Confidently shall one say, in the Peer of the realm be in possession of I piousness. (Isaiah 45:24)He hath completed him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we vigor be completed the piousness of God in him. (2 Corinthians 5:21)
If these arguments be well planned, they preference, I forthcoming, rest the lessons of the text; for they definitely bear out, that God hath appropriate the Peer of the realm Jesus Christ to be the completely piousness of his state. He was completed sin for them, their sins subconscious laid upon him, as the sins of the children of Israel were laid upon the scapegoat. And he was completed of God unto them piousness, and their piousness is in him, not an automatic but an imputed piousness, and usual by acknowledgment, which submits to be utterly by the piousness of in mint condition, and rests with full anticipation and confidence upon it. This is the plain lessons of Christianity, and the let the cat out of the bag contrary is the plain lessons of popery.
At the restructuring the Peer of the realm raised up ending witnesses to bear their LP vs. that reigning heresy of the papists, which places characteristic in man's works; yea, such characteristic as to justify a malefactor forward God; yea, quiet patronizing characteristic, for they last, that a man can do mega than the enjoyable law requires, and can perform works of supererogation, the characteristic of which may be imputed to in mint condition integrity, and yet, at the exceedingly time, they deny the imputation of Christ's intrinsic worth. The primitive reformers preached nobly vs. dwell in blasphemies, and that blessed servant of God, Luther, was brave truthfully. He knew well the contrite partiality of the lessons of characteristic, and for that reason he above all wrote and preached vs. it, and God gave him deep-seated endowment. A malefactor completed in shape by the piousness of Christ, is, as he recycled to say, the lessons upon which a church stands or gush. Upon it our church was sure, and has long for stood; but do we stand upon it now? Are we all champions for the protestant lessons, or are we in well-known gone from it? Alas! our enemies can recite, with strike they recite of the pick up of the popish apprehension in the midst of us. And why does it increase? Whence is it that they make so many converts? Is it not to the same degree our state are not well sure in this protestant doctrine? If it was skilled and preached mega, our churches would not be so unfitted as they are, nor the magnitude houses so full. Host of our state know not what it is to be a protestant, and for that reason they become an easy sacrifice to the papists, who are so subjugated and blooming in making converts, that they pretended they be in possession of on one Lord's day mega communicants at the magnitude domicile in Lincoln's-inn-fields, than we be in possession of on the exceedingly day at all the churches in London. I attention this may be true; but is it not pleasantly alarming, and requirement it not to brouhaha up the protestant clergy, to try to put a cut into to the dispersal of popery? But how can they do this mega effectually, than by laying the axe to the bottom, and ample at the lessons of characteristic, which is the plain gremlin of the papists? Topple this, and popery cannot stand. A man cannot be a papist, who believes that his extenuating piousness is in Christ, and whoever does not acknowledge this is not a protestant. May the Peer of the realm pinch us up ending and advantage men, (for we pleasantly command them,) to defense his piousness vs. them who be in possession of sure a meritorious piousness of their own, and preference not offer to the piousness of God.
But, also the papists, we be in possession of other enemies to the lessons in the print. The thoughtless malefactor treats it with deep-seated contempt; for he does not see its idyllic, nor his own command of it, and for that reason he lives easy and tight in the practice of sin. The scripture has revealed the wrath of heaven vs. all his unrighteousness, but he does not regard the leak. The law brings him in suspicious and condemns him but he gives himself no put on about the threatenings of the law. The gospel offers him mercy, and its ministers craving him to put up with of it, but he stops his ears. Neither the flimsiness of the gospel, nor the terrors of the law, can viewpoint upon him. Little he has no piousness of any gentle, yet the lives as if he was in no chance. Oh deluded man: if thou didst but know thy jam, thou wouldst cry earnestly to the Redeemer, and seek to be frequent in his piousness. May he attitude pity upon thee, and send his good spirit to convince thee of sin, and to convince thee of piousness.
The formalist is in mint condition opponent to the lessons in the print. He preference not derive respectable by imputed piousness, but preference be in possession of his own piousness seated on the throne sideways with Christ. He gush within this deep-seated inaccuracy from his solidity of the pure character of God's law, which has completed no dispensing for any fading, but for the very primitive passes discovery, "Cursed is every one who continueth not in ALL things, >
If any of you, my brethren, be in possession of fallen within this inaccuracy, weigh and expend assiduously what has been forward alleged upon the enjoyable law, and upon the law of acknowledgment, and if you are not dependable, can you ask God to let the cat out of the bag you in the entitlement way? If you can, he has promised to provide you wisdom; he preference teach you the true lessons, and preference label you to offer to the piousness of God. But if you are dependable, are you waiting for the precious gift of acknowledgment, or be in possession of you usual it? If you are waiting for it, observe whose gift it is. The Revered Pass away deserted can work acknowledgment in your detail. It requires his power, even that almighty power, which raised up Jesus from the dead. The Scriptures ascribes to him the part of fervent sinners of Christ's piousness, and of yielding them acknowledgment to rest upon it for their respectable. Elevation up to him for this blessing. Deem in his appropriate ways, on tenterhooks for it. And formerly the Pass away shall be poured upon you from on high, later you preference be utterly by acknowledgment in Christ's piousness, and the work of piousness shall be array, and the effect of piousness, mellowness, and belief for ever.
Subject matter are you, my Christian brethren, who be in possession of usual the piousness of acknowledgment, and sophisticated whom you be in possession of understood. To the same degree Christ's piousness is yours, bring forth its factual fruits, and shew publicly, that impart is an inseparable connexion amid extenuating acknowledgment and sanctifying flimsiness. By extenuating acknowledgment the supporter is dual to Christ, and receives life from him, as a vocation does from the delay upon which it grows. By godliness of this fusion, Christ liveth in the supporter, and enables him to put forth the factual acts of spiritual life, as the delay upon which the vocation grows supplies it with sap and juices to put forth vegetation, and open out, and fruit. This is the feature effect of the endless of a unit in the vine; it preference bring forth fruit; and if any one desire himself to be a supporter, and neither brings forth nor is seeking to bring forth any fruit, he completely deceives himself, and the truth is not in him: for whosoever has Christ for a Liberator, preference be in possession of the Revered Pass away for a sanctifier, and preference bring forth fruit to the Position of God.
See later, my Christian brethren, that ye idyllic and precious thing this piousness, and provide it its factual honour, apiece with your hearts and lives. Because you are bringing forth its equable fruits, you preference endlessly find the comforts of it. This piousness is one of the pieces of Christian armour. It is called a breast-plate: to the same degree it is the factual armour for the overriding parts. Your life is always durable equally you be in possession of your breast-plate on; you steal not attention the be scared of by night, nor the marker that flieth by day. Let thousands fall, you are durable. You are watched over from external attacks: for although many be the afflictions of the in shape, yet the Peer of the realm delivereth him out of them all; and you are held in reserve in inward peace: for the work of piousness is array, and the effect of piousness, mellowness and belief for ever. In time of illness this piousness preference be a perpetual genial. It preference not feel pain the detail to settle, although the volume grows vacillating and faint; for this breast-plate is not completely funding vs. the hard work of illness, but likewise vs. the missiles of death. "Graciousness delivereth from death;" Prov. 11:4; not by confinement the utterly integrity from dying, but by confinement him from the attention of the primitive, and from the power of the speed death. The in shape man, armed with this invulnerable chain mail, can refute all his enemies. Who shall uncommon me from the love of Christ? shall difficulty or anxiety, or aggravation or death? Nay, honest in the robe of Christ's piousness, I shall not be apprehensive to go rule the arroyo and shadow of death, nor yet to stand at the deplorable bar of God's never-ending justness. Why could do with he attention to stand impart to be tried? For who shall lay at all to the charge of God's elect? It is God himself that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea, moderately that is risen anew for their respectable, and in his piousness they shall stand holy and unblameable and unreprovable forward the judgment-seat of God.
To the same degree these are some of the bolster of having on the chain mail of piousness, let us, my Christian brethren, spot it always in use. To the same degree we are trouble under the Chief of our use, let us be ever armed with his righteousness; and may we all wear it upon our breasts, that neither be apologetic within, nor evils short, may ever uncommon us from the love of Christ Jesus our Lord; but may we, in life and death, find the sacredness of this armour, by its shifty us from the threatenings of the letdown law, and from the adversary of almighty justice; and may we in time and in time without end sentient to his glory, who humbled himself to be completed sin for us, that we vigor be completed the piousness of God in him. Give this, holy Flinch, for the sake of they draw to a close Son, Jesus Christ: to whom, with thee and the Revered Pass away, three persons in one Jehovah, be honour and glory, and blessing and praise, for ever and ever. Amen.
AuthorWilliam Romaine was an English Evangelical divine who was untrained at Hartlepool, England on September 25, 1714. He was educated at Hart Mall and Christ Cathedral, Oxford, receiving his B.A. in 1734 and M.A. in 1737. He was appointed a deacon in 1736, a priest in 1738; and was curate for many years at Baustead, Surrey and Horton, Middlesex. Drawn within the Evangelical revitalization, he primitive adhered to John Wesley, but in 1755 passed to the outcome of George Whitefield and remained the ablest exponent in the midst of the Evangelicals of the highest achievement Calvinistic lessons.
