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6. There is in it reconciliation and peace with God, In Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ, for he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us. ¹—When we were enemies, we were reconciled unto God by the death of his Son—that he might reconcile both (viz. Jews and Gentiles) unto God in one body by the Cross.—And having made peace through the blood of his Cross, by him •o reconcile all things to himself. This certainly should admirably support the drooping soul; it may be thou criest, My sins have made a breach betwixt God and my soul; I have warred against heaven, and now God wars against me; and oh what odds? if the Lord be angry, yea, but a little; what will become of my poor soul? is a little stubble able to contend with the consuming fire? how then should I contend with God? but come now, and look on Christ's death as the means and meritorious cause of reconciliation, and thou canst not but say, O this death is desirable! When God the Father looks at a sinner in the bloody glass of Christ, then saith God, Oh now fury and wrath is not in me; I have no more quarrel or controversy with this soul: seeing Christ hath suffered, it is enough, I have as much as my justice can demand, my frowns are now turned into smiles, and my rod of iron into a Sceptre of grace. Why this is it that makes Christ's death and blood so desirable to the soul; what shall Jacob so rejoice in seeing Esau's face altered to him? shall he say to Esau, I have seen thy face, as the face of God? how much rather may the humble and believing sinner be filled with gladness, when through Christ's blood shall be thus appeased and reconciled with him?

6. There is in it reconciliation and peace with God, In Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ, for he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us. ¹—When we were enemies, we were reconciled unto God by the death of his Son—that he might reconcile both (viz. Jews and Gentiles) unto God in one body by the Cross.—And having made peace through the blood of his Cross, by him •o reconcile all things to himself. This certainly should admirably support the drooping soul; it may be thou cryest, My sins have made a breach betwixt God and my soul; I have warred against heaven, and now God wars against me; and oh what odds? if the Lord be angry, yea, but a little; what will become of my poor soul? is a little stubble able to contend with the consuming fire? how then should I contend with God? but come now, and look on Christ's death as the means and meritorious cause of reconciliation, and thou canst not but say, O this death is desirable! When God the Father looks at a sinner in the bloody glass of Christ, then saith God, Oh now fury and wrath is not in me; I have no more quarrel or controversie with this soul: seeing Christ hath suffered, it is enough, I have as much as my justice can demand, my frowns are now turned into smiles, and my rod of iron into a Scepter of grace. Why this is it that makes Christ's death and blood so desirable to the soul; what shall Jacob so rejoyce in seeing Esau's face altered to him? shall he say to Esau, I have seen thy face, as the face of God? how much rather may the humble and believing sinner be filled with gladness, when through Christ's blood shall be thus appeased and reconciled with him?