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E
R,16.í
Gal.
6.14.
God
forbid
that I
Jboadd rejoyce
in
any
thing,
but
in
the
crof
of
our
Lord
lefiss
Chrif4
Col.
2. 15. Be triumphed over principalities
and
powers
in
the
fame crofe5
t Cor.z.z.
I
efjeem to
kiow
nothing
among
you, but
Chriji
crucìfred.
Dab..
YVe
fee
then what
c
hash
done,
that
he
might
make
a peace
twixt
eu
chrie
crud-
and
God, he
hash
offered
himfelfupon the
crop.
It
is
Chritts
facrifice,
fled,
fete a
peace for
w
which reftoreth amity
twixr
God
and us;
which
was typically
taught,
with God.
in as
much
as
the Lord
finelled
a
favour
of
reff
from the
facrifices
offered
for fin; and
the Apoftle
telling us,
how
Godwas
in
Chrifi
recen-
%
cor.9.i9.
ciling the
world
to
him
(elf,
doth
fhew,that this
was
by
making
Chrift
a
pour
tt
mgr
facrifice
for
fin.
The
which
will be
thus cleared to you,
if
you
confi-
donehereunto
der what things
muff
be wrought for the mutuall reconciliation
of
God
and
man
,
which
are thefe four
s
two
on Gods
part,
two
on mans.
As
r. the matter
kindling
Gods anger,
muff be
flaked.
a.
Gods
favour mull be procured,
in
the
offending perfon.
.
The
enmity
of
our nature mull be abolifhcd.
2. Our love mull be regained
to
him
;
zs in
the
pacification
of
two
difagreeing,
we mull
firft ftill
the
anger , work the
affedtion to
re-entertain
as
heretofore,
elfe we should
only
make him no enemy,
not
a
friend alfo.
In the party
offending, we
muff make
him lay
afide
rancor,
and
perfwade him to
love,
and
the
offices
of love, toward
himwhom he bath
offended.
Now
that which
taketh away
fin,
and
fo anger againft
fin, is
Chrift
crucified.
Hebr.9 zz.
Without Jhedding
of
blood,
no
remiffion
of
fin.
The
blood
of
Chri
ff
purgeth
all
fin,
r
John
r.
9.
2.
That
for which
God doth not
onely put
afide
anger,
but
become
a
father to
us,
is
the looking on
his Son offered a favour
of
ref},
in
whom
(he faith)
lam
well
plea
fed,
Mat.3.
r
7.
That
fpirit
which
killeth
our
enmity,
healeth our poyfoned natures, maketh
us live
fruit full
in
all
thefe things which
are
pleafing
to God
,
all
is
given
us
Ga
4'4'GIL;
through Chri
l
crucified) this fpirit
which
doth
circumcife
the heart
to
r4. Tir.
;.6.
Yfe
t.
In
the
terrour
of
fin
look
at
Chriftcruci-
fied.
2.
Bewilling to
be
reconciled
wich
God.
love
God.
So
then
we
fee
what
we
muff
look
to,
if
the wrath
of
God
do
fling
us,
Chrift
crucified
is
the propitiatory
facrifice even
as
they
looked
to that
brazen Serpent, fo
muff we
to Chrift;
the corretfion
of
our peace
was
on
him, Ifa.
5
3.
If
we would have the love
of
God
bro-
ken
out on
us,
we mutt hold Chrift
crucified.
It
doth
confirm our faith,
that the Lord
Jefus
will bring.us
to
glo-
rie,
Rom.
5.20.
For
if
when
we
were
enemies,
we
were
reconcildlo
gad
by
the death
of
his
Son
;
much morebeing reconciled,
we
}hall
be
faved
by
his
life.
A ground
of
Exhortation untoall, that they would
be reconciled,
we elfe make
the blood
of
Chrift
a vain
thing, when
we will not be
reconciled
to God
:
Like
as a
Traytor
in
hold for Treafon,
fhould ftill
plot and
praClifc
more villany
5
and when
the Prince
had procured
his
pardon,
should Rill
confpire, and
not
liften
to
the
benefit,
nor
fit
his
heart
to
return into
the
Kings
favour.
VERS.