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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61367	Salvation by Jesus Christ alone ... agreeable to the rules of reason and the laws of justice ... : to which is added a short inquiry into the state of those men in a future life who never heard of Jesus Christ ... / by Tho. Staynoe.	Staynoe, Thomas, d. 1708.	1700 (1700)	Wing S5353; ESTC R12475	186,900	402

And if he does correct his Children with Rods and we may be sure that he never does that but he does it with Justice too then for the same Reason we may believe that he will chastise his Enemies with Scorpions And upon this Account we should take care to hear the Rod and who has appointed it and should make such good use of the Miseries which we suffer in this World as to let them put us in mind to flee from the Wrath to come For if we will not hearken to God's Voice when he chides us we shall at last when he comes to smite us sink under the weight of his Hand and if we neglect his Displeasure we shall fall under his Fury and Indignation 3. If God in the greatest and highest Instance of his Mercy with which he has acquainted us in his Gospel has not allowed us an Absolute Pardon but has even in that his Covenant of Grace required Conditions of us in order to our being made Partakers of that Pardon which is the Purchase of our Saviour then it does highly concern us that we take care to perform the Conditions on our Part that so we be not excluded from the Benefits of such Purchase For tho' it be most certain that we shall not be saved by our Repentance alone yet it is as certain that we shall not be saved without it No! He who has purchased our Ransom has in such his Purchase provided for God's Honour as well as for our Safety and notwithstanding his Purchase has taught us that we shall forfeit the last if we take no care of the first Let us therefore look upon our selves as we are in our selves that is as forlorn miserable Wretches Let us acknowledge our selves such to God Let us quit our Sins which have made us such And as we have by such our Sins hitherto rebelled against him let us for the future resolve to comply with his Will that is to the uttermost of our Power to obey his Laws Let us be heartily sorry that we have been so foolish as ever to have done otherwise And when we have done all this then let us joyfully accept and thankfully acknowledge the Designs of his Pity towards us and the Provisions that he has made for our Safety in a Saviour For this is the Way to bring that Salvation which he has pr●●●ded for Mankind I say to bring it home to our selves and to make it our own And I may add that this is the only way for us to do so For as there is not Salvation in any other but in Jesus Christ alone so there is not any possible Way for us to make our selves Partakers of this Salvation but by Repentance 4. Lastly Because we have seen that the Condition of the faln Angels is forlorn and desperate for want of a Saviour to expiate their Sins therefore this Consideration should enhance and magnifie our Praise to God that whereas he has in his Severity passed by those glorious and exalted Creatures and so has left them to the Stroke of pure and unrelenting Justice yet he has not dealt so with us Men weak and sinful Dust and Ashes Lord what is Man that thou art thus mindful of him or the Son of Man that thou so regardest him Therefore Blessing and Praise and Honour and Glory be to him that sitteth on the Throne and to the Lamb for evermore CHAP. IV. That Person to whom alone the Expiation of Sin is by the Scriptures ascribed is by the same Scriptures set forth to us 1. As God 2. As Man 3. As God and Man united in one Person or God Incarnate No Man a competent Judge of all possible Unions The Incarnation agreeable to the Sentiments of Mankind and variously foretold prefigured and suggested in the Scriptures Some Practical Inferences somewhat enlarged HAving seen in the foregoing Chapter that an Expiation for our Sin could neither be made by our selves nor by any other Creature and that therefore he who could make good such an Expiation must be more than a mere Creature It will be our next Business to search the Scriptures in which as we shall see more fully hereafter the Expiation of Sin is set forth and there to see what Character they give of him who made such Expiation For by that Means only we are likely to come to any true Knowledge and Information in this great Affair 1. Now in such Scriptures we find first that That Person to whom this Expiation is there ascribed is called God the Son of God the Word the Only Begotten of the Father That he is there said to be with his Father before the World began That he laid the Foundations of the Earth and that the Heaven are the Work of his Hand That he create● all Things that are in Heaven and that are i● Earth visible and invisible whether they be Thrones or Dominions or Principalities o● Powers That all Things were created 〈◊〉 him and for him That he is before al● Things and that by him all Things consist That to him is given all Power in Heave● and Earth with much more to the same Import and Purpose which we need not repe● at present because if we believe so much and we all at least pretend to believe it fo● the Word of God we may from thence satisfie our selves that he who has such a Character from God must be the True an● Everlasting God For so is the Maker o● Heaven and Earth and so is he who ha● all Power in Heaven and Earth For such 〈◊〉 Description does imply in it Omniscience an● Omnipotence and such other Attributes b● which we do tho' in other Words describ● the True God both to our selves and to al● others But we shall pursue this no farther here because it is not our professed Business at present For we have only mentioned it and confirmed it with some few Texts of Scripture without quoting the Places in order to our full and clear Explication of that Expiation which was made by our Saviour And when we come to do that we shall then more plainly perceive that the Deity of our Saviour and the Expiation made by him do mutually prove and establish each other 2. The Scriptures do acquaint us That that very Person to whom they do ascribe the Expiation of Sin was a true and real Man For they give us an Account of his Conception Nativity Life and Death They acquaint us with his Conversation and Manner of Life with his Natural Actions and Passions and each of them such which are undoubted Arguments of an Humane Nature and Condition Such are his Discourses his Eating Drinking Sleeping Grieving and the like By which Account of his Person we may be as well satisfied of his Humanity under this Head as we may be of his Deity under the last And I may add that if we do with Simplicity and Sincerity receive the Account of his Person and Character that the Scriptures give us