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A77515	Two treatises the one, handling the doctrine of Christ's mediatorship : wherein the great Gospel-mystery of reconciliation betwixt God and man is opened, vindicated, and applyed. The other, of mystical implantation : wherein the Christian's union and communion with, and conformity to Jesus Christ, both in his death and resurrection, is opened, and applyed. / As they were lately delivered to the church of God at Great Yarmouth, by John Brinsley, minister of the Gospel, and preacher to that incorporation.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.; Ashe, Simeon, d. 1662.	1652 (1652)	Wing B4737; Thomason E1223_1; ESTC R22919	314,532	569

as the same Apostle hath it cap. 1.2 the last Time or Times so St Peter cals them 1 Pet. 1.5 20. And St John the last Hour 1 John 2.18 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the last Time or Hour So did the Apostles then look upon the world as drawing towards a period a consummation And that not far from it in their times what then may we do in ours But I passe on Thus Christ appeared in the end of the world and that but Once Once and but once 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As for the Priests under the Law they appeared Often before God in the execution of their Ministeriall function The Priest went always say the 6th and 7th verses of this chapter i. e. daily every day into the first Tabernacle the holy place the second court of the Tabernacle or Temple accomplishing the service of God But into the second the Holy of Holies went the High Priest once every year Thus they appeared Often But Christ our High Priest appeareth but Once Once upon Earth and Once in Heaven Once upon Earth before Men Of this speakes the Apostle here in this 26. verse Once in Heaven before God Of this he speakes verse 12. By his own blood he entred in once into the Holy place i. e. Into Heaven Marke it Once he appeared upon Earth and once in Heaven Christ appeareth once upon Earth and once in Heaven As for any such second appearing upon Earth and returning to heaven before his coming to the last and generall Judgment Millenaries confuted as some imagine this our Apostle taketh no notice of it And therefore I dare not avouch it Nay hee tels mee expresly in the last verse of this chapter that Christ having been once offered to bear the sins of Many he shall appear the second time without sin unto Salvation unto them that looke for him Marke it Christ appeareth not twice upon Earth once to suffer and once to reign there personally and twice in Heaven once after his Resurrection and once after the settlement of his supposed Government as some have conceived but Once upon Earth and once in Heaven As for his second Appearing it shall be unto Salvation to the compleat and perfect salvation both of Soul and Body in heaven so Expositors I think universally expound that place of all those who love and look for that Appearing Heb. 5.9 2 Tim. 4.8 In the mean time let it be enough for us that he hath appeared once upon Earth So it may well be if we do but consider what followeth viz. the end of this Appearance which was To put away sin How Christ is said to have put away sin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the Abrogating abolishing taking away of sin Not taking it out of the world No the world still lyeth in wickednesse 1 John 5.19 Nor yet taking it out of the persons of his redeemed ones so as that it is should have no abiding no inbeing in them No this is a perfection reserved for heaven not to be looked for on Earth But so taking it away as that it shall not be imputed to them nor yet reign in them For both these ends Christ appeared upon Earth for the abolishing of sin in his people both in respect of Guilt and Power It is the former of these that is here properly and principally intended So much will appeare from the next clause which setteth forth the way and means whereby Jesus Christ effecteth this abrogation and abolition of sin viz. By the Sacrifice of himselfe The Sacrifice of Christ himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This was the Sacrifice which Christ our High-Priest offered Not the Bodies of other creatures as those Legall Priests did but his own body Offered upon Earth Vide D. L. in Heb. 1.3 9. ver 26. himself And this Sacrifice he offered up not in Heaven as the Socinian would have it in presenting himselfe before God his Father but upon Earth viz. in his Passion upon the Crosse There was this Sacrifice offered up Duplex est ut legalium quarundam victimarum ita Christi oblatio prior mactationis altera ostentationis Grot. de satisfact cap. 10. True indeed it was afterwards presented in heaven but it was first offered upon Earth So was it with some Sacrifices under the Law The blood of them was represented by the High Priest in the most Holy place as this our Apostle tels us ver 7. of this chapter but they were offered before viz. in the slaying and sacrificing of them by the Priest So was it in this Sacrifice of Christ How ever it be presented before God in heaven which is an other part of Christs Mediatorship as God willing I shall shew you hereafter belonging to the next branch his Intercession yet it was offered up upon earth viz. in his Death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In mactatione Sacrificium Grot. de Satisf cap. 10. Thus were sacrifices said to be offered up when they were slain So profane Authors ever use the word and Scripture the like When God biddeth Abraham go offer his son Gen. 22.2 he addresseth himselfe to slay him ver 10. which because hee had intentionally done though not with his hand yet in his heart he is therefore said to have offered him up Heb. 11.17 Therein was Isaak a Type of Christ who was offered up after the same manner being actually slain There was he truely offered Hence it is that Saint John calleth him onely the Lamb slain Revel 5.6 and 13.8 which Saint Paul renders Sacrificed Offered Christ our Passeover is sacrificed or offered for us 1 Corinthians 5.7 Thus was Christ first offered up upon Earth Neither was this only a Preparation to that oblation which is made in Heaven as the Socinian would have it but a perfect Oblation The death of Christ more then a preparation to his oblation So was the offering made by the Priest in the Holy-place It was more then a Preparation to an offering a true Sacrifice As for the presenting of the blood of the Sacrifice in the Holy of Holies it was not properly a Sacrifice Grotius ibid. but rather the Commemoration of a Sacrifice already made So standeth it betwixt Christ's Oblation and his Intercession The former was done upon Earth There was the Sacrifice offered The later is only a Commemoration of that Sacrifice a presenting it unto God as it were continually to put him in minde of what was done that for the merit thereof hee may bee propitious unto his people And this is the Sacrifice whereby Christ is said to put away sin By this sacrifice Christ putteth away sin Not properly his Intercession in heaven but his Immolation his oblation upon earth in his death upon the cross So the Spirit of God clearly carries it every where ascribing the work of our Redemption the taking away of sin to the death and blood-shed of Christ He

suppose it be directed to others men dead in trespasses and sins Such exhortations not uselesse to others yet such Exhortations are not uselesse unto them In as much as through those channels God is pleased to convey his grace and spirit wherby he enables them to do what hee requireth from them Thus in raising Jairus his daughter from the death-Bed our Saviour cals to her Talitha Cumi Damosell arise Mark 5.41 And in raising Lazarus from the grave he cries unto him Lazarus come forth Joh. 11.43 not that either the one or the other had power of themselves to do what was commanded but there was a power went forth together with the word like that which went forth with that Creating word at the first God said Let there be light and there was light Gen. 1. There was a power went forth with the word giving a being to that which was not Thus doth God cal things which are not as if they were Rom. 4.17 By his word making things to be what they were not And thus doth be call upon dead souls to awake and arise by and through his word conveying that spirit and power unto his Elect wherby they are inabled to do what of themselves they cannot The first Resurrection is a work of no lesse power no lesse difficulty then the second 5. To these adde in the fifth place Resemb 5. This spirituall resembles the corporall Resurrection in the Indisposition of the Subject In the indisposition of the Subject A dead Corps lying in the grave it hath no disposition no aptitude no inclination to rise again As it cannot raise it selfe so neither can it do any thing in a way of tendency towards its own resurrection It can no wayes fit or prepare it self for it Nay it cannot so much as will or desire it Even such an indisposition is there in a dead soul to this first Resurrection A soul dead in sin as it cannot raise it selfe to the life of grace so neither can it do any thing which tendeth that way Such an Impotency is there in man since the fall All are now by nature 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without power When we were yet without strength Christ died for us Rom. 5.6 Not able to contribute ought towards this blessed change Not able to do any thing by way of preparation to fit themselves for the receiving of the grace of God no nor yet so much as will and desire it when the grace of God first meeteth with man it findeth him a meer patient like a dead body lying in the grave having only a passive capacity rendring him a subject capable of receiving the impressions of grace and so of having a new life put into him Man hath not only an outward but an inward Impediment to this Resurrection So indisposed is man naturally to the work of God's grace not only having an outward Impediment as Papists and Arminians would have it like a Prisoner as some of them frame the similitude who having fetters upon his legs cannot walk but yet he hath an inward power in himselfe so to do if that outward impediment were removed Not onely so but man hath also an inward impediment Being like a dead carkass lying in the grave which though all the grave-clothes be taken from it yet it cannot move nor stir untill a new life be put into it Until God doth breathe the breath of a new life into the soul the man is whole indisposed unto this blessed change I might go a step further Man not only indisposed but averse to this Resurrection and shew you how he is not onely indisposed to this life but averse to it In which respect the first Resurrection goeth beyond the second The second Resurrection meeteth with a Body which though of it selfe it be indisposed to live again yet it maketh no resistance no opposition against its own resurrection But in the first Resurrection when God cometh to raise up a dead soul from the grave of sin he findeth it not only indisposed but opposite to it making resistance against the work of his grace Ye stiffe-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears ye do alwayes resist the Holy Ghost As your fathers did so do ye saith Saint Stephen to the Jewes Acts 7.51 To these I might yet add one more 6. This spirituall resembles the corporall Resurrection in the efficient causes of it Resemb 6. The Efficient Causes of it and that both Principall and Ministeriall and Instrumentall In the second Resurrection the Resurrection of the body the Principall Efficient is God himselfe the Ministeriall the Angels the Instrumentall the sound of a Trumpet You have them all together 1 Thes 4.16 The Lord himselfe shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of an Archangel and with the Trumpet of God and the dead in Christ shall arise Now see a resemblance of all these in the first Resurrection The same Principall Efficient God God quickneth the dead Rom. 4.17 as dead bodies so dead souls The like Ministeriall and Instrumentall Cause Herein God maketh use of his Angels Revel 2. 3. and of his Trumpet His Angels the Angels of the Churches the Ministers of the Gospell whom he now sendeth forth to gather together his Elect from the four winds from one end of Heaven to the other Mat. 24.31 His Trumpet is his word in the mouth of his Ministers A spirituall Trumpet shadowed out by those silver Trumpets under the Law by the sounding whereof the Priests called the people to the publick Assemblies on earth Numb 10.2 Thus do the Ministers of the Gospel by lifting up their voice like a Trumpet as it is given in charge to the Prophet Isaiah Isai 58.1 by preaching and publishing the Gospell they call men to the Kingdom of God Hereby awakening and raising them up The hour is coming and now is saith our Saviour when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and they which hear it shall live John 5.25 Men dead in sin hear the voice of Christ in the Ministery of his Word and thereby the Spirit concurring with the Ordinance and giving efficacy to it they are quickned and raised up to a new spirituall and heavenly life Even as dead bodies shall be at the last day raised from their graves by the voice of an Arch-angel and sound of a Trumpet Thus then you see this Generall made out How that the first resurrection the resurrection of the soul from the death of sin to the life of righteousnesse carries with it the resemblance of a Resurrection resembling it in the Order in the Nature in the Integrity in the Difficulty of the work in the Indisposition of the Subject in the Efficient Causes of it both Principall Ministeriall and Instrumentall Now come we in the second place to see how it resembleth the Resurrection of Christ 2. The spirituall Resurrection resembles the Resurrection of Christ So it doth

vertue knowledge to knowledge temperance to temperance patience to patience godlinesse c as the same Apostle directs 2 Pet. 1.5 6. That so you may come behind in no grace no gift as Paul saith of his Corinthians 1 Cor. 1.7 Then adding one degree of grace to another faith to faith The righteousnesse of God saith the Apostle is revealed from faith to faith Rom. 1.17 that is from one degree and measure of faith to another According as faith is revealed more and more so is the Righteousnesse of Justification more assured unto the soul Labour to get your faith which is the radicall grace the very heart of this new-man confirmed and strengthened daily not neglecting such means as God hath appointed for that end amongst which the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper whereof some of you have this day been made partakers is a chief and principall one Then seek after the like growth and increase in love in humility in patience so in all other graces These are the members of this new man let it be your care that as it is in true Augmentatation which is secundùm omnes partes a proportionable growth in every part every of these may grow and increase with the increase of God Thus do you perfect holinesse in the feare of God as the Apostle exhorts 2 Cor 7.1 Being thus changed into the Image of Christ from glory to glory as by the spirit of the Lord as you have it v. last of the 3d. chap. of that Epistle 5. In respect of heavenli-mindedness 5. And lastly Rise more and more in respect of Heavenlimindednesse Your hearts are like ponderous bodies still tending downwards towards the Earth And therefore let it bee your daily worke to raise and scrue them upwards by frequent Meditation and Contemplation of Heaven and Heavenly things and in particular of that heavenly Glory to which Christ is raised Beholding as in a glasse the glory of the Lord saith the Apostle in the place last named 2 Corin. 3. last which Grotius expounds of the Glory of Christ in his Kingdome of Glory This Behold as in a glasse that is saith hee seriously and attentively cosider and contemplate it With all labouring to raise your Affections thither If yee bee risen with Christ c. Set your Affections on things which are above and not on things on the earth Col. 3.1 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Minde things above and let them have your Hearts your Affections As for the things of this world labour daily to sit more loose to them that so you may bee willing to part with them when ever God shall be pleased to call you hence Thus being Risen yet rise daily more and more Which that you may do still seeke after a further and more intimate Vnion and Communion with the Lord Jesus Christ Still seeking after a more intimate union and full communion with Jesus Christ by whose spirit it is that you are and must be raised That you may more and more participate of that vertue which is in him Paul had no small share in this vertue yet hee desireth that he might still have further experience of it That I may know him and the vertue of his Resurrection Philip. 3.10 Let the same be your desire and indeavour that you may daily feele this divine vertue put forth in you more and more raising you up more and more from the death of sin to the Life of grace here Then rest assured the same vertue shall at the last day raise you up from the death of nature to the Life of Glory Being here made conformable unto Christ in your first Resurrection you shall be also in the second which shall be to you a Resurrection of life And thus I have at the length through the good hand of God leading and conducting me passed thorough this excellent portion of Scripture wherein you have held forth unto you that great Gospel Mystery of the Christians Vnion and Communion with and conformity to Jesus Christ both in his death and Resurrection The sweetnesse of the subject hath drawn forth my meditations beyond the staple which I first intended them May but my labours herein prove acceptable and profitable unto you I have what I aimed at Which that they may be let us Pray FINIS

the State which he negotiates for And so doth Jesus Christ of all his Elect. For their sakes it was that he sanctified himselfe when he was upon Earth John 17.19 In all the services which here he undertook he had an eye unto them seeking their welfare more then his own And the like he doth now in Heaven He sitteth at the right hand of God as their Agents interceding for them This was shadowed out in the High Priest under the Law who when he went into the Holy Place there to appear before the Lord he had the Names of the twelve Tribes of Israel ingraven in stones first upon his Humerall then upon his Pectorall bearing them both upon his shoulders and upon his heart as you shall finde it Exod. 28.12 29. in both shewing that he entred into that place not onely or principally in his own behalfe but in the behalfe of the Tribes whom he represented and presented before the Lord to the end that they might be had in continuall remembrance with him as the 29th verse there explains it A lively Type of Christ's Intercession who being entred into the Heavens he there appeareth before God in the behalfe of his Elect whom he beareth as it were upon his shoulders and upon his Heart sustaining their persons and presenting their condition unto God his Father so causing them to be had in perpetuall memory And thus presenting them unto God he procureth their welfare by commending their estate and condition unto God Expressing his constant will and desire for their good that they may be delivered from evill that they may enjoy all the benefits whch he hath merited for them by his death And thus is he said most properly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to intercede for them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 significat Interpellationem quae fit cum postulatione Estius Com. in Heb. 7.25 viz. by making requests on their behalfe This saith Estius is the most proper signification of the word therein following Augustine with whom the Apostles Interpellare is the same with Postulare To Intercede is to make Request So our former Translation renders it in that place fore-named Rom. 8.34 Estius in Rom. 8.34 Heb. 7.25 Who also maketh request for us This Jesus Christ doth though not vivâ voce Orally and vocally by word of mouth as the same Jesuit would willingly have it drawing in Thomas though without any just ground to be of the same mind with him yet really and effectually viz. by the presenting of his merit and expressing his will and desire on the behalfe of his people in such a way as is congruous and sutable to that glorified state Thus doth he intercede make requests for them thereby impetrating and obtaining for them such things as they stand in need of and he hath merited for them As viz. that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Paul speaketh of Phil. 1.19 a continuall supply of the Spirit whereby they are strengthened and assisted against all Tentations comforted in all Tribulations delivered from every evill work inabled to the performance of every duty and finally preserved unto his heavenly Kingdom All which are fruits of Christ's Intercession though merited by his death upon the Cross yet impetrated and obtained by his Intercession in Heaven And thus we see how Jesus Christ this our Mediatour appeareth before God on the behalfe of his people as an Agent conserving their Peace maintaining their Intercourse and Communion with God reconciling their emergent differences and procuring their welfare Secondly He appeareth before God as an Advocate 2 As an Advocate being So Saint John calleth him 1 John 2.1 If any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Originall A word generally and properly signifying any one that is invited and called in to the help and assistance of another That is also the proper meaning of the word Advocatus In Scripture we find it attributed sometimes to the Holy Ghost and sometimes to Christ To the Holy Ghost Then it is fitly rendred a Comforter So you find it Joh. 14.16 15.26 16.17 In this place and only this of St John it is attributed unto Christ and here it is most fitly rendred an Advocate An Advocate we know what he is One that is of counsel with another and pleadeth his cause in open Court at the Bar of Justice And such an Advocate is Jesus Christ unto his people 1. He is of Counsel with them 2 of Counsell with them That is one of the Titles given to him by the Prophet Isai Isai 9.6 Wounderfull Counsellour So Christ is to his people counselling them in the midst of all their straits and difficulties which he doth by his Word and Spirit 2. And as of Counsell with them so pleading for them 2 Pleading for them This he doth in the High Court of Heaven at the Bar of God's Justice In which respect he may be fitly said to appear for them Even as an Advocate appeareth for his Client and pleadeth his cause answering all Accusations and Allegations which are made against him vindicating his right So doth the Lord Jesus appearing before God he pleadeth the cause of his people answering what ever Accusations or Allegations are brought in against them by Satan or their own Consciences vindicating their right to Heaven and Eternall Life All which he doth by the continuall presentation of his Merit unto God his Father the Merit of his Death and Passion whereby he hath made a full satisfaction unto his Justice for all their sins This it is which pleadeth for them even the Blood of Christ which as the Authour to the Hebrews saith of it Heb. 12.24 Speaketh better things then the Blood of Abel Abel's blood pleaded against Cain crying for vengeance Gen. 4.10 But the Blood of Christ pleadeth for his Elect crying for mercy pardon for them even for all that shall believe on him For them the Blood of Christ speaketh a good word pleading the generall plea a Plenè satisfecit a full satisfaction made unto the Justice of God for them So as by this meanes they are freed from the Accusation and Condemnation of the Law wherunto otherwise every day by reason of their renewed transgressions they become obnoxious This is the ground of Paul's Triumph Rom. 8.33 34. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods chosen who is he that condemneth c It is Christ that dyed yea rather that is risen again who is even at the right hand of God who also maketh Intercession for us This hee doth as an Advocate there pleading the cause of his Elect 3ly As he is an Advocate so also an Attourney 3. As an Attourny An Attourney wee know what in Law it means One that is authorized to appear for or to act in the name of another And such an Attourney is the Lord Jesus on the behalf of his elect people 1. Appearing before

God for them 1. Appearing for them Thus are Atturnies said to appear for their Clients in the Courts of Justice Sum of Sacred divinity published by John Downham p. 330. answering for them And from hence saith that learned and judicious Divine-Lawyer the Apostle may seem to have borrowed that phrase of Christ appearing in the presence of God for us in that place forenamed Heb. 9.24 This he doth as our Attourney sitting at the right hand of God his Father as a generall person representing the whole mysticall body whereof himselfe is the Head appearing and making answer for every member thereof 2. As he appeareth so also he acteth for them doing what he doth in their name 2. Acting in their name in their room and stead Thus he took possession of Heaven upon his ascension not in his own name onely but also in their name This is that he tels his Disciples John 14.2 I go to prepare a place for you A Similitude borrowed from Travellers amongst whom some one goeth before to bespeake and take up roomes for the rest against they come The like office hath Jesus Christ done for his people He is gone before entred into the Heavenly Places not onely for his owne sake but his peoples in whose name hee hath taken up those Everlasting Mansions And as he hath taken so hee keepeth possession in their name in their room and stead Hence is it that the Apostle speaking of beleevers Eph. 2.6 he saith that they are raised up together and made to sit together in the heavenly places in Christ So they do though not actually in their own persons yet in the person of Christ That which an Atturny doth for another himself is said to do it Thus one taketh possession of a house or ground which himself never saw viz. by another whom he appoints in his room as his Atturny to do it in his stead And thus hath Jesus Christ taken and now keepeth possession of the heavenly places in our stead 3 Which he doth being 3. And this he hath done being Authorized and deputed thereunto Even as Atturnies in Courts are Authorized and deputed Authorized by the Judge and deputed by the parties Otherwise they cannot appear or Act as Attournies for others Even so is Jesus Christ authorized and deputed to be as it were our Attourny Authorized by God his Father to appear and answer for us Authorized by God his Father Him hath God the Father sealed John 6.27 id est as I shewed you before Authorized him to execute the office of a Mediatour to be as an Attourney for his people in the Court of Heaven Deputed by them And Deputed by those for whom he appeares Christ doth not undertake to doe the office of an Advocate or Attourney for any without their consents No Attournies must be retained by their Clients And so is Jesus Christ by all those who have any benefit by his Advocation his Intercession They are such as have retained him and committed their cause to him such as have received him and doe acknowledg him resting and relying upon him as their Mediatour 4 As a Solicitor presenting and promoting their desires 4. In the fourth and last place he appeareth also before God as a Solicitour What the Solicitours office is it is well known viz to present and promote the desires and Requests of another in such a way as that they may finde acceptance And such a Solicitor is the Lord Jesus on the behalf of his people In which respect againe he may fitly be said to be a Mediator betwixt God and Men. Such a Mediatrix was Queen Hester who appeared in the presence of King Ahasuerus presenting unto him the Petition which Mordecai had put into her mouth in the behalf of her people Ester 5. And such a mediatour is a Master of Requests in a Princes Court who appearing in the Presence Chamber there presents the Petitions of the People which are put into his hands And such a Mediatour is the Lord Jesus the great Master of Requests who appearing in the presence of God his Father presents both the prayers and services of his people unto him and that in such a way as that they become acceptable unto him So that Text commonly hath been and for ought I know properly may be understood for what other sense to make of it I well know not Rev. 8.3 where we finde mention of an Angell which stood at the Altar having a golden Censer and there was given to him much Incense that he should offer it with the Prayers of all Saints upon the golden Altar which was before the throne This Angel is the Angel of the Covenant the Lord Jesus which offereth up the prayers of Saints unto God being mixed with the precious odours of his own merits This is the incense which is offered with or added for so the word in the Original hath it as the margin in our new Translation renders it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that he might give or add to the prayers of all Saints Such are the merits of Christ an additament to the prayers of Gods Saints Like that Incense which was offered up by the Priest under the Law for to that the Spirit there clearly alludeth under the Law whilest the people were praying without the Priest was offering up Incense within So you finde it Luke 1.10 A Type of Christs Intercession Whilest his people are praying without upon Earth he is within appearing before God in the heavens there offering up Incense presenting those prayers mingled with his own merits Which are not unfitly compared to Incense Incense being a sweet perfume the smoake thereof doth easily and gratefully penetrate into the nostrils of Man Even so doth the Merit of the Lord Jesus being added to the prayers of Saints it penetrates into the nostrils of God so it there followeth verse 4. The smoak of the Incense of which came with the prayers of the Saints and ascended up before God out of the Angels hand And by that meanes those prayers and services wherewith it is offered they become grateful unto God Ye are an holy Priesthood saith S. Peter speaking to beleevers to offer up spiritual sacrifices viz. Prayers and praises c. acceptable to God by Jesus Christ And in this respect may he fitly be said to be a Mediator betwixt God and men A Mediator as an Inteecessour And thus I pass off from the fourth staff to the fifth and last Christ is a Mediatour betwixt God and man quà Gubernator as a Vice-Roy The 5th staffe of this mysticall Ladder Christ a Governour a Deputy Governour such a Mediatour was Joseph betwixt Pharaoh his people Being taken out of Prison he was advanced set at Pharaohs right hand next to him in the Kingdome and so set over all the land of Egypt Herein was he a Type of our Mediatour the Lord Jesus who being in like manner taken out of prison as

Christ now doth being risen from the dead and living and reigning with his Father he maketh it his work to glorifie him In that he liveth saith the Apostle ver 10. of this Chapter he liveth unto God that is with God to the Glory of God 2. To be glorified with him And now 2. Passively to be glorified with God O Father glorifie thy Son with the selfe same glory which I had with thee before the world was So he goeth on John 17.15 This Glory the Godhead of Christ the second Person reassumed after his Resurrection and the Manhood was assumed to the participation of the same glory in such a degree and measure as it was capable of Thus was Christ raised from the dead to the Glory of the Father And in this Thus is the believer raised the Christian's Resurrection carrieth with it a like resemblance of his Resurrection He is thus raised from the death of sin to the glory of God his Father Actively to the glorifying of him Passively to be glorified with him 1. To the glorifying of him 1. Actively to the glorifying of God This is the end wherefore God bestoweth this his grace upon his Elect people viz. that they should be to the praise of his glory Ephes 1.12 which they are when his grace shineth forth in them Now they are to the glory of God glorifying of him themselves Therefore glorifie God in your bodies and in your spirit for they are Gods 1 Cor. 6.20 And others glorifie God on their behalfe Let your light so shine before men that others seeing your good works may glorifie your Father which is in heaven Mat. 5.16 Thus is the believer raised to the glory of God in as much as those fruits of Righteousnesse and Holinesse which are conspicuous in his renewed conversation they are by Jesus Christ to the praise and glory of God Phil. 1.11 2. Passively to be glorified with him 2. He is raised to be glorified with God his Father God hath called us to glory and vertue saith Saint Peter 2 Pet. 1.3 to vertue on earth to glory in heaven Thence is it as I told you that Sanctification is comprehended under the name of Glorification Rom. 8.30 The one is a pledge of the other Grace ends in Glory The glory which thou gavest me saith our Saviour I have given them John 17.22 speaking not of that power of working miracles called the glory of God John 11.40 which he gave unto his Apostles after his Ascension as Grotius apprehends it but of that eternall glory which himselfe was now to enter upon This he had purchased for them and all believers this he had promised to them and this in due season he will confer upon them Father I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am that they may behold my glory ver 24. This shall all believers do They shall continually be with the Lord beholding his glory And beholding it they shall be transformed into it We all with open face as in a glasse beholding the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image from glory to glory 2 Cor. 3. last from grace to grace and from grace to glory To this believers are called to the obtaining of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ 2 Thes 2.15 And this they shal have possession of Christ waited for his Glory after his Resurrection and so doth the Believer Though not presently I might add that as another Resemblance which I shall onely touch upon Christ being raised from the dead he was raised to the glory of God his Father yet was he not presently possessed of that Glory He waited for a time during his forty dayes betwixt his Resurrection and Ascension In the mean time he was not perfect as he should be So much he willeth Mary to take notice of John 20.17 where he saith to her Touch me not for I am not yet ascended unto my Father intimating to her that he would not have her to fix her thoughts so much upon his present condition in as much as that was not the highest pitch of his Exaltation which was to follow upon his Ascension Thus fareth it with the Christian though he be raised up to the glory of God his Father made an Heir of glory as all true believers are If children then heirs heirs of God and joynt heirs with Jesus Christ Rom. 8.17 Through the grace of God already vouchsafed to them they are made in measure meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light as the Apostle hath it Col. 1.12 yet is he an heir under age having a Jus ad rem but not in re a Right to heavenly glory through Christ but not the actuall possession of it For this he must wait We which have the first fruits of the spirit saith the Apostle Rom. 8.23 even we our selves groan within our selves waiting for the Adoption even the Redemption of our bodies Believers they have received the first fruits of the spirit those graces of the spirit which are to them a pledge and assurance of the full crop of perfect glorification in due season But this they must wait for untill the time appointed of the Father They are raised up to the glory of God the Father but not presently glorified I shall proceed no further Thus you see this Parallel made out and withall the first branch of the former Proposition made good viz. that the Christian's first his spirituall Resurrection carries with it a resemblance of Christ's Resurrection 2. The believers corporall Resurrection resembling Christs And so shall his corporal resurrection There is the 2d branch upon which I shall not insist long looking upon the former as principally eyed by the Apostle in this place As the believer is comformable to the resurrection of Christ in this first resurrection the resurrection of his soul so he shall be in the second Resurrection the resurrection of his body This shall carry a resemblance of Christ's Resurrection As Christ was raised so shall the believer be raised The Paralel or Comparison betwixt these two I might shew you in divers particulars I shall mention some few of the principall reducing them to two heads The Christian's Resurrection shall resemble the Resurrection of Christ both in the verity and quality of it Two generall Resemblances 1. In the Verity of it 1. In the Verity of it It shall be a true Resurrection Such was the Resurrection of Jesus Christ a true Resurrection The same body that was buried was raised again Christ's Resurrection a true Resurrection Destroy this Temple saith our Saviour to the Jewes and in three dayes I will raise it up again Joh. 2.19 This he spake of the Temple of his Body saith the Evangelist ver 21. This Temple the Jews destroyed this Temple he raised up again Not another Temple another Body in the room of it but the same body That it

in this those who are his resemble him they are a people willing and obedient Isai 1.19 willingly obeying God for himselfe and those which are set over them under him for his sake 6. Love 6. Love Walk in love as Christ also hath loved us Ephes 5.2 He loved the Church and gave himselfe for it ver 25. Greater love hath no man then this that a man should lay down his life for his freinds John 15.13 This hath Christ done and more While we were yet sinners enemies Christ died for us Rom. 5.8 And herein are those which are Christs conformable to Christ in their measure They are all in a good sense of the Family of Love Such as love God above all with all their heart c and their neighbours as themselves Mat. 22.37 39. The true Christian is one that loveth the Lord Jesus in sincerity Ephes 6.24 One that loveth the Saints and that because they are Saints and so consequently all Saints Ephes 1.15 One that loveth and imbraceth the Image of God where-ever he meeteth with it One that loveth his enemies ready to do good to them that hate him praying for those which despitefully use him Mat. 5.45 Thus the same mind is in those who are engrafted into Christ which was in Christ himself Phil. 2.4 7. Mercy 7. Mercy Jesus Christ was and is a mercifull High Priest Heb. 2.17 In the dayes of his flesh he was ready to shew mercy both to the souls and bodies of all those that sought it from him The like bowels of mercy there are in measure to be found in all that are Christs they are such as have put on bowels of mercy Col. 2.12 The wisdome which is from above is full of mercy Jam. 3.17 8. Contempt of the world 8. Contempt of the world Christ was neither covetous nor ambitious He professeth his Kingdom was not of this world John 18.36 And therefore when a Crown was offered him and forced upon him he refused it John 6.15 Disdaining to do any homage to Satan though it were for all the Kingdoms upon earth Mat. 4.8 In this those which are Christs resemble him They looking upon the fashion of this world as transitory passing away they use it as not abusing it 1 Cor. 7.31 Not suffering their affections to run out inordinately after the things thereof not seeking great things for themselves not placing their happinesse here below 9. Heavenly-mindednesse 9. Lastly Heavenly-mindednesse In this sense though not onely in this as Grotius would have it Christ saith of himselfe that he was in heaven whilest he was upon earth so he tels the Jews Grotius Com. in John 3.13 John 3.13 The Son of man which is in heaven So he was properly according to his Godhead which still kept residence in heaven and so he was according to his Manhood having his affections and his conversation there So much his continuall discourse shewed which from earthly things still ascended up to heavenly And in this those which are risen with Christ resemble him in their measure having their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their cheife negotiation and businesse in Heaven as I shewed you lately from Phil. 3.20 Thus we see how they who are risen with Christ live the life of Christ expressing all the aforesaid vertues in the course of their lives and conversations Now put the Question to our selves Do we this in our measure Are the like fruits to be found in us If so surely these are no other but fruits and consequences of this first Resurrection But if otherwise If our lives carry no such but contrary impressions not expressing the vertues of the second but altogether the vices of the first and old Adam certainly we are as yet under the power of the first bound over unto the second death Many other Shibboleths might I give you whereby those which have any part in this first Resurrection may be differenced from them which have not But these may be sufficient This triall being made two sorts of persons will come now to be dealt withall Such as yet have no part in this first Resurrection Such as have Let me speak to them severally I begin with the former 1. Application to such as are yet in the grave of sin 1. Such as are yet in the grave of sin under the power of a spirituall death strangers to this first Resurrection let me speak unto you in the like language that our Saviour did once to Lazarus John 11.43 Let them awake and arise from the dead Lazarus come forth or as Peter did to Dorcas Acts 9.40 Tabitha arise Come ye forth of that grave of sin wherein your souls lie putrifying and corrupting Arise stand up from the dead So the Apostle cals upon those in your condition Ephes 5.14 Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead Awake 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word as both Beza and Grotius note upon it properly signifieth the awakening of a drunken man that is somno vinóque sepultus buried as it were in sleep and wine his coming to himselfe again As it is said of Noah Gen. 9.24 Noah awoke from his wine And so the Prophet Joel speaking to the Drunkards of his time he bids them awake Awake ye drunkards Joel 1.5 In the like language the Apostle there speaketh to the Christians of his time who were corrupted in their judgements with that pestilent errour of Saducaisme denying the Resurrection of the dead affirming the Resurrection mentioned in Scripture to be no other but the renewing of the world by the Gospel and the spirituall Regeneration of the soul by the grace of God an errour hatched in those times and revived in ours even amongst our selves This errour the Apostle there looketh upon as we may do upon all errour as having in it an inebriating property intoxicating and stupifying the souls of them that were possessed with it and thereupon he calls upon them to awake from that drunkennesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Awake unto righteousnesse or righteously that is so awake as that you may henceforth live and walk as becometh Saints in holinesse and righteousnesse The same say I to all habituall and customary sinners such whose souls are cast into this dead sleep in whom custome in sinning hath taken away the sense of sin and I wish I could speak loud enough so speak as you might hear me Awake you Awake from sin unto righteousnesse Awake arise stand up from the dead that Christ may give you light and life Motives to presse this Motion Motive Better never rise then not thus arise I shall not use many Take one for all Except you thus arise better never arise Except you thus arise here better never arise hereafter Unlesse you have your part in this first Resurrection better you should never have your part in the second Resurrection This later you shall have your bodies shall be raised again at the last day O that you may then