Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

5. There is in it remission of sins; so saith Christ,¹ This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins, Remission of sins is attributed to Christ's death as a cause; it is not thy tears, or prayers, or rendings of heart that could pay the least farthing,² Without shedding of blood (saith the Apostle) there is no remission. God will have tears and blood also, though not for the same purpose; for all thy tears thou must fly to Christ only as the cause; it is true, thou must mourn, and pray, and humble thy self, but it's Christ's blood only that can wash us clean; Oh remember this! God will not pardon without satisfaction by the blood of Christ. And surely this makes Christ's death so desirable; Oh my sins afflict me, (cries many a one) Oh I am loathsome in mine own eyes, much more in Gods, surely God is offended with my dullness, slothfulness, and my thousand imperfections; I am all the day long entangled with this sin, and that sin, and the other sin; but let this contrite spirit look on Christ's death, and therein he may find all sin is pardoned: see here what an Argument is put into thy mouth from these sufferings of Christ, well mayest thou say, O Lord I am unworthy, but it is just and right that Christ obtain what he died for; ³O pardon my sins for his death's sake, and for his precious blood sake.

5. There is in it remission of sins; so saith Christ,¹ This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins, Remission of sins is attributed to Christ's death as a cause; it is not thy tears, or prayers, or rendings of heart that could pay the least farthing,² Without shedding of blood (saith the Apostle) there is no remission. God will have tears and blood also, though not for the same purpose; for all thy tears thou must flie to Christ only as the cause; it is true, thou must mourn, and pray, and humble thy self, but it's Christ's blood only that can wash us clean; Oh remember this! God will not pardon without satisfaction by the blood of Christ. And surely this makes Christ's death so desirable; Oh my sins afflict me, (cries many a one) Oh I am loathsome in mine own eyes, much more in Gods, surely God is offended with my dulness, slothfulness, and my thousand imperfections; I am all the day long entangled with this sin, and that sin, and the other sin; but let this contrite spirit look on Christ's death, and therein he may find all sin is pardoned: see here what an Argument is put into thy mouth from these sufferings of Christ, well mayest thou say, O Lord I am unworthy, but it is just and right that Christ obtain what he died for;