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The holy Eucharist, or, The mystery of the Lords Supper briefly explained
The holy Eucharist, or, The mystery of the Lords Supper briefly explained by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed by A. Maxwell for Thomas Parkhurst, 1668
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
1. Christ was lifted up upon the Cross purposely to cure us. Christ had no other end in dying but to heal, his ⟨p. 152⟩blood is a sovereign balm for a sinsick soul. Such as feel the burden of their sins, need not question Christ's willingness to save them, when the very design of his death was to cure, Psal. 147. 3. He healeth the broken in heart. Serpents (as Naturalists affirm) have a [Greek or Hebrew] or great love to their young, and will hazard their lives for them*. So full of love was Christ our Mystical Brazen serpent, as to die for us, by whose stripes we are healed, Isa. 53. 5.
1. Christ was lifted up upon the Cross purposely to cure us. Christ had no other end in dying but to heal, his ⟨p. 152⟩blood is a soveraign balm for a sinsick soul. Such as feel the burden of their sins, need not question Christ's willingness to save them, when the very design of his death was to cure, Psal. 147. 3. He healeth the broken in heart. Serpents (as Naturalists affirm) have a 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 or great love to their young, and will hazard their lives for them*. So full of love was Christ our Mystical Brazen serpent, as to die for us, by whose stripes we are healed, Isa. 53. 5.
- *sin. lib. 9.•sin. lib. 9.