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A77501	Gospel-marrow, the great God giving himself for the sons of men: or, The sacred mystery of redemption by Jesus Christ, with two of the ends thereof, justification & sanctification. Doctrinally opened and practically applied. Wherein (among many other useful and profitable truths) the unhappy controversie of the times about the extent of Christs death is modestly and plainly discussed and determined for the satisfaction of those who are willing to receive it. To which is added three links of a golden chain. As it was lately held forth to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth. / By John Brinsley, minister of the Gospel there.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1659 (1659)	Wing B4715; Thomason E1852_1; ESTC R209806	253,046	425

works to speak for you I mean to speak to the World and your own consciences so as to evidence the truth of your faith never reckon your selves in the number of true beleevers For this Saint James speaketh fully and expresly in that known place Jam. 2. Where he sheweth how faith without works is but a mock-faith a dead faith Faith if it have not works is dead being alone v. 17. Being alone 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by it self not being accompanyed with good works works of Holiness and Righteousness which are the inseparable companions of a true justifying faith it cannot be a true living faith Which if it were it would be a working faith True faith a working faith So Paul describeth it Gal. 5.6 Faith working by love 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which word being taken Passively as it proPerly signifieth it imports a faith actuated by love thereby quickned and moved to the doing of good works or Actively as it is commonly understood it denotes an active operative faith which putteth forth and sheweth it self in the exercises of love love to God love to his Saints in doing of good works works of Piety and Charity Hereby faith sheweth it self to be a true living faith So doth the Body by the Operations of it it sheweth it self to be a living body And so doth faith shew it self to be a living faith by its works which are Indicativa fidei I will shew thee my faith by my works saith St. Iames Jam. 12.18 No such sure and certain token of a true saving justifying faith as an uniform impartial and universal obedience Which where it is not in an unfeigned desire and endeavour it is a clear evidence of a dead faith As the body without the spirit is dead so faith without works is dead also so that Apostle there closeth up that Chapter Iam. 2.26 As the body without the spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Not that works are to faith as the soul is to the body the form of it and giving life to it which some would from hence infer that were to stretch the similitude beyond the staple beyond the scope and intent for which it is here made use of which is onely to illustrate what before was laid down viz. that Faith without works is dead So is the body without the soul or without breath as that word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may be rendred which our new Translation in the Margin mindeth us of Where there is no breathing there can be no life breath being though not a Cause yet an Indication of it And so where faith doth not breath forth and shew it self by good works the evidence is plain it is no other but a dead faith Solitary faith not to be trusted to Which in the fear of God let it be brought home to you who reckon your selves in the number of true believers putting your confidence in Christ hoping that as you are Redeemed so you shall be saved by and through faith What is this your faith fides solitaria a solitary faith faith alone having no good works to attend it do not think that Christ will ever own you for his True it is it is not for your works sake that he will own and accept you but he will not do it without them But what then shall we say to those evil workers Evil workers none of Christs people whose works testifie against them shewing to whom they belong Good works they have none to speak for them but evil ones too many to speak against them Being such as our Apostle speaketh of in the last verse of the Chapter fore-going Tit. 1.16 Such as professe that they know God but in works they deny him being abominable and disobedient and to every good work reprobate Such as it may be give over themselves unto all lasciviousnesse to work all uncleannesse with greedinesse as he saith of the impure Gentiles Eph. 4.19 working the works of the flesh which what they are we may learn from the same Apostle who giveth us a bedroll of them Gal. 5.19 20 21. Now the works of the flesh are manifest which are these Adultery Fornication c. And are not these the works which some and too many who bear the names of Christians are given over to Evil works which they live and lie in and make a trade of A plain evidence that whatever acquaintance they may take of Jesus Christ calling him their Saviour yet they are in truth strangers to him It is that which Paul saith of his Colossians before their conversion Col. 1.21 They were then alienated and enemies in their minds by wicked works And surely so are all they who are workers of iniquity Giving themselves over unto wicked works to the practice of them whatever their profession be this their practice sheweth that they have no true acquaintance with God and Jesus Christ They are alienated from him and enemies to him So as whatever acquaintance they may take of him as I said he will take none of them Depart from me all ye workers of iniquity That is the answer which the Master of the house giveth unto some who would take acquaintance of him as you have it Luke 13.26 We have eaten say they and drank in thy presence and thou hast taught in our streets they had had familiar acquaintance with him But he shall say to them as it followeth I tell you I know you not whence you are Depart from me all ye workers of iniquity Workers of iniquity such as make a trade of sin living in the practice of it for such are properly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not every one that falleth into sin but such as live in a course of sin they are workers of iniquity And being such whatever outward visible communion they have had with Christ in his Ordinances in his Word and Sacraments yet let not them think that he will own them for his another day No those that are Christs are such as have their Consciences purged from dead works to serve the living God as the Apostle describeth them Heb. 9.14 From dead works that is sinful works which are fitly so called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in as much as they naturally proceed from a man that is spiritually dead and make him that doth them lyable unto death From such works true believers have their consciences purged being freed as from the guilt so from the habit and power of them so as henceforth they do not serve sin which sometimes they did God be thanked that ye were the servants of sin saith Paul of his believing Romans Rom. 6.17 Such they were before their conversion but not such now Now they served another Master From the time that they came to obey that form of doctrine which had been delivered unto them to receive and imbrace the doctrine of the Gospel now being freed from sinne they became the servants of righteousnesse as it there followeth v. 18. And so is it

what end 4. To what end he thus gave himself That he might Redeem us Save us And O what love was this Every of us who can evidence our interest in it stand for ever admiring and adoring of it And admiring it let us now indeavor to answer it Answering love with love Vse 4. Answer this love with love Loving the Lord Iesus Which who so doth not how well doth he deserve that Anathema denounced by the Apostle against all such If any man love not the Lord Iesus let him be Anathema Maranatha let him be had in execration for ever 1 Cor. 12.22 And loving him Vse 5. Express our love to Jesus Christ let us express our love to him And that 1. By giving up our selves to him 1. Giving our selves to him to live unto him He dyed for all saith the Apostle that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him which gave himself for us 2 Cor. 5.15 Live according to his Prescripts to his Honour and Glory Ye are bought with a price wherefore Glorifie God in your Body and in your Spirit 1 Cor. 6.20 2. And thus giving our selves to him 2. Being ready to give our selves for him be we also ready to give our selves for him I am ready not only to be bound but to dye at Ierusalem for the name of the Lord Iesus such was Pauls resolution Act. 21.13 And let the like be ours Not thinking our dearest blood too dear for him who thought not his too dear for us 3. And thus giving our selves to him 3. Giving our selves to and for his and for him in imitation of him do we the like to and for his Being ready to do all offices of love to them Walk in love as Christ hath loved us and given himself for us And as to do so to suffer for them I endure all things for the Elects sakes saith Paul 2 Tim. 2.10 Yea and if need be refuse not to lay down our lives for them Because he layed down his life for us we ought also to lay down our lives for the Brethren 1 Joh. 3.16 viz. if their necessity requireth it and our calling bindeth us to it Especially for the procuring of their eternal happiness and welfare For this it was that Christ layed down his life for us And for this we should not think our lives too dear for others Paul who tells us that he could even have wîshed himself an Anathema accursed from Christ for his Brethren his kins-men according to the flesh as we have it Rom. 9.3 being not unwilling if it had been possible to have redeemed and saved the souls of those his Countrey-men the Jews with the utter loss of his own would much more have been willing to have shed his blood for them I will very gladly spend and be spent for you saith he to his Corinthians 2 Cor. 12.15 And the like he tels his Philippians cap. 2. v. 17. Yea and if I be offered upon the Sacrifice and service of your faith I joy and rejoyce with you all And the like let all of us in conformity to our heavenly pattern be ready to do Christs giving himself for believers a ground of strong Consolation Many other uses and improvements might be made of this great Gospel Doctrine As viz. that of Consolation to all true believers Hath Christ thus given himself for them then who shall lay any thing to their charge Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect It is God that justifieth who shall condemn It is Christ that dyed Rom. 8.33 So may they upon this ground triumph over Hell and death and all the Enemies of their salvation Christ having engaged for them given himself for them as their surety he hath made a plenary satisfaction unto the Justice of God for all their sins so undertaking for them as that they shall certainly be delivered both from the guilt and power of them being justifyed and sanctifyed and consequently saved by and through him So it followeth in the Text Who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity c. To which I now pass That he might redeem us from all Iniquity WE are now come to the 4th and last main part of the Text Finis donationis Part 4. The ends of Christs giving himself Redempton and Purification the End or fruit of Christs thus giving himself Of which there are many Two of them we have here assigned as serving the Apostles purpose viz. Redemption and Purification Of which severally beginning with the former That he might redeem us from all Iniquity Wherein we may take notice of three Particulars The Redeeemer The Redeemed End 1. Redemption Whete 3. particulars and from What they are redeemed 1. The Redeemer 1. The Redeemer The great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ Two sorts of Redeemers in Scripture who gave himself that he might redeem Two sorts of Redeemers we meet withall in Scripture Principal and Instrumental 1. Instrumental Temporal Saviours 1. Instrumental such as God made use of as his Instruments in working of temporal salvations for his People Such a one was Moses whom we find so called Act. 7.35 Him did God send to be a Ruler and a Deliverer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Original which Erasmus following the vulgar Latin renders according to the proper signification of the word Redemptorem a Redeemer an Instrument which God made use of for the working of that great deliverance for his people Israel in bringing them out of Egypt In which sense other of the Iudges are called by the name of Saviours Neh. 9.27 Thou gavest them Saviours who saved them out of the hands of their Enemies Instrumental Saviours and Redeemers 2. Principal Jesus Christ 2. Principal this is onely Iesus Christ whom we finde sometimes so stiled I know that my Redeemer liveth saith Iob Job 19.25 The Redeemer shall come unto Sion saith the Prophet Isai Isa 59.20 pointing at Christ as the Apostle citing that Text applies it Rom. 11.26 Christ the Redeemer The Author of all deliveracees And well may he be so called being the Author of all such deliverances as his people are made partakers of The Angel which redeemed me from all evil saith Iacob speaking of Christ Gen. 18.11 both Temporal and Spiritual deliverances 1. Temporal 1. Temporal Wherein whoever be the Instrument he is the principal agent So he was in that deliverance of the Israelites out of Egypt wherein Moses was only his Instrument a staff in his hand So much is held forth in that Text forenamed Act. 7.35 Where it is said that God sent Moses to be a Ruler and a deliverer or Redeemer by the hand of the Angel which appeared in the Bush 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hoc referendum est ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mandata ei per Angelum dedit Grot. Annot. in loc 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

did his God Rom. 1.9 doing his will from the heart as he exhorteth servants to do Eph. 6.6 And doing his work Seeking his honour seek his honour and glory Which do you also upon the same account as being his Peculiar people bought by him for such an end that you might be to the praise of his glory as the Apostle hath it Eph. 1.12 and that in a peculiar way To this end it was that he made all things and will make them all serve to this end in a general way See that you whom he hath made his Peculiar people do this in a peculiar way Live you to the glory of him who hath Redeemed bought you Ye are bought with a price saith the Apostle Wherefore glorifie God in your Body and in your Spirit for they are Gods 1 Cor. 6.1 Thus do you seek the glory of this your Redeemer making this your chief design Being willing upon this account to do or suffer any thing for Iesus Christ Of this mind was the blessed Apostle who tells his Philippians cap. 1.20 that this was his Confidence that whatever happened unto him yet Christ saith he shall be magnified in my Body whether it be by life or death And this let every of us seek after that the name of our Lord Iesus Christ may be glorified in us and by us as the same Apostle prayeth for his Thessalonians 2 Thess 1.12 which whilest we endeavour doubt not but as it there followeth we shall be glorified in him and with him Having thus as his peculiar people endeavoured to glorifie him upon earth he will hereafter own us as his peculiar people glorifying us with himself in heaven When the rest of the world as Goats shall be set upon his left hand as slighted not regarded by htm then will he own us for his sheep setting us on his right hand honouring us before God Angels and men saying unto us as there we have it Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world Mat. 25.34 When wicked and ungodly men all profane persons and hypocrites who have onely a shew of Religion shall be cast forth as Chaff and burned with fire unquenchable then shall we as Wheat be gathered into the Garner as Iohn the Baptist describeth the different conditions of Believers and others Luke 3.17 Then will the Lord Christ make it known to all the world what esteem he hath of his Saints that he accounteth them his Segullah his peculiar Treasure his Iewels which he will do by sending his Angels to gather them together from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other as we have it Mat. 24.31 where-ever their bodies lie scattered and so laying them up as his Iewels in the Cabinet of Eternity his Kingdom of Glory Many other uses might be yet made of this Vse 4. Christians to make Christ their peculiar Treasure Hath Christ taken us for his Peculiar people esteeming highly of us above others who have deserved as well or better than we have done Why then in answer hereunto let us set the like Peculiar Affection upon him taking him for our peculiar Treasure prizing and esteeming him above all accounting all but losse and dung that we may win Christ and be found in him as the Apostle saith of himself that he did Phil. 3.8 9. And making such account of him Vse 5. Highly esteeming of the Saints next to him make the like account of his Saints Taking heed of offending them which who so doth even the least of them he may hear Christ telling him that it were better for him that a mill-stone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea Mat. 18.6 Take heed of wronging injuring them by word or deed knowing how dear and precious they are unto Iesus Christ even as the Apple of his eye So we find them called Zach. 2.8 He that toucheth you toucheth the Apple of his eye What is done unto them either for or against them Christ taketh it as done unto himself In as much as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto me Mat. 25.40 45. They are Christs Peculiar people his choise favourites therefore offend them not wrong them not nor yet slight them Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones Mat. 18.10 But let them be precious in our eyes look upon them as the Iewels of the world highly esteeming of all those in whom we see aliquid Christi any thing of Christ The more of Christ the more precious they are And therefore highly account of such looking upon them as the truly excellent ones delighting in them being ready to do all offices of love unto them Thus was holy David affected as he sets it forth Psal 16.3 My goodnesse O Lord exeendeth not unto thee but to the Saints that are in the earth and to the excellent in whom is all my delight And let the like affection be in every of us which express we in the like way looking upon the Saints as the Excellent ones delight we in their society and let our goodness extend unto them communicating of our goods unto them suitable to their Necessity and our Ability Which who so doth he shall have Christ himself for his Insurer Whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water onely in the name of a disciple do the least office of love to him for Christs sake verily I say unto you he shall not lose his reward Mat. 10. last Thus let the same mind be in us which was and is in Iesus Christ as the Apostle presseth it upon his Philippians c. 2. v. 5. Those whom he hath given himself for and purified to be a peculiar people unto himself let them also be a peculiar people unto us But I passe on to that which remaines the last clause in the Text. Wherein we have the Qualification and Temper of this people whom Christ thus appropriateth being his Peculiar people they are also a People zealous of good works Zealous of good works A Clause fitly added and annexed to the former Adjicit hanc partem Apostulus ut insinuet ità demùm nos fore populum acceptabileus peculiarem Christo si bonorum operum studiosi fuerimus Estius Comment in Text. Veruntamen sicut per gratiam Redemptionis ipse nos facit populum peculiarem ità facit sectatores bonorum operum Ibid. Not to intimate unto us what Estius would have that in this way and by this meanes men become acceptable unto Christ and his Peculiar people by being forward in good works No they are not any works of ours that can ingratiate us bring us into grace and favour with him they being the fruits of his grace in us So much the same Author there upon second better thoughts cannot but acknowledge

of a fair construction consistent with this truth As that of the Apostle 1 Tim. 2.6 where it is said that Christ gave himself a Ransom for all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is for this All here in the Text All those whom his Father had given him who are elsewhere called many Mat. 20.28 The Son of man came to give his life a ransom for many viz. his Elect who are also elsewhere called a world 2 Cor. 5.19 God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself that is the world of his Elect made up of Jewes and Gentiles And so look we upon the Text which of all other as our last Translation renders it seemeth to speak most fully for the Adversary Heb. 2.9 where it is said of Christ that he by the grace of God tasted death for every man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for all that is still for this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this All here in the Text All and every one whom his Father had bestowed upon him as Diodate rightly expounds it Thus doth this word All here as sometimes elsewhere denote the universality not of Mankind but of Gods Elect. For them it was Christ died intentionally only for the Elect and only for them that Christ intentionally died I lay down my life for my sheep saith the obvious Text Joh. 10.15 Which whatever evasions are sought out to elude it speaks this truth so clearly so fully as putteth it beyond contradiction whilest it restraineth the Intention of Christ in laying down his life unto a select company his sheep viz. those that were given him by his Father Which truth being thus bottomed I desire you to take notice of that you may not be carried away with that wind of Doctrine that plausible error which is so taking with many at this day who cry up the Doctrine of universal Redemption as the most comfortable truth and glorious Doctrine that can be held forth tending highly as they apprehend to the magnifying of the grace and mercy of God and merit of Christ which are thus extended unto all But herein how are they mistaken In thus extending this grace how do they extenuate it Grace extenuated by extending it Of all Doctrines I know none that in truth more derogates from this grace of God in Christ than this whilest it asserts alike respect to all that all being alike given to Christ by his Father are alike owned by him the Redemption and Salvation of all alike intended by both of Esau as of Jacob of Judas as of Peter so as the one is not more beholding to God and Jesus Christ than the other This whatever any may conceive is in truth no small derogation from and extenuation of this grace which being confined as it ought to be to a narrower channel riseth higher Being restrained only to a certain number a small number comparatively of Gods Elect it is thereby rendred the more glorious And so let it be in the eyes of all the Lords people Vse 2. The grace of Election glorious grace to whom God hath evidenced and made known this his gracious purpose that they are in the number of those whom he hath thus given to his Son Christ Let them give unto him the glory of this his Grace Free Grace Such it was as I have shewen you All men being alike in Adam in the same state and condition by nature all alike children of wrath that God should single out some some few to make them objects of his grace ingrafting them into another stock the stock of the second Adam giving them unto his Son Christ to be reconciled redeemed and saved by him whilest he passed by others the greatest part leaving them to themselves to work out their own everlasting condemnation and to receive the just reward of their demerits this he did meerly out of his own good pleasure his free grace there being no other motive out of himself that might induce him to it Let him then have the glory of it from all those who apprehend their interest in it Let them acknowledge the freenesse And as the freeness so the Greatnesse of it admiring and adoring it blessing and magnifying God for it Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places or things in Christ According as he hath chosen us in him Eph. 1.3 4. Indeavouring to express their thankfulness unto him by walking answerably thereunto living to the praise and glory of God and Jesus Christ This is that which the Apostle presseth upon his Corinthians 1 Cor. 6.19 20 Ye are not your own c. Therefore glorifie God in your body and in your spirit which are Gods And so let me press it upon you all you who lay any claim to an interest in this blessed priviledge of being thus given to Christ Know you now that ye are no longer your own at your own dispose so as to serve what Masters you please No you are Christs So Paul tells those his Corinthians 1 Cor. 3.23 Ye are Christs And so are all believers and that by a double right as of purchase of which he there speaketh in that former Text Ye are bought with a price the blood of Christ so of Donation being given unto him by God his Father And being thus his now live to him None of us liveth to himself and no man dieth to himself saith the same Apostle Rom. 14.7 8. speaking de jure what Christians ought to do For whether we live we live unto the Lord or whether we die we die unto the Lord. And O that all of us may thus live and thus die not to our selves but to Jesus Christ shewing our selves his loyal subjects and obedient servants in our lives seeking his honour and glory and then yielding up our selves unto him in our death being ready to die for him if he should call us to that service This let all of us do who expect any benefit by him and that as upon the account of what Christ himself hath done for us in redeeming us so of what God the Father hath done for us in giving us unto him Thus I have done with the first of these Propositions which holdeth forth unto us this gracious Donation Gods giving of his Elect people unto Christ Come we now to the second which informes us that All those who are thus given unto Christ by his Father they shall come unto him Prop. 2. All who are given to Christ shall come to him Here is the second Proposition which sets forth unto us Mans effectual Vocation following upon Gods Election as an undoubted consequent of it So the Apostle sets it forth in that known Text Rom. 8.30 Whom he did predestinate them also he called Which in effect speaketh the same thing with this of our Saviour here All that the Father giveth me shall come unto me Quest How come unto him Ans For the explicating of