Heaven upon earth in the serene tranquillity and calm composure, in the sweet peace…

A▪ 3d. Ground of confirmation, is taken from the consideration of the excellency of Christ Jesus, and the efficacy of his blood; from the consideration of the excellency of the Person, who steps in, and […] his blood for a ransom, which being applied, the Conscience ought to be quiet, and should not (to speak so) have a face to lay any thing to the Believers charge: And this is pressed in these two Scriptures on these grounds; How much more shall the blood of Jesus Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge the conscience? In which words, we have three things to hold out the excellency of this sacrifice. 1. The excellency of the sacrifice it self; its a Sacrifice without spot; all these Sacrifices under the Law were but types of this Sacrifice, and there was always something to be said of them, which argued their imperfection; but no such thing can ⟨p. 349⟩be said of his, He was never polluted; by his wonderful conception, by the Holy Ghost, he was kept free from the least tincture, or touch of that pollution that all Adams Sons and Daughters (the Mother of the Lord not excepted) descending from him by ordinary generation are defiled with, and so was a sacrifice, against which severe justice, had nothing to object, being most exactly conform to the Law of God, to the Covenant of Redemption transacted betwixt Jehovah and the Mediator, on which this is mainly founded; but he was completely satisfied therewith, as we may see, Psal. 40. 6, 7• Where he is brought in saying, Sacrifice and offering, thou didst not desire; all these things were rejected, as having no equivalent value, or worth in them, for atoning and satisfying provoked divine justice, as is clear from the beginning of the following 10. Chap. and down-ward; Where the Apostle cites, improves and applies the words of the 40. Psalm; Then I said, lo, I come in the volume of thy book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O! my God; And sayeth he, v. 10. By which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus; The good will of God willing such a thing, and accepting thereof, makes that we are thus purged, and made clean.

A▪ 3d. Ground of con•irmation, is taken from the consideration of the excellency of Christ Jesus, and the efficacy of his blood; from the consideration of the excellency of the Person, who steps in, and his blood for a ransom, which being applyed, the Conscience ought to be quiet, and should not (to speak so) have a face to lay any thing to the Believers charge: And this is prest in these two Scriptures on these grounds; How much more shall the blood of Iesus Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge the conscience? In which words, we have three things to hold out the excellency of this sacrifice. 1. The excellency of the sacrifice it self; its a Sacrifice without spot; all these Sacrifices under the Law were but types of this Sacrifice, and there was alwayes something to be said of them, which argued their imperfection; but no such thing can