Chap.3.Se6t.6 Looking ur.;to1eftU, BooidV,Part.3 657 in tbefe fad times, who have opened their mouths againfl: the God of heaven, enough to make a Chrifl:ian rend his heart, and weep in blood? why fee now how Jefus for thy fake was judged of Caiph,u, and all the Sanhedrim, for ablafphemer of God, and that in the higheft kinde of blafphemy, M makjng himfelfe Nju~tl - with God; yea ,fee how the high Priefl rends his cloa1hs, {aying, he l\ht,:€.6 5 , hath {pok_en blafphemy; Surely all thishe endured, that very blafphemersmay finde mercy, if they will but come in, and bele~ve in Jefu~ I might infiance in other fim; art thou a tray tour, a glutton, a drunkard, a wine-bibber, a thiefe, a feducer, a companion offinners? why,fee now how Jefus Chrifl: was for thy fake thus called, reputed, accounted; whatever the fin is, there's fomething in Chrifl: that anfwers that very finfulnelfe ; thou art a finner, and he is made fin, to fatisfie the wrath of God even for thy fin ; thou art fucb, and fuch a finner, and he is accounted fuch and fuch afinner for thy fake, that thou mightell find~ in him fomething fuirable to thy condition, and fo the rather be encouraged to be!eeve, that in him, and through him all thy fins fhall be done away. Away, away unbeliefe, diftruft, defpaire ! you fee now the brazen ferpent lifted up, you fee what a btelfed objed: is before you\ 0 beleeve! 0 look up unto 'fefm! 0 beleeve in him thus carrying on the work of thy fa! vation in his death. · · ---·--·----- -------- SECT. 6. Of /O'Ving 'fe[m in that reJPeff. 6. LEt us love 'fefm as carrying on the great work of our falvation for us during his fufferings and death. What did he fulfer and dye ? greater love than this hath no maH, that a rmm jlmtld give hu life for his friends ;-but Gad commendeth hu Rom .f .s. love toward m, in that while 'JJIC 'JJiere yet Jinners, Chrifl dyedjo'l' m. Why here•s an arg1:1ment of love indeed, how iliould we but love him, who hath thus loved us.? in profe~:ution of this I have Pp pp no
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