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A present from a far country, to the people of New England. I. A…A present from a farr countrey, to the people of New England. I. A…
A present from a far country, to the people of New England. I. A great voice from heaven, to these parts of the earth: in an excellent letter full of divine rarities, lately written from a terrible prison in France; / by a pious confessor of the reformed religion, once an inhabitant of this country. ; (With some late remarkables, of the persecution, upon the reformed in that kingdom.) II. The golden bells of the great high priest, heard from heaven, through the land. Or, Meditations, upon the methods of grace, wherein a few faithful persons may be the happy instruments of delivering a land, from all its iniquities & calamities.A present from a farr countrey, to the people of New England. I. A great voice from heaven, to these parts of the earth: in an excellent letter full of divine rarities, lately written from a terrible prison in France; / by a pious confessor of the reformed religion, once an inhabitant of this countrey. ; (With some late remarkables, of the persecution, upon the reformed in that kingdom.) II. The golden bells of the great high priest, heard from heaven, through the land. Or, Meditations, upon the methods of grace, wherein a few faithful persons may be the happy instruments of delivering a land, from all its iniquities & calamities.
Boston: printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1698
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A Brief DISCOURSE, Made unto the Great and General Assembly of the… › Conclusion 3: Conclusion III.
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Did an Expiatory Sacrifice Bear the Sins of the People? This was the meaning of that Usage, in Lev. 1.4. He shall put his Hand on the Head of the Burnt Offering, and it shall be Accepted for Him. Thus, as the Hebrew Doctors tell us, they Transferred their Guilt from Themselves to their Victim. Well,; Such a Sacrifice is our Lord Jesus Christ, as to Bear the Sins of His Elect. It is said, in 1 Pet. 2. 24. He, His own self, Bare our sins, on the Tree. Though our Lord Jesus Christ was not Culpably Guilty, yet He was Penalty Guilty, of our Sins. It is a Rude and a Crude Speech, to say, That Christ was the Greatest Sinner in the World; For, Christ never was a Sinner; If He had been a Sinner He could not have been a Saviour. But He became a Surety for Sinners, and therein He became Responsible for all our Sins: All our Debts, He took upon Himself.
Again; Was the Misery due to the Sinner, laid upon the Expiatory Sacrifice? The Order for the Sacrifices was, to Wound it, Stab it, Kill it, Flay it, Pull it a Pieces, Wring off the Neck of it, Burn it unto Ashes. Why? The Sinner must say, All of this, have I, by my sins deserved! Well; Such a Sacrifice is our Lord Jesus Christ, as to Encounter that very Misery, which belonged unto us. It is said, in lsa. 53. 4, 5. Surely, He ⟨p. 33⟩hath born our Griefs, and carried our Sorrows, the Chastisement of our Peace was upon Him. Whatever was Essential unto the Death, which we were to undergo for our Sinning against God, was all undergone by our Sinless Jesus. Tis true, There are many particular miseries, which come upon these and those Individual men for their Sins, that yet our Lord Jesus Christ must not undergo, but then He did undergo what was Equivalent thereunto: Yea, What He underwent was Equal to what all we have Deserved. Indeed a world of Penal Evil does befall the Reprobate Sinner, which is not Simply from the Curse, but from the Disposition of the Sinner under the Curse. A total Separation from God; Blindness of mind, Hardness of Heart, Eternity of Wretchedness, are Circumstantials, & Accidentals of the misery due for Sin, which the Condition of the Sinner as Personally defiled with Sin, and unable to help himself, does Expose him unto; our Lord underwent not these unhappy circumstances: His condition rendered them not Necessary for Him. Yet, all the Essentials of our Death He submitted unto; all the Death which the Law imposed on Him.