Cfi2b. 1. Sett. 7. '- L ] !Lcoktng unto· 'jjefu.S'. Book IV. 399 let U! love him: if we difpute the former, I argue from the Jews, when he lhed but a few tears out of his eyes at Laz.arv./s grave, Then Jaid the le1vs, behold how he loved John .1r.36i him, John r I. 36. how much more truly may it be faid of us for whom he /he~ both water and blood, and that from his bean, Behold how.he loved M; why then, If our hearts be not Iron, yea if they be Iron, how /hould they chufe ~ut feel the n:agnetical force of this Loadll:one of love? for to a Loadll:one doth Chnft refemble himfelf, when he faith of himfelf; .And I, if I be lifted up from the earth will draw all men unto Jo!m "· 3 ,; me. SECT. VII. Of joyi11g in Jefiu in that rejpefl. 7· LEt us joy in Jefiu, as carrying on the great work of our falvation in hh fufferings and death : wlllt? lmh Chrill: fuffered for us? bath he drunk off all the cup of God's wrath, and left none for us? how lhould we be buc cheered? Precious fouls! why are you afraid? there is no death, no hell, no condemnation to them that 1\om. s. 1 : are in Chrift Jcfiu. There is no divine jull:ice for them to undergo, that have their /hare in this death of Chrift ; oh the grace and mercy that is purchafed by this means of Chrift! oh the wat<rs of comfort that flow from the fufferings and obedience of Chrill:! Chrift was amazed, that we might be cheered ; Chrift was imprifoned, that we might be delivered; Chrill: was accufed, that we might be acquitted; Chrift was condemned, that we might be redeemed; Chrill: fuffered his Fathers wrath and came under it, that the victory might be ours, and that in the end we might fee him face to face in glory: Is not here matter of joy? It may be the law, and fin, and ju!lice, and confcience, and death, and hell may appear as enemies, anddifturb thy comfortS; but is there not enough.in the blood of Chri!lto chafe them away? Give mcleave but to frame the objections of fome d~ubting fouls; and fee whether Chrift's death will not fufficiently anfwer, and folve them all. I. One cries thus, Oh I h!zo•v not what will become of me, my fins are ever bef/JYe me; againjl thee, thee only have I finned; anddone thiuvilinthy fight. Iht~ve Jinnedagainft Pial. 5 ,, 3,.(. amojl dear, antigraciou<, and merciful God anti Father in our Lord lefm; 0 the aggravations •f my fins! are they not fi11s ab.ve meafure finful. It may be fo, but the blood of Chrift is a fountain opened for fins and for unc!.annefs; in him we have redemption through hu blood, even the forgivenefs of fins.--- z h ,· , He by himfelf purged our fins. ---.And now once in the end of r"he woridhath het~ppear- £~~; ·,, ~:·'· td put away fin by the {acrifice of himfelf .---.And Chrij/ WM once offered to bear the Hch. r. 3• fins bf many. 'Av<vi:yX.'"• to bear away the fins ofmany. As the Scape-goat under the Heb. 9· 26. Law had irpdn his head all the iniquities of ,the children of Jfrael, and fo was Jent vcr._ ,g, ~tway by the hand of a fit man into the wildernefs; fo the Lord lefus (of whom that ;~v•r. ' 6 ' " ' Goat was a type ) had all the iniquities of his Elect laid upon him by God his ' Father, and bearing them, he took them :!way , Behold the La"mb of God, that John ,, 19. 1 taktth away tl!e fins of the world; he bote them, and bore them away. he went · · awaY with them into the wildernefs, or into the land of forgetfulnefs. See ~hat cornfort is here. 2. Another cries thus, Oh I k.._now ndt wh,tt will become of me., the Law u mine enemy, I have tran[greffed the Latv, and it JPeakJ terribly, c~<rfed is every one that continueth not Gal. 3J I<>. <n all thmgs wh~eh are written i;o the book_ of the L aw to do them : Oh I have offended the 'Law, and I am ttnder the curfe. , . Say not fo, for by ~he death of Chrill:, though the Law be broken, yet the curfe is removed; the Apoll:lets clear, Chrift hath redeemedm from the curfe•f the Law, being Gal. 3 , q l made «ettrfefor us; he was made acurfe for us,(i.)the fruits and effects of God's curfe, the pumlhment due to finners, the penal curfe which jull:ice required, was laid upon Chri/l: and by tillSmeans we are freed from the curfe ofthe law It is true, that without Chri/l: tho? art under this Law, bo, or die, and if thvu oftencleft in the leaft kind thou l11alt pen/h for ever,. the cu~fe of the Law is upon thee to the uttermo(\; bur on the other fide, tf thy claim be nght to the blood of Chrill:, thou art freed from penalty; not but_that we may be corrected and chaflifed, bnt what is that to the eternal curfe whtch the Law pronounceth againn every lin? we are freed!ro:n the curfe, or damn•- tory
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