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

2ly. Its excellency and efficacy appears in this; That it hath procured these things, to sinners, to them that had an unclean and polluted Conscience; for who is it, I pray, that may thus draw near to God with full assurance of faith? It is not such as never had an evil Conscience, but such as having an evil Conscience, flee unto this blood, and get it sprinkled therewith; its these who had their Consciences defiled with dead works; and came to it, and got them purged from these dead works. 3ly. The excellency and efficacy of it shines forth in the tenderness of the Person, that applies the remedy to such a loathsome sickness, and otherwayes insutable disease, or by any other hand but Christs; Having ⟨p. 366⟩[…] ⟨p. 367⟩[…] ⟨p. 368⟩(sayeth the Apostle) such an high Priest over the house of God, •et us draw near; The Physician is Jesus Christ himself, his blood is the cure; and he also is the applier of the cure; and O! how very tender, dexterous and sympathizing is he: he even excels in such cures to admiration; He is a high Priest that is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and higher then the heavens; (He is holy and harmless himself, he loves these qualities, and is able and willing to work them in these that come to him) and such an high Priest became us, He is one that hath compassion on the ignorant, and such as are out of the way; who was in all points tempted as we, yet without sin; That he may from his own experience the more kindly and strongly sympathize with his People, and succour them in all their temptations; an high Priest, that is touched with the feeling of their infirmities; The a•king of the least finger, or toe in his mystical body, stounds, up as it were, to the very heart of him who is the head thereof, And Chap. 2. It behoved him to be made like to his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high Priest, &c. 4ly. The excellency and efficacy of it appears in this, even in the exceeding great freeness of his applying this cure; There is no more required, but to come and receive it; to come, however unclean, and be sprinkled with his blood; to confess the debt of guilt, and draw out an extract of the discharge, by virtue of his payment thereof; And if there be any pollution in the Conscience, any challenge, or sore, whatever it be, he furnisheth the remedy and cure freely and frankly.