Rutherford - HP BS2575 .4 R975 1743

SEi. to TriumphofFaiih rif1.1 this Day, above fixteen hundred ~ears, the Jews are guilty Murderers, though the1r Fathers, who jtew the Lord of·Gtory, be dead. This Cain is a Murderer, 1udas a Traitor, and fhall be fo long as God fridllive and be God. Now, without Jhedding of Chrift's Blood, there is no Rem\ffion of fins, Heb. ix, . 2.2 To be ,delivered from eternal Debt, and entitled to a}l ·eternal Kim!dom, is a Life moft deftrable~ and maketh the Sinner to fiand in the Books of Chrift, as the eternally engaged Debtor ef Grace. The young Heirs know your Bleffednefs aright : Sinners under eternal Debt ; you· lat.1gh, fport, rejoice : And you are FirebrandsofWrath: You go finging, and fhaking, and tinkling your Bolts and Fetters of black and unmixed Vengeance : Alas ! bow can you fleep ~How can you laugh and fing ~ BA '.1 the Crumbs.] The Dogs defire bnt the leaft, aud (to fpeak fo) the Refufe of Ghrifto Dott. The meanefl and worfl 'Tbinr,s of Chrift (to fpeak fo) are incomparably to be de.fired a1 bove att r'bings. 1 • . Any Thing ofChrift isdefireable; but to lay hold on the Skirt of a .7ew. Zach. x. 2 3· B~caufe CF!rift that ;s wirh-him is good. Yea, the Duft of Zion i~ a Thing that the· Servants of God take pleafiue in, Pj'at. cii. 14. The ,Dufl: and Stones , of Zion are not like the Earth; and the Mules of the holy Grave, as Papifls fondly dream, and are but Earth ; but becaufe the Lord Chrift dwelleth there, therefore are they defirable. The People carried their old Harps to Yiabtylon with th~m, and 1ofeph's Bones muft be carried out of E,fl;ypt to C(maan : Why 1 Canaan was Chrift's Land, his Dwelling: Why? but \Ve are to love the Ground that Chrift's Feet Q_ 4 ~~cad-- ..

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