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on
the .zxcellency
of
the Soul.
ver have
faved
one
foul
;
now Chrift taw this, and
his
bow-
els did
even yearn towards
fo many
thoufands of
precious
fouls,
and rather than they fhould
petifh,
hee
was
content
to
come
and make
his
own
foul
to
bee
an
offering for
fin
Ifa. 53.1o.
the
foul
of
Chrifl was i}tadean offering
there,
and
what
was
that but
for
the
favina
of fouls
?
wee may
therefore, concerning
Chrift, well
fay,
as
the
Elders
, in
Rev.
S.
9.
,
They
fan,
a
new
fong, fayrng,
Thou,
art
worthy,
&c.
for
thou waft
flan,
and haft
,redeemed
us
-
to
.
God
by
thy
blood.
Oh thou
art
worthy
!
(7
bleffed
Saviour
!
Hee doth
not
fay
what,
but
oneLy
thus,
Thou art worthy
to
take
the
book, and to open the feals thereof,,
for
thou
wert
Hain
,
and hall
redeemed
us
to
God
:
There
is
infinite
worthinefs
in Chrift,
and worthy hee
is
of
all
the
honour-that
wee are
able
poflìibly
to bring
to him, had wee
ten
thoufand
times
more
firength-
than
wee have
to
do it;
For
hee
was
(lain,
and
hath
redeemed
use.to.-God by
his
blood.
If
there
were
a
com-
pany of
poor people upon the Sea, and
in
danger to
be
loft,
their
own (hip through
arefs
of
weather fallen
to
peeces,
and they upon
a
plank,
and
ready
to bee
fwallowed
up
of
every
wave,,
and there
comes
a
fillip
by, and
faves
their
lives,
Oh
how
would
they
bee.
affedled with fuch-a mercy
as
this
!
and
blefs
God
for
his
goodnefs,
that
fuch
a
(hip.
should
come
by
at
fuch
a
time; wee had all been
-loft
-if
.this (hip had not come by juft
-at
this
time:
So
when wee
read the
Gofpel,
wee
read ofJefus
Chrifl
God
-Man.
com-
ing into theworld, and
Handing
between the wrath of
the
Infinite God,
and
finfu#
fouls,
let
us
then confider
how
infinitely
wee
are
bound
to
blefs
God
for
Jefus Chrifl;
for
we were ready even
-all
of
us
to bee (wallowed
up
into
the
bottomlefs gulf
of
the wrath of the infinite God;
the
waves
of
Gods infinite wrath; were ready
to
have
covered
over all
man
-
kinde, only.
the Lord Jefus Chrift comes, and
even
leaps,
as
it
were, into the very Ocean
of
Gods wrath,
into
the very flames
of
the wrath and
juflice
of God,to
pluck out
our
fouls, and to
fave
them
:
-Blefs
wee God then
for
Jefus
Chrift
,
confidering
that
the
lofs of,
fouls
is
fuch
a
dread
-
ful