Serm. 14. HOPI matt we Pray in Faith ? Thou art my beloved in whom 1 am well pleafed. Gods Love w Chrlt is not only greater, bur difufive, for the Love that God bears to Christ is as theoyl chat wxs poured upon the head of .4 aron,which ran down co the skirts of his garments ; fo the Love that God bears ro Christ ter - minares not in the Perfon of Christ, but is communicated to all that are his.As Haman to Chew the great hatred he bore co ilibrdecái,would not bound his malice on the perfon of Mordecai ; but would deltróy the whole Nation ; So God thought it too fmall a Teftimony of his Love to C;rift to be well pleafed with Chrif} ( for fo he is with the Angels) but he is well pleafed in Chrift with the whole World, I mean all Na- tions. We must believe this, or we cannot expe9 any favour for his fake. His Love CO Chrift is fo great, that his Love to Chrift is greater than his hatred to tamers fo that any Ginner may be reconciled and accepted,throughChrift. G came to reconcile G )J and (inners,not God and fin. As one who del res the King to be reconciled to fuch a Traycor,doth not defire him to be reconciled to the Treafon,but to the Tray tor. II. We are to believe the f"ulnefs of Chrift s fatisfaetion, and- the greatneCs of the value and efficacy of the death of Christ ; for if Jullice be not faiisfied, we have no Throne of Grace, but a Seat and Bar of Juftice to come before. The Bloud of Cnrift bath a pacifying, purifying, purchafing, perfuming, reconciling, fatisfying, juftifying virtue. It pacifies Gods wrath, it reconciles and jufifies our perlons, it purifies our Nature, it perfumes our duties, it purchafech our inhe- ritance. IILWe are to believe the efficacy and infallible fuccefs of Christs In- terceflion. The fulnefs of Christs Incerceffion is in this, that he doth three things for us, all that we Gand in need of, according to what was Typified by the High - Priest, for he did three things. i. Hefprinkled the bloud upon the Mercy-fear, hereby an attone- ment was made as to our fins, they being pardoned. 2. He went in with Incenfe, hereby our duties mere perfumed ; fo God is Paid to inhabite the Praifes of his People, and to dwell in chick darknefs, i. e. in the thick fmoke of the Incenfe. 3.. He had the Names of the Tribes engraver, on his breast or heart. Chrift pleads the love he hears to his People. Three places the names of. the Saints are written in, out of either whereof nor tren nor De- vils can blot them out, viz,, in the Book of Life, on the palms of his, hands, and on the heart of Chrift. I may add the fourth thing the High- Pcieft did when he entred into the Holy Place, viz,. he went in with
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