I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…

Hereby also, you will be engaged unto his Commandments, and Ordinances: For what are the Ordinances, which now we enjoy, but the Representation of a Suffering Christ, whereby we hold forth the Lords Death till he come? What is all our Preaching, and your Hearing, but of Christ crucified? What is Baptism, Lords Supper, or any other Ordinances, but that Bed wherein we have communion with a suffering Christ? and shall Christ suffer such bitter things for us in his Soul, and Body? and shall we throw up those Ordinances, whereby we are to have Communion with him in these Sufferings? God forbid.

Hereby also, you wil be engaged unto his Commandements, and Ordinances: For what are the Ordinances, which now we enjoy, but the Representation of a Suffering Christ, whereby we hold forth the Lords Death til he come? What is al our Preaching, and your Hearing, but of Christ crucified? What is Baptism, Lords Supper, or any other Ordinances, but that Bed wherein we have communion with a suffering Christ? and shal Christ suffer such bitter things for us in his Soul, and Body? and shal we throw up those Ordinances, whereby we are to have Communion with him in these Sufferings? God forbid.

And hereby also, you that are of a fearful heart, may fully conclude the willingness of God to save Sinners: For if God the Father had not been very willing, he would never have put his own only Son to so great a Suffering for their Salvation: What can be more abhorrent from the heart of a tender Father, than to put his own, only, and obedient Son, unto Death? it goes to the heart of a tender Father, to see his Child die (I will not see the death of the Child said Hagar) and she sate down over against him, and lift up her voice, ¹and wept) but to lay his own hands upon him, in reference to his Death, this is a grief beyond all expression: yet this did God the Father do, for he bruised his Son, he put him to grief, he smote him, and he laid on him the iniquities of us all. Surely, if God the Father had not been infinitely willing to save Sinners, he would never have done a thing so contrary to him: and if Christ himself were not willing, he would never have suffered such hard things for their Salvation. What is not a Woman