The souls exaltation A treatiseThe soules exaltation A treatise

only remember this here, when you find your sins roaring upon you, and telling your Father that you have sinned, and justice cries, and hell threatens, then take the blood of Christ, and see before your eyes all that ever Christ hath suffered, and see justice fully satisfied, and hear the blood of Christ speaking, as well as the clamours of sin: it is the misery that we are in, that we can here the bawlings of Satan, and of corruption, crying and saying, what, you salvation, and yet have these and these corruptions? we hear these, and we hearken not to the other; ⟨p. 305⟩the blood of Christ hath pardoned all, and will cleanse all: Oh hear that voice, and you shall see and hear that it speaks admirable things: this is the second use.

onely remember this here, when you finde your sins roaring upon you, and telling your Father that you have sinned, and justice cries, and hell threatens, then take the blood of Christ, and see before your eyes all that ever Christ hath suffered, and see justice fully satisfied, and heare the blood of Christ speaking, as well as the clamours of sinne: it is the misery that we are in, that we can here the bawlings of Satan, and of corruption, crying and saying, what, you salvation, and yet have these and these corruptions? we heare these, and we hearken not to the other; ⟨p. 305⟩the blood of Christ hath pardoned all, and will cleanse all: Oh heare that voyce, and you shall see and heare that it speakes admirable things: this is the second use.

Use 3 Thirdly, hath Christ done all this? then stand amazed at that endless and boundless love of the Lord Jesus Christ, but only that the Scripture cannot lie, and God hath said which is faithful and true, and cannot be deceived, and is infinite in all his works; otherwise, man that is sensible of his sins and wants could not believe it, but yet Christ hath done it, and it is worth the while to weigh it, and to consider of it in a holy admiration: although we are not able to walk in any measure answerable thereto: had our Saviour only sent his creatures to serve us, and had we only had some Prophets to advise us in the way to Heaven, or had he only sent his holy Angels from his chamber of presence to attend upon us, and minister to us, it had been a great deal of mercy; or had Christ come down from the heavens to visit us: It had been a peculiar favour, that a King will not only send to the Prison, but go himself to the lungeon, and ask, saying, is such a man here: a man would think himself strangely honoured, and the world would wonder at it, and say, the King himself came to the prison to day to see such a man, certainly he loves him dearly; or had Christ himself come only and wept over us, and said, Oh that you had never sinned, and oh that you had more considered of my goodness, and the excellency