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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20176	Grace, mercy, and peace conteining 1 Gods reconciliation to man, 2 Mans reconciliation to God. By Henry Denne an unworthy servant of the Church, ...	Denne, Henry, 1606 or 7-1660?	1645 (1645)	STC 6610; ESTC R175933	37,602	120

Christ in the second I say he speaketh of our Actuall reconciliation wherein our consciences become reconciled to God through the apprehension of the reconciliation which Christ hath wrought for us First of all I must speak of our Originall reconciliation And there I lay downe this proposition that we were reconciled to God by the death of his Sonne without any previous conditions in us or performed by us You see it is the act of Christ upon the Crosse it was done by his death The Lord Christ being a common person taking our nature upon him we are said to doe that which he did and to have that done upon us which was done upon him As in the first Adam we all sinned before we were or bad committed any Actuall transgression so in the second Adam we were reconciled As by one mans disobedience many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous Rom. 5.19 I say we are said to doe that which he did as to be buried with Christ by baptisme into death Rom. 6.4 We are said to be crucified with Christ as our old man is crucified with him Rom. 6.6 to be dead and alive with him Reckon yee also your selves to be dead indeed unto sinne but alive unto God through Iesus Christ our Lord Rom. 6.11 We are said to be risen with him Coloss 3.1 which is elegantly set forth by the Prophet Hosea speaking of the resurrection of Christ He speaketh on this wise After two dayes he will revive us and the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his sight Hose 6.2 Yet more we are said to be placed together in heavenly places with him Eph. 2.5.6 This is that which I call Originall reconciliation Whereby we see that not onely God was reconciled unto us but also that our nature was reconciled unto God by the death of his Sonne without any condition or qualification wrought in us Thus much for our Originall reconciliation Now followes our Actuall reconciliation to wit the manifestation of Gods reconciliation to us and of the reconciliation of our nature to God in Jesus Christ Here I lay downe this proposition Mans Actuall reconciliation to God requireth previous conditions and qualifications to be wrought in man by the spirit of God before man can be Actually reconciled to God or Gods reconciliation manifested unto him Althogh this proposition need no proofe in regard that the world so far doteth on conditions that they will hardly admit God to be reconciled to man without performances in man Surely much lesse will they thinke it possible that Man should be reconciled unto God without something wrought in man yet for our better understanding I will shew you the proofe of this by certaine texts As Except a man be borne of water and of the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdome of God Iohn 3.5 Except a man be borne againe he cannot see the kingdome of God vers 3. To enter into and to see the kingdome of God is that which I call reconciliation to God to know the favour and love of God towards us in Christ requires you see the condition of being borne againe of water and of the spirit which is not to be baptized as the Papists would have it but to have such fruits and effects of Gods spirit wrought in us as purifie the heart as water doth the body Secondly except yee eate the flesh of the Sonne of man and drinke his bloud you have no life in you Iohn 6.53 Marke I pray you he doth not say that except yee eate the flesh of the Sonne of man and drinke his bloud yee have no life in God or in Christ but yee have no life in you Now you see we must eat the flesh of Christ and drinke his bloud or else we can have no life in us To eate his flesh and to drink his bloud is to beleeve in him to have life in you is to know Gods favour in Iesus Christ as much as if he should say except yee beleeve yee cannot know Gods favour to you in Iesus Christ Vnto this we may adde in the third place Except yee repent yee shall all likewise perish Luke 13.3 And to this place we may also referre that place of which we had occasion to speake somewhat before without holinesse no man shall see God Heb. 12.14 not onely that holinesse is concomitant or companion of our seeing of God but that faith being a part of yea the first fruits of holines is that whereby the soule is brought to the sight of God in Jesus Christ But I am not willing to spend time in larger proofe though you cannot but perceive I might be very large herein but I will for your better understanding confine my selfe and goe on to shew you in particular what Conditions are required in us before we can be reconciled to God And here I have occasion for the better explaining of this to commend unto you three sorts of conditions 1. Antecedent 2. Present 3. Consequent Antecedent Conditions I call those which are necessarily presupposed in us before we can submit unto God or be reconciled unto him They are such conditions as may be seperated from reconciliation in time yea they are such conditions as are and may be in them which are not reconciled nor yet ever shall be so that they are proper Omnibus sed non solis electis to all the elect but not onely to the elect 2. Present conditions I call them that goe before reconciliation as the cause before the effect yet are never seperated from reconciliation in time but are indeed the very thing whereby the holy spirit of God doth reconcile man to God 3. Consequent conditions I call them which doe alwayes follow reconciliation as the effect the cause although they are inseperable in respect of time And I therefore undertake to speake of these although the curious may thinke me blame-worthy for transgressing the rules of method that we might be warned of a rock and shelfe namely that we doe not confound these conditions together and to take those for antecedent which are onely consequent which to my knowledge hath made some souls to make shipwrack for a time when as they would have in them before they beleeve such conditions as are onely consequents and not antecedents of faith First to speake of Antecedent conditions which necessarily goe before our reconciliation to God They shall be referred unto two heads the first is the knowledge of sinne with whatsoever is requisite unto the knoweledge of sinne The second is the knowledge of the depth of misery by sinne to be such as we can neither help our selves neither is it in the power of any other creature for to helpe us but that we are undone for ever in respect of whatsoever we can doe or any other for us for untill the soule be brought to this there is no hope of reconciling it unto God for you

to come but also from everlasting age etnall in respect of that which is past Gods mercies are not onely without beginning but also without ending as it is so often repeated even 26 times Psal 136. his mercy endureth for ever This is it that is written by the prophet I the Lord I change not Therefore yee sonnes of Iacob are not consumed Mal. 3.6 Would you know the true reason why the sons of Iacob are nor consumed it is this I change not should the Lord change as often as we change should his love increase and decrease towards us as often as our love to him and obedience to his Maiesty ebbeth and floweth the Lord should be more variable then the wind more changeable then the Moon that the Lords love altereth not although it hath beene sufficiently proved by that which hath been spoken yet to the praise of the glory of his grace I will proceed to shew you by more restimonies that the Lord loveth all his elect with his great love even then when as they lie weltring in their sinnes transgressions Vnto this the Holy Ghost bears witnesse Rom. 5. verse 6. When we were yet without strength in due time Christ died for the ungodly For whó Christ died them the Father the Son loved but Christ died for the ungodly that were without strength Therefore such were undoubtedly beloved of God Lest wee should think the first of these propositions to be weake it is confirmed verse 8. God commendeth his love to us in that while we were yet sinners Christ dyed for us And very worthy of observation is that which is spoken verse 10 When we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Sonne Here we have more proved than I have yet undertaken for my task is to prove that God was reconciled to us whilst we were enemyes This text saith not onely so but that we were recontiled to God when we were enemies But of this more shall be spoken hereafter only for the present we disire to have it granted that when we were reconciled to God he was without all doubt reconciled to us for our reconciliation to him is not the cause of his reconciliation to us but contrary his reconciliation to us is the cause of our reconciliation to him Now let us see the argument once againe For whom Christ died those he loved But Christ died for vngodly for sinners for enemies Therefore hee loved ememies sinners ungodly And with such a love as is not onely verball but reall not in word but in deed in truth as doth already appeare by his death and will yet more plainly appeare those acts of love communicated unto us even when wee were in the state of vngodlinesse in the worst estate and condition Let us consider that place so full of the glory of God which is writen Ezek. 16.2.3 verses unto the 15. verse Thou wast cast out in the open field to the loathing of thy Person in the day that thou wast born And when I passed by thee and saw thee polluted in thine own blood I said unto thee in thy blood yea I said unto thee in thy blood ●ive Why doth the Lord use this Insemination In thy blood In thy blood 〈◊〉 it not because he knoweth how hardly we are drawne to beleeve the glory of his grace and how ready we are to rob him of the honour of his infinite mercy The Lord doth as it were say I know you will wonder at this that I should say Live before you were washed salted or swadled while you were in your blood But I remember the act of my grace which passed upon you even in blood I he Lord loved us not because we were washed and cleansed but therefore he washed and cleansed us because he loved us See the freenes of Gods love God so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten sonne that whosoever believeth on him shall not perish but have everlasting life Ioh. 3.16 This place is wel known unto you it may be here lies hid something which many of you never discovered namely that Christ given is the effect of Gods love not the cause And that the love of God goes before the gift of his son as the cause goeth before the effect He therefore gave his sonne because he loved If this seem strange that Gods love should be more ancient in order of causes then the gift of his sonne Because that in him God doth communicate all things unto us I answer that Christ is God manifested to him in the flesh 1 Tim 3.16 And that all the blessings of that love wherewith the Lord loved us eternally are manifested onely in Christ Iesus And in him they are fully manifested to have been for ever in the bosome of the Father So that for us to say or think that Christ purchased the love of the Father for us is that which I am confident the redeemer of the world will not chalenge unto himself But say as in another case it is not mine to give but it was given to them to whom it is given before the foundation of the world was laid This is all that I am able to speak unlesse it should be lawfull for me in so reverend a mystery to use a distinction and to consider in the love of God the original of his love and the continuation thereof and to say that the original of his love was before the gift of his sonne as the cause before the effect But that the continuation of love is to be referred unto the propriation of the redeemer as the effect of that sacrifice which he offered To speak plain Gods love was before the gift of his son as the cause before the effect But the continuation of that love that he should loveus for ever requires a foregoing propitiation satisfaction But when we shal say thus we fall into a depth unsearchable when we shall ask why the continuation of his love should rather require a foregoing propitiation then the originall setting of his love upon us I confesse I cannot tell what to say for to cleare this but tremble to speak of this glerious mystery And desire to refer my self to the iudgement of the spirituall who are able to iudge all things and to be instructed by them whether it be not safer to rest in that which was said before then with subtilty of distinctions to wade into the depth unsearchable We see the great love of God to us in our bloud how that he so loved us that he gave us his sonne I will now be bold to step a step higher if higher may be and to shew you that God did not onely love us in our bloud with his great love But that his love to us in our broud was as great as ever afterwards He loved us I say with as great love when we were in bloud and polltion as he did afterward when we were cleansed I know the Pharisee