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Three sermons lately preached at Boston. I. Showing the virtue of Christs blood to…Three sermons lately preached at Boston. I. Shewing the vertue of Christs blood to…
Three sermons lately preached at Boston. I. Showing the virtue of Christs blood to cleanse from sin. II. That natural men are under the government of self-love. III. That the Gospel is the means of conversion. : To which a fourth is added, to stir up young men and maidens to praise the name of the Lord. / By Solomon Stoddard A.M. Pastor of Northampton.Three sermons lately preached at Boston. I. Shewing the vertue of Christs blood to cleanse from sin. II. That natural men are under the government of self-love. III. That the Gospel is the means of conversion. : To which a fourth is added, to stir up young men and maidens to praise the name of the Lord. / By Solomon Stoddard A.M. Pastor of Northampton.
printed by B. Green for Daniel Henchman, 1717
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1. Argu. The Father would not have put Christ on this Service, if his Death would not have prevailed for the Pardon of Sin. Men were the Instruments of putting Christ to death, but the thing was according to the counsel of God: Act. 2.23. He was delivered by the determinate counsel and sore-knowledge of ⟨p. 4⟩God. Yea, God appointed him to die for our Redemption: God made him a Priest to offer up this Sacrifice: Psal. 110.4. Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. God commanded him to lay down his life: Joh. 10.18. This Commandment have I received of my Father. God called him to suffer upon our account: Isai. 53.6. The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. From hence may we conclude the virtue of Christs blood to take away Sin. It was a great thing for the Son of God to suffer: there never was any other such thing from the foundation of the World, nor ever will be again. The dignity of his Person is infinite, and the love of his Father exceeding great; and there is no fair account, why the Father should be willing, to lay this punishment on him, if it would not have had a mighty efficacy for the taking away the guilt of Sin. Would God lay this upon him for nothing, or for a small matter? Certainly it must be upon some great design: God fore-saw the great Good that would come thereby. And would the Son have been willing to undergo such great Sorrow, if it would not availed for the Expiation of abundance of Sin? He knew that many would be redeemed thereby. Math. 20.28. The Son of Man came to give his Life a ransom for many.
1. Argu. The Father would not have put Christ on this Service, if his Death would not have prevailed for the Pardon of Sin. Men were the Instruments of putting Christ to death, but the thing was according to the counsel of God: Act. 2.23. He was delivered by the determinate counsel and sore-knowledge of