A treatise concerning the Lords Supper

V. When you thus consider the blood of Christ in all those excellencies. Oh then be grieved that you have so long neglected it! that you did that which was the cause why precious blood was spi•t; that you should thrust your Sin into his side, to fetch this blood from his very heart O Lord, was I the cause •is blood was, shed? was it my pride and vain glory, that did set a Crown of Thorns upon this Crucified bleeding Christ? Was it my u•••lief and ⟨p. 129⟩my apostasy from God that broached his blessed heart, from whence I see these streams of blood so plentifully gushing forth, that I may be washed therein, and justified thereby? What, was I the cause of it, and yet, must I have the benefit of it? Did Christ suffer me to murder him, and stab, and pierce his very heart, and then pardon me, and save me when he had done▪ O Lord, my Soul is grieved, my heart is sorrowful: O that I had never sinned! Lord, I hope if my sins were undone again, I should never do them. Oh that since this blood is shed, it might fall upon my heart, that it may be dissolved into tears! Oh that my eye may weep, when I see my Saviours heart to bleed: Oh that my heart may be rent asunder, when I see my Saviours flesh to cleave asunder, that this Blood may issue forth.

V. When you thus consider the blood of Christ in all those excellencies. Oh then be grieved that you have so long neglected it! that you did that which was the cause why preci•us blood was spi•t; that you should thrust your Sin into his side, to fetch this blood from his very heart O Lord, was I the cause •is blood was, shed? was it my pride and vain glory, that did set a Crown of Thorns upon this Crucified bleeding Christ? Was it my u•••lief and ⟨p. 129⟩my apostacy from God that broached his blessed heart, from whence I see these streams of blood so plentifully gushing forth, that I may be washed therein, and justified thereby? What, was I the cause of it, and yet, must I have the benefit of it? Did Christ suffer me to murther him, and stab, and pierce his very heart, and then pardon me, and save me when he had done O Lord, my Soul is grieved, my heart is sorrowful: O that I had never sinned! Lord, I hope if my sins were undone again, I should never do them. Oh that since this blood is shed, it might fall upon my heart, that it may be dissolved into tears! Oh that my eye may weep, when I see my Saviours heart to bleed: Oh that my heart may be rent asunder, when I see my Saviours flesh to cleave asunder, that this Blood may issue forth.