Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

He longed for it, and yet would not taste it, how pleasant soever it would have been to him, considering what hazard was run to obtain it.

Ah Christian, it was but the hazard of their Blood that gave cheque to David's appetite to the water; and if the water had cost an equal quantity of their blood, yet it had been but a low argument to dissuade him from drinking it, to this consideration that now ⟨p. 98⟩lies before thee. Thy sin actually cost the Blood of Christ, one drop whereof is more valuable than all humane blood; and yet wilt thou not deny thy Lusts, nor resist a temptation for his sake? Behold the Lamb of God slain for thy sin, and thou canst never have slight thoughts of it any more.

Ah Christian, it was but the hazard of their Blood that gave cheque to David's appetite to the water; and if the water had cost an equal quantity of their blood, yet it had been but a low argument to disswade him from drinking it, to this consideration that now ⟨p. 98⟩lies before thee. Thy sin actually cost the Blood of Christ, one drop whereof is more valuable than all humane blood; and yet wilt thou not deny thy Lusts, nor resist a temptation for his sake? Behold the Lamb of God slain for thy sin, and thou canst never have slight thoughts of it any more.

Thirdly: Is there any among you that droop, and are discouraged in their spirits, because of their manifold aggravated Iniquities? who being over-weighed with the burdensome sense of sin, despond and sink in their minds: to such I would apply the words of my Text as a sovereign Cordial to revive their hearts and hopes. Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world.