Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

And what footing could thy Faith find for Pardon and Salvation any where else? 'Tis Christ Crucified that Faith clasps as the last and only hope, and refuge of a poor Sinner. Here all Believers drop Anchor: This is that blessed object on whom they take the dead gripe, or last grasp, when their eye-strings and heart-strings are breaking. When you see the Blood of Christ flowing forth, how can Faith be silent in thy soul? When he bids thee, as it were, to put thy finger into his side, shows thee his hands and his feet there, it will cry out in thy soul, my Lord, and my God.

And what footing could thy Faith find for Pardon and Salvation any where else? 'Tis Christ Crucified that Faith claspes as the last and only hope, and refuge of a poor Sinner. Here all Believers drop Anchor: This is that blessed object on whom they take the dead gripe, or last grasp, when their eye-strings and heart-strings are breaking. When you see the Blood of Christ flowing forth, how can Faith be silent in thy soul? When he bids thee, as it were, to put thy finger into his side, shews thee his hands and his feet there, it will cry out in thy soul, my Lord, and my God.

Secondly: The flowing spring of Repentance is here, if there be any fire ¹that can melt, or hammer that can break a hard heart, here it is, Zech. 12. 10. They shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and mourn. Nothing lays ⟨p. 15⟩a gracious soul lower in it self, than to see how low Christ was laid in his Humiliation for it.

Secondly: The flowing spring of Repentance is here, if there be any fire ¹that can melt, or hammer that can break a hard heart, here it is,