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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26806	Sermons upon Psalm CXXX, ver. 4 but there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayst be feared / by William Bates.	Bates, William, 1625-1699.	1696 (1696)	Wing B1124; ESTC R25865	50,575	129

a Reprieve and Suspension of Judgment 't is the blessed Security of Believers they shall not fall under Condemnation There is such an Inconstancy in the Nature of Men that they often repent and revoke the Favours and Privileges they have bestowed they like to day and loath to morrow the same Persons but the blessed God is not subject to Change or Contingency His Love his Purpose his Promise to his People are unalterable From the Sense of God's pardoning Mercy Conscience is freed from those just Terrors that are the Consequents of Guilt The Blood of Christ purges our Conscience from dead Works from the deadly Guilt of Sin that cleaves to the Conscience A temporal Prince may pardon a Murderer and Conscience with a Countenance of Despair may summon him to appear and be accountable for his bloody Crime before the High and Everlasting Judg but those who are justified by Faith have Peace with God When the Original Bond is cancell'd the Counter-part has no Force Conscience is subordinate to God and when he justifies has no Authority to condemn When God blots out the Iniquities of his People as a thick Cloud there is a clear Sky a divine Calm and Serenity in Conscience It may be enquired how the compleat Pardon of Sin is consistent with the temporal Evils inflicted upon the Children of God for their Sins The Answer is obvious and easy Temporal Evils inflicted on the Children of God are declarative of his holy Displeasure against Sin but are not for Satisfaction to vindictive Justice This would be derogatory to the Love of God and the meritorious Sufferings of our Saviour who did not compound with God but made full and absolute Satisfaction for our Sins In the 12 th Chapter to the Hebrews where the Apostle so divinely and accurately treats of this Argument there is a clear Account of the Cause the Nature and the Product of the temporal Sufferings of God's Children The Cause of them is the Love of their heavenly Father displeased for their Sins Whom the Lord loves he chastens and scourges every Son whom he receives Earthly Parents in their various Fits of Folly sometimes chasten their Children only for their Pleasure and sometimes spare the Rod to their Ruine but our heavenly Father is equally wise and compassionate and uses such Discipline as is requisite for their Profit to prevent their Continuance in Sin that would be destructive to them Believers are chasten'd of the Lord that they may not be condemned with the World And the Wisdom and Love of our Father and Physician mixes such bitter Ingredients and in that Proportion as are requisite for the Quality of the Disease and the Strength of the Patient He corrects them in measure he will not suffer them to be tempted above what they are able Their Afflictions are deliberate Dispensations The Nature of them is signified in the word Chastisement The Correction of a Child is in order to his Amendment They are medicinal and have a main Relation and Prospect to the future to make us more fearful to offend God and careful to please him They are more lively and sensible Lessons of our Duty than the Instructions of the Word and are of the same Order The Product of the Chastisements of God's Children is the pleasant Fruit of Righteousness to them who are exercised thereby that is the sanctifying Graces of the Spirit Repentance Faith Hope Patience Self-denial Contempt of the World Resignation to the Divine Will are exercised illustrated and increas'd in those Christians who with unfainting Perseverance endure Affliction In short Death that was the penal Effect of Sin for the first Man while innocent was immortal tho continued yet the Sting is taken away the Quality of it is changed The Issues of it are vastly different to the Saints and the Wicked To the Saints 't is the Period of their Fears and Sorrows the final Remedy of all their Miseries to the Wicked 't is the Beginning of their Woe The Saints pass through the Darkness and Corruption of the Grave into the Kingdom of Glory the Wicked pass to the Blackness of Darkness for ever 2 dly The Intireness of this great Benefit is evident in that God restores his Love and forfeited Favour to all that are pardon'd Princes sometimes pardon Offenders but never receive them into their Favour Absalom was recall'd from Banishment but for two Years was not admitted to see the King's Face But God does magnify and manifest his Love to those whom he pardons He does not distinguish them from the Angels that always obeyed him He forgives our Sins as entirely as if they had never been committed and is reconcil'd as if he had never been offended We have the most clear Discovery of this in the Parable of the Prodigal It might have been expected that his Father should have reproach'd him for his obstinate deserting his House his wasting his Portion in Lewdness and Luxury and that bitter Constraint forced him to return no he dearly embraces him and cancels all the Debt of his past Offences with a most affectionate Kiss and whereas the poor Penitent presum'd only to be received as a Servant he was restor'd in the most affectionate manner to the Dignity and Relation of a Son and universal Joy was diffused through all the Family for his Return If our Saviour had not made this Relation with all its endearing Circumstances our narrow Hearts durst never presume and promise to us such compassionate Love of God to repenting Sinners But whoever imitates the Prodigal in his Return shall find the Reality to exceed the Representation I shall add some Examples of this Love of God to those who repent Mary Magdalen had been guilty of foul Sins yet our Saviour graciously received the tender Expressions of her Grief and Love to the Astonishment of Simon She wash'd his Feet with her Tears and wiped them with the Hair of her Head and kissed them and after his Resurrection appeared first to her as his endeared Favourite 'T is recorded by the Evangelist with an infinite Emphasis of his Love that he first appear'd to Mary Magdalen out of whom he had cast seven Devils Peter in whose Denial of Christ there was such a Mixture of Infidelity Ingratitude and Impiety he promised he would die with him or for him yet being questioned not with Terror by an armed Magistrate not surprized by a subtle Examiner but at the Question of a Maid renounc'd him yet he was restor'd to the Honour of his Office and the Affection of his Master 'T is very observable that when he appeared to Mary Magdalen he directs her to tell his Disciples and Peter of his Resurrection he particularly mentions Peter to raise his drooping Spirit by this new Assurance of his Love This happy Privilege belongs to all penitent Believers for whomsoever God pardons he prefers and adopts into his Family and makes them Heirs of Heaven The first Beam of Mercy shines

ungodly the Evangelical Command of Repentance for the Remission of Sins is useless and unprofitable What a pernicious Influence upon Practice this Doctrine may have is obvious to any that consider it I shall only add if God pardons Men as ungodly how shall he judg the World 'T was prophesied by Enoch Behold the Lord comes with ten thousand Saints to judg all that are ungodly for their ungodly Deeds which they have ungodlily committed Now as St. James argues against the Perverseness of Men when from the same Mouth proceeds Blessing and Cursing Doth a Fountain send forth sweet Water and bitter This Instance is incomparably more strong with respect to God than to Men. 'T is more consistent and conceiveable that a Fountain should send forth fresh Water and Salt than that the holy and righteous God in whose Nature there is not the least Discord should justify some as ungodly and condemn others as ungodly for ever 2. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the Evangelical Condition of our obtaining Pardon This will appear by considering the Nature of Faith Saving Faith is an unfeigned Perswasion of the Power and Desire of Christ to save Sinners that induces the Soul to receive him and rely on him as he is offer'd in the Gospel We are assur'd of his All-sufficiency and of his compassionate Willingness to save us He is able to save to the utmost all that come to God by him Our Saviour declares whoever comes to him he will in no wise cast out Faith is seated in the whole Soul and according to the Truth and transcendent Goodness of the Object produces the most precious and sacred Esteem of it in the Mind and the most joyful Consent and Choice of it in the Will Accordingly a sincere Believer imbraces entire Christ as a Prince and a Saviour and is as willing to be govern'd by his Scepter as to depend upon his Sacrifice Acceptance and Reliance are the essential Ingredients of justifying Faith This is the Doctrine of the Everlasting Gospel The Angel declared this to the Shepherds Behold I bring you Tidings of great Joy which shall be to all People for to you is born this Day in the City of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. This is a faithful Saying and worthy of all Acceptation that Jesus Christ is come into the World to save Sinners of whom I am chief Faith is indispensably necessary to our obtaining Forgiveness Faith is the Channel wherein the precious Issues of his Blood and Sufferings are conveyed to us To make more evident how necessary and gracious a Condition Faith in the Redeemer is for our Pardon I will briefly consider the Foundation of the Covenant of Life in the Gospel After Man had plunged himself into Damnation God having decreed that without Satisfaction there should be no Remission of his Sin and the Sinner being utterly incapable of enduring such a Punishment in degrees as might be truly satisfactory it necessarily followed he must suffer a Punishment equivalent in Duration To prevent this there was no possible way but by admitting a Surety who should represent the Sinner and in his stead suffer the Punishment due for Sin A threefold Consent was requisite in this Transaction 1. The Consent of the Soveraign whose Law was violated and Majesty despised For as there is a natural Distinction between Persons and between the Actions of Persons so there must be between the Recompences of those Actions Consequently the Sinner is obliged to suffer the Punishment in his own Person From hence 't is clear that the Punishment cannot be transferr'd to another without the Allowance of the Soveraign who is the Patron of the Rights of Justice 2. The Consent of the Surety is requisite for Punishment being an Emanation of Justice cannot be inflicted on an innocent Person without his voluntary interposing to save the Guilty A Surety is legally one Person with the Debtor otherwise the Creditor cannot exact by the Rule of Right the Paiment from him which is fixt by the Law upon the Person of the Debtor 3. 'T is as clear that the Consent of the Guilty is requisite who obtains Impunity by the vicarious Sufferings of another For if he resolves to bear his own Guilt and wilfully refuses to be freed by the interposing of another between him and the Punishment neither the Judg nor the Surety can constrain him to it Now all these concur in this great Transaction As the Creation of Man was a Work of solemn Counsel Let us make Man so his Redemption was the Product of the Divine Counsel I may allude to what is represented to us in the Vision of the Divine Glory to the Prophet Isaiah I heard the Lord saying Who shall I send and who will go for us Then said I Here I am send me Thus the Rise of our Salvation was from the Father He makes the Inquiry who shall go for us to recover fallen Man The Son interposes Here I am send me The Father from his Sovereignty and Mercy appointed and accepted the Mediator and Surety for us It was no part of the Law given in Paradise that if Man sinned he should die or his Surety but it was an Act of God's free Power as superiour to the Law to appoint his Son to be our Surety and to die in our stead And the Aspect of the Law upon a Sinner being without Passion it admits of Satisfaction by the Sufferings of another 'T is said in the Gospel God so loved the World so above all Comparison and Comprehension that he gave and sent his only begotten Son into the World that the World through him might be saved The Son of God with the freest Choice did interpose between the righteous God and guilty Man for that end He willingly left his Sovereign Seat in Heaven eclips'd his Glory under a dark Cloud of Flesh degraded himself into the Form of a Servant and submitted to an ignominious and cruel Death for our Redemption When he came into the World he declared his full Content with a Note of Eminency Sacrifice and Offering thou wouldst not but a Body hast thou prepared me Then said I Lo I come to do thy Will O God Upon this Consent of the Father and the Son the whole Fabrick of our Redemption is built 'T is the Resultance from it that the Execution of Justice on Christ is the Expiation of our Sins and by his Sufferings the full Price is paid for our Redemption There is a judicial Exchange of Persons between Christ and Believers their Guilt is transferr'd to him and his Righteousness is imputed to them He made him to be Sin for us who knew no Sin that we might be made the Righteousness of God in him His active and passive Obedience his Doing and Dying are as truly accounted to Believers for their Acceptance and Pardon as if they had meritoriously wrought out their own Salvation The Sinner must give his Consent to