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Show t679· ~ Sccl. 4· An Addrefs to 'Protejlants. VoL. I. b h ne let! and revile the Subllance of daliz'd at the Thing they afk, and Ot 4,1rhy W10 be done ; but believe their own Prayers: Thy Kz;'1ddd fi~~:d hiS Son to. Tbe Tbz</(faysChnll) netther. It was the Office 0 1 e 1d 1 deflroy. that is tojftol tlWaJ the dots not come but to kill, to flenld~n ° aU good Dtftres' an Inclinations m Heart from God, and to klU an tr?{nd Deftroyer : But I am come (fays the Soul· For the Devtl IS the Thted tbm e m1gbt btzve 11 more abundantly. ]ohn to. n. Chrift) that ye mTgfJt bavehL{S, ab I as lfyhe had faid, I Will kill that whub John to. to. Agatn, 0 Death, I WI: be~ 'Yb ~:eatb of Life mto 1r agam; and, by my Spt~ Hof. 13. 4a kills the Soul: I uuU rear 1 ~ Motronr and kmdie Heavenly Defires 111 tl r1t and Grace, I wtD begetdHoy if God ;nd the R1gbteoujne{s thereof This afJer God, after tht}f'"tA 0~ { wtll ~ot only reftore that Life the Soul has Rom. 6, 4o is the Newntjt ~f LtJ[c · .. "I w"ll add to it, th .tr tt may have Life more a· loft, but I wtll mcrea c tr • d S 1 ngth to refiil Evtl, and embrace and debundant/ y; more Power an tre light in that whtch ts Go~d. f G d for this Purpofe; and is therefore called lndeed he was Anotnte 0 0 f Breaches and the Budder up o[Wafle the Reflarer of P11th~, the ~ep;rrr God for rhe'Recovery of Man from Ius Places; that 1S, he lS ordame 0 is the Reafon of his Name . Tbou }halt FaUen and Difobed"f./ Sr'f,"J. T:"Angel for be jbaU fave hu People from Mat. 1, 1~. call bts Name J E S S, at h ~nl but' from Sin, whtch is the Caufe of thetr Sms . No~ frofm swJMen ~~will mJke them really Go~od Men, and Wrath. That IS, o a .11 ' k them Holy and Righteous Men, fuch ofSmful and Unholy, he;'~ m\: Burden of John's Tellimony: There u as truly belteve m hlm. T. .r, 1S IS t mrgbtttr than I, He jhall B"pw:e you Mat. 3• n, One iays he, that comet J aJtF, me, n hofe Fan H m bu Hand, and be fiJtll w;ti rbe Holy Ghoft ;...nd wa~ndrfe~in~ Jefrn commg ro him, faid, Behold the through!; F~trge bn loor. 1. he Snu af t1Je World! John t.69. Lamb oJ God, whtcb taket J away t make of thefe Scriptures, as if' they we(e I know the Ufe rh,:)t ;oo m~n~ld Sacrifice.s, whtch may be fatd, To tll!ie an Hebraifm, borroW d rom t e d not that the Natures of .Men are Re· away Sm by takmg awa~ t:e.Gd't!~ ~is is that Scnfe which I dread above all jlorcd and PerfeB_ed. n mh:£;d of Cbr,f1's Comt'ftg, and lodges Men m a others, becaufe. tt rerverts. t own Souls. For though it is moft true, that Secu!ity perniCIOUS to t~etr reached 111 bx Name and Blood, and tb.Jt Sm, m AEl:st0.43• Remij]ion of Sin vuu, an u l when the Gmlt of the Sm n r8dlovtd Epbef. '· 7· a Senfe, may be fait to be tal en /SO:/' a/1 that uptm Repentance u forgtven: by Remij}ion ' yet 1 Wh.t tn)- on :n E~angeltcal Senfe, 3S Chnfi's own Bur this ls not th~ 0 e, R u fa 5 be the Son of JUanu come to fave Mat. tS. t t. Words do pl:unly .~mp<~td u ~~ an~ther' Occafion be expreffeth himfelf to Luke 19, 1o. that wbzch walLOp· ° K . the fame Words, For the Son of .iHan t.s the f:tme Purpofe, and alm~ !bub ~ill Loft. Now, who is this that IS come 10' feek and to .fqve that Se li can Man be faid to be Loft, but by Stn Loft, but M:~n ) And Jn "'! at n e ft him out of the Prefence and Gar· and Difobedience) That It wasCwhd~~i~: of Eternal Mtfery. H Chrjft then den of God, an~,p~ htmh~n a ultbne underftood to SJvehim from that whtch came t? Save Lop L ft"Cond~wn, and that is Sin; for The Waga of Sm ts 6 puts htm mto a 0 .~ S · Son af Perdu1on. . 'P.om •• 23• Death, and the Serva_m,;J h'm ps at beyond all Exception, in his Dtfcourfe Chrifi has determtn t 111 om ) Thenjdd Jefm to thofe Jews, with the Jews, (John 8. 31, 32, B, 34 'In Wor then are ye my Dij_etplet v.;b!Ch be!teved on 1nm, if ye co,;rmze znd /lerrutb jhall make ]_Ou Free. What ,ndeed; and ye~a~ ~~~~f~fy fr~~·S~~; fuitable to rh3t Paffage in his Piay• Freedom w3s t IS 1 T b thy Word tt Truth. But fame .ttf»s er r. San[lijy dtbe~f 1t~ci~g~:i~te~:;, ;pprehended not the Lt~er~ dChr:~ Chap.l7• 17· pre1ent, prou [: f. •d h' thus . We ore Abrahams ute , a,. fpoke of and there ore an wet bm f. j1 bo Te jholl be made Free? were nev~r m Bondage to t111J .A-fnn i ~wfa;IYUnr~ ):;1 wbo[oever commtttetb Jefus anfwered them, Venlj'i verbfch Pl:J.ce it is verY remarkable, that Men Sm, IS the SttVtmt of ~'[h d by wthelt Works ; that no Claims1 Pnvtleges, are o'nly to be dtlhngm e * Succeffions, VoL. I. An Addrefs to 'PrQtejlants. Succeffion_s, or Defcents a~e available, b11t he that commits Sin, is tbe Su; _van_t of Sm. So rha~ <';hrJft>s Free Man is he that is freed from Sin. This 15 hts l'?llower and Dtfct~le •. And as Chrift oppos'd the Works of the)ews, wh~ unjullly fought to ktll him, to their. Preten~ons they made to be Abrahams Seed ; fo muft _we oppofe the AEhons of tll Men ro their better p10 .. feffions: We rnuft fanhful1y teH them, He that commit.s Sin i.s tb~ s 77i 1679· ~ Part II. Sell. 4• of Si'!; from which Servit~de Chrift came to Save bi.s P~aPl~, and i/;hear:~ fore nghrly called, The Sav10ur and the Rede6mer. This Doarine is clofely followed by the Apofile Paul in his fixrh Cha te R.om~ 6.41; 6t to th~ Romans .. Theref~re we are buried with him by Baptifm into Diarh1 u. that like tU Chrifl vuu raifed .up from the De a~ by the Glory of th~ F4rber; even fo f»! alfo .fhould_ wal~ 111 1\ewnejs nf Lif~ -Knowing this, that our Old Manu crucified umb hrm, that,rhe &dj of Sin might be de/lra;'ed, rbat benet/or/ h we Jbolf!d not ferv_e Sm - Liltewift redan ye alfo our fe/ves ro be D~11d mdeed u~to Sm, b11t alive unto God tbro11gh JeJ11r dhrifl our Lor~. ~s If he had fatd, The E.rtd of Cflrifl'~ comi~g, is. to turn Ptople from thetr Sms; and t~tZt tbofo r»bo perjifi m their Dijobedtence, rejift the Benefits that tome by hrm. Let not Sinrherefo[~ reign _in }O'IIr Mortal Body, that ye foauld obey it in· the Lufls thereof l\e1tber yu!d ye your Member.s tU Jnflrumenrs of Unrig. breoufnef.s unto Sin 1 hut yield your /elves unto GoJ, a1 thofe that are Rom. 6. tt; Alive from the Dead, and your .Members as Inftrument.s of Righuoufnej1 q,t6,2oi21J unto G~d- Know )'e not, that to whom yt yield your ftlve1 'Servant.s to 1 2:• 23• obey, bu SertJants ye art to whom ye obey; whether of Sin unto Death or of Obedience unto Rigb~eouftttf.s ? --For when ye were the Servants 'of Sin ye fJN!re free [rom RJgbreoufneft. What Fruit bad ;·e then in tboft Thi11g.s: uhereaf ye are now ajhamed ? For the EnJ of tbofe Tbints it Death. Bur now_heing mad~ Free /rom Sin, and becom_e Se~VIIIIIt to God, ye have your f'ru1111nto liohne(!, and tb~ End Everlajlmg Life. For the ,W11ges of Sin ;1 Death, but the Gift o/God IS Eternal Life, through Jejm Cbrifl our Lord To co~cl~de, nothi~g. can be more apparent, than that I' reed om fr~m AB:ual Stnmng, and gtvmg Newnefs of Life to the Souls of Men was the Grear Rc:afon of Chrill's C(I11Jiftg, ancl the End for which he hath 'given us out of h1s Fulnefs o( Grace and Truth, f) race for Grad; and that to be under Gr~ce, and not under the Law, is not to have Liberty to do that now, Which ought not to have been done before or to be cxcufed from for,. mer moral Obli~ations, as the Ranters inter pre~ it; but to be freed from the Condemnau?n of the Law, Firjl, through Remiffion of the Sins that are paft up_on Fatth and_Repentance, and next, by freeing us of that Weak nefs by whtch we were dtfabled from keeping God's Jull Law and fulfilling the Righteoufne1S ofit, .in receiving and obeying the Light ;nd Grace that comes by Jefus Chrill. Very pertinent is that Paffilge of the Apoftle P~t11l to 'linn, to our prefent Pu.rpofey for it feems to comprehend the End of OJrifrs CAming, and the Fatth and Duty of his People; which our Great Sdden, after aU his Pa.in• ful Readings, and Curious lnquifitions, faid, but a little before his Death,. Was the Mafl Weighty PtJ.ffage of the whole Bible to him, ar the Bible- was the Befl of Boo!u in the World, viz. For tht Grate of God, that bringttb Sf1lvari· Tit. 2'. n.-u!t on, hath appettred to aU Mtn. teaching m, that Jenying UngoJiinejs, and f], ... Worldly Lufls, we }&Juld live Soberly, Righreoujly, and God!J in rhis .pre{tnt Wor/J; lao!dng for that Bleffid Ho1..e, a11d rht Glorio11.s .&f!petrring of the Guat God, and o11r Saviour ]iftuChrift, fiJbo gave himft!f }or lit, th1t be might -~~~~:J. W!'h:~ al!Iniguiry, and purify 11nto bimfolf a pec~tli11r Peopk, Zeq/o111 In which comprehenfive Palfage, we find the Entl. of Chrijrs Camhrg tobe 011r Redemption {rom aO lniq11ity, both to blot our our Sins thJ r ar~ paft, and to purify our Hearts from the Sin that remains. We have the Means that works and brings this SJ!vation into our Souls, which is th~ Grace; :~nd the Way, by which this Grace doth accomplilb ir, is by '!'ea~bmg us t~ den! Ungodlinefr and Worldly L11j/r, aJtd to livt SNer!J', R,ghm•Jiy, ond 5 F 2 GQ;ily |