Part r. Chap. I• .AJflifled Con{ciences. him who was both God ana man. For the man-hood 'of Chri!l: was received into the union ofthefecond _perfon. And fo it may bee call~d the 6/oodof f;od,forfo {i)e;tkes S,Paul, AE1.zo.28 . God purc·hafeaht-s Church ~·:th hu o'Wne 6/ood; that is Chrijl. God incarnate; Our Divines exprdfe it thus : lt wM the S onn e of q~da 11nd Lord of lrfo,that died for m upon the Cro{e,hut it w.u tbe nllture of man, not of God, wherein he died; and it wM the nature ·of God, and infinite exctllet~cy r-f the . filme , whence the price; valew and worth~ hu pll)]ion 1 ,., "t ,} ·!.•• h · b {'(; d bl d h · f · fi · ffi y "' 1nl um ullp wtt, ,~~ew. T IS leue . oo t en IS o In m_te 'Y e Cil- dicit11r1 per aJiud, TJti c1e, and therefore 1f thou bee now turning to the per fc ;paaliHddi,itur Lord, aifure thy felfe; whatfoever thy finnes have h;1maitatii '?rift!: me· ·beene thev have not out-gone the price that bath n~um ~ (atufo.ti.ro & ' 1. • · ' ;. 7£' v pro nobu per(fJ -been pay.d for the~ . This blood upon r~pentancc did 1;~;~ e(f'e infinitni~~ take off the tranfcendent .karlet gUllt from the tutis , qua virt11teinfi. ~ foules,even ofthofe that lbed lt,Aa. ~.&c. ni l:i.[Rau, etiam efl. ' , · at cxpiata fintpeua ta mtmdi. ~omodo vcro infinittt eft virtutis ?Non ptr& propter bumllnitatcm,ftdp!r& propter i'nfi!Utam Deitatem,cui bum•nit.ro chrifli e{lhrpofi.ttice unit11. Polan. S_v or.Theoi J;ib.:t.cap. 10. Obtt11it chriftw, ut 'PDnti/t:f, carntm q1sidtm & fttnt.uinem (uum qua homo : {cdvitlimtt (utt immen{am effieadam •Jtirtttpcrf;iritum ttlertll#n, quiZ 'DIIU eilPar.in Epift.ad Hebr.{ap. 9.vcrf.J4· . · · ~. The riches of the Word in affOrding precedent$ ;. Pr~cedents offome ofthe Saints., and ofthe Sonne ofGod himfclfe; w~o ;,s mtferablc as our have -furpafled thee; and that, perhaps, very farre m elves. any kinde of mi!Crie thou canll name•. Thou art perhaps coruulting with the Pr~Jiga/1 to come·in, but there comes terribly into thy minde F9~ ~ns before con· h d . h . r. ~ f h 1". fi Y.:r11011. ·t c: extraor mary amou,nene o t y xormer mnes; and that hinders. ·~a!t t~ine ~ye then upon rJr(amtf 2 Kings ,. r. 1~. · fu, a man of prodigiOus impiety and matchldle vll- _ lany : Hee 'foeJ in110cmt blood 'IICYJ much, till he h.ad:. Chron 3p.&c. filled lerufllltm fn;m cne end to anDther. Bee didth.et, ' -which 'WM -eviR in the fight of the Lord) Jikg unto the -~omimlfions of the heAthen, 11hom the Lord had caft DHt ·~efcre the th;tdrtn of lfrael. &e . cRu[ed his Z · ~ shildren /
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