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

2. It must needs be of grace because Christ made himself an expiatory atonement and sacrifice for our sins; God made our iniquities to meet upon him, Isa. 53. yea, he was made a curse for our sakes, so that the doing away of our iniquities is wholly of grace to us, for that was Christs work, he undertook this load, which would have crushed us into the lowest hell; If he that was God as well as man did yet sweat drops of blood under this Agony, and cried out, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? If the green Tree burn thus what shall the dry do? For thee therefore to think by thy tears and Repentance to expiate thy sin is wholly to mistake the necessity of Christ a Mediator; This is to put an Atlas his burden upon a Pygmies shoulder; See what the weight of sin did upon Cain and Judas? though they would have given a world, yet they could not obtain the lest drop of water to ease their spirits, but like Dives were tormented in hell while here on earth; Oh then that wicked men would consider more, they lay load upon load, but who at last shall take it off; Thou thinkest not that though sin for the present be sweet, yet it hath an eternal sting with it; What wilt thou do when at last thou shalt cry out with Cain, My sin is greater then I can bear.

2. It must needs be of grace because Christ made himself an expiatory atonement and sacrifico for our sinnes; God made our iniquities to meet upon him, Isa. 53. yea, he was made a curse for our sakes, so that the doing away of our iniquities is wholly of grace to us, for that was Christs work, he undertook this load, which would have crushed us into the lowest hell; If he that was God as well as man did yet sweat drops of bloud under this Agony, and cried out, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? If the green Tree burn thus what shall the dry do? For thee therefore to think by thy tears and Repentance to expiate thy sinne is wholly to mistake the necessity of Christ a Mediatour; This is to put an Atlas his burthen upon a Pigmies shoulder; See what the weight of sin did upon Cain and Judas? though they would have given a world, yet they could not obtain the lest drop of water to ease their spirits, but like Dives were tormented in hell while here on earth; Oh then that wicked men would consider more, they lay load upon load, but who at last shall take it off; Thou thinkest not that though sin for the present be sweet, yet it hath an eternal sting with it; What wilt thou do when at last thou shalt cry out with Cain, My sinne is greater then I can bear.