The Fountain of Life Opened

First, This phrase, [I sanctify my self] implies the personal union of the two natures in Christ. For what is that which he here calls himself, but the same that was consecrated to be a ⟨p. 71⟩Sacrifice; even his humane nature? This was the sacrifice. And this also was himself. So the Apostle speaks, Heb. 9.14. He through the eternal Spirit, offered up himself to God, without Spot. So that our nature by that assumption, is become himself. Greater honour cannot be done it. Or a greater ground of comfort proposed to us. But having spoken of that union in the former Sermon, I shall remit the Reader thither.

First, This phrase, [I sanctifie my self] implys the personal union of the two natures in Christ. For what is that which he here calls himself, but the same that was consecrated to be a ⟨p. 71⟩Sacrifice; even his humane nature? This was the sacrifice. And this also was himself. So the Apostle speaks, Heb. 9.14. He through the eternal Spirit, offered up himself to God, without Spot. So that our nature by that assumption, is become himself. Greater honour cannot be done it. Or a greater ground of comfort proposed to us. But having spoken of that union in the former Sermon, I shall remit the Reader thither.

Secondly, This sanctifying or consecrating himself to be a Sacrifice for us, implies the greatness and dreadfulness of that breach which sin made betwixt God and us. You see no less Sacrifice than Christ himself, must be sanctified, to make atonement. Judge of the greatness of the wound, by the breadth of the plaster. Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt offering for sin, thou wouldst not, but a body hast thou prepared me,