A Body of Practical Divinity

Use I. Lamentation, That this Land is so defiled with Blood: Numb. 35.33. How common is this Sin in this Hectoring Age! England's Sins are written in Letters of Blood. Some make no more of killing Men, than Sheep. Jer. 2.34. In thy Skirts is found the Blood of the poor Innocents. Junius reads it in Alis; and so in Hebrew, In Thy Wings is found the Blood of Innocents. It alludes to the Birds of Prey, which stain their Wings with the Blood of other Birds. May not the Lord justly take up a Controversy with the Inhabitants of the Land, because Blood toucheth Blood, Hos. 4.2. There is a Concatenation, a Plurality of Murders. And that which may increase our Lamentation, is, that not only Man's Blood is shed among ⟨p. 362⟩us, but Christ's Blood. Such as are profane flagitious Sinners are said to Crucify the Son of God afresh, Heb. 6.6. (1.) They Swear by his Blood, and so do as it were make his Wounds bleed afresh.¹ (2.) Crucify Christ in his Members. Why persecutest thou me? The Foot being trodden on, the Head cried out. (3.) If it lay in their Power, were Christ alive on Earth, they would nail him again to the Cross. Thus Men Crucify Christ afresh. And if Man's Blood doth so cry, how loud will Christ's Blood cry against Sinners?

Vse I. Lamentation, That this Land is so defiled with Blood: Numb. 35.33. How common is this Sin in this Hectoring Age! England's Sins are written in Letters of Blood. Some make no more of killing Men, than Sheep. Ier. 2.34. In thy Skirts is found the Blood of the poor Innocents. Iunius reads it in Alis; and so in Hebrew, In Thy Wings is found the Blood of Innocents. It alludes to the Birds of Prey, which stain their Wings with the Blood of other Birds. May not the Lord justly take up a Controversie with the Inhabitants of the Land, because Blood toucheth Blood,