Plet(Quo fait 379 flir up forrow in any that had a fenfe of it; much more to look upon a Chrifl, a Creator bleeding and dying upon a Crofs ; to the leafi drop of whole Paiiion the Lilting down of a World is a poor inconlderable nothing. To look upon the broken Tables of a Law dearer to God than Heaven and Earth is very grie- vous ; but to Band and fee God for our Sin bruifing and breaking his own Son and Effen- tial Image in our affirmed Nature, is matter of amazing forrow. Never was Sin let forth in fuch bloody Colours as in his Patlion ; ne- ver do repentant tears flow more purely than at filch a fped acle. Here the Heart breaks in its doling with a broken Chrifl, and bleeds a- frefh over his Wounds, and turns the Sacra- ment of the Supper into a Baptifn of Tearr; and out of an holy hatred and revenge would have the violence done to Chrift be put upon Sin the great Crucifier of him in the true Mortification thereof. As a Spirit cf Faith it caufes us to live upon Chrift:Having no Righ- teoufnefs of our own to añfwer the Law with, we feat{ and fatisfie our felves in the Righte- oufnefs of Chrifl; as in that which fatisfied the heart of God, and is here made over to fatisfie ours. We may furely fay, The Righte- oufnefs of God is upm us ; and as it bath no fpot or wrinkle in it felf,fo it leaves no ground of fcruple or jealoufie in our Hearts in the midfl of our Sins, which have Death and Hell virtually in them. We yet live upon the ato- ning Sacrifice of Çhrifl. His Blood which was offer.
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