And when he comes to win Men to Repentance and to Christ, see how he Writes, in particular in that excellent short Treatise, the choicest piece I think that ever he wrote, I am sure a piece that hath long ago worked more on my own Heart then most, if not then any that ever I read, and which I have cause to thank God that ever I saw: I mean his Treat. of the Right Knowledge of Christ Crucified in the first Vol. of his Works, Page 626, &c. I will transcribe some passages Page 626. When he hath showed that we must feel the need of Christ, and desire him, he adds [The ad. Part of knowledge is Application (every Man is bound to apply Christ) whereby thou must know and believe, not only that Christ was Crucified, but that he was Crucified for thee, for thee I say in particular. Here two rules must be remembered and practised, one that Christ on the Cross was thy pledge and surety in particular, that he stood there in the very room and place in which thou thy self in thy own person shouldest have stood: That thy very personal and particular Sins were imputed and applied to him: That he ⟨p. 177⟩stood guilty as a Malefactor for them, and suffered the very Pangs of Hell: And that his sufferings are as much in acceptation with God as if thou hadst born the curse of the Law in thy own person eternally. The holding and believing of this point is the very foundation of Religion, as also of the Church of God, &c. The 2d. Rule is, that Christ Crucified is thine, being really given thee of God the Father; even as truly as Houses and Lands are given of Earthly Fathers to their Children: And hence it is that the benefits of Christ are before God ours indeed, for our justification and Salvation] and Page 630. [First of all, the serious consideration of this, that the very Son of God himself suffered all the pains and torments of Hell on the Cross for our Sins, is the proper and most effectual means to stir up our Hearts to a godly sorrow for them. And that this thing may come to pass, every Man must be settled without doubt that he was the Man that Crucified Christ; that he is to be blamed as well as Judas, Herod, Pilate, or the Jews, and that his Sins should be the Nails, the Spears and the Thorns that pierced him. When this meditation begins to take place, bitterness of Spirit with Wailing and Mourning takes place in like manner, Zach 12. 10.
And when he comes to win Men to Repentance and to Christ, see how he Writes, in particular in that excellent short Treatise, the choicest piece I think that ever he wrote, I am sure a piece that hath long agoe workt more on my own Heart then most, if not then any that ever I read, and which I have cause to thank God that ever I saw: I mean his Treat. of the Right Knowledg of Christ Crucified in the first Vol. of his Works, Page 626, &c. I will transcribe some passages Page 626. When he hath shewed that we must feel the need of Christ, and desire him, he adds [The ad. Part of knowledg is Application (every Man is bound to apply Christ) whereby thou must know and believe, not only that Christ was Crucified, but that he was Crucified for thee, for thee I say in particular. Here two rules must be remembred and practised, one that Christ on the Cross was thy pledg and surety in particular, that he stood there in the very room and place in which thou thy self in thy own person shouldest have stood: That thy very personal and particular Sins were imputed and applied to him: That he ⟨p. 177⟩stood guilty as a Malefactor for them, and suffered the very Pangs of Hell: And that his sufferings are as much in acceptation with God as if thou hadst born the curse of the Law in thy own person eternally. The holding and believing of this point is the very foundation of Religion, as also of the Church of God, &c. The 2d. Rule is, that Christ Crucified is thine, being really given thee of God the Father; even as truly as Houses and Lands are given of Earthly Fathers to their Children: And hence it is that the benefits of Christ are before God ours indeed, for our justification and Salvation] and Page 630. [First of all, the serious consideration of this, that the very Son of God himself suffered all the pains and torments of Hell on the Cross for our Sins, is the proper and most effectual means to stir up our Hearts to a godly sorrow for them. And that this thing may come to pass, every Man must be setled without doubt that he was the Man that Crucified Christ; that he is to be blamed as well as Judas, Herod, Pilate, or the Jews, and that his Sins should be the Nails, the Spears and the Thorns that pierced him. When this meditation begins to take place, bitterness of Spirit with Wailing and Mourning takes place in like manner, Zach 12. 10.
