A treatise concerning the Lords Supper

Tenthly, Eye the blood of Christ in the Sacrament, as heart softening blood; as that which can dissolve the most stony heart, as that which can break the hardest Sinner. This blood on•• applied to those that were so hard ⟨p. 111⟩hearted to spill this blood, I mean the Jews, who are hardened to a Proverb, (viz Do you think I am a hard hearted Jew,) will •urn this Rock of their hearts into a Fountain of Tears, Zech 12.10 They shall took upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only Son, (that is great mourning) and shall be in bitterness for him as one that is in bitterness for his first-born. Oh! lay your heart a steeping in this blood, and try if it be not softening blood.

Tenthly, Eye the blood of Christ in the Sacrament, as heart softning blood; as that which can dissolve the most stony heart, as that which can break the hardest Sinner. This blood on•• applied to those that were so hard ⟨p. 111⟩hearted to spill this blood, I mean the Jews, who are hardned to a Proverb, (viz Do you think I am a hard hearted Jew,) will •urn this Rock of their hearts into a Fountain of Tears, Zech 12.10 They shall took upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only Son, (that is great mourning) and shall be in bitterness for him as one that is in bitterness for his first-born. Oh! lay your heart a steeping in this blood, and try if it be not softning blood.

Eleventhly, Eye the blood of Christ in the Sacrament, as sin mortifying blood▪ it is indeed soul saving blood, but it is sin killing blood; and therefore it saves your Soul, because it kills your Sin: As that Physic saves a mans life which removeth his Sickness: That which is life to your Soul, is death to your Sin. In the Sacrament you must look upon your sin, as that which was the death of your Lord, and look upon your Lord as one that is the death of your sin: Sin drew out the life-blood of Christ, and the blood of Christ shed, will draw out the life-blood of Sin: Here you may behold these two great Combatants both fighting, both bleeding, both dying, and they are reciprocal causes of each others death: Christ he bleeds, and sin it bleeds: Christ dies, and sin dies: But Christ gets the Victory, for Christ dieth, and rises again, and lives for evermore; but sin once dead, liveth never more.