Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

Thirdly: The end and design of those wounds which was to repair the Honour of God, and the violated Law; the language of that blood (which is said to speak better things than the blood of Abel, Heb. 12. 24.) is this.

Father, have these poor souls wounded thy Name, thine Honour, thy Law? Behold the wounds thy Justice hath inflicted on me for reparation of all that wrong they have done thee! Oh how sweetly doth the Blood of the Lamb settle the Conscience of a poor drooping Believer!

Fourthly: Is there any among you that are faint-hearted and ready to ¹shrink away from any sufferings for Christ, as unable to bear and endure any thing for his sake? To such I would say in the words of this Text. Behold the Lamb of God. Did Christ suffer such grievous things for you, and cannot you suffer small matters for him? Alas, what is the wrath of man to the wrath of the great and terrible God! Beside, ⟨p. 101⟩he was an Innocent Lamb, and deserved not to suffer the least degree of penal evil upon his own account, but thou hast deserved Hell, and yet shrinkest under the sufferings of a moment. Did he suffer so much for you, and can you suffer nothing for him? Surely he in suffering for you hath left you an example that you should follow his steps, 1 Pet. 2. 21. What is our Blood compared in dignity to the Blood of Christ? What are our sufferings compared in kind or degree, to the sufferings of Christ? Nothing is found to fortify a mans spirit for sufferings, as the Meditation of Christs sufferings for us doth.