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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78551	Animadversions on Mr. William Dells book intituled The crucified and quickned Christian. By Humfry Chambers, D.D. Pastor of Pewsy in the county of Wilts. Novemb. vicessimo, 1652. Imprimatur John Owen Vicecan. Oxon.	Chambers, Humphrey, 1598 or 9-1662.	1653 (1653)	Wing C1912; Thomason E686_3; Thomason E686_4; ESTC R206849	85,353	100

this Christ is Ours whatsoever he is and that he hath loved Vs and given himself for Vs And this Revelation all the Faithful have together with Paul Vse 1. B And thus having answered this Objection we shall proceed to make some Use of this Point also And first we may observe what an excellent apprehension and vision of Christ true faith hath namely it looks on Christ not as a Severe Judge or Law-giver but as one who hath truly loved us and given himself for us And such a Discovery and Vision of Christ as this will uphold our souls mightily in all our saddest and darkest hours and will preserve us that we be not swallowed up of Despair Yea when we see Christ thus nothing is so sweet lovely and desirable to us as He is Now Satan and our evil Consciences will ever be representing Christ otherwise to us to make him Dreadful and Terrible to our Souls as Luther reports of a certain Doctor in his time who apprehended that Christ stood at the right hand of his Father accusing him for his sins and with the very horror and agony of this apprehension he pined away and died Wherfore let us not see Christ as Satan and our evil Consciences represent him in the hour of Temptation but as the Gospel holds him forth and then we shall see him to be such an one who hath loved us and given himself for us And such a knowledge of Christ will support and establish us again in the worst assaults that sin and death and hell can make against us Vse 2. 2. We may learn That faith carries nothing to Christ of its own but it goes empty and naked to him and expects to receive all things from him Faith saith Christ loved me and gave himself for me when I did not love him nor give my self for him yea when I was an Eenemy to him and Crucified him Faith saith I have no righteousnesse nor wisdom nor goodnesse nor any worth at all to carry to Christ but I expect all from him being in my self poor and miserable and blind and naked Vnbelief is altogether looking at what we have done for Christ but faith is altogether beholding what Christ hath done for us Vnbelief would fain bring something to Christ for which Christ might accept it but faith brings us unto Christ destitute of all good and full of all evil and even then casts us with confidence and assurance on his free love and mercy Vnbelief when it finds no good in it self dares not go to Christ nor trust in him but faith can trust in Christ in the midst of all sin and evil as well as in the midst of all graces and vertues for else no flesh could be saved And thus unbelief makes void the Gospel but faith establishes it For when a man would first find in himself a love to Christ and readiness to give himself for him e●re he can conceive any hope that Christ did love him and gave himself for him this man abolishes the Gospel and makes Christ void who came to save sinners and to justifie the ungodly But now he that feels nothing but sin and death and hell in himself and all manner of evil and enmity against God and yet notwithstanding all this can go to Christ by faith and can believe that Christ hath loved him even in this condition and given himself for him this is the man that magnifies the Gospel and hath the right understanding and knowledge of Christ Yes this is the man that gives God the greatest glory that any creature on earth can give him yea greater then all the Angels in Heaven can give him for they being full of the righteousness of their first Creation believe the Love of God to them but for men that have lost all that righteousnesse and are besides filled with all manner of sin even then to believe the love of God in Christ this is the precious faith of the Gospel and the greatest glorification of God that can be Wherefore Paul saith here he loved me and gave himself for me as if he had said he found in me no Free-will or Natural abilities no good desires affections or ends but he saw me wholly estrayed from God wicked abominable and the captive of the Devil and yet such was his goodness that notwithstanding all this he loved me and gave himself for me And this was the victory and triumph of Pauls faith Now by this that hath been last said we may perceive that every man naturally would find something in himself to bring to Christ to make him acceptable unto him and that very few can believe That he loves Vs whilst we are sinners and that whilst we are yet sinners Christ died for the ungodly Vse 3. 3. In that Christ loved us and gave himself for us we may hereby come to understand how strong mighty and unconquerable our sin was even so mighty that the whole world and all the creatures were unable and unsufficient to take it away but the Son of God must give himself for it and must become a Sacrifice for it or it had remained upon us for ever Wherefore let us know that our Free-will and Natural abilitise and works and duties were of no force at all to take away our sin but Christ must do that by giving himself for them And insomuch as Christ the Son of the living God hath given himself for them we rest assured that they are done away for ever and that none can lay any thing to our charge if do we believe in him Vse 4. 4. Let us labour for this particular faith and assurance in our hearts that Christ hath loved us and given himself for us There is nothing that the Devil does more labour to hinder us from then this particular application For he well knows that if we once truly believe that Christ hath loved us and given himself for us then we cannot chuse but forthwith love him again and give our selves for him and also be most ready and resolved to do or to suffer any thing for Christ the Spiritual sense of this special love is so constraining Wherefore as it is the great policy of the Devil to labour to hinder us from the sense of Christs special Love so it must be our especial care to endeavour to attain unto it For the true and Spiritual attainment hereof will be of great concernment to ut in all things For first the Spiritual taste of this Special Love will make us forward to do any thing for Christ as I said it will make us fruitful and abundant in his work and we can never be Idle when we shall comprehend with all Saints what is the height and breadth and length and depth and shall know this Love of Christ which passeth knowledge 2. It will make us ready and forward to suffer any thing for Christ any reproches slanders oppositions persecutions prisons torments nothing being bitter or grievous to that soul