Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

But my business rather lies in improving this point, than endeavouring farther to unfold it; for new wonders will appear in Christ, if we behold him to Eternity.

And all the improvement I shall ¹make of it shall be in one use of Exhortation, bespeaking every one of you what ever your present condition and estate be, to behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. And

1. 1Use.

First: If there be found among you ¹any that are sensible of a stony hard heart which cannot relent and mourn ⟨p. 95⟩for all the wrong done to Jesus Christ by sin, whose affections are benumbed and stupefied by sin; so that no considerations they can urge upon their own hearts, are able to thaw them, & cause a relenting pang for sin. To such I would direct the words of this Text, as the most effectual means to melt such hearts. Look hither hard heart, Behold the Lamb of God. Consider, believe and apply what is here sensibly represented, and thy heart is hard indeed if it relent not upon such a view of Christ. It's said Zech. 12. 10. They shall look upon me, whom they have pierced, and mourn. Behold the Son of God brought as a Lamb to the Slaughter for thee a vile polluted Sinner: Behold the invaluable Blood of this Sacrifice shed for thee: Bring thy thoughts close to this subject; think who it is that was made a Lamb for Sacrifice, for whom he endured all his unspeakable sufferings, how meekly and willingly he endured all the wrath of God and men; standing in his perfect Innocency to be slain for thee: Behold, he was made sin for thee, who had no sin; that thou who hadst no Righteousness, mightst be made the Righteousness of God in him.