A65285:814
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Christ's Sacrifice is meritorious, he not only died for our Example, but to merit Salvation: The Person who suffered being God as well as Man, did put Virtue into his Sufferings; and now our sins are expiated, and God appeased. No sooner did the Messengers say, Uriah is dead; but David's Anger was pacified, 2 Sam. 11.21. No sooner did Christ dye but God's Anger is pacified.
2. Christ's Sacrifice is meritorious, he not only died for our Example, but to merit Salvation: The Person who suffered being God as well as Man, did put Vertue into his Sufferings; and now our sins are expiated, and God appeased. No sooner did the Messengers say, Uriah is dead; but David's Anger was pacified, 2 Sam. 11.21. No sooner did Christ dye but God's Anger is pacified.
3. This Sacrifice is beneficial; out of the dead Lyon Sampson had Honey; it procures Justification of our Persons, Acceptance of our Services, Access to God with Boldness, Entrance into the Holy Place of Heaven, Heb. 10.19. Per latus Christi pa•escit nobis in coelum. Israel passed through the Red Sea to Canaan; so through the Red Sea of Christ's Blood we enter into the Heavenly Canaan.
3. This Sacrifice is beneficial; out of the dead Lyon Sampson had Honey; it procures Justification of our Persons, Acceptance of our Services, Access to God with Boldness, Entrance into the Holy Place of Heaven, Heb. 10.19. Per latus Christi pa•escit nobis in coelum. Israel passed through the Red Sea to Canaan; so through the Red Sea of Christ's Bloud we enter into the Heavenly Canaan.