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

¹Use 3. of Invitation, Even to great and grievous sinners to bewail their Iniquities, and to come in to Christ; For even your case is not desperate; Seeing we have such a Mediator, if Christ be truly apprehended what he is, all our sins will be no more to him then the Earth to Heaven; It's a long while ere the Law hath its due efficacy upon many sinners; They bless themselves when God curseth them, They acquit themselves when the Law condemneth them; But when once their hearts are mastered, and they feel the wounds of sin whether they will or no; Then it's as hard to direct them to this Mediator; Then they think their sins greater not only then they can bear, but then Christ can or at least will bear; Then the thoughts of the Multitude and bloody aggravations of them are so great that they see no way but Hell and Damnation before ⟨p. 227⟩them; Oh let such consider what this Mediator is, who is sufficient to save to the uttermost; That he is more able to justify then the first Adam to condemn; Let them remember how well-pleasing it is to throw our selves into the Arms of Christ; That he will not in any wise cast out those that come to him, That he will not break the bruised Reed, nor quench the smoking Flax.

¹Ʋse 3. of Invitation, Even to great and grievous sinners to bewail their Iniquities, and to come in to Christ; For even your case is not desperate; Seeing we have such a Mediatour, if Christ be truely apprehended what he is, all our sinnes will be no more to him then the Earth to Heaven; It's a long while ere the Law hath its due efficacy upon many sinners; They blesse themselves when God curseth them, They acquit themselves when the Law condemneth them; But when once their hearts are mastered, and they feel the wounds of sinne whether they will or no; Then it's as hard to direct them to this Mediatour; Then they think their sinnes greater not onely then they can bear, but then Christ can or at least will bear; Then the thoughts of the Multitude and bloudy aggravations of them are so great that they see no way but Hell and Damnation before ⟨p. 227⟩them; Oh let such consider what this Mediatour is, who is sufficient to save to the uttermost; That he is more able to justifie then the first Adam to condemn; Let them remember how well-pleasing it is to throw our selves into the Arms of Christ; That he will not in any wise cast out those that come to him, That he will not break the bruised Reed, nor quench the smoaking Flax.