Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

Now that all Sacrifices were Types of Christ, through whom only they had their virtue and efficacy, is confessed by all Christians: Thus Christ was a Lamb slain from the foundation of the World: ¹And the Christian when affected with his sin, and desirous to be reconciled to God, whom by his sin he hath provoked, lays the hand of his Faith upon Christ, and humbly begs that Christ's Death for him may be accepted instead of his own, which he had deserved. But now (to give a further illustration of my Text and Subject) if he pleads (though for Christ's sake) for pardon of sin, and yet retains a love and liking to his sin; if he desires never so earnestly that he may not dye for sin, and yet is willing that his sin may live, these are vain Oblations, vain Prayers, but most real and dreadful provocations. There is a [Greek or Hebrew], a Beast within us, which we must kill, I mean every corruption, or no Sacrifice (no, not of the Lamb of God himself,) will be accepted for us; Habes in te, quod occidas. Every Man hath some sin or other within him (nay, a whole body of sin,) which he must slay, by at least a sincere continued endeavour, or all Legal and Gospel sacrifices too in the World will not avail him: we must mortify the deeds of the flesh, ²or we cannot live.

Now that all Sacrifices were Types of Christ, thrô whom only they had their virtue and efficacy, is confessed by all Christians: Thus Christ was a Lamb slain from the foundation of the World: ¹And the Christian when affected with his sin, and desirous to be reconciled to God, whom by his sin he hath provok'd, layes the hand of his Faith upon Christ, and humbly beggs that Christ's Death for him may be accepted instead of his own, which he had deserved. But now (to give a further illustration of my Text and Subject) if he pleads (thô for Christ's sake) for pardon of sin, and yet retains a love and liking to his sin; if he desires never so earnestly that he may not dye for sin, and yet is willing that his sin may live, these are vain Oblations, vain Prayers, but most real and dreadfull provocations. There is a 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a Beast within us, which we must kill, I mean every corruption, or no Sacrifice (no, not of the Lamb of God himself,) will be accepted for us; Habes in te, quod occidas. Every Man hath some sin or other within him (nay, a whole body of sin,) which he must slay, by at least a sincere continued endeavour, or all Legal and Gospel sacrifices too in the World will not avail him: we must mortifie the deeds of the flesh,