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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

Christ c. 2 Have I no reservation within my self where I would bee dispensed withall in any courses of life or any secret lusts or corruptions at lest known or allowed in judgement or practice Hath my faith such a commanding power that it will not let mee alone in commission of sin or Omission of duty then I may conclude that the faith of Christ is wrought in mee and thence undoubtedly conclude that I am a justified person Because that hee that beleeveth on Christ is already justified Now when this is soundly concluded the soul may upon daily occasions put forth and exercise his faith in Christ for his spiritual and everlasting comfort Direct 5. When thou wouldest exercise thy faith at any time thou must not go about it in thine own strength either of nature or grace received but look up for a fresh influence of the Spirit and his assistance For as it is sure that no creature can of himself look upon natural things nor act without a renewed and fresh concourse of Gods common providence So Grace though it bee above nature and stronger than it yet its motion is from the Holy Ghost And this assistance of the Spirit comes from Christ as the light from the Sun by an efflux Joh. 8.12 the power is in Christ though it work on us Therefore all things are said to be done through Christ strengthening of us Phil. 4.13 Every act of Faith requires a power of Christ in a fresh administration wher in he fulfils the good pleasure of his will and the work of faith with power 2 Thess 1.11 And this is the meaning of Pauls prayer for the Ephesians Chap. 3.16 17. that they might bee strengthened with might by the Spirit and that Christ might dwell in their hearts by faith And as the Holy Ghost must assist the grace of faith before it can act so hee must clear up the objects of faith before faith can work upon them as the light must shine upon the brasen Serpent before the Israelite can see it Wherefore the Apostle praies earnestly that God would give the spirit of wisdome and revelation to know the things they beleeved and hoped for Eph. 1.17 18. Wherefore as in all other graces so in faith God worketh in us the deed as well as the will Phil. 2.13 and Jud. 20. building us up in faith is by praying in the Holy Ghost and wee must look up to the Holy Ghost by earnest prayer to help us in the whole progress of our faith and every act of faith till wee receive the end of our faith the Salvation of our souls Christ Crucified the special Object of Justifying Faith THE SIXTEENTH SERMON ON Romans 3.25 Faith in his blood HItherto of Faith in General as the Instrument of our Justification and Christ the more special Object of it as justifying Now follows the third thing premised concerning the most special Object or the most special consideration of that object in those words Faith in his blood for the understanding whereof let mee put you in minde of the former Explication of the word blood which hath been expounded to bee meant Synecdochically a part being put for the whole So that it signifies all the sufferings of Christ in the whole state of his abasement but most especially his sufferings both in body and soul at his death even all the pains of the first and second death which our Saviour did undergo upon the Cross So that by faith in his blood wee are to understand Faith apprehending Christ crucified or undergoing the shameful and accursed death of the cross Therefore we observe Doct. It is the duty of sinners for their Justification distinctly to apprehend and rely upon Christ crucified Or thus That it is the Duty and should bee the care of sinners to place their confidence on Christ crucified for Justification For that is the meaning of the phrase Faith in his blood that is faith relying on Christ crucified This notes the subject matter of redemption whereon our Faith is principally grounded in the article of our Justification Our faith indeed in the point of Justification doth imbrace whole Christ but most properly and in a peculiar manner it is terminated in the Sacrifice and Propitiation or Death of Christ and this the Scriptures attest Joh. 6.53 54 55. Jesus said unto them Verily Verily I say unto you except you eat the body of the Son of God and drink his blood you have no life in you and this is by beleeving on Christ crucified for Christ doth not speak there immediately of the Lords Supper though Sacramental eating may bee comprehended under it and hee saith peremptorily that there is no life and therefore no justification or Salvation without the eating there mentioned but hee addes on the contrary vers 54. Who so eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood by faith hath eternal life and I will raise him up at the last day There is a direct promise of Life Justification and Salvation to them that do beleeve on Christ crucified and vers 56. Hee that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in mee and I in him i.e. hath union and communion with Christ Jesus in all his benefits and therefore must needs bee justified and this is the same which John preached Behold the Lamb of God c. Joh. 1.29 i.e. the Lamb of God for Sacrifice that wee should behold for justification with the eye of faith Yea so Joh. 3.14 16. As Moses lifted up the Serpent in the Wilderness c. that lifting up was especially when Christ was Crucified and lifted up upon the Cross and looking on the brazen Serpent signifyed beleeving on Christ crucified that such as did so should not perish but have everlasting life And this is the very condition of the Covenant of grace Reas 1. Taken from the Old Testament wherein the mystery of Christ and Justification was more veiled and dark yet even then this truth was received that their reconciliation was by faith in the Messiah to come and made a sacrifice for sin and hence the Covenant was confirmed with blood shed Heb. 9.20 neither was the Old Testament dedicated without it Exod. 24.8 For when Moses had spoken every precept hee took the blood of Calves and Goats and sprinkled both the book and all the people saying This is the blood of the Testament that God enjoyned unto you and vers 23. it was necessary that the heavenly things themselves should bee purified with better sacrifices than these and it is necessary still that there should bee the same way of cleansing of sin away by way of Sacrifice and Blood of the New Testament Matth. 26.28 For this is the meaning of the sacrifices they were oppointed for attonement yea almost all things by the Law were purged with blood Heb. 9.22 and without shedding of blood there is no remission and so it was then and thereby the people are taught to look for justification by Christ Hence

part of the World have quite mistook it and where there is any discovery of it infinite errors have been broached with it And the heart of man turns and windes under it not being able to close with the way of it Bee cautelous therefore and know That there is no true Justification but what Centers in Christ Act. 4.12 There is no Salvation not a jot in any other for there is none other Name given under Heaven God the Father gave no other way nor Name Therefore no other Way nor Name can possibly bee found out Redemption was alone by Christs blood Eph. 1.7 Hee is made our redemption 1 Cor. 1.30 Hee shall give his Life Matth. 20.28 This is the great Lesson to learn Christ your satisfaction to the Father Now then as a poor man asks his Friends how hee shall pay his debts fears the Creditor will come to clap him up in Gaol and there hee must lye and dye because hee cannot pay as that complaint is 2 King 4.1 so ask you what you shall do to bee saved where you shall find a Ransome your soules are deeply indebted and you have not to pay Mat. 18.25 and the Creditor is coming hastily upon you O bee not more careful to save your bodies out of Prison than your souls out of Hell Lay hold on Christ who alone is Current mony and full satisfaction Quest But how shall we compass this satisfaction of Christ and comfort by it Answ You must do as the poor bankrupt doth First to get him a surety to undertake the debt Secondly to gain to himself an Acquittance under hand and zeal Get Christ to bee thy surety and an Acquittance written with his blood Now an Acquittance is derived by the Lawyers from the word quietantia an old barbarous term but very significant which when once it is got the Debtor is then at rest No suits in Law nor brangling controversies can bee maintained any longer against him for hee hath his quietus est a free and full discharge Plead for this from God and that from the beginning of the world to this day For Adam left his posterity in debt This Acquittance is nought else but what Paul speaks of Rom. 5.1 Peace in Conscience arising from Christs satisfaction for our sins And that you may attain this surety and Acquittance 1 Consider the necessity and worth of Justification It is the Justification of Life yee are dead without it Rom. 5.18 And having obtained it you are fit for any thing for glory whom hee justified hee glorified Rom. 8.30 Enoch had this testimony that hee pleased God Heb. 11.5 then was hee fit for Heaven Fit to bee a teacher of others Isaiah cries now send mee when his sins were pardoned But without it you are fit for nothing If Death arrests you how will you scramble for Bail how will you wish you had pleased God how unfit to go off the world O leave not that to the last gaspe that should bee done first Thou mayest bee great and rich and honourable and yet not fit to live nor to dye but he that is justified is fit for both 2 Highly esteem the Ransome It was no less than the blood of God that ransomed you And if things are to bee esteemed by what they cost nothing is more precious than this Ransome And accordingly the Apostle valued it Phil. 3.8 9. hee accounted all the worlds glory but Dirt and dung in comparison And desired to abandon all knowledge that hee might know Christ and him crucified How highly doth hee prize 1 Cor. 2.2 Christ not glorified but Crucified mainly intending to preach that Hence the whole work of the Ministery is called Preaching the Cross 1 Cor. 1.18 In a word the greatest love that God ever shewed to man and the greatest blessing man ever attained to it is this satisfaction of Christ Love with an affix 1 Joh. 4.10 3 Consider the lenity and difficulty of the satisfaction God would not have sent his Son if all the world could have made satisfaction Isa 53.10 11. Hee shall see of the travel of his soul and bee satisfied Hee saw the pay was current the travel of his soul to wit all the sufferings of Christ gave him satisfaction What need Christ take such pains if any else could do it It cost not Christ half so much pains to make the world Psal 33.9 10. Hee spake the word and it was done c. This work of satisfaction made him sweat drops of blood 4 Receive an unlimited Christ and entertain him in all his Offices Receive his person first and then his benefits Joh. 1.12 as many as received him c. Receive him and then his adoption and satisfaction Let him bee King as well as Priest Luke 19.27 Take him as a sanctifier as well as a Saviour Accept his Majesty as well as his Mercy Take Holiness as well as Happiness from him Let the water of regeneration bee welcome with the blood of Justification And that with speed for Luke 14.24 if you come not when invited you may never bee welcome The Israelites that denied to enter Canaan when God offered it Heb. 4.1 had never after an opportunity Francis Spira under dreadful torture pittifully lamented that now God would not give him one motion of his blessed Spirit more many of which he slighted before If therefore you minde eternity and have any care of your souls or any respect to Christ or fear of God if heaven bee worth having give Christ entertainment in all his Offices Use 4. Comfort to all that are in Christ Comfort to sincere Christians that your ransome is paid Lift up your heads with joy for your redemption draws nigh 1 Consider your sins are satisfied to the full Poor bankrupt souls have all Bills and bonds and hand-writings that are against them cancelled Col. 2.14 Davids prayer is answered all his Transgressions are blotted out Psal 51.12 Oh what joy what contentation should display its triumph in the heart The discharge of sin is another gates thing than all other discharges The Debt is greater the Creditor more dreadful the Gaol more horrible the Gaoler more cruel and the satisfaction fuller then men ever felt or found Your Moralists say It is the hardest of all satisfactions for an Inferiour to satisfy a Superiour in point of honour If hee had injured him in his goods satisfaction might have been made but what will hee do here will hee submit to him that hee ought alwaies to do Will hee do it by his goods no a good name is better than Riches Prov. 22.1 Sin violated Gods Justice and affronted his God-head For every sin is a kinde of Dei cidium a murthering of God Hence men are called God-haters Rom. 1.30 but hee that hateth his brother is a murtherer 1 Joh. 3.15 so is hee that hateth God And indeed hee doth kill God as to himself for as the Sun though it cannot lose its light yet is utterly eclipsed as to

and wounded his soul and why should they be contentment to mine God forbid 3 Minde the desert of sin We must fear sin because it crushed Christ and the severe proceedings of God against it in Christ our surety Luke 23.31 If this be done in the green tree what will bee done in the dry Christ was the Green tree full of sap exceeding fruitful the true vine Joh. 15.1 the very embleme of fruitfulness yea the tree of life Rev. 2.7 yet this could not exempt him from his sharpest sufferings Christ was free from all sin in his nature the Devil himself could find nothing in him Joh. 8.46 but we have a World of wickedness in us Christ was full of righteousness Rom. 5.17 and wee full of wickedness yet God spared not his Son where shall wee ungodly and sinners appear Christ was the onely begotten and wee are in comparison strangers if hee had no tenderness to his Son what can his Slaves hope for Christ was both God and Man in personal Union strengthened by Angels yet what Agony what tears what conflicts did hee undergo wee are but stubble but a rotten stick fit fuel for everlasting burnings how shall wee stand in the day of tryal O it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 10.31 Oh that wee had hearts to apprehend the evil of sin before wee come to feel it Blessed are they that beleeve and fear and tremble and never experimentally know the vileness of sin God seeing the hardness of our hearts hath manifested the evil of sin by the sufferings of Christ a better argument then all the curses racks and torments of Hell it self could produce to demonstrate the dreadful nature of it This may convince the hardest hearts in the world and let the very godly themselves see that sin is more vile than ever they imagined it to bee 4 Know that sin will kill us as well as it killed Christ if wee prevent not the malignity of it Death is the proper wages of sin both the first and second death Object But a Childe of God is in no danger of sinning nor of eternal punishment Sol. Surely 't is true Doctrin that 1 Pet. 4.17 18. The time is come that judgement must begin at the house of God Wee know how Churches have smarted for sin for little sins in the Worlds account The Jews cast off for unbeleef Saints corrected though not damned for sin the Church of Ephesus for forsaking her first love Laodicea for lukewarmness threatned to bee dis-Churched Add that Ezek. 9.6 the destroying Angel had a charge to begin at Gods sanctuary Yea many godly men smart for their boldness in sin here in this World Paul writes to Saints Rom. 8.13 and yet tells them If you live in the flesh yee shall dye and speaks not onely of a temporal but eternal death You will say 't is not possible for Saints to dye eternally I answer 't is as possible for Saints to dye eternally as to sin eternally Let all men look to it for sin continued in will certainly destroy all its practitioners Having therefore these considerations Let us dread to have any thing to do with sin This consideration is proposed to this very end Heb. 12.2 3. that the sight of what Christ endured by sin might make us constant and couragious in withstanding all the fiery darts of the Devil and declining every evil way striving against it unto blood vers 4. as Christ did to the very death not refusing the worst of sorrows The worst sorrow is better than the best sin to eschew the best of sins to part with your heart blood as well as your good names ease and profit if God call you to it Thus doth Peter argue 1 Pet. 4.1 2. Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered in the flesh for us let us arm our selves likewise with the same minde for hee that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin that hee no longer should live the rest of his life in the flesh to the lusts of men c. The issue of the words is this The Faithful have Union and Communion with Christ and therefore they must bee conformable to Christ in Holinesse but must ceafe from sinne arguing thus That if wee have lost our head for sin it is not possible we should live in sin any longer but we have lost our head for sin Or thus All they dyed in Christ for sin for whose sin Christ dyed and they that dyed once for sin cannot sin any more If therefore thou continuest to sin how beleevest thou that Christ dyed for thee Let thy conscience bee the judge 3 Hath Christ loved us so dearly Christs death merits our love that merited heaven for us as to suffer such dreadful torments for us then what shall wee do for Christ O man return this day an Answer to the Lord what course thou wilt take to walk suitable to his kindness When David received a deliverance from God hee saies Psal 18.1 I will love thee dearly O Lord my strength God shewed him much love and hee intends to make a retaliation And indeed love is the Load-stone of love Never was such love shown as that of Christ Rev. 1.5 Who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood Eph. 5.2 Who gave himself for us his life and blood and all Yea hee parted with his fathers love which was a thousand times better than life for us Hee became accursed that might have been blessed Let us not bee scanty in our love to him but give him our heart both freely and liberally to the death his death well merits our love that merits heaven for us Where Christ hath laid such deep ingagements sleepy faint good wishes will not serve the turn Love in Christ was stronger than death 't is pitty that any cold velleities of love and service should bee our sacrifice All blessings of the World should endear us more and more to the Lord but oh what an Obligation should it bee that Christ became a Curse for us The very Master-piece of all mercies and blessings to the Elect yea it gives a sweet seasoning to all our blessings which have a Curse cleaving to them for all that are out of Christ turning all their sweet morsels into the poyson of Asps or into gravel Prov. 1.32 yea their prosperity is destructive Alas what are Riches and Accommodations and good fare when the Lord once charges Sin upon the conscience what is it to bee rich and reprobate to bee deliciously fed with the rich Glutton and a damned creature The World is a Prison and Riches are shakels Creatures are enemies all wee have is vanity and vexation of spirit all blessings turned into cursings Mercies are curses without Christs death yea and all Ordinances gifts parts duties c. without Christs blood are but carnal things You say how doth that appear why Eph. 1.3 those are alone spiritual

they come in at the Ministry of the Word It is not the will of the Father that one of these little ones should perish Mat. 18.14 All these do mightily help to confirm our faith 2 It should teach us highly to prize this propitiation of Jesus Christ It was pretious to God the Father and so ought it to bee to us 1 Pet. 2.6 7. God the Father gave Christ the preheminence in all and above all Hee preached him with his own voice and bade all men to hear him He set him forth with mighty signes and wonders and gifts of the Holy Ghost and the ministration of his Angels and acclamations of his Saints c. How highly then should he be prized by us 3 It should teach men to set a high price upon their own fouls You see that when they are in Captivity and slavery to Satan and in a lost estate there is nothing in the World no not all the World with all its worth can redeem them but only the propitiation of Jesus Christ Mat. 16.26 When God gave Egypt for his peoples ransome and Aethiopia and Seba for them hee shewed that hee prized them at a high rate Isa 42.3 4. But all the Kingdomes of the world are base and vile if compared with the foul of man God set that at the price of his Sons blood and Christ did so esteem it that hee gave his life for it Should it not then bee highly valued of us 4 As God the father set forth this Christ to us so let us set forth this Christ as a propitiation to God the father When wee apprehend God to bee displeased and angry with us wee may humbly go to him and say Lord thou hast before all time set a part and ever since time began set forth thy Son Jesus Christ to bee a propitiation for sinners Now thus thou hast imboldened us to set forth the same Jesus Christ to be our Propitiation to thee Thou hast sealed him to bee such and now thou canst not deny thy own hand and seal Joh. 6.27 Wee are fure that Christ is an offering and sacrifice of sweet smelling savour unto God Eph. 5.2 How unsavory so ere that wee are or have been And if wee pay God in his own coin that will bee current with him Lastly Set forth Christs propitiation to others every one to your respective relations As the Spouse Cant. 5. last He is altogether lovely Loe this is my beloved and this my Friend c. Inform the ignorant convince the erroneous ashame the voluptuous and contemners of Christ out of that foolish choice which they have made of other lovers instead of him Draw all that you may that they may forsake all other besides that they may go and seek him with you as chap. 6.1 Justification by Faith THE FOURTEENTH SERMON ON Romans 3.25 Through Faith in his blood HAving spoken concerning the satisfaction of Christ and the excellent fruit and effect thereof i. e. a propitiation I shall now proceed to that which is called the Instrumental cause of Justification Laid down in those words faith in his blood whence I shall note two observations 1 That the satisfaction of Christ is effectual to our justification through faith 2 That Faith as it justifieth doth especially apprehend the blood and sufferings of Jesus Christ Doct. 1. That the Satisfaction of Christ is effectual to the Justification of a Sinner through Faith Christs blood justifieth through faith Or That it is through the grace of Faith that the blessing of Justification is attained and conveyed This the Text holds forth plainly to us viz. That although wee are justified freely through Christs purchase and redemption yet Gods constituted way of applying this free grace of God and Merit of Christ to Sinners is through Faith and this is that which Paul makes his solemn conclusion vers 28. and a mighty ground of Christian Religion viz. Our justification by Faith without the works of the Law Which hee proves by the impossibility of justification by works by the Testimony of Habakkuk and by the Example of Abraham Rom. 4.9 11. Gal. 2.16 c. in diverse places plentifully insisted on Now for the better understanding of this truth it will bee needful to Answer a few questions 1 In what sense it is that through Faith a Sinner is justified 2 How Paul and James are reconciled 3 Why is it rather through faith than any other graces Quest In what sense is it that through Faith a Sinner is justified Answ For Answer In what sense faith justifieth I shall shew first in what sense it doth not justify then how it doth 1 A Sinner is not justified by Faith as it is a vertue or work in us because the Apostle doth exclude all works as such from Justification and Faith and works are opposed Rom. 3.28 Besides if it hath its place in justification as a work it cannot stand with the free grace of God Rom. 4.16 for grace and works are still opposed Rom. 11.5 6. Further that righteousness by which a sinner is justified must be exact and perfect but our faith is imperfect 1 Thess 3.10 2 Faith doth not justify as if the very act of beleeving were the matter of righteousnesse or any part thereof by which wee stand righteous before God This appears in that the righteousness by which wee are justified is not our own Phil. 3.9 but our faith is our own though wrought in us by the Spirit of God Hab. 2.4 and by these two Answers wee oppose two errours viz. of the Papists and Arminians who wickedly rob Jesus Christ of his honour and make an Idol of faith whereas wee are justified by the blood of Christ Rom. 5.9 vers 19. by the obedience of one c. 3 Faith doth onely justify us relatively or as it hath reference to its object Jesus Christ and his righteousness As the hand of a beggar receiving a bag of Gold bestowed upon him inriches him Now it s not the hand properly but it is the bag of gold freely bestowed that makes a beggar rich So the hand of the woman that touched our Saviour Christ healed her not as it was a hand but as it conveyed the vertue that came out of Jesus Christ So a mans faith is said to justify him because it receiveth Christ or the righteousness of Christ and indeed whatsoever is done by faith is done by Christ and therefore our being said to bee justified by faith Rom. 3.28 Eph. 2.8 is our being justified by Christ But here is a great Question How can it bee said that Faith can justify so much as instrumentally seeing that an Instrument is a cause how then can wee have any hand as causes in our Justification Answ Justification taken actively and passively Wee are to know that Justification is taken two waies 1 Actively 2 Passively The active Justification is that whereby God the Father justifies a sinner and pronounceth him just for the