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2. When He should come to take possession of this House, He finds that it is mortgaged, and that a great Debt lies upon it, which he must pay to the uttermost farthing, if ever He intend to have it. To the former Title, there must also be added a Right of Furchase. He must Purchase this House, and pay a great Price for it. And what is this Price? what is required of him? No less then his dearest blood, Acts 20. 28. Yea he must make his Soul an Offering for sin; and charge himself with the whole Debt, all the Curse and Punishment, which this House had in part actually contracted upon it self, and wholly deserved. He must put his shoulders under the burden due to it, and his back to the stripes prepared for it. A hard Task. But Jesus Christ being the Heir, the Right of Redemption belonged unto him. It was not for his Honour that it ⟨p. 24⟩should lye unredeemed. Full well he knew that if he did it not, the whole Creation was too beggarly to make this Purchase. 'Tis true, that Nature of ours, which He assumed to pay that by, which He never took, was startled for a while, and would have deprecated this grievous price, crying out, If it be possible let this cup pass from me: but he recollects himself and says, I am content to do thy will O God: and so, through the eternal spirit offered himself up into God for a Ransom. He likes the House, and will have it to dwell in what ever it cost him. Here (saith he) shall be my Habitation and my dwelling for ever, Psal. 133. Know you not (saith the Apostle) that you are the Temple of the Spirit of Christ? Well, and how come we so to be? you are bought with a price, 2. Cor 6. 19. They who affirm that he also thus purchased the unclean sties of the Devil, wot not what they say.

2. When He should come to take possession of this House, He findes that it is morgaged, and that a great Debt lyes upon it, which he must pay to the uttermost farthing, if ever He intend to have it. To the former Title, there must also be added a Right of Furchase. He must Purchase this House, and pay a great Price for it. And what is this Price? what is required of him? No lesse then his dearest blood, Acts 20. 28. Yea he must make his Soul an Offering for sin; and charge himself with the whole Debt, all the Curse and Punishment, which this House had in part actually contracted upon it self, and wholly deserved. He must put his shoulders under the burden due to it, and his back to the stripes prepared for it. A hard Task. But Jesus Christ being the Heir, the Right of Redemption belonged unto him. It was not for his Honour that it