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

Sixthly, We are to Consider the certain success and prevalency of it; No sooner did the Messengers say Uriah was dead, but Davids anger was removed:¹ When the destroying Angel seeth this blood, he will pass by, if Moses his prayer could so much prevail with God, that he saith, Let me alone; and Lot was so accepted that the Angel cannot destroy Sodom till he be removed; Then how powerful and prevalent must Christs blood be.

Sixthly, We are to Consider the certain successe and prevalency of it; No sooner did the Messengers say Ʋriah was dead, but Davids anger was removed:¹ When the destroying Angel seeth this bloud, he will passe by, if Moses his praier could so much prevail with God, that he saith, Let me alone; and Lot was so accepted that the Angel cannot destroy Sodom till he be removed; Then how powerful and prevalent must Christs bloud be.

1. 1VI. It's prevalent with God.

Seventhly, This Sacrifice is that which Christ presents to his Father;¹ The Socinians would have Christ performing his Priestly Office only in Heaven, but it's plain he did it on earth, only what he once did, he constantly presents to his Father, and the minding of God with this is a far more efficacious thing, then that of the Rainbow, God when he beholds this will not again drown the world, and when he looketh on Christ will not condemn the humbled sinner. Therefore Christ is described Rev. 10. with a Rainbow upon his head, to signify as some think the pacificatory virtue that is in Christ.

Seventhly, This Sacrifice is that which Christ presents to his Father;