452 Obfer. z z Cor.Ç.i a ROIII.6.I I . CHAY.S. .itt Expofitiott vpou the firf!` VER., 9, ro. In which words we are to confider, firfl, their Scope : fecondly, Quiffs Faff, He died for vs ; thirdly, the end and fruit of his death, Mat wee might litte together with The Scope istoperfwade to care of holineffc by this as a Second reafon, becaufe Chrifl died for vs. The Ob- feruation is this : Chri/ls death is as well an in/IruElion to holineffe, a! meritorious of faluation. Paul learned from thence,to litre not to himfelfe, 2. but to the glory of him that- diedfor him : and propounds it, as matter aof myflicall imitation to all Gods people. Well weighed, how forci- ble incenriues affords it toholinef e? Firtl, it moll lively fits out the horror and haynouf- netIè olGnne, and the fierceneffe of Gods wrath again!} it, more an all Iudgements God euer executed upon the world the vngodly. They are fearful! Judge- ments, andto a trembled at, that we are remembred of by Peter and lode ; the downe -fall of Angels, drow- ning ofthe old world, firing ofSodóme and Gomorrhe, &c. and luch,as ferioully mcdtratec ,cannot,me thinkes, but make vs tremble and crake: But of evidences of Gods wrath againfl finne, none like this, the death of his Sonne; if we confider, &ifl, how deare he was to-his Fa- ther; fecondly, how excellent his Perlon ; thirdly, how bitter and full of Agonie his Paflion ,Fourthly, how hey, harmele fe,.feparate from. nners, himjelfe was in himjelfc; knowing no finne by experience, or perfoirall praaife, but vndergoing.onely the punifhment due to finnes of his Chofen. Euery of chafe circumflances in the death of Chrifl, let forth Sinne to vs in his colours, and Should make vs 'wean our felues enemies to the wor.kes of I árkneife. Secondly, In it we fee the wonderfullbeindíiat»teaftira- blelo»e.of .Cbrtfl to our fouler, which pafetb knowledge ; a c comp /fory argument to P A v ., toliae /o the glory of bts Redeemer. . Bph.;.ig. How:
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