Chap.3.Sect.8 L6oking unto :Jefus. Book IV. Part.3. 667 ----------------------------------- leape for joy; Oh the honey, the fweet that we may fuck out of tbi' blood of Chrift! come lay to thy mouth,and drmk an hearty draught , it, is this f~irit.ual wine that. make~ merry the heart of man ; and 1t IS the voyce of Cbrtft to all his gueils eate 0 friends, drink.~ yea drink_ abundantf.J, 0 be- C . d , ant.f.t, lovr • ----- ----- SECT.8. of calling on 'fefm in th.tt rt[peU. 8. LEt us call ,on {efvu, or on God the Father in and through Jefus. r. We mufl pray that all thefe tranfactions of Chrift in his fuffering• and death may be ours; if we direct our prayers immediatt"!)' to Jefus Chrift, let us tell him what anguifh and paines he lMth · ffered for our fakes; and let us complaine againft our fdve:., 0 1 .;h:!t fhall wed~, who by om· jim have fo tormented our drar :ft L u··d .' 1vhnt contrition c11n be great enough, what teares {tljficil ·i'!J expre{five, what hatred etnd deteftation equt~l, and commmfur.ite to th1[e fad and heavy fufferings of our 'fcfvu? And t~en' let us pmy ,that he would pity us and forgive us thofe fins wherewit b we crucified him, that he would bellow on us the vertue of his fufferings and death , that his wounds might heale us, his death might q,:cken us, and his blood might cle.tofe us from all our fpir itua l fil h Jf !lnue; and la£\:1 y ,that he would affure us that his d.:<'lth ts ours; that he would perfwade us, that neither death, 1110r life, nor / h:gds, n&r principalities, nor powers, nor' thi;<t!f,S -pre- [ent, nor tkinl>" to c~w·, nor height, nor drpth, nor any other creature foould butblc 1c fepara:e us from thelove ofGod, which is in Chrift Rom, 8. ~8,J9; 'f eftu nur Lord. 2. We muft praife the Lord for all thefe fufferings of Chrift. Hath he indeed fuffercd all thefe punifhments for us ? Oh then what !hall we render unto the Lord for all his benefits upon us ? what {hall we do for him, who hath done and fuffered all thefe things ? but efpeciall y, if we beleeve our part in the death of Chrif\; in all the vet'tues, benefit!'>, vidories, purchafes, and priQ.g q q 2 vii edges
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