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An Exact collection of farewell sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy,…An Exact collection of farewel sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy,…
An Exact collection of farewell sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy, Mr. Watson, Mr. Jacomb, Mr. Case, Mr. Sclater, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Jenkin, Dr. Manton, Mr. Lye, Mr. Collins : to which is added their prayers before and after sermon as also Mr. Calamy's sermon for which he was imprisoned in Newgate : his sermon at Mr. Ashe's funeral and Dr. Horton's and Mr. Nalton's funeral.An Exact collection of farewel sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy, Mr. Watson, Mr. Jacomb, Mr. Case, Mr. Sclater, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Jenkin, Dr. Manton, Mr. Lye, Mr. Collins : to which is added their prayers before and after sermon as also Mr. Calamy's sermon for which he was imprisoned in Newgate : his sermon at Mr. Ashe's funeral and Dr. Horton's and Mr. Nalton's funeral.
London : s.n., 1662
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Secondly, There is a righteousness by implantation, which is nothing else but Gods infusing of the seed and habits of grace into the heart, the planting of holiness in a man, and making him partaker of the divine Nature: Now this is to be righteous in the sight of God, to have a righteousness of imputation, and a righteousness of implantation. And so much for the first thing.
The second thing is to show you why, however things go in the world, it shall be well with this righteous man; and it must needs be thus, for two reasons.
The second thing is to shew you why, however things go in the world, it shall be well with this righteous man; and it must needs be thus, for two reasons.
First, Because he that is righteous, hath his greatest evil removed, his sin is pardoned; and therefore it must needs be well with him. Sin is a thorn in a man's Conscience; now when this thorn is plucked out in forgiveness and remission, then is it well with that man. Forgiveness of sin, in Scripture, is called, The lifting off of sin; so it is in the Hebrew, Job 7. Lord why dost thou not lift off my sin? It is a Metaphor taken from a weary man that goes under a burden, ready to sink under it, and another man comes and lifts off this burden; so doth the great God, when the burden of sin is ready to sink the Conscience, Gods lifteth off this burden from the Conscience, and lays it upon Christs shoulders, and he carries it; now he that hath his burden thus carried, it is well for him, however things go. Pardon and forgiveness of sin it is a crowning blessing, it is a Jewel in a Believers Crown: Pardon of sin is a multiplying mercy, it brings a great many mercies along with it; whom God pardons, he adopts; whom God pardons, he invests with holiness and with glory. Pardon of sin is such a mercy, that it is enough to make a sick man well, Isa. 32. 24. The Inhabitants shall not say, They are sick, the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity. The sense of pardon takes away the sense of pain; it must needs then be well with the righteous, his greatest evil is removed.