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A29523	The Christians cabala, or, Sure tradition necessary to be known and believed by all that will be saved : a doctrine holding forth good tidings of great joy, to the greatest of penitent sinners : with a character of one that is by John Brinsley ...	Brinsley, John, fl. 1581-1624.	1662 (1662)	Wing B4710; ESTC R3986	117,145	225

for the saving of any Could Moses have done this Jesus Christ should not have needed to come into the world which he did upon this very accompt to do that for the Sons of men which Moses could not do to procure that Justification and Salvation for them which they could never have expected by the Law What the Law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin or by a Sacrifice for sin as the Margin in our Translation well explains it condemned sin in the flesh that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us Rom. 8. 3. 4. So it was Man being fallen by his fall he became weak not being able now to fulfil the Law so as to obtain Justification and Salvation by it And thereupon it was that Christ took the Nature of man upon him that in that Nature he might do what mere Man could not do that so the righteousness of the Law which could not be fulfilled by man might this way be fulfilled in Him 3dly In the 3d place See here what the foresaid Author al●…o mindeth us of the heinous nature of sin what a desperate disease it is that must have a Physitian to come from Heaven to cure it other way of cure there was none All the Men and Angels in the world could do nothing to it They were all as Iob saith of his friends Iob 13. 4. Physitians of no value But the Son of God must come from Heaven to undertake this cure Magnus de coelo venit Medicus saith Augustine quia magnus per totum orbem jacebat aegrotuus The great Physitian cometh down from Heaven because man upon earth was desperately sick in a hopeless and helpless condition had He not stept in Which as the same Father there applies it should make all that hear it afraid of sin as a most deadly disease not to rest and lye down in it not to sleep in strato peccati in the bed of sin but to give ear to what Paul saith to them Ephes. 5. 14. Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light 4ly and lastly Here as in a Glass behold we what we can never look too much nor yet enough upon the Grace the wonderful Grace of God towards the Sons of men The Grace of God that bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all men saith the Apostle Tit. 2. 11. The Grace of God His great Goodness and Mercy that bringeth Salvation eternal Salvation by and through Christ hath appeared 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 illuxit it hath shined forth clearly manifesting it self and that to all men all sorts of men without distinction of Nation Sex Age or Condition This it hath done in this coming of Iesus Christ into the world to save sinners In nothing more in nothing so much Many wayes hath the Grace and Favour of God appeared unto mankind It did so in his Creation in making him little lower than the Angels and Crowning him with Glory and Honour making Him to have Dominion over the works of His hands and putting all things under His feet as the Psalmist sets it forth Psalm 8. 5. 6. In making Him after his own Image So God created man in his own Image in the Image of God created he Him Gen. 1. 27. As like unto his Maker as a Creature could be But behold this Grace shineth more clearly in his Redemption in finding out a way such a way and means as he did for the delivering of him from Hell and Death and the procuring of his eternal Salvation No Grace like this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this saving Grace of God Behold here what you have lately heard more largely of from that Text Gal. 4. 4. The Grace of God the Father in sending his Son upon this Errand When the fulness of time was come God sent forth his Son made of a Woman made under the Law to redeem them that were under the Law that we might receive the Adoption of Sons What an expression of Love was this In this was manifested the love of God towards us that God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him 1 John 4. 9. Herein is love not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins Verse 10. Behold love wonderful love So God loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son c. John 3. 16. Such an expression of Love as never was Herein did his kindness appear After that the kindness and love of God our Saviour towards man appeared Tit. 3. 4. viz. The kindness of God the Father who is there as often elsewhere called God our Saviour and that as upon some other accompts so chiefly upon this because He sent His Son upon this Errand to procure and effect Salvation for the Sons of men as Grotius well expounds it Herein did His Love His Kindness appear His Grace His Rich Grace the exceeding Riches of his Grace So our Apostle not knowing how to speak highly enough of it sets it forth Ephes. 2. 7. That he might shew the exceeding Riches of his Grace in his kindness towards us in Christ Iesus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 exceeding all our apprehensions Such was that Grace which God the Father shewed to the Sons of men in his kindness towards them in Christ Jesus in sending him to be a Saviour for them Many things there are which do highly commend and set forth this Grace of God to us Three of which and three Principal we have a hint of in the Text. 1st Take we notice whom it was that he sent Christ Iesus his Son his own son He spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all Rom. 8. 32. Yea his only Son his only begotten Son as that obvious Text forenamed hath it Ioh 3. 16. God had many Sons some by creation such were the Angels whom we find called the Sons of God Job 38. 7. Such was Adam which was the Son of God Luke 3. last And he hath many sons by Adoption to which he Predestinated them from Eternity Eph. 1. 5. But he had but one son by Generation This was Iesus Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the onely begotten Son of GOD. A Jewel more dear than all the World besides Yet God his Father spared him not but put him upon this service to be a Saviour to lost Mankind And what love was this Hereby did Father Abraham manifest the sincerity and height of his Affection to his God that having but one Son he was willing to part with him to offer him up at his Command Now I know that thou fearest God seeing thou hast not withheld thy son thy only Son from me saith the Angel to him Gen. 22. 12. And in the like way hath God the Father manifested his

penitent Confessour whilest he maketh that general confession Thus was it with our Apostle here in the Text. His confession indeed runs in general tearms that he was the chief of sinners but it is with a reference and respect unto those particular sinnes which he had confessed and acknowledged by name but two verses before I was a Blasphemer a Persecutor c. This is the confession of a true penitent sinner though the tongue may utter that confession i●… general tearms yet the heart even at the same time particularizeth having an eye to some particular sinne or sinnes from which that confession immediately ariseth and without which it could not be a hearty confession The Maxim is true not more in Philosophy than in Divinitie Genera nec agunt nec patiuntur Generalities never throughly affect a man It must not be meerly a general notion of sinne but a distinct apprehension of some particular sinne or sinnes that will work upon the heart aright so as to draw from it a cordial and affectionate acknowledgment of sinne And such again is the confession of the true Penitent sinner Take that for a fourth Property a cordial and affectionate Acknowledgement not meerly Verbal and Formal Such is the Hypocrite's confession a Tongue-Confession an acknowledgement from the Teeth-outward meerly verbal and formal So may the Confessions of Papists for the most part be looked upon which they make to their Priests striking their hands upon their Breasts and crying out Mea culpa mea culpa My sinne my sinne whilst their Hearts it may be are not affected with what they make shew of And such and no better it is to be feared are the acknowledgements of some and not a few among us in the Confession of sinnes which they make in the publick Congregation Therein they draw nigh unto God with their Mouth and honour him with their Lips as the Lord saith of his people the Jewes Isa. 29. 13. Offering up the Calves of their lips unto him as the Prophet speaks Hos. 14. 2. in saying after the Minister repeating the words of the Confession But in the mean time their hearts are far removed and estranged from him being no wayes affected with what their Tongues utter and pronounce And even so is it in their private Confessions They make them but a Lip-labour It may be making use of some Set-form composed by themselves or others they only repeat the words in a Formal and Customary way but without any inward affection their Hearts not being touched with the sense and feeling of what their Tongues utter and confesse Now as for such Confessions being heartless Sacrifices they are odious and abominable unto God who as he 〈◊〉 cheth the Heart so he requireth It without it not regarding what ever Sacrifices can be offered up unto Him Thou desirest not sacrifice thou delightest not in burnt-offering saith the Psalmist not any service that is meerly external The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a heart kindly broken with the sense of Sin Psal. 51. 16 17. And such are the Sacrifices which are offered up by the Penitent Sinner to his God All his Prayers all his Confessions they come from a broken and a contrite Heart be●…ng hearty Confessions ●…affectionate Acknowledgements Such we shall find the confessions of this our Apostle which we so frequently meet with breathing forth a great deal of inward Affection expressing both sorrow and shame indignation and detestation And such are the acknowledgements of the True Penitent attended and accompanyed with Sorrow and Shame With sorrow I will declare mine iniquity saith David and I will be sorry for my sinne Psal. 38. 18. With Shame the Publican making his confession in the Temple he doth it with shame Standing afar off in some remote part of the outward Court of the Temple he would not so much as lift up his eyes unto Heaven being ashamed of himself Luke 18. 13. And so with Indignation and Detestation Thus Paul speaking of what he had done his forwardness in persecuting of the Saints Act. 26. 11. I was saith he exceedingly mad against the Saints A speech savouring of great Indignation against himself And thus Iob saith that he Abhorred himself and Repented in dust and ashes Job 42. 6. And Paul speaking of his Corinthians sheweth how they shewed themselves True Penitents by their Indignation and Revenge Indignation against their Sin and Revenge which they took upon themselves for it 2 Cor. 7. 11. And to these is ever joyned a serious resolution of abandoning the sinne confessed never more to return to it again but to forsake it Who so confesseth and for saketh his sinnes shall have mercy saith the Wiseman Prov. 28. 13. Such was that confession which good Shecaniah made unto Ezra in the name of the people Ezra 10. 2 3. We have trespassed against our God saith he and have taken strange Wives c. Now therefore let us make a new Covenant with our God to put away all these strange Wives c. And thus Elihu in Iob describeth the confession of a true Penitent Iob. 34. 31 32. Surely it is meet to be said unto God I have borne chastisement I will not offend any more That which I see not teach thou If I have done iniquitie I will do no more Such is the confession of the true Penitent Cordial and Affectionate Here is a fourth Property Take but one more and that briefly Being thus Cordial it is also Filial Such is the Confession which he maketh to his God not servile Such is the confession of the Hypocrite oft-times a servile a slavish confession the fruit not of love to God but of fear and that not of a Reverential but a Slavish fear Such was Balaams Confession which he maketh Numb 22. 31 34. when he saw the Angel stand before him with a drawn Sword then he cryeth out I have sinned And so it is with some wicked and ungodly wretches being in a strait as he was stopped in their course the Angel of the Lord meeting them as he did him with a drawn Sword some Judgment of God threatning them it may be Death it self staring them in the face so as they apprehend themselves ready to drop into Hell now they will confess and acknowledg their sinnes But this they do not out of any love to God or hatred of their sins but meerly out of a slavish fear It may be in a despairing way as Cain and Iudas did Now in this the acknowledgment of a true penitent sinner differs that is a filial acknowledgment Such was that of the Prodigal Son who cometh unto his Father as a Father making his Confession to him under that Notion Father I have sinned against Heaven and in thy sight Luk. 15. 21. And thus the penitent sinner comes unto his God confessing his sinnes unto him not simply as to a Iudge from whom he expects nothing but severity of Justice as Achan did his sinne to Ioshua Josh.