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Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to Himself
Christ dying and drawing sinners to himself, or, A survey of our Saviour in his soul-suffering, his loveliness in his death, and the efficacy thereof in which some cases of soul-trouble in week believers ... are opened ... delivered in sermons on the Evangel according to S. John Chap. XII, vers. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 ... / by Samuel Rutherford.Christ dying and drawing sinners to himself, or, A survey of our Saviour in his soule-suffering, his lovelynesse in his death, and the efficacie thereof in which some cases of soule-trouble in weeke beleevers ... are opened ... delivered in sermons on the Evangel according to S. John Chap. XII, vers. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 ... / by Samuel Rutherford.
London: printed by J.D. for Andrew Crooke, 1647
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4. The Cross is bought by, and in its nature much altered to the Saints. Its true, its become a necessary in-let, and an inevitable passage,1 and a bridge to heaven; but the Lord Jesus, not Satan, keeps the pass, and commandeth the bridge; and letteth in, and leteth out Passengers at his pleasure. But 1. Christ hath strawed the way to heaven with blood and wars, and forbids us to censure his sad Patrimony, in that the servants are no worse then the Lord, and flour of all the Martyrs; though blood hath been, and must be the Rent and In-come of the Crown of the noble King of Kings, and the consecrated Captain of our salvation. Yet it is short, and for a moment, and Christ hath a way of out-gate, that none of his shall be buried under the Cross, Revel. 7.14. Psal. 4.19. (2.) Christ hath broken the iron chains of the Cross, and the gates of brass: that the Cross hath but a number of free Prisoners, who have fair quarters, and must go out with flying colours, and be ransomed from the grave, John 16.33. Hos. 13.14. (3.) When you are in glory, and in a place above death; there shall be neither mark, nor print; no cicatrix of the sad cross, on back or shoulder, but the very furrow of tears wiped away, and perfectly washen off the face with the water of life, For the former things shall be away. 2Revel. 21.4. Yea, the saddest of Crosses, the utmost and last blow that the Cross can inflict, is death. I should think that Christ is the Saints factor in the land of death; He was there himself, and though he will not adjourn death, yet hath our Factor made it cheap, and at an easy rate, all toll and custom is removed, and he hath put a negation upon death, Joh. 11.26. He that believeth shall not die. John 14.19. Much dependeth on our wise husbanding of the rod of God; yet if Christ did not manage, order, and oversee our furnace, it could not be well with us.