Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

1. Use of Information.

First: The Severity of Gods Justice ¹to Jesus Christ informs us what a dreadful evil sin is, which so incenses the Wrath of God, even against his own Son, when he bare our sins, and stood before the Bar of God as our Surety.

1. 11 Use.

Come hither, hard hearts, (hard indeed, if this cannot break them) you ⟨p. 118⟩complain you cannot see the evil of sin, so as to be deeply humbled for it; fix your eyes a while here, and intently consider the point in hand: Suppose you saw a tender and pitiful Father come into open Court with fury in his face, to charge his own, his only, and his most beloved Son; and prosecute him to death, and nothing able to satisfy him, but his blood; and be well pleased when he sees it shed: Would you not say, O, what horrid evil hath he done, it must be some deep wrong, some heinous crime that he is guilty of, else it could never be that his own Father could forget his bowels of pity and mercy; yet thus did the Wrath of God break forth against his dear Son, when he stood before the Bar as our Surety charged with the guilt of our sins.

Come hither, hard hearts, (hard indeed, if this cannot break them) you ⟨p. 118⟩complain you cannot see the evil of sin, so as to be deeply humbled for it; fix your eyes a while here, and intently consider the point in hand: Suppose you saw a tender and pitiful Father come into open Court with fury in his face, to charge his own, his only, and his most beloved Son; and prosecute him to death, and nothing able to satisfie him, but his blood; and be well pleased when he sees it shed: Would you not say, O, what horrid evil hath he done, it must be some deep wrong, some heinous crime that he is guilty of, else it could never be that his own Father could forget his bowels of pity and mercy; yet thus did the Wrath of God break forth against his dear Son, when he stood before the Bar as our Surety charged with the guilt of our sins.