Eighteen sermons preached in Oxford 1640 of conversion, unto God. Of redemption, & justification,…

Object. But doth this Lamb of God take away all the sins of the world?

Sol. It doth not actually take away all the sins of the world, but virtually, It hath power to do it, if it be rightly applied, the Sacrifice hath such virtue in it, that if all the World would take it, and apply it, it would satisfy for the sins of the whole World: but it is here, as with medicines, they do not help, being prepared, but being applied; Rhubarb purgeth choler, yet not unless applied, &c. Exod. 39.38. there is mention made of a Golden Altar. Christ is this Golden Altar, to show that his blood is most precious: We are not redeemed with silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Jesus Christ. He is that golden Altar mentioned in the Revelation, which stands before the Throne. He was likewise to be a brazen Altar; for so much was to be put upon him, that unless he were of brass, and had infinite strength, he would have sunk under the burden. Its Jobs Metaphor: Job in his passion saith, Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh brass? Job 6.12. If Christs flesh had not been brass: if he had not been this brazen ⟨p. 396⟩Altar, he could never have gone through these: now he is prepared for us a sacrifice for sin. Rom. 8.3. For what the Law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, (for sin) make a stop there, condemned sin in the flesh. This same (for sin) hath not reference to (condemned) To condemn sin for sin is not good sense; but the words depend on this (God sent his Son) that is, God sent his Son to be a Sacrifice for sin, [Greek or Hebrew], as the word is translated. Heb. 10.6. a sacrifice for sin. It was impossible the Law should save us: not because of any transgression, or failing in the Law, but because our weakness is such, as that we could not perform the conditions: therefore God was not tied to Promises; by reason then of the weakness of our flesh, rather then we should perish, God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, & in that flesh of his, condemned all our sins; we need not look that sin should be condemned in us, when he bare our sins on the tree, then were our sins condemned; therefore its said,