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

Fourthly, Though Christ did but once offer up himself, ¹yet the virtue and power of it doth abide for ever; It's not necessary that Christ should be always dying, therefore he is said to be a Priest for ever, yea, this Death of Christ did extend to all the Godly that lived before his Sufferings; Abel, Abraham, and all in the Old Testament, had no other Sacrifice to please God with, but this; It is noted by a Learned man, that therefore Cains Sacrifice was not accepted because he did not as Abel, offer such a propitiatory Sacrifice as was a Type of Christ, but rested in his own duties and works; yea, it's thought God by covering Adams nakedness with skins of Beasts, did thereby teach Christs Righteousness; Look then upon the blood of Christ as powerfully working, as if to day he had been crucified; It works as a moral Cause by Covenant and agreement with the Father, and therefore it doth as strongly work as ever,

Fourthly, Though Christ did but once offer up himself, ¹yet the vertue and power of it doth abide for ever; It's not necessary that Christ should be alwaies dying, therefore he is said to be a Priest for ever, yea, this Death of Christ did extend to all the Godly that lived before his Sufferings; Abel, Abraham, and all in the Old Testament, had no other Sacrifice to please God with, but this; It is noted by a Learned man, that therefore Cains Sacrifice was not accepted because he did not as Abel, offer such a propitiatory Sacrifice as was a Type of Christ, but rested in his own duties and works; yea, it's thought God by covering Adams nakednesse with skins of Beasts, did thereby teach Christs Righteousnesse; Look then upon the bloud of Christ as powerfully working, as if to day he had been crucified; It works as a morall Cause by Covenant and agreement with the Father, and therefore it doth as strongly work as ever,

1. 1IV. The virtue of his Sacrifice abides for ever.IV. The vertue of his Sacrifice abides for ever.