Several discourses tending to promote peace & holiness among Christians to which are added,…

(1.) We are not duly sensible of our great Misery without him. Alas, What could we have done, without his Passion and Intercession? If he had not died for Sinners, What had you to answer to the Terrors of the Law, the Accusations of your Consciences, the Fears of Hell, and approaching Damnation? How could you look God in the Face, or think one comfortable thought of him? Had we wept ⟨p. 89⟩out our Eyes, and prayed out our Hearts, and never committed Sin again; this would not have made God satisfaction for Sin past: Paying new Debts, doth not quit old Scores: Long enough might we have lain in our Blood, ere we could have found out a Ransom which God would accept; besides him there is no Saviour. And then for his Intercession: If he did not hide your nakedness, and procure you a daily Pardon, you would not be an hour longer out of Hell. If he did not bring you to God, you could have no comfortable access to him: Your Prayer would be cast back as Dung in your Faces, if the Merit of his Sacrifice did not make them accepted. And shall all this be told you, and owned by you for Truth; and will you not rejoice that God hath found a Ransom, and provided an Intercessor for you? Surely it cannot be imagined that you are sensible of your case, if you be not thankful for your Remedy.

(1.) We are not duly sensible of our great Misery without him. Alas, What could we have done, without his Passion and Intercession? If he had not died for Sinners, What had you to answer to the T•rrors of the Law, the Accusations of your Consciences, the Fears of Hell, and approaching Damnation? How could you look God in the Face, or think one comfortable thought of him? Had we wept ⟨p. 89⟩out our Eyes, and prayed out our Hearts, and never committed Sin again; this would not have made God satisfaction for Sin past: Paying new Debts, doth not quit old Scores: Long enough might we have lain in our Blood, e're we could have found out a Ransom which God would accept; besides him there is no Saviour. And then for his Intercession: If he did not hide your nakedness, and procure you a daily Pardon, you would not be an hour longer out of Hell. If he did not bring you to God, you could have no comfortable access to him: Your Prayer would be cast back as Dung in your Faces, if the Merit of his Sacrifice did not make them accepted. And shall all this be told you, and owned by you for Truth; and will you not rejoice that God hath found a Ransom, and provided an Intercessor for you? Surely it cannot be imagined that you are sensible of your case, if you be not thankful for your Remedy.