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

Eighthly, Concerning what mighty obligation lieth on Believers to mourn and weep, to be sad and sorrowful for sin, how can they look on him whom they have thus bruised, wounded and pierced by their sins without the tear in their eye, without mourning for him and being in bitterness as a man is for his first-born, and for his only begotten son? when they think (as all of them on serious consideration will find reason to think) that if their sins kept the tryst and rendezvous when all the sins of all the Elect did meet and were laid on him, then sure there came no greater company and more numerous troop of sins to that solemn rendezvous from any of all the redeemed then came from them; and that he had not a heavier load and burden of the sins of any then he had of theirs, whereby he was even pressed as a cart is pressed down under the sheaves, and was made most grievously to groan, even with the groanings of a deadly wounded man: and that if he was wounded and pierced by their iniquities, then surely he was more deeply wounded and pierced by the iniquities of none then by theirs; O! what mourning should this cause to them? even such mourning as was ⟨image 21⟩at Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddo, on the occasion of the sad slaughter and death of that good and desirable king Josiah? this is indeed one of the most genuine and kindly, one of the most powerful and prevalent, one of the sweetest and strongest springs of, and motives to, true Gospel-repentance, sorrow and mourning for sin.

Eighthly, Concerning what mighty obligation lyeth on Believers to mourn and weep, to be sad and sorrowful for sin, how can they look on him whom they have thus bruised, wounded and pierced by their sins without the tear in their eye, without mourning for him and being in bitterness as a man is for his first-born, and for his only begotten son? when they think (as all of them on serious consideration will find reason to think) that if their sins keeped the tryst and rendezvous when all the sins of all the Elect did meet and were laid on him, then sure there came no greater company and more numerous troop of sins to that solemn rendezvous from any of all the redeemed then came from them; and that he had not a heavier load and burden of the sins of any then he had of theirs, whereby he was even pressed as a cart is pressed down under the sheaves, and was made most grievously to groan, even with the groanings of a deadly wounded man: and that if he was wounded and pierced by their iniquities, then surely he was more deeply wounded and pierced by the iniquities of none then by theirs; O! what mourning should this cause to them? even such mourning as was