A Body of Practical Divinity

3. Christ dyed that he might make good his last Will and Testament with his Blood: There were many Legacies which Christ bequeathed to Believers, which had been all null and void had not he dyed, and by his Death confirmed the Will, Heb. 9.17. A Testament is in force after Men are dead: The Mission of Spirit, the Promises, those Legacies, were not in force till Christ's Death; but Christ by his Blood hath sealed them, and Believers may lay claim to them.

3. Christ dyed that he might make good his last Will and Testament with his Bloud: There were many Legacies which Christ bequeathed to Believers, which had been all null and void had not he dyed, and by his Death confirm'd the Will, Heb. 9.17. A Testament is in force after Men are dead: The Mission of Spirit, the Promises, those Legacies, were not in force till Christ's Death; but Christ by his Bloud hath sealed them, and Believers may lay claim to them.

4. He died that he might purchase for us Glorious Mansions: Therefore Heaven is called not only a promised, but a purchased Possession, Eph. 1.14. Christ dyed for our Preferment; He suffered that we might reign; he hung upon the Cross, that we might fit upon the Throne; Heaven was shut, &c. Crux Christi clavis Paradisi: The Cross of Christ is the Ladder by which we ascend to Heaven. His Crucifixion is our Coronation.

Use 1. In the Bloody Sacrifice of Christ, see the horrid Nature of Sin: Sin (it is true) is odious as it banished Adam out of Paradise, and threw the Angels into Hell, but that which doth most of all make it appear Horrid, is this, it made Christ veil his Glory and loose his Blood. We should look upon Sin with Indignation, and pursue it with an Holy Malice, and shed the Blood of those Sins shed Christ's Blood. The sight of Caesar's Bloody Robe incensed the Romans against them that slew him: The sight of Christ's bleeding Body should incense us against Sin; let us not parley with it, let not that be our Joy which made Christ a Man of Sorrow.