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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76090	[Chrysammoi] Golden sands, or, A few short hints about the riches of grace. Part I begun to be opened from the words of the Apostle, in Eph. 2,7 ... : dedicated to the royal bud of our English hopes, Princesse Elizabeth / by John Bachiler ...	Batchiler, John, ca. 1615-1674.; Elizabeth, Princess of England, 1635-1650.	1647 (1647)	Wing B1073A; ESTC R42998	28,635	167

overflow all the Creation over the eternall spring and Well-head of all those fresh seas and oceans of the swelling tides and bottomlesse depths of ineffable sweetnesse and love to all his elect both men Angels And how then can the unparalleld richnesse of it be estimated Set Christ and his blood aside and what is it can be thought upon that can come up to the price of one dram of it for a poor soule it would beggar all the Angels in heaven to doe it Stars are but the dust of heaven and yet one single staris richer in its substance then the whole globe of earth The soul of the meanest man alive is more worth then a world as he himselfe tel's us who went to the price of soules what then shall we think of this grace by which alone it is possible a soule may be saved And indeed herein ly's very much of the Richnesse of it that it is the onely All-head so soveraigne to save yea so much of the richnesse of it that Seraphims want Arithmetick to summe up the value thereof That balm which never fails of healing in no case whatsoever that Cordial which alwayes quicken's and keep 's alive at the very touch of it how inestimable is the worth of it for that very reason But we are forced to fall off frō this so high a speculation to something that com's better under our shallow apprehensions The severall wayes by which the Riches of Grace are participated by and divided among the Saints FIrst consider the losses which Free Grace sustein's from the Saints Had Adam stood and his posterity after him what a revenue of love obedience and honour should God have had for almost 6000. yeares Millions of millions had come in unto him treasuries of glory which by means of that unhappy fall he hath totally irrecoverably lost For though the wicked rout of men which shall certainly perish and goe down to hell at last must thereby undergoe eternall torments for the making of some kind of payment to Divine Justice yet the Elect goe free altogether free as touching their own individuall persons so that Grace is an absolute loser by them hath no payments at all from their hands no not one single farthing for all the rents that have beene so long behind Secondly consider the debts which Grace freely forgiv's to the Saints Their sinnes are their debts witnesse our Saviour's owne words Mat 6.12 Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors Now 1. How innumerable are these debts what multitudes of transgressions of all sorts are the Saints guilty of David was a man after God's owne heart yet heare what he saith Psal 19.12 Who can understand his errors and more fully Psal 40.12 Innumerable evils have compassed me about A man would soone lose himselfe in the observation of the very actuall aberrations which are multiplyed by him continually but what are these to the swarmes of searet corruptions within him that lye out of sight 2. How great and vast are the summes which these debts amount unto thinke on that also The Saints cannot sinne at so cheap a rate as others Christ is a King to them and God is Their Father Now suppose a Child that hath had costly breeding yea and more love then ordinary from his carefull and tender Father should breake out in some act of violence and indignity against his Father that hath deserv'd better at his hands or suppose a professed subject who by all the lawes of nature nations is obliged to loyalty under his gratious Soveraign should become guilty of Rebellion Nay to rise yet a great deale higher suppose a favorite at court one that is familiar with the King that know's his secrets liv's in his very heart that ever stand's before and even next his chaire of State and which is yet more one whose life hath beene sav'd and that many times over by the mercy and clemency of this his Lord the King And besides all this hath been advanced to eminent places of Honour with all the marks of Royall love upon him I say suppose such a favorite as this should asperse the Name deface the picture rend the Arms clip the coyn contemne the Lawes vilifie the government of the King Suppose he should suggest plots unto or any way strengthen the hands of those that seek his life or would make an Assault upon his Crown and Dignity Would not this man's crimes be more then ordinarily treasonable For a stranger that liv's under another Prince or a sworne enemy to doe this would be the lesse wonder but for one so many wayes and so strongly ty'd by all the bands of Humanity ingenuity gratitude obedience yea and of friendship it selfe which is ever wont to bind with silken cords I say for such an one to fall into so foule a fault what punishment can be a sufficient expiation for it And yet all the sinnes of the Saints even every one of them are more or lesse of this horrid nature For God is a Father to them though not to others and Christ is a King to them even a King acknowledged and owned by them though not by others Therefore for them to Crucifie him afresh or be any way in the least accessary to such mutinies and rebellions against him as are found in the hearts even of the very best of them how great a wrong is it surely the sinnes of the Saints then are debts of no petty or small values And it were well if this were all for over and above there are other debts of another kind and these as great and as innumerable as the former which the Saints perpetually run into And if this rich grace did not suffer them to doe so they must all famish and starve quickly even as the proverb is for cold and hunger not one of them being able to put bread into their mouthes or get a rag for their backs without a supply from the hand of grace They all live on credit and take up on trust so that should they cease from borrowing they would soon cease to be And 't is not a little that Grace furnisheth them withall not such trifling summes as shillings or pounds but with hundreds with thousands with millions And it is not but for now and then onely or very seldome but which add's abundantly to all the rest 't is constantly They not only never wipe out old scores but on the quite contrary still are beginning new ones multiplying scores without number Oh the piles of debt-bookes that lye heaped up in Free-grace her Counting-house All which as Grace suffer's with riches of patience so she forgiv's at last with riches of mercy Now that Grace is able to doe this that without feeling it or being impaired at all by it how convincing an argument is it of the riches of it Should any man alive even the richest of the whole race of Adam doe so should he lose mighty revenues forgive