CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Now there are very good grounds why we should be thus insisting upon this Subject.

For 1. It's the main scope and end of the whole Scripture; If you ask why the Word of God was written, the Answer is, That the chief principal end was,¹ that man being convinced of his sin and of the utter impotency of any righteousness in himself or other Creatures, should fly unto Christs Righteousness as the only Sanctuary; Thus John, These things are written that believing you might have eternal life, All the Administrations in the Old Testament were Types of Christ, as the Apostle in the Epistle to the Hebrews, doth at large open their meaning; It was not their Sacrifices but Christ, It was not the blood of Rams and Goats, but Christs blood; Hence it's said that Moses and the Prophets bear witness of Christ; It's true the Scripture hath many other subordinate ends, but the chief is to direct us to Christ, to make us see that nothing in the world can pacify God for our sins but Christ; Oh then how necessary must that be which all the Penmen of the Scripture aimed at, Moses, David, all the Prophets; They looked at this Messiah; And the New Testament is wholly spent in describing his person and his Office, or the end of his coming into the world; Oh then whatsoever thou mayest be ignorant of or negligent in, yet give thy self to the studying, meditating, and believing of this Subject.

For 1. It's the main scope and end of the whole Scripture; If you ask why the Word of God was written, the Answer is, That the chief principal end was,¹ that man being convinced of his sinne and of the utter impotency of any righteousnesse in himself or other Creatures, should fly unto Christs Righteousnesse as the onely Sanctuary; Thus John, These things are written that beleeving you might have eternal life, All the Administrations in the Old Testament were Types of Christ, as the Apostle in the Epistle to the Hebrews, doth at large open their meaning; It was not their Sacrifices but Christ, It was not the bloud of Rams and Goats, but Christs bloud; Hence it's said that Moses and the Prophets bear witnesse of Christ; It's true the Scripture hath many other subordinate ends, but the chief is to direct us to Christ, to make us see that nothing in the world can pacifie God for our sinnes but Christ; Oh then how necessary must that be which all the Penmen of the Scripture aimed at, Moses, David, all the Prophets; They looked at this Messias; And the New Testament is wholly spent in describing his person and his Office, or the end of his coming into the world; Oh then whatsoever thou maist be ignorant of or negligent in, yet give thy self to the studying, meditating, and beleeving of this Subject.