of Original Sin has been long since wholly taken away from us in our Justification by which we were acquitted from it's Guilt and Punishment The reigning Power of Original Sin has been already in some measure and is every Day more and more taken away from us in our Sanctification by which we constantly and manfully fight against it and weaken and lessen it's Dominion And the very being of Original Sin shall be wholly taken away from us in our Glorification in Heaven where we shall all be one glorious Church not having Spot or Wrinkle but altogether Holy and without Blemish And now you know what is meant by these Words I am crucified with Christ you will easily know the meaning of all the rest For when St. Paul says Nevertheless I live the meaning of it is this Do not think that I contradict my self by saying I am crucified and yet I live For as I according to my corrupted Self am Crucified and dead unto Sin So I according to my renewed Self am alive unto Righteousness and live unto God My old Man is daily dying in me and my new Man daily lives in me My Sin grows weaker and weaker and my Grace grows stronger and stronger But lest this humble Apostle and great Extoller of God's free Grace should seem to have taken too much to himself when he said Nevertheless I live he presently do's as it were correct himself by saying in the next Words yet not I but Christ liveth in me And the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me The meaning of which is this It is true that God never justifies a Man and aquits him from the guilt and punishment of his Sin but he does also at the same time Sanctify him and give him inherent Righteousness and put into him a new Principle of Action But this new Principle of Action is not so strong and powerful as of it's self to make a Believer do all his Duty without any further Assistance from Christ This inherent Righteousness does not cannot carry a Believer through all or indeed through any Christian Duties unless Christ gives him both the Will and the Deed unless he excites him to inables him for and makes him to persevere in the Practice of every one of them And therefore notwithstanding this new Principle and this inherent Righteousness which every Believer has Yet there is not one Spiritual Action that any Believer does or can do but Christ does more in it than the Believer himself does Christ lives more in a Believer than a Believer lives himself For says St. Paul I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me For Christ is the Life of every Believer Colos iii. 4. Yea and he is also the very Bread of his Life that is the only means to preserve it John vi 35. Christ gives us Life when we are dead in Trespasses and Sins and Christ continues that Life to us while we are alive and without Christ we cannot have it one moment no not while I am speaking this to you For what is said of our Natural is much more true of our Spiritual Life In him we live and move and have our Being We all live yet not we but Christ liveth in us The sum of what I have hitherto said is this We are justified by a lively Faith in Christ Crucified and not by the Works of the Law But this our Justification by Faith does not make us to live a loose and a lawless Life neither does it hinder but rather promote good Works It makes us to live unto God to live a Godly a Righteous and a sober Life And thus I have given you the true meaning of this most excellent and most comfortable Text of Scripture And I now come to propose to prove and to apply the Doctrines that are contained in it The first Doctrine is this Every Believer is Crucified with Christ For says St. Paul in the Name of every Believer I am crucified with Christ And the Reasons of it are such as these Christ is the Head of every Believer and every Believer is a Member of Christ And if the Head be Crucified the Members cannot avoid Crucifixion As when a Man's Head is cut off not only his Head but his Body and all his Members die Ephes i. 22 23. compared with 1 Cor. xii 27. Christ is the Vine and Believers are the Branches of that Vine And if the Vine be cut down and it's

A SERMON Preach'd before the University of OXFORD UPON ACT-SUNDAY AT St. Mary's in Oxford 1698. By David Jones Master of Arts and Student of Christ-Church LONDON Printed for Brab Aylmer at the Three Pigeons in Cornhill over against the Royal-Exchange 1698. GALAT. II. 20. I am Crucified with Christ Nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me And the Life which I now live in the Flesh I live by the Faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me IN the sixteenth Verse of this Chapter St. Paul lays down this comfortable Doctrine All Men are justified by the Faith of Christ and not by the works of the Law But some took occasion from thence to infer That every Man might live as he list and never mind good Works because he should be certainly Saved by his Faith in Christ though his Life were never so Bad. But St. Paul denies that any such Inference could be justly made from that Doctrine For then says he ver 17. Christ would be the Minister of Sin by making us to renounce the Righteousness of the Law and leaving us to be a loose and a lawless sort of People Yea and I would make my self a Transgressor by Preaching up such a licentious way of living ver 18. Neither of which is true For neither is Christ the Minister nor am I the Preacher of Sin For says he ver 19. I through the Law that is I understanding that the End of the Law is not to justifie but to Convince Men of Sin and to send them to Christ for Justification Am dead that is I am set at liberty and made free as a Servant that is Dead is free from all the Bondage and Slavery that his Cruel Master was wont to put him to Am dead to the Law that is I am freed from the rigour and hardship of the Law which like a severe Schoolmaster requir'd more of me than I was able to do That I may live unto God that is though I am freed from the Law and do not expect to be Justified by it yet I do not intend to live a loose and a lawless Life but to live unto God to live a Life of Faith in Christ to the Glory of God's free Grace And when St. Paul had thus plainly and fully answer'd this Objection he presently foresaw another which is this If thou art justified by the Faith of Christ Crucified then thou art Justified by his Death And if thou art Justified by his Death then thou art Crucified and Dead with him And if thou art Crucified and Dead with him how then comes it to pass that thou art alive To which he answers in these words I am Crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me And when St. Paul had answer'd this Objection also he presently foresaw another which is this We see that thou livest a natural Life by Eating and Drinking and doing as other Men do and how then canst thou say that thou dost not live but that Christ liveth in thee To which he answers in these words The Life which I now live in the Flesh I live by the Faith of the Son of God And lest any Man should be so ignorant as not to know what this Faith of the Son of God is he tells us expresly That it is not a Faith whereby a Man only believes the Love of Christ to Mankind in general for such a Faith St. James tells us the very Devils themselves have who both believe and tremble But it is a Faith whereby a Man believes the Love of Christ to himself in particular A Faith whereby a Man can truly say of himself I firmly believe that Christ loved me and gave himself for me And thus I have shewn you what is the Connexion between the Text and the Verses that are before it And I now come to shew you what is the meaning of it In order to which I am to acquaint you First That when St. Paul says I am Crucified with Christ he does not say this of himself alone as if it had been some extraordinary Privilege which he had above all other Christians but he says it in the Name of all true Believers whoever and where-ever they are He says it in thy name and my name and the name of every one here present if we really and truly believe in Christ and live up to our Belief For what he here says in the singular number I am Crucified with Christ the same he says in the plural number Rom. 6. 4 8. We are dead with Christ and we are buried with Christ Secondly I am to acquaint you that there are two Selfs or two Men in every single Person that is a true Believer The one Self is corrupted and comes from Adam the other Self is renew'd and comes from Christ The one is the New and the other is the Old Man And these two Selfs or these two Men do signifie two different Principles that are in one and the same Believer The one Principle comes from corrupted Nature and moves a Man to Sin and the other Principle comes from renewed Nature and moves him to Grace And the truth of this is plain from the Text. For if St. Paul had not had these two Selfs he could no more have said I am crucified and yet I live than one and the same Man can be said to be dead and alive at one and the same time Thirdly I am to acquaint you that when Christ was Crucified upon the Cross he did not endure that shameful and cursed Death for his own but for our sake What he did and suffer'd there was not in a private but a publick Capacity as he was the Head the Root and the Representer of all the Elect. And therefore when Christ was Crucified all true Believers were Crucified in and with him as when Adam sinned all men sinned in him and with him or as when Abraham paid Tythes to Melchisedek Levi who was then in Abraham's Loins and unborn paid those very Tythes in and with him or to give you a more familiar Instance as when a Member of Parliament gives his Voice there the whole County or Corporation which he represents is said to give their Voice in and with him And the Truth of this also is plain from the Text. For it is almost seventeen hundred Years since Christ was crucified and neither St. Paul who lived some few Years after his Crucifixion nor we who live so many Years after it can ever be truly said to be crucified with Christ save only as he is our Head and we are his Members and he and we are one compleat and perfect Man and all the Benefits of his Crucifixion are as really and truly ours as if we our selves had all been actually Crucified with him in our own Persons And how hard and difficult soever this may seem to be yet let no Man in the least doubt or question the