The Application of Redemption, Book 1 · Section
Application is that special part of our … very from our lost Condition, … that Spiritual Good which. Christ … Purchased for Us, is made Ours; for His, is made Theirs.
To omit the further Consideration of the first part the Description, as that which contains the common … of this part, as in reference and cohaerence with … other: That wherein the Pith lies, and which … our purpose may be resolved into these Two … and Observations.
First, That Christ hath Purchased all Spiritual Good for His.
Secondly, All that Spiritual Good that Christ hath Purchased for his, he doth undoubtedly put Them into the Possession of it, and make it Theirs.
For the First of these the Doctrine is, That Christ hath Purchased all Spiritual good for His: Doct.… be Three Particulars to be attended for the … of this Point.
1 What this Spiritual Good is.
2 Why Christ Purchased it, and How.
3 For Whom.
This Spiritual Good intended, is the heap of Grace … Happiness, with all those sweet Fruits and … which are either in preparation to it, or … upon it; the whole Estate, and Portion, and Patrimony of a Christian, the Riches & Revenues of … Gospel, what is in Hand, what is in Hope, what … Possession, what in Expectation, the whole Mass … Inventory of those Everlasting Treasuries which … stored up from all Eternity for the welfare of His. David thus discovers it, Psal. 31. 19. Oh! How … is that Goodness which thou hast wrought for Them, and laid up for Them, and laid out for Them … trust in thee before the Sons of men! So the Apostle also, Ephes. 1. 7. In whom we have Redemption through his Blood, the forgivness of sins, according to the riches of his grace wherein he hath abounded towards us.
I would not, I should not, in a way of orderly proceeding descend to Particulars, for that were to … things out of place; I am now only in the general Doctrine, which lies open in a Community for the … of it to all that comes after, and therefore nothing proper to this place but that which carries that Community with it; The Severals I shal reserve to their particular places: Only thus much we may say … the further manifestation, All that Spiritual Good we lost, all that we do want or can need, all that … can desire, all that we can receive for our everlasting welfare, this is that plentiful Redemption which … meant here, Psal. 130. 7.
Why is it said that Christ hath Purchased … Good? Because there is a Price laid down for it, … that of equal worth, and of valuable consideration … that which is desired and obtained, and that in a righteous way of just proceeding; and the Price that … laid down is expresly named in the Text to be the … Blood of Jesus: You were Redeemed (saies … Apostle) not with Silver and Gold, (these were … too mean quality, and too base a condition, being … and tramitory things, and therefore no … answerable to those everlasting, and spiritual, and … good things we look for) but with the … Blood of Christ, which is of endless infinite and … virtue and efficacy, and in which the Lord rests …, this is a full Purchase.
For any Power by strong hand to wrest away … sinner from under the Almighty hand of God it … impossible, for Justice to lay aside it self and not … … have her … righted in a righreous way was …; therefore that Gods Justice might …, and our good procured, there was necessity … an equal price should be laid down for it, and … was the blood of Christ. In a word, The … … Obedience of Christ was the full Purchase; The … out of Justice is bound to manifest the Glory of …, because that is to give every one his own; and … must require satisfaction where any breach … been made by any transgression and swerving … the righteous Will of God. While therefore … Savior by his Death satisfied the breach of the …, and for all the sins that ever any of His should … guilty of; and by his Obedience fulfilled all …, and perfectly pleased God: He fully …, by way of purchase and compleat payment made … Divine Justice, the removal of all that evil we … deserved, and the enjoyment of all that good we …, and could desire; and that by a valuable … tendered into the hands of Divine Justice in … behalf.
Thus we are said 1 Cor. 6. 20. to be bought with a …. And Job 33. 24. the Lord is said to set free the … through the righteousness of his Son, he …, Deliver him because I have found a Ransom. … the Ransom and Payment is tendered to divine …, for to it the Soul stands Prisoner; As the … is the King's Prisoner not the Jaylors, so the … stands bound to divine Justice, and is God's …, he is neither the prisoner of Satan (who is … Jaylor) nor of Sin (which is the Prison properly) … so far as they receive Commission from … … to require Satisfaction in her behalf. And … when Justice is satisfied neither of them have right … power to retain the Soul.
Therefore the Scripture stiles them redeemed from … earth, Rev. 14. 3. And He gave himself that he … deliver us from this present … world, Gal. 1. 4 … again, Rev. 5. 9. He was slain and … bought us … his blood unto God the Father. So that by way of Purchase he hath bought us from our selves, that is, Redeemed us from the tyranny, authority, and … veraignty of our own lusts unto which we were … bondage, 1 Cor. 7. 23. He hath bought us … price from being the servants of men: that is, … the slavery and servitude of mens humors and … When the Law is satisfied, the Dungeon and … can detain the Prisoner no longer.
Thus, However it is out of free mercy and … grace that Redemption is given to us, (for its out … mercy that Christ is given, that he gave his life, … both are bestowed upon us and not upon the world) yet in regard of the Lord Jesus …, and the … payment he hath laid down out of his own … cost and charges, his own blood, its justice, it … be bestowed upon him, and by justice it may be challenged as that which he hath … in a … proceeding.
Instruction. We may here see, how great and … Use. 1.a work it is, to obtain the least Spiritual Good that appertains to the everlasting welfare of our souls, were it but the giult of the least sin that should be removed, were it but the power of the least … that should be brought under, one smile of Gods countenance, and one blessed look of his face and favor toward a poor wtetch, were it but a saving and a heavenly thought of a mans mind, the least spiritual motion or stir of our hearts in any sincere affection to the Lord: It is not all the Policy or Parts of men that can procure it, not all the power of created Nature in heaven or earth that can accomplish it, not all the … of Pearls, mynes of Gold and Silver in the … … … that can purchase this; no, if it were … from a vain Conversation, from a Tradition, from a Delusion, you must be redeemed from it by the … blood of Christ: So the text. God wil not … any good of the Covenant of Grace, but he … well paid for it, and it comes at such a rate that all … and all Creatures are not able to reach the …, Psal. 49. 8. The Redemption of the Soul is …, it ceaseth for ever: Men and Angels must … it alone, only the Lord Jesus the God of glory in … all the treasures of Grace are hid, he is able to … the purchase, and it hath cost him sweetly … full dear, no less than his very heart blood.
Reproof. It checks a double Practice.Use. 2.
First of those that have interest in this purchase and … want the Exercise, of that heavenly skill, or care, … confidence, or all, to improve it for their best ….
They sit down appaled and … with the … … their sins so …, so loathsom, with the … of Gods holiness, and … … … as that they dare not beleeve it, dare … think it, that either the pardon of their sins, … … their persons, … the least look of Gods love … be vouchsafed to them. Another while they sit … discouraged under the pressure and pursuit of … … and policy, the violence and strength of … own corruptions, their sins live and are mighty, … therefore they conclude they can never overcome: They stagger again in the assurance of Gods love, and … they dare not say but they would be Christs, and … his Death and … shed is theirs, they will not … away that. Why? Have you laid down the purchase? Take possession then into your hand: Have you tendered the payment? Take the Commodity, … is your own; nay, your due. Say, Lord, I and all … I have, and all I can do are worthless and vile, I am … base sinful creature, that need all spiritual good and comfort, and yet deserve nothing but the contrary; But here is the precious Blood of thy Son which thou … … upon me, it is a full purchase every way answerable to thy justice, this precious blood is … of precious Faith, precious Peace, … Grace, its pardoning, purging, pacifying blood; … beseech thee therefore, though I be a sinful … Creature, through the blood of Jesus pitty me; though polluted and loathsom through the … of the blood of Jesus clense me. So the …, Let us draw neer with a true heart, in full … of Faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an … Conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water, Heb. 10. 22. Eye the worth of this Blood above all our unworthiness; the Holiness of this above all the unholiness of our hearts and lives. He that knowes … what the purchase will come, and hath the sum in sight and under his hand, he can lay it down upon the …, pay it, take it, here is one there's the other.
So Paul, Rom. 8. 34. Who shall lay any thing … the charge of Gods elect? it is Christ that … died: Here's the Blood of Jesus which thou art well pleased with, hast accepted of, therefore Lord give me my due, that comfort, that peace, that wisdom, that assurance, which I stand in need of. So again, Gall. 6. 14. … be it from me that I should rejoyce in any thing … in the Cross of Christ: He rejoyced in nothing but this, therefore far be it from him, that he should … rejoyce in this.
It crusheth the confidence, and dasheth the … and delusions of presumptuous wretches, who out of a brazen-faced kind of boldness, will be scrambling for their own comfort, catching at grace, and mercy, and peace, when it belongs not to them: True, say they, our sins, persons, conditions, are such and so vile, but the Lord is gracious and merciful, and therefore they doubt not but to be accepted and saved, and conclude that peace and happiness is theirs; they take the good, but tender no purchase; lay hold upon their comfort, … never lay down the payment; A way that God … appointed, a course that justice never permits, …, mercy it self will not allow; There's no precious … without precious blood, No Redemption from … blood and filth in which we lie by reason of our … evils (when I saw thee in thy blood, I said, …) but only by the blood of Jesus. So the Apostle …. 9. 22. The Book, the People, the Tabernacle, … Vessels, the Ministery, all things by the Law was … with blood, and without shedding of blood … no remission, No entring into the Holy of … but by the blood of Jesus: Mercy it self through … vertue of the blood of Christ is communicated, … it self through the vertue of the blood of Christ …; unless therefore thou canst bring the …, the payment, the blood of Jesus with thee, … dream to receive any good at the hands of the ….