A believer doth not eat a bit of bread, but he hath it by virtue of the purchase of Christ; Christ hath bought all good for us, and Christ hath bought us out of all evil. Christ hath not only purchased deliverance from hell, and salvation in heaven for us, but he hath purchased deliverance from a sick bed, and freedom from bondage to men for us. (Zech. 9.11.) As for thee also (saith the Lord) by the blood of thy Covenant (that is, the Covenant which I have made with thee) I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein was no water; that is, from the Babylonish captivity. The Jews were delivered from corporal slavery, as well as spiritual, by the blood of Jesus Christ, and so are the Covenant people of God to this day. The blood of the Covenant serves to all purposes; for the good things of this life, as well as of that which is to come. Nothing else can do us good to purpose, or deliver us from evil but the blood of Christ. (Ps. 49.7, 8.) They that trust in their wealth, & boast themselves in the multitude of their riches, none ⟨p. 413⟩of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him. In some cases, as Solomon saith, (Prov. 13.8.) The ransom of a mans life are his riches. As a mans riches do often endanger his life (all the fault of some men for which they have suffered as deep as death, hath been only this, they were rich) so a man by his riches may redeem his forfeited or endangered life, he may buy off the wrath of man, and so ransom his life by his riches. But all the riches in the world cannot buy his life out of the hand of sickness; though a man would lay out all his substance, and spend all that he hath upon Physicians (as the poor woman in the Gospel did) yet that could not do it. We need the blood of Jesus Christ to help us out of a sick bed, and from temporal sufferings as well as from hell and everlasting sufferings. And the more spiritual any are, the more they have recourse to the blood of Christ for all they would have, whether it be freedom from this or that evil, or enjoyment of this or that good.
A beleever doth not eate a bit of bread, but he hath it by vertue of the purchase of Christ; Christ hath bought all good for us, and Christ hath bought us out of all evill. Christ hath not only purchast deliverance from hell, and salvation in heaven for us, but he hath purchast deliverance from a sick bed, and freedome from bondage to men for us. (Zech. 9.11.) As for thee also (saith the Lord) by the blood of thy Covenant (that is, the Covenant which I have made with thee) I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein was no water; that is, from the Babylonish captivity. The Jewes were delivered from corporall slavery, as well as spirituall, by the blood of Jesus Christ, and so are the Covenant people of God to this day. The blood of the Covenant serves to all purposes; for the good things of this life, as well as of that which is to come. Nothing else can do us good to purpose, or deliver us from evill but the blood of Christ. (Ps. 49.7, 8.) They that trust in their wealth, & boast themselves in the multitude of their riches, none ⟨p. 413⟩of them can by any meanes redeeme his brother, nor give to God a ransome for him. In some cases, as Solomon saith, (Prov. 13.8.) The ransome of a mans life are his riches. As a mans riches doe often endanger his life (all the fault of some men for which they have suffered as deep as death, hath been only this, they were rich) so a man by his riches may redeeme his forfeited or endangered life, he may buy off the wrath of man, and so ransome his life by his riches. But all the riches in the world cannot buy his life out of the hand of sickness; though a man would lay out all his substance, and spend all that he hath upon Physitians (as the poor woman in the Gospel did) yet that could not doe it. We need the blood of Jesus Christ to help us out of a sick bed, and from temporall sufferings as well as from hell and everlasting sufferings. And the more spirituall any are, the more they have recourse to the blood of Christ for all they would have, whether it be freedome from this or that evill, or enjoyment of this or that good.