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IVs
x.13.
6phe
/ians,Chap.z.
:85
a.
Becaufe
it was
molt
fenfible.
3,
Becaufe
in
it was
the
perfe
lion
of
all
his
obedience
for
us.
4.
In oppofition
to the blood
of
Beafts , he
doth
thus point at
the
body, whereof
thofe
Levitical!
facrifices
were fhadows.
The third
Qáeflion
is,
Whence
this blood bath
that
force
Partly
hence,
that
it
is
the bloody death
of
God
;
and
partly, that
it
was indured
with
feeling
the
infinite
wrath
of God.
Now
to
confider
of
the thing,
that
in
Chrift
his
bloody
accurfed
death, we come to
be near
to God,
we
come
to
have hope, we come
to have all fpirituall priviledge3,redemption
through
his
blood
;
We
are
redeemed
from
our
vain
conver
fation,
not
with
filver
and
gold;
but
by
the
precious blood
of Chrifi
'tfus,
as
of
a Lamb
undefiled,
and
without
/f'at;
1
Pet.
r. r8,
59.
whom God bath
fet
forth
to be
a reconciliation
through
Faith
in
his blood,
Róm.
3.
25.
It
is
Chrift
his
blood, which
breaketh
down the
wall
of
partition ;
He
purgeth
NS
from
our
fins,
io
his
blood.
It
teacheth us, what
it
is
that the
eye
of
our Faith fhould principally
refpeót,and
look upon
in
Chrift;
vq
The
blood
of
Chrift,
the
croffe
of
Chrift,
the obedience
and fufferings
of Chrift;
in a
word, Chrift
crucified,
that
is
the fubjeft
that
our Faith muff take
hold
on
:
Chrift
crucified,
is
the object of our knowledge,
1
Cor.
2.
2.
the matter
of
our rejoycing,
Gal.
6.
14.
the
ground and foundation
of
our Faith,
Rom.3.2
5.
It
is
a world
of
heavenly
comforts,that
a
fpirituall
miede
may gather unto himfelf,
in
the
due meditation, and
beholding the
death
of
Chrift.
When
we
think
of
Chrift
crucified ,
and fhedding
of
his
blood,
there
we may
fee;
1.
Our
fins
punifhed
to
the full.
2. Our
fins
pardoned to
the full.
3. Our
fins
crucified and mortified by his
blood.
4. The
flefli
crucified,
Gal.
5.14.
5.
Our
fclves crucified
to the
world
,
and
the world to
us,
Gala-
tians 6.
24.
6.
There
we
behold how
patient we fhould be
in affli6fion,
even to
the death.
7. There
is
the
pieture
of
our whole
life,
which muttbe
a
conti-
nual!
courfe
of
mortification.
8.
There
is
the
fcafoning
of
our
death,that
whenfoever it
cometh,
it
(hall
be
a
fwcet
paffage
to
a
better
life.
9. There
we fee all evils
turned
to
our
good.
1
o.
Laftly, therein
we
fee all
good things
purchafed for
us,
grace,
mercie,
and peace, and
eternal! falvation.
Yea,
a
heaven
of
treafure
and riches
gathered for
us
; and
that
we
are made partakers
of, by
a due
view
of
meditation
of
Chrift
cruci-
fied:
And therefore whofocver would have any true
mild')
of
Chrift,
he
muff
labour for the
relifh
of the
blood
of
Chrift.
It
teacheth
us,
the
difficulty
of
the work
of
our
Redemption,
C
c
which
Ili
1:
A
fpeciall'ob-
jeft of
Faith.
Benefits ac-
cruing
by
the
blood
of
Chrift.
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