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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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Use 2. Is Christ our Priest sacrificed, see God's Mercy and Justice displayed: I may say as the Apostle, Rom. 11.27. Behold the goodness and severity of God: 1. The Goodness of God in providing a Sacrifice. Had not Christ suffered on the Cross, we must have lain in Hell for ever satisfying God's Justice.
Use 2. Is Christ our Priest sacrific'd, see God's Mercy and Iustice displayed: I may say as the Apostle, Rom. 11.27. Behold the goodness and severity of God: 1. The Goodness of God in providing a Sacrifice. Had not Christ suffered on the Cross, we must have lain in Hell for ever satisfying God's Justice.
2. The Severity of God: Though it were his own Son, the Son of his Love, and our Sins were but imputed to him, yet God did not spare him, Rom. 8.32. but his Wrath did flame against him. And if God were thus severe to his own Son, how dreadful will he be one day to his Enemies? Such as dye in wilful Impenitency must feel the same Wrath as Christ did; and because they cannot bear it at once, therefore they must be enduring it for ever.
Use 3. Is Christ our Priest who was sacrificed for us, then see the endeared Affection of Christ to us Sinners: The Cross (saith Austin) was a Pulpit in which Christ preached his Love to the World. That Christ should dye was more then if all the Angels had been turned to Dust: And that Christ should dye as a Malefactor, having the weight of all Mens Sins laid upon him: That he should dye for his Enemies,