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

Eighthly, The purity of the Sacrifice is not to be forgotten; He is called the pure and spotless Lamb, 1 Pet. 1.19. As it behoved us to have a Priest without sin,¹ So a Sacrifice without any defect, otherwise that Sacrifice would have needed another, and so there would have been no end; Therefore though all we can offer which is ours be full of blemishes, yet when we present Christ by Faith, then there is no fault to be found.

Eighthly, The purity of the Sacrifice is not to be forgotten; He is called the pure and spotlesse Lamb, 1 Pet. 1.19. As it behoved us to have a Priest without sinne,¹ So a Sacrifice without any defect, otherwise that Sacrifice would have needed another, and so there would have been no end; Therefore though all we can offer which is ours be full of blemishes, yet when we present Christ by Faith, then there is no fault to be found.

1. 1VIII. The purity of it.

Lastly, The virtue of this Sacrifice is to make us like Christ himself;¹ he thinketh it not enough to be King and Priest himself, but he maketh us also Kings and Priests for ever; We offer up Prayers and Praises to him, and by him we conquer all our spiritual Enemies, The devil and our lusts are subdued, Such glory have all they that are partakers of this Sacrifice.

Lastly, The vertue of this Sacrifice is to make us like Christ himself;¹