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A30208	Some gospel-truths opened according to the Scriptures, or, The divine and humane nature of Christ Jesus, his coming into the world, his righteousness, death, resurrection, ascension, intercession, and second comming to judgment, plainly demonstrated and proved and also answers to severall questions, with profitable directions to stand fast in the doctrine of Jesus the son of Mary, against those blustring storms of the Devils temptations, which do at this day, like so many scorpions, break loose from the bottomless pit, to bite and torment those that have not tasted the vertue of Jesus by the revelation of the spirit of God / published for the good of Gods chosen ones by that unworthy servant of Christ John Bunnyan ...	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.	1656 (1656)	Wing B5598; ESTC R34771	92,539	312

poore sinners For this thou mayest have and do yet be but a companion for Demas yea for Judas and the rest of the damned multitude As the Apostle saith For all this thou mayest be but as sounding brass and as a tinckling Cymball that is nothing but a sound 1 Cor. 13. 1. 2 3. But Secondly if thou wouldst not be deceived then have a care to avoid false Doctrines which are according to the spirit of the divel and not after Christ. As first If any Doctrine doth come unto thee that tel● thee Except thou art circumcised after the manner o● Moses then canst not be saved That is if any man come unto thee and tels thee thou must doe such and such works of the law to the en● thou mayest present thy selfe the better before God doe not receive him For to him that worketh not but believeth in him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousnesse Rom. 4. 5. 2. If any come unto thee and bring such a Doctrine as this That thou mayest be saved by grace though thou walk in the imaginations of thy own wicked heart his Doctrine also is divellish doe not receive him Deut. 29. 19 20 21 22 23. 3. But if any come unto thee and doth in truth advance the bloud righteousness resurrection intercession and second comming of that very man in the clouds of heaven that was borne of the Virgin Mary and doth presse thee to believe on what he hath done shewing thee thy lost condition without him and to own it as done for thee in particular and withall doth admonish thee not to trust in a bare Notion of it but to receive it into thy heart so really that thy very heart and soule may burne in love to the Lord Jesus Christ againe And doth also teach thee that the love of Christ should and must constraine thee not to live to thy selfe but to him that loved thee and gave himselfe for thee 2 Cor. 5. 14 15. Eph. 4. 20 21 22 23. 1 Cor. 7 23. ye are bought with a price be not ye the servants of Men. If hi● conversation be also agreeable to his doctrine a believing honest loving self-denying counteous Conversation he also is a true Christian Receive that Doctrine * and receive it really for it is the Doctrine of God and of Christ Gal. 4. 4. Gal. 1. 4. Eph. 1. 7. Rev. 1. 5 Acts 13. 38. Joh. 1. 19. Acts 4. 12. Acts 10. 40 41 42. and 1 Thes. 1. 10. Mar. 13. ult 2 Pet. 1. 5 6 7. 8 9 10. Considering the end of their conversation Jesus Christ yesterday and to day and the same for ever Heb. 13 7 8. Againe if thou wouldst not be deceived then beware of slighting any known truth that thou findest revealed or made known to thee in the Gospel but honour and obey it in its place be it as thou thinkest never so low Joh. 14. 15. 2. Have a care that thou doe not undervalue or entertain low thoughts of God Christ the Son of Mary and the holy Scriptures but search them John 5. 39. And give attendance to the reading of them 1 Tim. 4. 13 for I will tell thee he that slights the Scriptures doth also slight him of whom they testifie And I will tell thee also that for this cause God hath given up many to strong delusions that they might believe a lye that they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousnesse 2 Thes. 2. 11 12. Therefore I say unto thee In the name of the Lord Jesus the Son of Mary the Son of God the very Creator of heaven and earth and all things that are therein have a care of thy selfe for the divel doth watch for thee day and night 1 Pet. 5. 8. thine own heart also doth labour to deceive thee if by any means it may Jer. 17. 10. Therefore doe not thou trust it for if thou doe thou wilt not doe wisely Pro. 28. 26. I say therefore have a care that thou labour in the strength of the Lord Jesus to escape all these things For if thou fall into any one of them it will make way for a further income of sin and the divell through whose deceitfulnesse thy heart will be hardned and thou wilt be more uncapable of receiving instruction or reaping advantage by and from the Ordinances of Jesus Christ The rather therefore Give all diligence to believe in the Christ of God which is the Son of Mary and be sure to apply all that he hath done and is doing unto thy felfe as for thee in particular which thing if thou doest thou shalt never fall And now Reader I shall also give thee some few considerations and so I shall commit thee to the Lord. 1. Consider That God doth hold out his grace and mercy freely and that to every one Rev. 22. 17. Isa. 55. 1 2 3 6 7. 2. Consider That there is no way to attaine to this free mercy and grace but by him that was borne of the Virgin Mary for he himselfe saith I am the way the truth and the life No man cometh to the Father but by me Joh. 14. 6. compared with Mat. 1. 20 21. 3. Consider if thou strivest to go over any other way thou wilt be but a thief and a robber Joh. 10. 1. compared with ver 9. And know that none of these so continuing shall enter into the Kingdom of he even 1 Cor. 6. 9 10. 4. Consider that if the devil should be too hard for thee and deceive thee by perswading thee to embrace or entertaine a new Gospell which neither Christ nor his Disciples did allow of it would make thee gnash thy teeth when it is too late 5. Consider that though thou hast been deluded by Satan to this day yet if now thine eyes be opened to see and acknowledge it though as yet thou hast been either exceedingly wicked or an idle luke-warme hypocritical professour and hast stood it out to the last for all this there is hope and if now thou receive the truth in the love of the truth being as willing to be rid of the filth of sin as the guilt of it thou shalt be saved 6. Consider that the Lord will call thee to judgement for all thy sins past present and what else thou shalt practice hereafter especially for thy rejecting and trampling on the bloud of his Son the Man Christ Jesus And if thou doest not agree with thine adversary now while thou art in the way he will deliver thee to the Judge and the judge will deliver thee to the officer if he cast thee into prison I tell thee thou shalt not come out thence till thou hast paid the very last mite Luke 12. 58 59. And therefore I beseech thee to consider Here is at this time life and death heaven and hell everlasting joy and everlasting torment set before thee Here is also the way to have

then thou art one of those that will fall in the judgement except thou art born again and made a new creature 2 Cor. 5. 17. But secondly thou thinkest that thou hast been born again 't is well if thou hast but least thou shouldst deceive thy poor soul I pray thee consider when did the spirit of the Lord Jesus shew thee that thou hadst no faith in thee by nature and when did the spirit of Christ convince thee of sin because thou didst not believe in him It may be thou hast been convinced of sins against the Law by the Law and thy own conscience as the Pharisees were Joh. 8. 9. and Rom. 3. 20. I but when didst thou see thy self a lost creature for want of faith in the son of Mary if not thou hast not yet been savingly convinced by the spirit of Christ for that when it convinceth effectually of sin it convinceth of unbeliefe though thou hast been never so much convinced of sins against the Law if thou hast not seen thy self under the power and dominion guilt and punishment of ●in because thou didst not believe in Christ thou hast not yet been savingly convinced for that 's one work of the spirit to convince of sin because they believe not on me saith Jesus the Son of Mary who was espoused to Joseph the Carpenter But on the contrary dost thou not say in thy heart thou never hadst thy faith to seek but hast alway believed with as good a faith as any one alive If so then know for certain that thou hast no faith of the operation of God in thee according to Gods ordinary working and if so then know that if the Son of man should come to judge the world at this moment of time that thou with all thy faith thou thinkest thou hast wouldst fall in the judgement 2 Thes. 2. 12. 3. Art thou born again then thou seest that thy great sin was want of faith in the Son of Mary Then thou seest that it is he that was sent of God to die for the sins of the world J●h ● 19 Jo. 3. 16 17 18 19. Act 13 38 39. and that thou art compleat in him without any works of the Law Rom. 4. 4. the● thou rejoycest in Christ Jesus and puttest no confidence in the flesh Phil. 3. 3. yet thou rejoycest in the flesh and blood of the son of Mary knowing that his flesh is meat indeed and his blood is drink indeed Joh. 6. 55. out of which thou wouldst very willingly make thy life all thy daies out of his birth obedience death resurrection ascension and glorious intercession now at the right hand of his father Heb. 7. 24 25. but if thou art wavering in these things know that thou art but a babe at the best and for ought thou knowest God maycut thee off in thy unbelief and cast thee into utter darkness where there shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth 4. Art thou born again then thou seest all true peace and joy comes through the blood of the son of Mary and his righteousnesse as in Rom. 7. 24. 1 Cor. 15. 57. there are many poor souls that are taken with raptures of joy and false conceited consolation Joh. 16 20. which doth come from the Divel and their own deceitful hearts but their joy shall be turned into mourning and sorrow of heart Luke 6. 24 25. but thou that art a Christian indeed and not in word onely rejoycest in Christ Jesus the son of Ma●y yea though now you see him not yet believing you rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory 1 Pet. 1. 8. And these two things are the fruits of thy faith and of thy joy 1. The Lord Jesus Christ is very precious unto thee 1 Pet. 2. ver 7. 2. Thou dost purifie thine heart by this faith and the power of the spirit of Christ which thou hast received into thy soul Rom. 8. 13. Acts 15. 9. and 1 Joh. 3. 3. but if thy guilt of sin goes off and convictions go off any other way then by the blood and righteousness of the man Christ Jesus thy guilt goes off not right but wrong and thy latter end will be a very bitter end without faith and repentance for it is his blood through which all true peace comes Col. 1. 20. and there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we should be saved but by the Lord Jesus of Nazareth Acts 4. ver 10 11 12. compared together 5. Art thou borne againe Then thou canst not be quiet till thou doest see God lift up the light of his Countenance upon thee yea thou hast such a desire after the light of Gods countenance that all the glory riches honour pleasure profits c. of this world will not satisfie till thou doest see God to be a reconciled father to thee in the Lord Jesus Christ as it is Psal. 4. 6. Joh. 14. 8. Ps. 35. 3. then thou wilt not be quiet till thou doest hear from the son of Mary which is the Lord of glory 1 Cor 2. 8. such a voice as this Son be of good cheer thy sins are forgiven thee and My grace is sufficient for thee But if thou canst content thy selfe with any thing below this thou wilt when all comes to all be found but a rotten-hearted professor who wilt have thy portion among the slothfull ones who will fall in the judgement of the son of Man when he comes in flaming fire with his mighty Angels 2 Thes. 1. 8. 6. Art thou borne againe Then thou knowest that God hath given thee thy faith that thou hast in his son then thou art able to say through grace there was a time in which I had no faith there was a time in which I could not believe in the son of God for eternal life But G●d who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith he loved me even when I was dead in sins and unbelief which is the greatest hath quickned me together with Christ by grace I am saved Eph. 2. 4 5. through faith v. 8. 7. Art thou borne againe Then thou knowest that the doctrine of the Son of God the son of Mary is a right doctrine which is this First that the Son of God which was with his Father before the world was Joh. 1. 1. John 17. 5. came into the world in the fulnesse of time and was made in the likenesse of Men Phil. 2. 7. being made of a woman or virgin made under the Law to redeem them that were under the Law Gal. 4. 4. And that was done in this wise What the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh that is through our flesh God sending his own Son in the likenesse of sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh that is condemned him in the flesh for the sins of poor sinners For this compare Rom. 8. 3. and 2 Cor. 5. 21. with Gal. 3. 13. and it will appeare

holiness purity of heart and life Acts 15. 9. purifying their hearts by faith and then the more thou hast of the right faith of Christ and of his things in thy heart the more strong and valiant wilt thou be in spirit to doe any worke private or publick for Jestis Christ like Stephen Acts 6 ver 8. who being full of faith and of the holy spirit was also full of power In this book thou hast also laid down from the Scriptures how Jesus Christ is without the Saints as man and yet dwelleth within them that is somthing of his divine nature or his blessed spirit dwels within them which spirit is somtime called the spirit of Christ. Rom. 8. 9. he that hath not the spirit of Christ c. and sometime called Christ Rom. 8. 10. if Christ be in you c. and also how we may know whether it be Christ and the spirit of Christ within or a false spirit calling it self Christ that is thus if it be indeed Christ within that is the spirit of Christ God-man why then it teaches that man or woman in whom it is to apply and trust in Christ without for Salvation Christ as born of the Virgin Mary as fulfilling the Law without them as dying without the gate of Jerusalem as a sacrifice for sin it teaches them to trust in the man Christ as rising againe out of the grave without them as ascending into and interceding in heaven without for them and as to come from that heaven againe in his flesh to judge the world Thus the man Christ himself saith Joh. 16. 13. When he the spirit of truth is come c. he shall glorifie me v. 14. he shall make you more to prize admire and glorifie me who am both God and man And who shal be absent from you touching my body Then followes For he shall take of mine of my glorious things and shew them to you He shall take my divine and humane Nature my birth my person and offices my obedience death satisfaction my resurrection ascension and intercession and of my second comming in the clouds with my mighty Angels to judgement and shall shew them or cleer them up to you He shall take of my salvation which I have wrought for you in my own person without you And he shall take of my glorie and exaltation in the heavens and shew to you Now to minde this one thing and to be set down in a right understanding of it by the Spirit from the Scriptures will be of great concernment to thee and me for for want of this many professors have split themselves some looking only on what Christ hath done suffered without them resting in an historical traditional and indeed a fancyed faith of it without looking for the Spirit of Jesus Christ to come with power into their hearts without which they cannot rightly know nor rightly believe in Christ the Son of God without them so as to have any share or interest in him Rom. 8. 9. If any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Others have been depending too much upon somthing they call Christ and the righteousness of Christ within them in opposition to Christ and his righteousnesse without them from which all true saints have their justification and comfort it being received through the operation of the spirit which dwels in them and however these may talk much of Christ within them yet it is manifest that it is not the spirit of Christ but the spirit of the Divel in that it doth not glorifie but sleight and reject the man Christ and his righteousnesse which was wrought without them Reader in this book thou wilt not meet with high-flown aerie notions which some delight in counting them high mysteries but the sound plain common and yet spiritual and and mysterious truths of the Gospel and if thou art a believer thou must needs reckon them so and the more if thou hast not only the faith of them in thy heart but art daily living in the spiritual sence and feeling of them and of thy interest in them Neither doth this Treatise offer to the doubtful controversial things or matters of opinion as some Books chiefly doe which when insisted upon more the weightier things of the gospell have alwayes done more hurt then good but here thou hast things certain and necessary to be believed which thou canst not too much study Therefore pray that thou maiest receive this word which is according to the Scriptures in faith and love not as the word of man but as the word of God without respect of persons and be not offended because Christ holds forth the glorious treasure of the gospel to thee in a poor earthen vessell by one who hath neither the greatness nor the wisdome of this world to commend him to thee for as the Scripture saith Christ who was low and contemptible in the world himself ordinarily chuseth such for himself and for the doing of his work 1 Cor. 1. 26 27 28. Not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world c. this man is not chosen out of an earthly but out of the heavenly University the Church of Christ which Church as furnished with the spirit gifts and graces of Christ was in the beginning and still 〈…〉 will be to the end 〈◊〉 the world that out o● which the word of the Lord and 〈…〉 gospel Ministers 〈◊〉 proceed whether 〈◊〉 or unlearned as to humane learning 1 Cor. 12. 2● 28. And though this man hath not the learning or wisdome of man yet through grace he hath received the teaching of God and the learning of the spirit of Christ which is the thing that makes a man both a Christian and a Minister of the Gospell as Isa. 50. 4. The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned c. compared with Luke 2. 18. where Christ as man saith the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor c. He hath through grace taken these three heavenly degrees to wit union with Christ the anointing of the spirit and experience of the temptations of Satan which doe more fit a man for that weighty work of preaching the Gospell then all Vniversity Learning and degrees that can be had My end in writing these few lines is not to set up man but having had experience with many other saints of this mans soundnesse in the faith of his godly conversation and his ability to preach the gospel not by humane art but by the spirit of Christ and that with much success in the conversion of sinners when there are so many carnal empty preachers both learned and unlearned I say having had experience of this and judging this Booke may be very profitable to many others as well as to my selfe I thought it my duty upon

thinking thy self to be wondrous well because of that Notion of the Truth and that notion thou hast in the things of God I say being in this state thou art lyable to these dangers First Thou art like to perish if thou die with this notion in thine head except God out of his rich gr ace doe work a saving work of grace and knowledge in thy heart for know this thou m●yest understand glorious mysteries and yet be a Castaway 1 Cor. 13. 1 2 3. Or else Secondly thou art lyable to the next damnable heresy that the Divel sendeth into th● world See and consider Luke 8. ●3 2 Tim. 2. 18. I say thou doest lie lyable to be carried away with it and to be captivated by it 〈◊〉 that at last through the delusions of the Divell thou mayst have thy conscience seared as with an hot iron so hard that neither Law nor Gospel can make any entrance thereinto to the doing of thee the least good And indeed who are the men that at this day are so deluded by the Quakers and other pernicious Doctrines but those who thought it enough to be talkers of the Gospell and Grace of God without seeking and giving all diligence to make it sure unto themselves And for this cause God hath sent them strong delusions that they should believe a lye That they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness as it is written 2 Thes. 2. 11 12. And indeed if you marke it you shall see that they be such kinde of people who at this day are so carried away with the Quakers delusions namely a Company of loose Ranters and light Notionists with here and there a Legalist which were shaking in their principles from time to time sometimes on this Religion sometimes on that and thus these Vnstable Souls are deluded and beguiled at last 2 Pet. 2. 14. So that these who before as one would have bought had somthing of God in them are now turned such enemies to the glorious truths of the Gospel that there is none so obstinately erroneo●s as they And indeed it is just with God to give then over to believe a lye 2 Thes. 2. 11. who before were so idle that they would not receive the Truth of God into their hearts in the love of it And to be bewitched by the Divell to obey his temptations and be damned who would not obey the truth Gal. ● 1. that they migth be saved But you will say what lyes are those that the Divell beguileth poor souls with all I shall briefly tell you some of them but having before said that they especially are lyable to the danger of them who slip into high Notions and rest there taking that for true faith which is not I shall desire thee seriously to consider this one Character a Notionist Such an one whether he perceives it or not is puffed up in his fleshly mind and advanceth himself above others thinking but few may compare with him for religion and knowledge in the Scriptures but are ignorant and foolish in comparison of him thus knowledge puffeth up 1 Cor. 8. 1. whereas when men receive truth in the love of the truth the more the head and heart is filled with the knowledge of the mysterie of Godlinesse the more it is emptied of its own things and is more sensible of its own vileness and so truly humbled in its own eyes And further a Notionist though he fall from his former strictness and seeming holiness and appeare more loose and vain in his practises yet speaks as confidently of himself as to assurance of Salvation the love of God and union with God as ever But now to return and declare some of those lyes which the Divell perswades some of these men to believe First That salvation was not fully and completely wrought out for poor sinners by the man Christ Jesus though he did it gloriously Acts 13. 38 39. by his death upon the cross without the gates of Jerusalem Heb 13 12. compared with Jo. 19. 20. 2. This is another of his lyes wherewith he doth deceive poor sinners bidding them follow the light that they brought into the world with them telling them that light will lead them to the Kingdome for say they it will convince of sinne as swearing lying stealing covetousness and the rest of the sins against the Law Rom. 3. 20. But the Law is not of faith Gal. 3. 12. And then I am sure that it with all its motions and convictions is never able to justifie the soul of any poor sinner For as many as are of the works of the Law are under the Curse for it is written Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things that are written in the Book of the law to doe them Gal. 3. 10. but that no man is justified by the law is evident for The just shall live by faith ver 11. Now because I am not altogether ignorant of the delusion of the Divell touching this grace of faith also I shall therefore in short give thee reader a briefe yet true description from the Srcipture 1. What true justifying faith is and what it laye● hold upon 2. I shall shew who it doth come from 3. That every one hath it not 4. What are the fruits of it First therefore True faith is a fruit work or gift of the Spirit of God Gal. 5. 22. 2 Thes. 1. 11. and 1 Cor. 12. 9. whereby a poor soul is enabled through the mighty operation of God Col. 2. 12. in a sence of its sins and wretched estate to lay hold on the righteousness bloud death resurrection ascension intercession and comming againe of the Son of God which was crucified without the gates of Jerusalem for eternal life Jo. 3. 16 18. compared with Mat. 3. 17. Gal. ● 20. Rom. 5. 8 9 10. Ro. 3. 25. Act. 16. 31. Heb. 13. 12. according to that saying in Heb. 11. 1. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen that is the things that are hoped for faith sees layes hold upon and embraces them Heb. 11. 13. as if they were present yea it seales up the certainty of them to the soule Therefore saith the Apostle it is the evidence or testimony or witness of those things that are not seen as yet with a bodily eye which are obtained by the bloud of the man Christ Jesus Heb. 9. 14. compar●d with Heb. 10. 12 19 20. by which the soule sees as in a glass the things that God hath laid up for them that feare him 1 Cor. 13. 12. 2 Cor. 3. 18. Secondly If you would know who this faith comes from read Ephes. 2. 8. For by grace ye are saved saith the Scripture through faith and that not of your selves it is the gift of God Againe in Phil. 1. 29. it is thus written For unto you that is believers it is given in the behalf of Christ not only to

the one and the way to escape the other Now if the Lord shall do thee any good by what I have spoken I hope it will be a meanes to stir me up to thank the Lord that ever he did use such a sinner as I am in the worke of his Gospell And here I shall close up what I have said destring thee 〈◊〉 thou be a Christian to pray for him who desires to continue Thy Servant in the Lord Jesus Christ though less then the least of all Saints JOHN BUNYAN For as much as many have taken in hand to set forth their several judgements concerning the Son of the Virgin Mary the Lord Jesus Christ and some of those many having most grosly erred from the simplicity of his Gospel it seemed good to me having had some knowledge of these things to write a few words to the end if the Lord will souls might not be so horribly deluded by those several corrupt principles that are gone into the world concerning him NOw that there is such a thing as a Christ I shall not spend much time in proving of only I shall shew you that he was first promised to the Fathers and afterward expected by their children But before I doe that I shall speak a few words concerning Gods fore-ordaining and purposing that a Christ the Saviour should be and that before the world began Now God in his own wisedom and counsel knowing what would come to passe as if it were already done Rom. 4. 17. He knowing that man would break his commandements and so throw himselfe under eternal destruction did in his own purpose fore-ordain such a thing as the rise of him that should fall and that by a Saviour Eph. 1. 4. According as he hath chosen us in him meaning the Saviour before the foundation of the world That is God seeing that we would transgresse and break his commandement did before chuse some of those that would fall and give them to him that should afterward purchase them actually though in the account of God his blood was shed before the world was Rev. 13. 8. I say in the account of God his son was slain that is according to Gods purpose and conclusion which he purposed in himself before the world was as it is written 2 Tim. 1. 9. Who hath saved us and called us with an holy calling according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ before the world began As also in 1 Pet. 1. 20. where the Apostle speaking of Christ and the redemption purchased by him for sinners saith of him Who verily was fore-ordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these last dayes for you who by ●●m doe believe in God that raised him from the dead God having thus purposed in himselfe that he would save some of them that by transgression had destroyed themselves did with the everlasting son of his love make an agreement or bargain that upon such and such terms he would give him a company of such poor soules as had by transgression fallen from their own innocency and uprightnesse into those wicked inventions that they themselves had sought out Eccles. 7. 29. The agreement also how this should be was made before the foundation of the world was laid Tit. 1. 2. The Apostle speaking of the promise or covenant made between God and the Saviour for that is his meaning saith on this wise In hope of eternal life which God that cannot lye promised before the world began Now this promise or covenant was made with none but with the son of God the Saviour And it must needs be so for there was none with God before the world began but he by whom hee made the world as in Prov. 8. from v. 22. to v. 31. which was and is the Sonne of his love This Covenant or Bargain had these conditions in it First that the Saviour should take upon him flesh and blood the same nature that the sonnes of men were partakers of sinne onely excepted Heb. 2. 14. Heb. 4. 15. And this was the will or agreement that God had made with him And therefore when he speaks of doing the will of God Heb. 10. 5. he saith a body hast thou prepared me as according to thy promise Gen. 3. 15. which I was to take of a woman and in it I am come to do thy will O God as it is written of me in the volume of thy Book v. 7. 2. The Saviour was to bring everlasting righteousnesse to justifie sinners withal Dan. 9. 24 25. The Messias or Saviour shal bring in everlasting righteousnesse and put an end to iniquity as it is there written To make an end of sins and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousnesse This I say was to be brought into the world by the Saviour according to the covenant or agreement that was between God and Christ before the world began which God that cannot lye promised at that time Tit. 1. 2. 3. He was to accomplish th●● everlasting righteousnesse by spilling his most precious blood according to the terms of the covenant or bargain and therefore when God would shew his people what the agreement was that he and the Saviour had made even before the Covenant was accomplished and sealed actually See for this Zach. 9. where he is speaking of him that should be the Saviour v. 11. And as for thee also meaning the Saviour by the blood of thy Covenant or as some render it whose Covenant is by blood which is all to one purpose I meaning God have sent forth the Prisoners out of the pit wherein there was no water The meaning is this As for thee also seeing the covenant or bargain that was made between me and thee before the world was is accomplished in my account as if it were actually and really done with all the conditions that were agreed upon by me and thee I have therefore according to that agreement that was on my part sent forth the prisoners and those that were under the curse of my Law out of the pit wherein there is no water seeing thou also hast compleatly fulfilled in my account whatsoever was on thy part to be done according to our agreement And thus is that place to be understood in John 17. ● I pray for them I pray not 〈◊〉 the world but for th●se th● thou hast given me which I co●venanted with thee for thi● they were and thou gavest th● me but on such and such co●●ditions as are before mentioned Zach. 9. And again Ac●cording as he hath chosen us 〈◊〉 him that is in Christ be●●● the foundation of the world th● we should be holy and with●● blame before him in love No● seeing this was thus conclud● upon by those that did 〈◊〉 well to the soules and 〈◊〉 of poore sinners after 〈◊〉 world was made by them a● after they had said Let ● make man after our own im●●● after

two weeks shall Messiah be cut off That is Christ shall be crucified But not for himself That is not for any sin that he hath committed for he committed none Then surely it must be for the sins of the people Joh. 11. 50. as the high Piest said It is expedient that one man should die for the people which man was the true Messias Dan 9 24 Which also is the Son of Mary Mat. 1. 18 19 20 21 22. And the sonne of God Mat. 3. 17. And also the true God 1 Joh. 5. 20. And this Messias this son of the virgin this sonne of God this tree God did not die for himself for he had not offended Neither did he fulfill the Law or finish transgression and bring in everlasting righteousness for himself for he had not sinned 1 Pet. 2. 22. therefore it must of necessity follow that this righteousness of God this everlasting righteousnesse is imputed to all and upon all them that believe Rom. 3. 22. 2 Cor. 5. 19. 20 21. But Secondly this Messias this Son of Mary this Son of God this true God he was put to death for the sins that his children had cōmitted according to that saying Herein perceive we the love of God in that he laid down his life for us Also in Acts 20. the Apostle speaking to the Pastors of the Churches saith Feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood Now I would not be mistaken I doe not think or say that he died in his Divine Nature but as it is written He in his owne body on the tree did bear our sins which tree was the Crosse Col. 2. 14. And as the Apostle saith again Who when he had by himself purged our sins sate down on the right hand of the Majesty on high And again the Apostle speaking of this glorious God saith on this wise Col 1. being before speaking of his Godhead in the 19. ver For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulnesse dwell and having made peace by the blood of his crosse by him to reconci●● all things to himselfe By him I say whether they be things in earth or things in heaven And you who were sometimes alienated and enemies in your minds by wicked works yet now hath ●e reconciled But how Why in ver 22. he tells you that it is in the body of his flesh through death to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight That is Christ who is the true God after that he had finished all actual obedience on earth did in the power and strength of his Godhead yield up himselfe to the wrath of his Father which was due to poor sinners and that willingly according to that saying in 1 Pet. 3. 18. ●or Christ also hath once suffered for sinners the just for the unjust That is the Son of God for poor sinners that he might bring us to God being put to death in the flesh but quickened in the spirit Again 1 Pet. 4. ● For asmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us not for himself in the flesh in his own body which he took of the Virgin 1 Pet. 2. 24. let us arm our selves with the same minde That is let us die to sin as he did that we might live to God as he did and doth And thus have I briefly shewed you ● That the Son of Mary is very God 2. That he made the world 3. That he is our Saviour and how 4. That he died for sinners and how Namely not in his divine nature but in his humane in his own body and in his own flesh redeeming his Church with his own blood Acts 20. 28. and with his own life 1 John 3. 16. John 10. 8. We shall now passe on to some other things the Lord willing touching his Burial Resur●●ction Ascen●on Intercession Second comming Resurrection of the body and Eternal Judgement His Burial proved And first I shall prove by several Scriptures that he was buried and so passe on First therefore see that place Matt. 27. v. 57. and so forward After that Jesus the Son of God had been crucified a while he gave up the Ghost that is he died and after he had been a while dead Joseph of Arimathea went in to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus and Pilate gave consent thereto And Joseph took the bod● of Jesus wrapped it in clean linnen and laid it viz. the body of Jesus in his own Tomb and rolled a stone upon the mouth of the Sepulchre and departed Matth. 27. 57 58 59 60. Also in Luke 24 51 52 53 The Apostle Paul also teacheth so much 1 Cor. 15. 3 4. where he saith For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received how that Christ di●d for our sinnes according to the Scriptures And that he was buried Again in Acts●3 ●3 29. the Apostle speaking there of Jesus Christ saith And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him they took him down from the tree and laid him in a Sepulchre And so much touching the burial of Jesus Christ the son of God In the next place I am to prove That that very man whom the Jewes did crucifie between two theeves called Jesus Ch●ist did rise againe That very man with that they body wherewith he was crucified upon the crosse did rise again out of the grave in which he was laid And this I shall prove by Scriptures by the testimony of Angels by Christs own words after he was risen and by the testimony of the Apostles in the Scriptures First therefore cons●der Psal. 16. v. 10. where the Prophet speaks on this wise of Christs Resurrection For thou wilt not leave my soule in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption Which words the Apostle Peter cites in Acts. 2. from v. 2● to 32. also Isa. 26. 19. in the person of Christ saith Thy dead meh shall live together with my dead body shall they rise See also John 20. 15 16. where mention is made of his appearing unto Mary Magdalen and he called her Mary and she called him Master which signifies that he was risen and that she knew him after his resurrection for he was come out of the grave see ver 6 7 8. Again another Scripture is that in Luke 24. 1 2 3. The Disciples of Jesus comming to the Sepulchre thinking to anoint the body of Jesus found the stone that was on the mouth of the Sepulchre rolled away and when they wen● in they found not the body of the Lord Jesus and at this they were troubled and perplexed v. 4. But as two of them went up to Emmaus and were talking of what had befallen to Jesus Jesus himselfe drew near and went with them v. 15. Another Scripture is that in Mark 16. v. 9. which saith on this wise Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the