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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79435	Yahweh Tsidkenu or The plain doctrin of the justification of a sinner in the sight of God; justified by the God of truth in his holy word, and the cloud of witnesses in all ages. Wherein are handled the causes of the sinners justification. Explained and applied in six and twenty sermons, in a plain, doctrinal and familiar way, for the capacity, and understanding of the weak and ignorant. By Charles Chauncy president of Harvard Colledge in Cambridge in New-England.	Chauncy, Charles, 1592-1672.	1659 (1659)	Wing C3739; Thomason E979_11; ESTC R222074	232,660	312

comforted He dyed that you might never dye eternally Hee was cursed that you might be blessed Hee was full of sorrow that you might always rejoyce Phil. 3.3 Hee was accused that we might be excused and condemned that wee might bee acquitted Hee endured the fiercenesse of his Fathers wrath and indignation that we might never know what belongs to it 1 Be comforted then in the sharpest brunt of distresse Thou shalt be pittied in sorrows whether through terror of heart within or trouble without for the Lord will pitty thee in thy worst estate for Christs sake Psal 103.13 As a father pittieth his children so the Lord pittieth all c. And Deut. 8.5 Thou shalt consider in thine heart that as a man chasteneth his Son so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee And though Christ bee in Heaven yet his bowels and compassions do yern toward thee For Heb. 4.15 Wee have not an High Priest that cannot be moved with the feeling of our infirmities but he was in all points tempted c. Ah how sweet is it to consider that our High Priest is no stranger to soul-troubles or to body-disquietments but being tempted as wee are hath a sympathie and fellow-feeling with us All our crosses and trials reach to him as well as us Isa 63.9 He is afflicted in our afflictions Hee escapes not when wee are persecuted Heb. 2.17 18. Hee was made like unto us on purpose that he might be sensible of our calamities It is a lamentable condition a poor soul is in when it hath none to pitty Lam. 1.12 It is their sad complaint that all past by and minded not the Church Shee looks for commiseration and finds none that is a doleful estate But here is our rejoycing that we have a tender-hearted Saviour both able and willing to succour his poor servants And no wonder that he is so willing for who would purchase at so dear a rate and not uphold Who would beat so much cost and at last lose all for a trifle Hath Christ as Paul speaks of the Galathians 3.4 5. suffered so many things in vain Surely as poor Creatures are not willing to lose their cost and pains so Christ will not lose the travail of his soul his bitter Death and bloudy Sufferings for nought It is the greatest absurdity in Christian Religion to suppose it Gal. 2. ult If righteousnesse be by the Law Christ is dead in vain But Christs death is in vain and his grace is in vain if it may not comfort a poor soul in distresse Turn therefore to thy Beloved in thy distresse and ask him whether hee hath not been in the state of humiliation a man of sorrows and one that drunk deep of the gall and wormwood of Gods indignation that hath felt the wrath of an angry Judge and knows what it is to be in a forlorn state and hath paid dear to undergoe the chastisement of our peace And can hee forget his poor Members in their sorrows and have no compassion Can hee forget his anoynting how he was appointed of the Father to bind up the broken-hearted to impart the oyl of gladnesse to his fellows Hath he spent so much bloud in vain try thus if he can turn his back and leave thee comfort lesse 2 Thou shalt also be freed from thy sorrows in due season Thou shalt bee freed from sorrows God will not only give thee fair words but thou shalt have real help and deliverance Help is promised in due season 1 Pet. 5.6 and the condition of the purchase is for seasonable help or help in the best season Heb. 4. ult What that season is is dark to us many times But who taught the Stork the Turtle and the Crane in the Heavens to know their appointed time Jer. 8.7 Was it not the Lord our Creator and shall not he that taught them know himself Shall he not relieve you in your seasons Now what is it that gauls if we may lay our hands upon the sore and touch it it is sin that pricks that disquiets but you know Heb. 12 18-24 Yee are not come to the mount that might not be touch'd that burned with fire nor unto blacknesse and darknesse and tempests c. but to Jesus the Mediator and to the bloud of sprinkling c. whose bloud speaks better things than that of Abel Gen. 4.9.10 which cried loud for vengeance All sins speak but his cried aloud for vengeance but Christs bloud must needs cry louder for mercy For the shedding of Christs bloud was a greater sin than the shedding of Abels for the Jews sin in Crucifying Christ was greater than Cains in killing his brother yet Christs bloud prevailed to save them Act. 2.36 Against such as these is no Law Gal. 5.22 for they are filled with joy and peace in beleeving Obj. But if Christ hath thus perfectly satisfied for my soul and sin how is it that I feel such horror in my soul Why is it thus with me the Lord seems quite to reject me Sol. Beleevers may be deferted but not utterly forsaken Christs desertion hath so qualified all thy desertions that thou shalt not utterly and finally forsake God nor hee utterly much lesse finally forsake thee Joh. 119.30 none of Gods children are secured from being forsaken by him Job was David was and Asa was and not without need For 1 Else how could they learn to live by Faith Reasons of desertion more than sense whereas God is much more honoured by a life of faith than a life of sense and feeling 2 Our condition here is that of Strangers and sojourners yea of Pilgrims now if all went well with us and that wee had new supplies of joy daily wee should take this for our Country and so displease God 3 Sometimes Gods people cleave to the Creature and forsake him and then no wonder if hee forsakes them 2 Chron. 15.2 Jer. 50. ult They compass themselves about with sparks and shall therefore lye down in sorrow 4 They must in some measure bee conformable unto Christ that they may the better judge what Christ hath suffered for them But none of Gods children are so forsaken as Christ was for Christ was forsaken in a way of revenge by God as a just Judge but ours comes from another Principle Again Christ drunk the Cup of Gods wrath to the bottome wee do but sip and taste of the Cup sweetened through Christ This is in short the main God intends about it 1 So to forsake that hee may never totally nor finally forsake thee Hee forsakes for a while that hee may receive thee for ever And that thou mayest love him the more and seek him with earnestness and to infer a mutual increase of love between God and a Christian Isa 54.7 8. For a small moment have I forsaken thee but with great mercy c. In a little wrath have I hid my face from thee for a moment but with eternal kindness will I have mercy on thee

a people that have no understanding ● therefore he that made them will have no mercy on them and he that formed them will shew them no favour Yee have no understanding as if he should have said Yee have unmade and undone your selves by your folly wherefore I will not pitty you as my Creatures but if there were any validity in what this Objector saith then the Devils might comfort themselves which are the Creatures of God as well as men but of them and all the wicked of the world is that verified Prov. 16.4 God made all things for himself and the wicked for the evil day Obj. 5. If I must be the everlasting Object of Divine justice and vengeance for my sin I will bear it as well as I can Answ Now wretched creature is it come to that pass dost thou know what thou sayest know the Lyon by his paw Cain said Gen. 4.13 My punishment is greater than I can bear Proverbs 18.14 A wounded spirit who can bear Remember how it was with Job chapter 6.12 Is my strength the strength of stones Again Job 7.14 15. My soul chuseth strangling c. And Hezekiah Isa 38.13 I reckoned till morning That as a Lion so will he break all my bones Psal 88.15 Heman said whilst hee suffered the terrours of God he was distracted Job 31.23 Destruction from the Almighty was a terror unto me and by reason of his highnesse I could not endure Now these men that are last mentioned were precious Saints and Servants of the Lord that had a singular support of divine grace and yet they upon some lesser manifestations of the terrors of God in this life did thus expresse themselves But what is this in comparison of the Sinners of Sion Isa 33.14 15. what is this in comparison of everlasting burnings everlasting punishment Matth. 25. and the last vers streamings of brimstone chains of darknesse everlasting fire c. Matth. 25.41 the bottomeless pit an everlasting death immortal mortality according to that expression Rev. 9.6 they shall seek death and shall not find it they shall desire to dye and death shall flee from them consider but that expression of everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Matth. 25.41 the words are these Then shall hee say also unto them on the left hand depart from me yee cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Mark that word prepared it is spoken as if the Almighty Wisdome did deliberate and as it were set down and devise all stinging and terrible ingredients for a temper of greatest torture to make up that dreadful fire wherein hee meant to torment eternally his enemies do but cast an eye upon the sufferings of the Lord Jesus and his agony and prayer under the sense of his Fathers wrath and judge how well thou art like to bear the wrath of a sin-revenging God In a word let mee shut up this discourse with that of the Prophet Ezekiel Chap. 13. vers 11. Yee speak peace false peace to your own hearts build the Wall and dawb it ever with untempered mortar thus saith the Lord say unto them you dawb it with untempered mortar that it shall fall and there shall bee an overflowing showre and yee O great hail-stones shall fall and the stormy wind shall rent it The great God commands the great hail-stones to throw down the walls and daubings that yee shall say where is the daubing wherewith wee have daubed it All the vain Cavils of impenitent sinners shall bee scattered and do them no good I shall finish this use with a few conclusions following thence Conclusi 1. It is a horrible depth of Satans subtilty to hold an unbeleeving or impenitent sinner in a senseless security without feeling or fear of divine vengeance seeing such a soul is continually subject to bee seized on by the justice of God and that notwithstanding this sinners should bee so desperate that they turn to their course as the horse to the battel Jerem. 8.6 This is suitable to those expressions 2 Thes 2.9 10. where the Apostle tells us of the efficacy of Satan with all power and with all deceivablenesse of unrighteousness in them that perish Now these are Satans plots by which hee deceives souls 1 To procure them secrecy and successe in their wicked enterprizes for secrecy you have a place in Esay chapter 29.15 Their works are in the dark and they say who seeth mee or who knoweth us they dig deep to hide their counsel from the Lord much more from me saith the Prophet surely your turnings of things up and down shall bee as the Potters clay for shall the work say of him that made it hee made mee not Psal 64.5 They incourage themselves in an evil matter they commune of laying snares privily and say who shall see them but God shall shoot at them c. Now for their success in their wickedness and attempts the Devil makes fair promises of that too and for a while it may bee they may prosper Thus Haman Doeg the Scribes and Pharisees for some time prospered so did Julian the Apostate We read of this delusion of prospering in sin in Dan. 8.24 Hereupon the poor deluded wretches strengthen themselves in their wickedness Psal 52.1 2 He draws them by all the Baits hee can to engage them to their lusts to Ale-houses drinking revelling gaming feasting all manner of good-fellow-meetings and Bedlam-fooleries where the Devil himself is present in his Pontificalibus Prov. 1.11 Come say they let us lay wait for blood c. wee shall finde all pretious substance wee shall fill our houses with spoil cast in thy lot c. 3 Hee fills their heads with a multitude of worldly occasions with hope of gathering wealth so hee dealt with Cain in his building and as the Idolaters used when they sacrificed their Children to Moloc to drown the cries of their children with the noise of Drumms so these drown all the noise of Conscience with the lowder noise of the cumber and clutter of those worldly affairs 4 The Devil like a crafty juggler casts mists before the eies of his slaves or else as the Philistims dealt with Sampson puts out their eies that they shall not see the ugly face of sin They call evil good and good evil and so draw on iniquity and Isa 5.19 20. there they challenge God and say Let him make speed and hasten his work c. Let the Counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come c. Oh how miserable is that soul that is thus deluded by the Devil and led captive at his pleasure and what a fearful thing is it to abide one moment in such a condition Conclusi We are to justify God in all his severity 2. Then let us justify God in all the severity of his Commands Threatnings Judgements this was the frame of Davids heart when hee was kindly humbled Psal 51.4 That thou maiest bee justified when thou speakest