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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

he himself is also compassed with infirmity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 potens Beza Gr. Annot in loc 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hic rursus ad affectus pronitatem referendum est Grot. ibid. i. e. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Beza expounds it aptus idoneus one fit and meet to take compassion And so is the Lord Jesus our great High-Priest rendered by his sufferings Having in his own person had experience of them he is made more compassionate towards others in like condition as the same Apostle hath it Heb. 4.15 We have not an High Priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin All this we acknowledge to be truth 2 Christ giving himself in our stead as our Surety But not the whole truth Christ as he dyed for our good so secondly in our stead 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For us Even as David lamenting the death of his Son Absalom is said to have wished would God I had dyed for thee O Absalom 2 Sam. 18. last that is dyed in his stead that so by his own temporal death he might have prevented the danger of his Eternal death Thus the Lord Iesus Christ out of that wonderful love which he bare to man-kind he gave himself for them dying for them that by his death he might prevent theirs which otherwise he saw them bound over to In this sense Christ is said to have dyed for us in that Text Rom. 5.8 God commendeth his love towards us in that while we were sinners Christ dyed for us that is in our stead as our surety to save and deliver us from death So the verse there foregoing explains it where it is said scarsly for a righteous man will one dye yet for a good man some would even dare to dye 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for a good man that is in his stead to prevent his death And thus did the Lord Jesus give himself for his people dying for them in their room and stead so to free and deliver them from death And so most fitly and properly are we to understand the word in the Text. Who gave himself for us viz. as our Surety making satisfaction to the Justice of God for our sins So the next words clearly explain it who gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity from the guilt and punishment of sin of which God willing more hereafter And in this way did Christ give himself for us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his whole self Thus he gave his whole self both Body and Soul as was in part shewed before Both which were partakers in his sufferings Not only his Body to which by a Synecdoche this is sometimes attributed and referred Thus our Saviour speaking to his Disciples Joh. 6.51 tels them The bread which I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world And Heb. 10.10 we are said to be sanctified through the offering of the Body of Christ Not by presenting it in heaven as Grotius would expound it but offering it upon earth upon the Altar of the Crosse Which Texts and the like we are to understand Synecdochically Not that only the Body of Christ was interested in these his sufferings but his soul also So it was before his Passion having divers conflicts specially with the apprehension of that death which he was to undergo Now is my soul troubled saith he to his Disciples Ioh. 12.27 and what shall I say Father save me from this hour And so again in the Garden he complaineth in the like manner to some of them My soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death Matth. 26.38 And as before so much more in his Passion where conflicting with the wrath of God being under a cloud of spiritual desertion he cryeth out in the anguish of his soul My Lord my God why hast thou forsaken me Matth. 27.46 Thus was his soul also made a partner in this suffering as the Prophet Isai expresseth it in the three last verses of his 53. Chap. When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin v. 10. He shall see of the travail of his soul v. 11. He hath powred out his soul unto death v. 12. Thus did he in his suffering give himself wholly his whole humane nature both Body and Soul The divine nature in the mean time supporting of the Humane as I said and seeming as it were to suffer with it And thus you have seen this first Particular in the Text somewhat largely opened and explained wherein hath been shewed unto you both what this Gift was and how said to be given Now adjourning the Application till afterwards not having as yet so full a rise for it as I desire proceed we to the second which acquaints us with 2. Partic. The Giver of this Gift Christ himself The Doner who it was that thus gave this gift which is Christ himself So it is the Gift and Giver here are both one who gave himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So we find it often elsewhere Gal. 1.4 who gave himself for our sins c. 2. v. 20. who gave himself for me Eph. 5.25 Christ loved his Church and gave himself for it 1 Tim. 2.6 who gave himself a ransome for all All speaking the same thing with this in the Text. The great God even our Saviour Iesus Christ who gave himself for us Obj. Gave himself But what Obj. 1. God the Father gave his Son do we not elsewhere read that he was given by his Father God so loved the world saith that known Text Ioh. 3.16 God the Father that he gave his only begotten Son In this was manifested that love of God towards us saith the same Evangelist because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might be saved through him 1 Ioh. 4.9 And again in the verse following Herein is love not that we love God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins It was God the Father that sent his Son upon this errand Him hath God the Father Sealed Joh. 6.27 given him Commission to do what he did Yea and sending him into the world he delivered him up unto death He spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all Rom. 8.32 And the Prophet Isai describing his Passion tels us Isai 53.10 It pleased the Lord to bruize him he hath put him to grief when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin speaking of God the Father And so much we may learn from Christs own mouth who speaking to the woman of Samaria calls himself The Gift of God Joh. 4.10 How then is he said to give himself Ans Father and Son concurring in this Donation Ans To this the Answer is obvious God the Father gave his Son yet his Son gave himself both concurring in the same Act. So it is in all

have trespassed against the Lord saith he yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing And so upon the like ground it is that the Prophet Ioel exhorts the people to turn unto God by Repentance For who knoweth saith he if he will return and repent and leave a blessing behind him Joel 2.13 14. They were not sure that upon their Reformation and Repentance the Lord would presently free them from those temporal judgements which then lay upon them Yet knowing that there was no other way for the obteining of such a mercy but this and that there was hope in this way therefore they will have them put themselves upon it So standeth it with all poor sinners be their state and condition whatever it will be yet there is hope in Israel concerning this thing God hath provided a means of Salvation for such as they are And who knoweth but that he intendeth upon their coming to his Son Christ to apply it unto them So as were there nothing else yet this alone should be sufficient to put poor sinners upon this way of coming unto Christ and believing on him 3. But to this adde in the third place the All-sufficiency of this Sacrifice 3. The Al-sufficiency of his Sacrifice The death of Christ is sufficient for all Mark it Though we do not say what hath commonly but unwarily been received from the Schools and so asserted by many Orthodox Divines that Christ dyed sufficiently for all for that intimates that there was a purpose and intention in God the Father in giving his Son and in Christ giving himself that he should dye for all and so become a surety for all dying in their room and stead which will not be safe in any sense to yeeld Yet we affirm what I suppose will not be denyed or questioned that his death was and is in it self sufficient for all So it must needs be This Blood being the blood of God as the Apostle calleth it in that Text formerly made use of Act. 20.28 God purchased the Church with his own blood And so Saint Iohn 1 Joh. 3.16 God layed down his life for us that is that person who was truly God as well as Man Hence it is that the death and passion of Christ was and must needs be of an infinite value and vertue being the suffering of an infinite person Thus was it sufficient for all men for the whole world yea for thousands of worlds Now were it so that there were such a receit as would cure all diseases who is there but being sick would make tryal of it not standing to question whether it was prepared for him or no. Thus standeth the Case here All men by reason of sin are sick sick unto death Now the Blood of Iesus Christ is such a Panacea a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a true Catholicon The Blood of Iesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin 1 Joh. 1.7 How it is then that any poor sinners who are sensible of this spiritual aylement should make any demur about the drinking of this blood the applying of the merit of Christs death unto themselves by faith 4. The experience of all who have thus come unto Christ 4. To this in the fourth place add the experience which others have had those who have put their souls upon this way of whom never any one miscaried All have found cure who have rightly applyed this remedy And why then should not others do the like As it was with the Brazen Serpent set up in the wilderness as a cure for the stinging of the fiery Serpents there however at the first erecting of it happily some might look upon it as a meer Pageant having no such vertue in it and so would not trouble themselves to go up to it yet when once they saw by experience that all who came unto it received benefit from it now we may suppose that none should need to perswade those who felt themselves stung to repair unto it Thus standeth the case here For such an end was the Lord Iesus of whom that was a Type lifted up upon the Cross that whosoever believeth on him should not persh but have eternal life as our Saviour himself explains the mystery of it Ioh. 3.14 15. And of the vertue of this mystical Brazen Serpent the Saints in all ages have had experience Those before Christ after The one looking upon him as to come the other as already come Yet believing on him they were all saved by him Even as the Israelites which looked upon that Serpent whether it was before or behind or on which side soever we do not find but they were all cured Thus have the Ages before Christ since the Fathers under the old Testament and Saints under the New both alike found benefit by coming unto Christ and looking up unto him by faith We believe saith Peter that through the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ we shall be saved even as they Act. 15.11 We Iewes as they Gentiles None that ever came to Christ in a right way but have been saved by him So was it when he was here upon earth None came to him for cure of their Bodies but received it And so hath it been since his removal to heaven None ever came to him for the Cure of their souls but have found what they came for And what an incouragement then should this be to all poor sinners to take the same course to come unto him upon the same account These are all strong inducements to put Christians upon this way But behold yet more yea and stronger Arguments drawing more forcibly as viz. 5. Gods purpose in giving his Son 5. In the 5th place consider what is the Intimation which we have of God the Fathers purpose in giving his Son which we have in that Text before insisted on Ioh. 3.16 God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on him should not perish c. Now then taking notice what is the Condition whereupon depends the benefit of Christs death and which being performed it shall undoubtedly be made effectual what remains but that without any over-curious enquiry concerning the former part of that verse what is there meant by the world which God is said to have loved or how he may be said to have loved that world you apply your selves to the latter to the performance of what is there required Which shall you through the grace of God inabling make good on your parts do not doubt but God will make good unto you what he hath engaged on his part 6. Christs serious Invitation 6. To which add the Sons Invitation Christs calling you to come unto him which you may hear him doing in that known Text Matth. 11.28 Come unto me ye that labour and are heavy laden viz. under the burden of sin seriously desiring as I said to be freed from the guilt and power of it As also in that