268 on the .xcellency of the Soul. ver have Caved one foul ; now Chrifi law this, and his bow - els did even yearn towards fo many thoufands of precious fouls, and rather than they fhould perifh, bee was content to come and make his own foul to bee an offering, for fin Ifa. 5 3. t o. the foul of Chrifl was grade an offering there, and what was that but for the laving of fouls ? wee may therefore, concerning Chrifl, well - fay, as the Elders , in Rev. 5. 9. ,They fang a new fang, fay:ng, Thou art wets-by, c. for thou waft limn,- and haft ,redeemed us.- to God by thy blood. Oh thou art worthy ! Ó bleffed Saviour ! Hee Both not fay what, but onely thus, Thou -art worthy to take the book, and to open the feals thereof,, for thou wert Hain, and hafi redeemed us to God : There is infinite.worthinefs in Chrifi, and worthy hee is of all the'honour- that -wee are able potfibly to bring to him, had wee ten thoufand times more firength- than wee have to do it; For hee was Hain, and hash redeemed sse.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 flrefs of weather fallen to peeces, and they upon a plank, and ready to bee fwallowed up of every wave,, and there comes a flip by, and faves their lives, Oh how would They bee affe6led with fucha mercy as this ! and biefs God for his- goodnefs, that fuch a Chip should corne by at fuch a time;, wee had all been loa-if this Chip had not come by jufl -at this tiine: So when wee read the Gofpe!, wee read of Jefus Chrifl God-Man corn- ing into the world, and flanding between the wrath of the Infinite God, and finful fouls, let us then confider ,how infinitely wee- are bound to biefs God for Jefus Chrifi; for we were ready even _all of us to bee (wallowed up into the botromlefs gulf of the wrath of the infinite God; the waves of Gods infinite wrath; were ready to have covered over all man- kinde, onely the Lord Jefus Chrifi cornes, 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 Wier fouls, and to Cave them : -13lefs wee God then for Jefus Chrifl , conhdering that the lots of, fouls is fuch a dread- ful
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