Secondly, we must remember the death of Christ, with a remembrance of thankfulness for that great love which by it we enjoy from him: certainly he hath no dram of good nature in him, who for the greatest benefit that can befall him doth not return a recompense of remembrance, awhich costs him nothing. Our salvation cost Christ a precious price, his own blood, and shall not we so much as lay up the memory of it in our minds, that we may have it forth-coming to answer all the objections that can be made against our title to salvation? consider with thy self the fearfulness and horror of thy natural estate, wherein thou wert exposed to the infinite wrath of Almighty God, whom thou therefore being both finite and impotent wert no way able to appease, subject to the strokes and terrors, not only of thine own Conscience, a bosom Hell, but of that most exact ⟨p. 142⟩justice, which it is as impossible for thee to sustain with patience, as with obedience, to satisfy. The creatures thine enemies thine own heart thy witness, thy Creator, thy Judge, eternity of expreslelesse anguish, gnawing of conscience, despair of deliverance, & whatsoever misery the most searching understanding can but imagine thy sentence, for according to his fear, so is his wrath, from this, and much more hath the death of Christ, not only delivered thee, but of a cast away, an enemy, a deplored wretch, weltering in thine own blood, rotting & stinking in thine own grave, hath restored thee not only to thine original interest, and patrimony, but unto an estate so much more glorious then that could have been, by how much the obedience of Christ, is more precious, then any thy innocency could possibly have performed. Consider the odious filthiness of sin, the pertinacious adherence thereof unto thy nature, so that nothing but the incarnation, and blood of the Son of God, the Creator of the World could wash it out; consider the Justice, and undispensable severity of our God against sin, which would not spare the life of his own Son, nor be satisfied without a Sacrifice of infinite, and coequal virtue with it self: consider that it was thy sin, which were thy associates with ⟨p. 143⟩Judas, and Pilate, and the Jews to crucify him:
Secondly, we must remember the death of Christ, with a remembrance of thankefulnes for that great love which by it wee enjoy from him: certainely he hath no dram of good nature in him, who for the greatest benefit that can befall him doth not returne a recompence of remembrance, awhich costs him nothing. Our salvation cost Christ a pretious price, his owne bloud, and shall not we so much as lay up the memory of it in our mindes, that wee may have it forth-comming to answer all the objections that can be made against our title to salvation? consider with thy selfe the fearefulnes and horror of thy naturall estate, wherin thou wert expos'd to the infinite wrath of Almighty God, whom thou therfore being both finite and impotent wert no way able to appease, subiect to the strokes and terrors, not onely of thine owne Conscience, a bosome Hell, but of that most exact ⟨p. 142⟩justice, which it is as impossible for thee to sustaine with patience, as with obedience, to satisfy. The creatures thine enemies thine owne heart thy witnes, thy Creator, thy Judge, eternity of expreslelesse anguish, gnawing of conscience, despaire of deliverance, & whatsoever misery the most searching understanding can but imagine thy sentence, for according to his feare, so is his wrath, from this, and much more hath the death of Christ, not onely delivered thee, but of a cast away, an enemy, a deplored wretch, weltring in thine owne bloud, rotting & stinking in thine owne grave, hath restored thee not only to thine originall interest, and patrimony, but unto an estate so much more glorious then that could have been, by how much the obedience of Christ, is more pretious, then any thy innocency could possibly have performed. Consider the odious filthines of sinne, the pertinacious adherence thereof unto thy nature, so that nothing but the incarnation, and bloud of the Sonne of God, the Creator of the World could wash it out; consider the Justice, and undispensable severity of our God against sinne, which would not spare the life of his owne Sonne, nor be satisfied without a Sacrifice of infinite, and coequall vertue with it selfe: consider that it was thy sinne, which were thy associates with ⟨p. 143⟩Iudas, and Pilate, and the Iewes to crucify him:
- aQui mem• •t sine impend•o gratu• est. Senec de Benef.
