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A66352 Man made righteous by Christ's obedience being two sermons at Pinners-Hall : with enlargements, &c. : also some remarks on Mr. Mather's postscript, &c. / by Daniel Williams. Williams, Daniel, 1643?-1716. 1694 (1694) Wing W2653; ESTC R38938 138,879 256

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justified by his blood It 's by this Blood as the procuring Cause this was the Propitiation Hence his Blood is said to cleanse us 1 Iohn 1.7 I hope you will not doubt that that of Christ for which we are justified is at least a part of Christ's Righteousness 4. If Christ's Poverty merited Riches for us then his Sufferings merited for us but Christ's Poverty merited Riches for us 2 Cor. 8.9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ that thô he was rich yet for your sakes he became poor that ye through his poverty might be rich He was Owner of all Things but for a time he quitted as it were his Claim to acquire Treasures for us who has forfeited all He had not a Cottage of his own to lay his Head in that he might purchase Mansions for us 5. That in the Virtue whereof Christ intercedes for and gives out the saving Blessings we receive did merit for us but it 's in the Virtue of his Death and Sufferings that Christ intercedes for and gives out the saving Blessings we receive He is entred into the holy place Heb. 9.12 Into heaven it self v. 24. There he presents the Offering he had finished on Earth that is in the Virtue thereof he claims and expects the Blessings promised thereto and merited thereby The dispensing thereof is committed to him and each of them is given to us and received by us in the express Virtue of that Offering I shall enumerate some and shew that each is assigned to Christ's Death and Sufferings Col. 1.14 In whom we have redemption through his blood even the forgiveness of sins Which Blood was shed for the remission of sins Matth. 26.28 Eph. 1.7 We have redemption through his blood Heb. 13. 12. Wherefore Iesus that he might sanctifie the people with his own blood suffered without the gate Reconciliation is owing to the same cause Col. 1.21 22. Now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death to present you holy c. Yea eternal Life the sum of all promised good is granted on the same account Heb. 9.15 That by means of death for the redemption of their transgressions that were under the first Testament they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance Can you suppose that we have Remission Sanctification Peace and an eternal Inheritance for Christ's Death and Sufferings and that his Intercession for these and other Blessings is in the Virtue of his Blood and yet his Death merited not these 6. I might add Heb. 10.14 He hath by one offering perfected for ever them that are sanctified Which must not only prove that Christ's Death and Sufferings merited for us but that all saving Blessings are under their Influence as the meritorious Cause thereof Object Christ's Death and Sufferings were but the paying of a Debt and therefore merited nothing 1. A. Was not our Obedience a Debt Yea it was so more properly than our Sins or Punishment Sins are metaphorically called Debts but they are not Things we owe to God but are the neglect of that Obedience which we do owe to God and so oblige us to Punishment Punishments are called a Debt not as what God owes to us as a Debt or we to him but as what we are obnoxious to ●or Disob●dience if God is pleased to inflict them But yet he is not so obliged to Punish us as to exempt him from a Pardoning Right in the way his infinite Perfections will adjust If the Objection then will prove that Christ's Death merited nothing because it was the payment of a Debt the● it will more follow that Christ's Active Obedience merited nothing for that 's as much at least the paying of a Debt yea more properly The Confusion which this word Debt hath induced weak Men into especially as a Pecuniary Debt in the Doctrine o● Satisfaction I shall afterwards be necessitated to speak to 2. A. Christ's Death and Sufferings were Acts of Obedience in Christ and so they merited Our undergoing of Punishment would have been no Act of Obedience in us but an involuntary enduring of Vengeance It was not by a Divine Precept made our Duty but by the Sanction rendred due to us There was a Threatning whence it must be endured but no Commandment that made our being Punished an Obediential Act in us Is it an Act of our Obedience to die a Spiritual Death or to be hated and abhorred by the Lord Yea Is being eternally Damned a Duty performed to God by the Tormented But whatever our Lord Jesus suffered was obedientially and voluntarily endured It was God's Commandment to him and in him an Act of the highest Obedience to God he pleased God therein Ioh. 10.17 Therefore doth the father love me because I lay down my life He was obedient unto death Phil. 2.8 His willing subjection to God's Authority and Design herein was that which gave Life and En●rgy to his Sufferings Truly Christ's Dying was the highest Act of Obedience and what we call his Active Obedience yields no Instance that equalleth this It followeth then that if Christ's Obedience could mer●● then his Death and Sufferings merited because they were strictly Acts of Obedience His very ensuring them was Obediential 3. A. Thô Death was due to us as Sinners yet Death was not due to Christ but as it was to be Satisfactory and Meritorious It was thus proposed to him by the Father and thus consented to by Himself He was to bear it as a Punishment for the satisfaction of Governing Justice and to merit the Pardon of Sinners his Sufferings were a Pardoning Price He had committed no Crime and therefore deserved no Punishment nor needed any Pardon But he was willing to bear the Punishment of our Crimes that thereby he might merit our Forgiveness in a way consistent with the Perfections of God and conducive to the Glory of Divine Government Hence Is. 53.5 The chastisement of our peace was upon him It on him was a Chastisement for our Peace as it s designed End True it was for Sin or it had not been necessary nor yet a Punishment but yet it was to purchase our Salvation or he had not submitted to it 4. A. The immediate Efficacy and Operation of Christ's Sufferings upon us are as they be Meritorious Christ's Death must be satisfactory to God or he would not have accounted it Meritorious of Peace to us nor granted us Benefits on the account thereof Provoked Justice and the Injury to Divine Government by Sin stood in the Sinner's way yea stood in the way of all Merit for good to us There must be a Propitiation for Sin to God and this being made to God it 's accepted as a Ransom and Price by him and so it operates on the Sinner in a way of Merit consequential of that satisfaction we are redeemed by Christ's Blood as a Redeeming Price we are saved by it as Meritorious of Salvation Thô it was also offered as an
adjudged just right to the Rewards promised him for performing the foresaid Conditions The dueness of the Reward to Christ in a way of strict Justice is his Righteousness Ius ad premium it was to him a Reward of Justice and not of Grace because Justice proportioned the Conditions to the Reward and the Reward to the Conditions if it were not so governing Justice never glorified or discover'd it self in the dispensing of Rewards To finish this Point consider 1. The Reward to which Christ hath a Right includes all that was promised to Christ or to others on the account of his Satisfaction and Merits Not only that he should be exalted and have a name above every name P●●● 2.8 with whatever Glory or Homage which was to be render'd to him as a Saviour But it comprehends all by the Father promised and by himself bequeathed to his Members as Justification Adoption the Sanctifying Spirit Perseverance and Eternal Glory to his Regenerate Seed As also Regeneration and Faith to all the Elect that they may be raised to be a Seed to him and united with him 2. The Lord Jesus was solemnly adjudged to have performed all the Conditions and to have a Legal Right to all this Reward His Righteousness was adjudged he was justified as foretold Is. 50.8 God by Voice declared this but it was more manifest in his Resurrection and yet more in his Solemn Enthroning in the Heavens where he sits at Gods right hand Heb. 8.1 Yea he had Authority given him to execute his own Right Ioh. 5.27 Exh. Rejoyce and Glory in the Perfection of Christs Righteousness You see that in all respects it's compleat The Law of Redemption prescribed as became Gods Essential Justice to propose To these Governing Justice annexed a due Reward upon performing the Conditions the perfectly Holy Jesus had a right to all the Reward and was solemnly adjudged to have performed the Conditions and to have that Right to the Reward His Right is founded in a full performance of the Conditions which includes a full Conformity to the Law of Works yea and what far exceeds it In this then we may glory there 's no blot in his performance there 's no flaw in his right Can Sinners need anymore than this applied for it will serve to all the purposes it 's designed to Oh! Christian honour it by laying the stress of thy Hopes and Comfort on it and clearing thy Interest in it above all good it answers guilt weakness yea thy want of all things except that without which it cannot be applied to thee nor its effects attained viz. a Penitential Faith When thy Body rotteth in the Grave because of Sin thy Spirit will be safe and Eternally live on the account of this Righteousness Rom. 8.10 thou mayest chearfully venture thy Soul upon it 6 Pro. The Lord Jesus is and always will be possessed of this Righteousness in his own Person In the Lord have I Righteousness and Strength Is. 45.14 with respect to this it 's said our Redemption is in Christ by which we are justified Rom. 3.24 The Meriting Acts are over as Acts but the Merit never ceaseth His Sufferings are past but the Righteousness acquired thereby remains it 's not only their Vertue simply that continues but the Righteousness or Right founded thereon abideth He hath a Right to Faith for all the Elect who are yet uncalled he hath a Title to Pardon for all True Believers he hath a Right to Eternal Glory for all Persevering Saints There is our Right best secured It is for the Righteousness that is in Christ that we are acquitted and adopted and on it as in him we must still depend Exh. Sinners and Saints look to Christ as having in him a full Righteousness Let this Commend him to thy Acceptance and Trust. Sinners you need him on this very account to answer for your Unrighteousness all his Offers and Calls should have power with you from this very motive he hath a perfect Righteousness it were else in vain to believe in him it were to no purpose to repent and turn to him were not he by this Righteousness mighty to save thee an answer to his Call might not be expected But know with assurance that he is a Fountain deep enough for thy Uncleanness Zech. 13.1 The Son of Righteousness hath healing under his Wings Mal. 4.1 and peace and glory in his power You may trust the Promises by which the Gospel allureth you to Christ for as amazing as the Good is which they contain they are by his Righteousness Yea and Amen 2 Cor. 1.20 but take care of separating his Person from his Righteousness you must accept of him as a whole Christ if you hope for good by his Righteousness and your Faith must be directed to him in a firm dependance and entire subjection or he 'll be to you as unuseful as if he had not this fullness of Righteousness 7 Pro. All Graces and Saving Benefits are dispensed to Men in the Righteousness of Christ. By his Satisfaction he render'd it consistent with the Perfections of God to visit blind Souls with his light and surprize the dead with spiritual life on Christs account the Spirit descends to strive with the rebellious and awake the sleepy His Regenerating Influences are the effects of Christs Merits he acts as the Spirit of Christ. I do not mean that Christ's Righteousness is imputed to Men in order to the working of Faith in them as it is in order to Pardon you may as well say it 's imputed to Men in order to the preaching of the Gospel to them for that 's an effect of Christ's Righteousness but these are the result of a Divine Constitution wherein Christ is acknowledged but no right in Men supposed The first Grace is absolute and an arbitrary act as to any claim the Sinners hath Though Christ hath a right to the Elects being brought to believe yet he transfers not his right to the Elect who till they believe are not united to him and so are Aliens to his Righteousness But God hath an Eye to the Merits of Jesus in all his Grants and Gifts from first to last from the least to the greatest When he forgives Sin it is a rendring to us what is purchas'd by Christ's Blood Eph. 4.32 It is a giving forth of what he hath bought We are made Kings and Priests as a proper Reward to Christ and a Testimony to his Righteousness Exh. Say of every Saving Benefit and of all Graces This I receive because the Lord Iesus hath a full Righteousness The Heavens had been Brass as to Vital Influences but for this The Word had been a dead condemning Letter but for this My Sins had been eternally sealed up among his Treasures Pledges of his Love to my Soul I had never found my Prayers would have been excluded audience Christian Hopes and Comforts I had not intermeddled with but that Christ is Righteous yea perfectly so But because his Righteousness