Precious faith considered in its nature, working, and growth

the Gall and Wormwood in the Cup of Wrath which made him sweat drops of Blood, and under an horrid Eclipse of Gods favour to cry out of forsaking. To look upon a groaning World travelling under an universal vanity, would ⟨p. 379⟩stir up sorrow in any that had a sense of it; much more to look upon a Christ, a Creator bleeding and dying upon a Cross; to the least drop of whose Passion the dashing down of a World is a poor inconsiderable nothing. To look upon the broken Tables of a Law dearer to God than Heaven and Earth is very grievous; but to stand and see God for our Sin bruising and breaking his own Son and Essential Image in our assumed Nature, is matter of amazing sorrow. Never was Sin set forth. in such bloody Colours as in his Passion; never do repentant tears flow more purely than at such a spectacle. Here the Heart breaks in its closing with a broken Christ, and bleeds afresh over his Wounds, and turns the Sacrament of the Supper into a Baptism of Tears; and out of an holy hatred and revenge would have the violence done to Christ be put upon Sin the great Crucifier of him in the true Mortification thereof. As a Spirit of Faith it causes us to live upon Christ: Having no Righteousness of our own to answer the Law with, we feast and satisfy our selves in the Righteousness of Christ; as in that which satisfied the heart of God, and is here made over to satisfy ours. We may surely say, The Righteousness of God is upon us; and as it hath no spot or wrinkle in it self, so it leaves no ground of scruple or jealousy in our Hearts in the midst of our Sins, which have Death and Hell virtually in them. We yet live upon the atoning Sacrifice of Christ. His Blood which was ⟨p. 380⟩offered up to God through the Eternal Spirit, and by him accepted as a plenary Satisfaction for Sin, is now put into Promises and Sacraments, as into so many Basins, and from thence sprinkled on our Conscience to purge away all our guilt; our Sins are pardoned, and our Pardon passed under the Seal of Heaven. In the midst of our Wants, Faith can triumph in the immense Treasures of Grace in Christ set open in this Ordinance to all comers. Here's Eye-salve for our Blindness; Strength for our Weakness; Melting for the hard Heart; Cordials for Fainting-fits; quenching Grace against the fiery darts of Satan; and Healing for the bloody issues of Sin.

the Gall and Wormwood in the Cup of Wrath which made him sweat drops of Blood, and under an horrid Eclipse of Gods favour to cry out of forsaking. To look upon a groaning World travelling under an universal vanity, would