But now those are not the things that will break the heart in an Evangelical way, in a gracious way; the main thing by which the soul must come to break it's heart, must the beholding of the evil of sin in the red glass of the blood of Jesus Christ, the beholding him broken; and truly there is nothing in the world, that hath that power to break the heart for sin, as the beholding of that which is to be beheld in the holy Sacrament; and that heart is a hard heart that can see what is there to be seen, and not break in the apprehension of sin; when I here see what my sin cost, what a price was made for my soul, when I see the hatred of God against sin, and the justice of God in not ⟨p. 247⟩sparing his Son, but in breaking his Son for my sin, and in shedding the blood of his Son for my sins, I see here that the making of my peace with God did cost more than ten thousand worlds is worth; I see that by my sin such a breach was made between God and my soul, that all the Angels in heaven, and men in the world could never make up this breach; only the Son of God, he that was God and man, that was thus broken by the burden of the wrath of his Father, for my sins, could do this. The truth is, when we come to this holy Communion, we are to look upon Christ as if we saw him hanging upon the Cross; suppose thou hadst lived at the time when Christ was crucified, and hadst understood as much concerning the death of Christ as now thou doest, and what Christ was, if so be that thou shouldest have beheld him in the Garden, and there sweating drops of water and blood, & lie grovelling upon the ground, crying if it be possible let this cup pass from me: and shouldest have followed him to the Cross, and there have seen his hands and feet nailed, and his side pierced, and the blood trickling down, and have heard him crying out my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? would not such a sight as this is, have broken thy heart for thy sin? the truth is there is more, I won't say only so much, but I say there is more in this Sacrament to break the heart for sin than such a sight as that.
But now those are not the things that will break the heart in an Evangelical way, in a gracious way; the main thing by which the soul must come to break it's heart, must the beholding of the evil of sin in the red glass of the blood of Jesus Christ, the beholding him broken; and truly there is nothing in the world, that hath that power to break the heart for sin, as the beholding of that which is to be beheld in the holy Sacrament; and that heart is a hard heart that can see what is there to be seen, and not break in the apprehension of sin; when I here see what my sin cost, what a price was made for my soul, when I see the hatred of God against sin, and the justice of God in not ⟨p. 247⟩sparing his Son, but in breaking his Son for my sin, and in shedding the blood of his Son for my sins, I see here that the making of my peace with God did cost more than ten thousand worlds is worth; I see that by my sin such a breach was made between God and my soul, that all the Angels in heaven, and men in the world could never make up this breach; only the Son of God, he that was God and man, that was thus broken by the burden of the wrath of his Father, for my sins, could do this. The truth is, when we come to this holy Communion, we are to look upon Christ as if we saw him hanging upon the Cross; suppose thou hadst lived at the time when Christ was crucifyed, and hadst understood as much concerning the death of Christ as now thou doest, and what Christ was, if so be that thou shouldest have beheld him in the Garden, and there sweating drops of water and blood, & lie goveling upon the ground, crying if it be possible let this cup pass from me: and shouldest have followed him to the Cross, and there have seen his hands and feet nailed, and his side pierced, and the blood trickling down, and have heard him crying out my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? would not such a sight as this is, have broken thy heart for thy sin? the truth is there is more, I won't say only so much, but I say there is more in this Sacrament to break the heart for sin than such a sight as that.
