Christ crucified, or, The marrow of the gospel, evidently holden forth in LXXII sermons,…

(yea, • very learned man affirms, that Christs appearance in Heaven and his intercession are not properly Sacerdotal acts, but in so far as they lean on the virtue of his perfected sacrifice); What just, relevant, or cogent reason can there be to make a disjunction betwixt these parts of his Office, and to extend the most difficult, operous and costly part to all men, and to narrow the other which is the more easy part, as that whereby he only deals for the application of what he hath made a purchase of by his satisfaction, which put him to much sad and sore soul-travel, and to restrict it to the elect and gifted ones? 3. Doth not the Scripture hold forth his death, and the shedding of his blood, as the great demonstration of his special love to his own elect people? As is clear else-where, so particularly Joh. 15.13. Greater love then this hath no man, then that a man lay down his life for his friends; Nay, purchased reconciliation through the death of Christ, is by the Holy Ghost made a greater evidence of divine love in some respect, then the glorification of the reconciled, according to what the Apostle saith, Rom. 5.10. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more being reconciled, we shall ⟨image 18⟩be saved by his life. 4. All the other gifts of God to sinners, even the greatest spiritual ones, fall hugely below the giving of Jesus Christ himself, that gift of God by way of eminency; As the Apostle reasoneth irrefragably, for the comfort of believers, Rom. 8.32. He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Will he give the greatest gift and not give the lesser? As Justification, Adoption, Sanctification and Glorification; Which, how great soever in themselves, are yet lesser then the giving of Christ himself to the death; And if it be undeniably certain that he giveth not these to all which are the lesser and lower gifts, why should it be thought that he hath given the higher and greater? 5. Shall that grand expression of the special love of God, be made common, by extending it to all the world, the greatest profligates and Atheists not excepted, no not Pharaoh, nor Ahab, not Judas the traitor, nor Julian the Apostate, nay, nor any of all the damned reprobates who were actually in Hell when he died and shed his blood? 6.