Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

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. ⟨p. 96⟩O, who ever loved thee at that rate Christ hath done? Who would endure that misery that Christ did endure for thy sake? Would thy Father, or the Wife of thy bosom, or thy Friend that is as thy own soul, be content to feel that for thee (though but one hour) which Christ felt when his sweat was as it had been great drops of Blood falling down to the ground! Nay, thou wouldst never taste such a cup for the saving of thine own Child, as Christ drank off, when he cried, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Behold how he loved thee?

First: If there be found among you ¹any that are sensible of a stony hard heart which cannot relent and mourn ⟨p. 95⟩