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A96661	Mount Ebal levell'd or Redemption from the curse. Wherein are discovered, 1. The wofull condition of sinners under the curse of the law. 2. The nature of the curse, what it is, with the symptomes of it, in its properties, and effects. 3. That wonderful dispensation of Christs becoming a curse for us. 4. The grace of redemption, wherein it stands, in opposition to some gross errors of the times, which darken the truth of it. 5. The excellent benefits, priviledges, comforts, and engagements to duty, which flow from it. By Elkanah Wales, M.A. preacher of the Gospel at Pudsey in York-shire.	Wales, Elkanah, 1588-1669.	1658 (1658)	Wing W294; Thomason E1923_1; ESTC R209971	189,248	382

the consequent of his great sufferings which are largely described before Isa 52.14 15. the Lords servant shall have his visage marred by a deep humiliation yet he shall sprinkle many nations God gives Christ for a Covenant of the people for a light of the Gentiles to bring out the prisoners from the prison Isa 42.6 7. There was a famous prophesie of the shining of great light upon the people that walked in darkness Isa 9.2 this was fulfilled when Christ sojourned in Capernaum Matt. 4.13 14. By the blood of Christ the middle wall of partition being broken down those that were far off are made near Eph. 2.13 14. and so no more strangers but fellow-citizens with the Saints vers 19.20 therefore Christ having said I lay down my life for my sheep presently adds I have other sheep which are not of this fold them also I must bring c. John 10.15.16 This is a great priviledge and so to be accounted The Apostle Paul calls upon us gentiles to glorifie God for his mercy Rom. 15.9 c. for alas what would have becomed of us sinners of the Gentiles if this Redemption had not opened a door of hope we had been left as dead bones altogether helpless and undone for ever 2. It s the foundation of that general Covenant which God is pleased to strike with all those whom he makes willing to come in and to joyn themselves unto him in a visible profession of his name and with their seed both of old among the Jews and now with all nations to whom he sends the Gospel The Apostle Peter presseth the men of Judea and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to a thorough entertaining of Christ by this argument because the promise is general Acts 2.38 39. which implies that Christ crucified is the basis of the Covenant Circumcision was a visible sign of the external Covenant whereby God owned the Jewish nation for his people above all others therefore it s called the Covenant it self Gen. 17.10 11 13. and Baptisme now is a visible sign of it to all those throughout the world which submit to the Gospel Both these institutions have reference to Christ as the inward marrow and substance of them for we are said to be circumcised in Christ and by the circumcision of Christ and to be buried and raised again with him in Baptisme Col. 2.11 12. Assuredly if the Lord Jesus had not undertaken to buy out sinners from the curse by becoming a curse for them there had been no such thing as a Covenant God would never have owned any of the sons of men in order to eternal life no nor so much as have suffered them to be called by his name But now by the work of Redemption all that are retainers to Christ in the visible Church though strangers to the life of grace have some kinde of right to all Church-ordinances Jus ad rem if not in re and are allowed a share in sundrie boons of favour they may get a general acquaintance with Christ and attain to some common graces whereby it may go better with them and they are nearer the kingdome of God than those that are mere strangers Oh take heed of slighting this mercie If the Lord will vouchsafe to own you and your seed in the way of a Covenant thereby making you in some degree capable of the choisest good things even heaven and eternal life you may thank your redeemer for this and if you do not improve it to better proficiency to raise you to an higher forme in his school and kingdome it will make a sad reckoning one day 3. It shall be by the all-sufficient merit and vertue of the grace of redemption that the people of the Jews once the people of God but now rejected and under wrath for their unbelief and hatred against the Lord Jesus shall be called to the knowledge of the truth and obtain mercy and the fulness of the Gentiles shall be brought in to make up one glorious Church and new Jerusalem There be many excellent promises in the writings of the Prophets which hold forth both these The restauration of the Lords ancient people is plainly foretold in those texts which I have formerly made use of on other occasions Isa 59.20 21. compared with Rom. 11.26 27. The Apostle cleares the meaning of that prophesie and applies it to the calling of the Jews Psal 69.35 36. God will save Zion and will build the Cities of Judah c. Isa 24.22 23. the prisoners shall be visited after many dayes and the Lord of hosts shall raign in mount Zion c. see also Jer. 30.8.9 and 18. Ezek. 20.34 37 40. c. This is lively represented by the resurrection of the drie bones Ezech. 7.31.1.14 The coming in of the Gentiles is spoken of Isa 60.3 4 c. and 66.19 20. c. Rev. 21.10 11 24 c. zach 8.20 c. all this flowes from the Redemption which is in Christ Isa 11.10 11 12. the root of Jess shall stand up for an ensigne both to the Jews and Gentiles Jer. 50.33 34. Israel and Judah are held captives but their Redeemer the Lord of hosts is strong and will thoroughly plead their cause c. Zach. 9 11. it is by the blood of the Churches Covenant that the Lord sends forth her prisoners out of the pit Zach. 10.8 yea the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall look upon him whom they have pierced and mourn for him Mal. 4.2 Zach. 12.10 the white robes of those which came out of great tribulation were washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb Rev. 7.14 which our Brightman referrs to the calling of the Jews Oh how glorious shall those times be when the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold Isa 30.26 and he that is feeble among them shall be as David c. Zach. 12.8 Let us long for this day and have it much on our hearts Pray the Lord to bring again the captivity of his people and to plant them upon their Land to send forth watchmen which may call upon the Shulamite to return Amos 9.14 15. Can. 6.13 and to stirr up remembrancers which may give him no rest till he establish and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth Isa 62.6 7. 4. The overflowings of this glorious work do reach even to the bettering of the whole Creation The whole company of reasonable creatures Angels and Men are the purpose of Jesus Christ he hath bought them into his own hands to be their Lord to possess command and dispose of them at his pleasure He commanded not onely the windes and the Sea and they obeyed him but also the evil Spirits and they owned his authority Matth. 8.27 Luke 4.35 36. He bought even those that denyed him 2 Pet. 2.1 God's patience towards the wicked preservation of them provision for them

of peace and salvation to the lost world but every mothers childe of us had continued in the bond of iniquity and had suffered the extremity of the curse in our own persons for ever For this is the very next bottome whereupon all Gospel-grace and whatsoever is necessary to the salvation of sinners doth stand and as it were the soul from which it hath both being and breathing The excellency of the cause hath a strong influence into the effect to make it excellent also If we look upon the nature and frame of man in the first Creation his body curiously wrought out of the dust of the earth his soul breathed into him from heaven to be both a living creature and made after the Image of God Gen. 1.26 2.7 and all this done with a word we cannot but say it is a very excellent and precious work David stands wondering at it Psal 139.14 15. How much more excellent and precious is the work of grace which is the fruit of Redemption our second Creation for the effecting whereof the Lord did not onely Let it be but as if that were not sufficient the second person must lay aside his glory and take upon him the form of a servant and not onely bear our nature but also our sin and curse even to the death Phil. 2.7 8. By this we should estimate the exceeding great worth of that grace which is brought unto us by the revelation of the Gospel If some good things of nature be precious much more are those of grace Deut. 33.1 c. Prov. 3.14 15. And if we cannot but wonder at some of the eminentest works of nature how much more cause have we to admire the beauty and glory of that great work of grace which the Apostle calls marvellous light 1 Pet. 2.9 See 1 Pet. 1.12 4 God will have a Church Although Adam and all his posterity revolted from God and ran away into the tents of Satan his utter enemy to his dishonour and their own ruine yet for all that he hath a designe to fetch back and recover a number of them to make them his own people and thereby to glorifie the riches of his grace towards them in an eminent measure Me thinks I hear the Lord speaking on this manner What hath the crooked Serpent of hell served me thus Hath he enticed Adam unto rebellion against me and cheated him into the curse of my Law Alas poor man I pitty thee that thou hast suffered thy self to be thus ensnared How art thou fallen from thy dignity Into what a gulf of perdition hast thou implunged all thy posterity Ier. 48.30 But I know Satan his pride his malice and his envy that he would not leave me a people on the earth to serve me I know his wrath but it shall not be so his lyes shall not so effect it I will take a speedy course to befool him in his own plot I will have a people that shall be for my praise in despite of him Having therefore predestinated from eternity a considerable number of this forlorn generation and finding them now among the pots covered all over with filth and shame through their Apostacy his infinite wisdome deviseth a way to recover them out of captivity He gives the Lord Jesus out of his own bosome tha● by taking upon him the curse due to them he might ransome them from the curse and separate them from the lost world which lyes in wickedness and under the power of Satan and so form them for himself that they might shew forth his praise Isa 43.21 These are the very matter whereof the Church consists I mean the invisible Church which may be defined a chosen company of the posterity of Adam whom God hath purchased with his own blood out of every Kindred and Tongue and People Mat 16.18 and Nation to be a peculiar people to himself Act. 20.28 Rev. 5.9 Tit. 2.14 Thus out of the ashes of this ruined world God raiseth up to himself a glorious Phenix Eph. 5.26 A Church which shall never dye but shall be established for ever Psal 102.28 125.1 5 The Church is very dear and precious in the eyes of the Lord Jesus They are the purchase of his own blood and thereby are become his peculiar people The costliness of any commodity puts upon it a suitable preciousness endearing it to the person which bare the cost of it Jacob served a hard service for Rachel and that inhanced her worth in his heart and increased his love to her so that the dayes seemed to him but a few Gen. 29.20 Michal Davids wife cost him two hundred fore-skins of the Philistims 1 Sam. 18.27 A great adventure an high exploit This doubtless rendred her the more dear to him which appears by his peremptory requiring her after she was unjustly taken away from him and had been some years another mans wife Probably seven years 2 Sam. 3.13 14 c. Jesus Christ served a very hard service and wrought a very great exploi● that he might purchase unto himself a Church to be his Spouse and having compassed her with much difficulty he looks upon her as his Sister his Love his Dove his fair One yea all fair the fairest among women the One the onely One the choice One his heart is ravished with her Cant. 4.9 she is as the poor mans little Ewe Lamb that lay in his bosome and was unto him as a Daughter 2 Sam. 12.31 A Kingdome or City wonne in battel with confused noise Hephzibah Isa 62.4 Multo sanguine ac vulneribus ea victoria stetit and garments rolled in blood Isa 9.5 is so much more dear to the Conquerour because it cost so dear The Kingdome of heaven the City of the great King is conquered out of the the hands of Satan at a very dear rate It cost the Lord Jesus strong crying and tears yea much blood and many wounds therefore surely it is very near to his heart and precious in his sight Isa 43.4 6 The condition of the invisible Church and all the members of the Lords chosen people is incomparably happy They are the onely renowned Society in the world for they are the Lords Redeemed ones This glorious design when once it takes place in poor lost sinners and is laid in their bosomes puts them into a glorious estate We may say of the Church as Moses of Israel Deut. 33.29 Happy art thou who is like unto thee O people saved by the Lord c. That we may take the length and breadth of this happiness let us look upon Redemption in its 1 Properties 2 Benefits 3 Priviledges Sect. 2. Three properties of Redemption and three Benefits issue from it 1 REdemption by Christ hath these three excellent Properties 1 It s free and gracious As the Israelites sold themselves to their corporal enemies for naught so we became slaves to our spiritual enemies without price and as they so we are redeemed without

have a very foule nasty heart my soule is a very stie of all uncleanness I am carnal fold under sin Rom. 7.14.23.34 I can do no good thing Oh miserable man who shall deliver mee why Christ thy Redeemer hath made thee a new creature he hath put into thee a principle of holiness and he is still at work in thee weakning sin by degrees so that though it will dwell in thee yet it shall not over-master thee nor bring thee under its feet Corruption shall go down and grace shall get up more and more The Lord Jesus will not spare either pains or cost in prosecuting this business he will wear of that filthy slough of the old nature and the image of hell and make thee partaker of the divine nature that thou mayest be conformed to his own image Sigh and breath after it 6. Final Redemption Which stands in the total removal and absence of all miserie and imperfection begun at death to be perfected at the resurrection The Apostle calls it the Redemption of our bodies Rom. 8.23 as I conceive for these reasons 1. To distinguish it from the first and great act wrought by Christ on the Cross to wit Redemption by way of merit whereon the main stress of the business lay which was not intended so much for the body as the soul to deliver it from guilt and curse 2. To intimate that part of Redemption which we shall be partakers of by death whereby we shall be set free from manifold evils and annoyances which compass us about and molest us while we are in the bodie 3. Because the accomplishment of this benefit at the last day shall be more visible in the bodie The soules of righteous men even before the resurrection are fully delivered from all bondage wanting onely that perfection which stands in their union to their bodies These lying in their graves as in prison under misery shall then be united again to their souls and so both shall be equally sharers according to their several capacities in this final Redemption So then this is a certain effect or consequent of the great work wrought by Jesus Christ the price is paid for the whole and full deliverance shall come in the day of Resurrection which is therefore called the day of Redemption Eph. 4.30 and Christ is made of God to us Redemption 1 Cor. 1.30 At that day oh most desirable day there shall be a clear riddance from all those unwelcome guests which sin hath brought into the world As 1. from the evils of the bodie or outward man all crosses incident to our imperfect condition here whether attendants on mortality or corrections for our wandrings and miscarriages or sufferings for righteousness 2. from the evils of the soul or inward man from sin with all the rags and tatters of it which being fast on us here from the temptations of Sathan and the inticements of an evil world wherewith we are encompassed and also from the second death the wrath to come in the damnation of hell Glad●us mort●s retusus vulnerat adhu●● sed c●●●a p●●●cu●um Calv. in 〈◊〉 The first death indeed will hold us under a long time but at length it shall be destroyed 1 Cor. 15.26 and in the mean time it is but as a sword without edg which may wound a little yet without danger it shall do us no hurt but be as a wicked door to let our souls into immortalitie and the grave with the corruption of it shall be as a bed of spices to perfume our bodies and to prepare them for the resurrection Briefly whatsoever there is in all the world that can be called evil we shall be set free from it all forever all imperfection both of parts and degrees shall be done away Matt. 22.30 1 Cor. 13.10 yea Gods own ordinances as marriage preaching and sacraments which are given as remedies of weakness here shall take their leave as things whereof we shall have no further need or use Let the Lords redeemed lift up their heads and see this part of their happiness afarr off Your soules and bodies both lie under a thousand wearisome vanities in this pilgrimage but your redemption draweth nigh when there shall be no more sorrow nor crying but all tears shall be wiped away from your eyes Rev. 21.7 never to know or taste of misery any more 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 7. Full Glorification We have some foretasts of it in this life therfore the Apostle speaketh of it as a thing done in those that are justified Rom. 8.30 when God gives poor believing souls assurance of his love sence of his favour and fills the heart with joy and peace then he begins to glorifie them Therefore this joy is called unspeakable and full of glory 1 Pet. 1.8 these are a choice portion of the first fruits of the spirit Rom. 8.23 we shall reap the whole harvest of glory in heaven It s called by way of Eminency the salvation of our souls 1 Pet. 1.9 Redemption and the former benefits flowing from it are salvation begun and continued for we are saved here Eph. 2.8 2 Timoth 1.9 but this shall bee salvation consummate The Scripture sets forth this benefit by variety of appellations as Eternal life Matth. 25.46 Everlasting habitations Luke 16.9 Paradise Luke 23.43 The recompence of reward Heb. 11.26 A Crown of Righteousness 2 Tim. 4.8 A Crown of glory that fades not away 1 Pet. 5.4 The glory which is to be revealed in us or into us Rom. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●●to us N●n n●m ast●b●mus q as●inanes vacui Spectateres nec g●oria quasi extriae s●cus revelab●tur n●b● sed in nobis Bernard 8.18 For we shall not stand as idle spectators looking upon it as a thing without us but we shall be possessours of it within us the everlasting Kingdome of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 2. Pet. 1.11 The inheritance of the Saints in light Col. 1.12 and the riches of the glory of it Eph. 1.18 Yea an inheritance incorruptible undefiled and which withereth not away 1 Pet. 1.4 And on this account the Apostle calls it the Adoption Rom. 8.23 because that shall be the time of our entring into the full possession of the Kingdome which is prepared for us and unto which we are intituled by adoption It was a main end of Christs giving himself for the Church that at length he might present it to himself a glorious Church without spot or wrinkle Eph. 5.25 27. And the Apostle reasoning from reconciliation by Christs death to salvation by his life Rom. 5.10 intimates that this is a necessary consequent of that This estate shall be the perfection of all created contentments Here shall be riches which cannot be plundered treasures which corrupt not pleasures which vanish not whatsoever is truly desirable which men enjoy severally some this some that in this world heaven hath all these and infinitly much more in a far more