to the E P H E S I A N S. -:~~e word lignifieth d,,JJ1•~<· He will have them bought; What I ,...._,'-"'""' ~ive I give, faith he, what I fdll fell •. I wlil fell the1r falvauon, and I W11lfell Ser. VIII. it to the uttermofl:, I will haveaful pnce lor 11; 1011 arebo11ght Wtth aprrce,fa:th ~ the Apo{Ue, over bought : And 1 Ttm. 2. 6. it is called .d,1i>."i"• nnadequa1e p•·ice, a price that 1f you we1gh tt 10 the Balla~ce lt IS heavy , tt we1ghs down the other it is fuffic1ent for tt, tt was a full pnce. In Rom. >· 24- and fo on. you {hall fi~d there that when God came to jufl:ific a !inner, he faith he WJ !I be j 11 JI too, I would fain fave the finner butl would be jufl: too; th'ercfore he will have a price a full pnce, and therefore lt IS called RedemptJ01l 6y prrce. But wha;i1meant by his Blood'! His Blood is only mentioned not that his ACtive obedience doth not go into it: Take all Chrin, good Brethren : But be- ' caufe his Blood was the Ian part of the payment, that c•ncelled all the Bond therefore his Blood is fiill mentioned in Scripture. And Ius Blood is more men– tioned than theother; Why ? to anfwer the expreflion of the Type io the Old Law; there was thebloodpot~redout,you know, and there was 61ood laid11po" the homs of the Altar, and all tlungs were {prmkled WJth blood. What did the blood ftgnifie in the Old Tefiament? Blood 10 the Old Tefiament lignified the foul of the beafi; faith he, the life of 1t, orthe foul of tt lteth tn the blood. So in the New Tefiament f1:1ll the 6/ood of Chrif/1s menuoned, to fign1fie tke fuf– ferings of his Soul ; and it is mentioned too to anfwer the Type. In the Lord's Supper you have Brrad, to figmfie the brealung of hts Body, but you lhalllind that he afcribeth more peculiarly his fufftrings to h1s Blood, iigmfied by the Wi?Je, to reprefent the li.tfferings of his Soul, and therefore his foul is faid to be poured forth. Fall down (my Brethren) beforetheLordJefusChrif1:; Thou art wor– thy to receive a/J bo11o"r audglory, for thotl haft redremed us to God by thy blood, fay the Angels and Saints, Revel. )· 9· · So much tor the Price. What is the fruir of it? (Which is the Fourth head.) Forgivmefs of (ins. What fins? Look in the Colof[. 2, 1 ~· Havi11,g /urgivm a!IJ'OtJr TrefPaffis; All, pafl:, prefent and to come. He retainerh fin in your Confciences, to humble you, to break you, and when men are caf1: out of the Clturch,he then bindeth in Heaven upon their Confciences what i• bound on Earth; yet confidering you in Chrifi he forgiveth all fins,firikes offall at once by his blood. And what is this great bufinefs of the forgivmefs of ji11t? We that are poor Sinners, when we are firfi humbled and fee our fins, Oh, what a mercy is it that our finnvereforgi_venl True, but it is a fmall matter, my Brethren, forgivenefs of ji11s 1s, 1t IS buned 10 the foundauon, Heaven, Glory, Etermty, Communi– on with Chrif1: and God being all in all. I fay,it is but a fmall thing, it is but the foundation of'this great building,in Heaven all fins will be remembred no more, Yet we poor Souls (as we have reafon) we come to Chrifi for forgivenefs oflins tirf1:, and we do well as we are Sinners, he is the fittef1: Object for us as he is the Saviour of us from our fins; take him in his blood; but when we are come to Chrifl: once, you find perfect holinefs, you ~nd Adoption, Glory, Acceptarion in Ius perfon, you find m Ius perfon more than m all hts ben-efits, then in forgi venefs or whatfocver clfe. Laf\ly, what is the caufe he pefioweth all this? The riches of his Grace· Ac– cording (faith h~) to the richesof ?is gr.<ce. Grace, you muf1: know, /ignili– eth properly Gods freenefs mdomg tt; He bath ;ujltfitdus freely by his graa, Rora.)·24-Tberefore the love of God is called grace,becaufe it importerh a free– nefs of his love, and the m~rcy of God is called grace,becaufe it importeth a free– nefs of Ius mercy. Grace tstaken in the firf1: fenfe in the 6 verfe. It is taken in th~ fecond fenfe here in this 7verfe ; for the freenefs of lhewing mercy,for mercy referretl1 to forg1venefs. I 01all have occafion to handle thefe things, when I come to the fecond Chapterrhe 4, ), 6,7, vcrfes. In a word now Obferve what is the reafon, wheu he faid he did blefs w fir(/, it was to tht p•·aift of" theglory of his c~race ; when he fp~aks of t~e forgivenefs of fins, then comes in tbe rtches of hJS Grace. What IS the rcalon of this difference? p This
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