ing, learning, knowing, thi's one mcef{ary thing. Sttidy ChriH: crucified in every pieca and part; 0 the precious truths, and precious .difcoveries that a fiud.ying head and heart would har.n· mer out here! ·much hath 'been faid, but a thoufand-thoufaild ·times more might yet be faid ; we have given but a little {cantling of that which Chrift endured; volumes might be written till they were piled as high as heaven ; and yet all would not , ferve to make out the full difcoveries of Jefus fufferings. Study therefore, and ftudy more, but be fure thy ftudy and thy know· ledge be rather practical t_han fpecula~ive; do not meerly beate thy braines to learne tlle hdl:ory ofChnfls death, but·the efficacy, vertue agd merit ofit; k'now what thou knoweft in reference ro thy felfe, as if Jefus had. been all ~he while carrying on the bufineffe of thy fouls fa\ vauon; ·as tf thou hadft ftood by, and ·· Chrifi had f.po·ke to thee, as fometimd to the women, weernot for me, but for thy felfe ; thy fins caufed my fufferings, and mJ fufferit~t,i, were fo~ the abolition of thy fins. _ _..... ___________ --- ef conjiderin[ Jefus in thAt refpetl 2: LEtusco~jidcr r_efus,_carryin& on this grea't--workof our falvauon durmg hts fuffenngs and death. Thq foal! z h [Bok_upon me whom they ha1.-e pie~ctd, f~ith the Prophet; · (i.) they ac • u,to, .fltall confider me : ·and accordmgly ts the Apoi.He, lookjnj, unto · Jefm, or csnftdering of [eft# the Author and finijher of our j~ith, , who for the joy ofour (alvation fet before him, end11,red the croffe, H b _and dejpi(ed ~he.fh~me •. Then indeed, and in that ad: is the duty c .x%.:., brought t~, 1t ts good m all refped:s and under all confiderations to look unto Jefus from firft to !aft, ·but above all this text relates firftly to the time of his fufferi ngs. and he~ce it is.that Luk! calls chrifts paffion Jf<llet<tV' a theory 0~ fight; And all the prople that came together to thllt (ight,-fmote their brefts and re· Luk!"l• 48, turned. Not but that every paffage of{hrift is a theory or fight, · worth v our looking on, or conGdering of; Chrift in hi5 :fathers · purpofe, and Chrift in the promife, and Chrift in performance,' K lrkk 2. - · Chrift
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