656 Book. IV Part+ Leaking u?ato :fefus. Chap.3.Secr.5 now this was the condition that Chrifi mufi dye, and dye that death ofthe croife, and accordingly he und·ertooke and performed, which fee a lufire, and glory, and excellency,'and worth upon his death. 0 the'worth, 0 the excel\ency of this death of Cbrift t --many are apt to complaine, 0 the filth ofmy fit:Js ! Oh the injH·ri~s i!Jnd unkjndnef[e that h.1ve been in mine iniq1tities! it u not my mifery, my dtftrullion that fo much troubles me, tU that 'God iJ di!plrafed. Sweet foul! turne thine eyes hither; furely this death of Chrift is more fatisfactory to God, than all thy fins poffibly can be difpleafing to God, there was more fweet favour in Chrifts facrifice, than there could be offence in all thy fins; the excellency ofChrifts death in making righteous, doth fuperabound the hlthineife offin in making a finner. Come on then, and clofe with Chriil: upon this encouragement; there is a dignity, an excellency, in this object of faith, Chriff crucified. ' · . 3. Confider the fuitablenef[e of this ble1fed object, the Jwh of Chrijf. There is in it a fuitablene.1fe to our finful condition, whatfoever die fin is; it is the cry of fome, they dare not beleeve, . they dare not touch Chrift crucified, they d11re not approach to that pre.:ious blood, becttufe_cf this fin, and that fin, and the other fin. Whereas in the deach.;md bloos{·ofChrift (if they could but take a full view of it) they might finde fom~tbing fuitaole to their fiate: As for in fiance, fuppofe thy fin the greateft fin lmagin- ' able, except that againft the holy Ghoft; art thou a murtherer? · haft thou had thy hands imbrued in the hloodofSaints ? why fee now how Chrift for thy fake was ef.teemed of the Jewes, a murtherer, au.d W_(}r(e t\;lan a murtherer; BarabbtU is preferud before {e[t1-J, 'BarafobM is releafed, andJefus i~ murthered, yea his blood is fh ~d, . to wa!h away thy,blood -!bed: ar~ thou a Sorcerer,a Negromancer? is thy fin the fin of <..ManaJfeh, of 1. Ch:on.3 3 .6. whom it is faid, thai: he ufed inr:hantmenu , a,nd Wltchcrnft ; ant! dealt with a familiar fpirit, an.:}. with wiz,ard.r; why, f~e now how Jefus Chrifi forthy fake was efieemed of the Jewes as an im- . pofter, an inchanter; for f(! f0me fay, that he got the Name of God, and fowed it in his thigh, and by vc:rtue thereof he wrought all his miracles ; and they commonly reported of him ~ha't he had a devil, and tha1 t hecafto·tt dtvi/.< through Behebub Prince .of devils , Art thou a blafphemer? haft thou joyned with thofe in
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