me (and let me tell you my Heart too, faith Chrift) He that cometh unto me, will I in no wife caft out. As my Father is willing to give you unto me, even fo am I as willing to receive you. As my Father is willing to give you Heaven, fo am I willing to make you fit for it, by wafhing you with my own Blood: I lay down my Life, that you might have Life; and this I was fent to tell you of my Father.

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Fourthly, His Meffage was further: He came to tell them how, and which way they fhould come to enjoy thefe glorious Benefits; alfo by laying down Motives to ftir them up to accept of the Benefits. The Way is laid down in John 3. 14, 15. where Chrift faith, As. Mofes lifted up the Serpent in the Wilderness, even fo must the Son of Man be lifted up, or caufed to be hanged on the Crofs, and die the Death; that whofoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting Life. The Way, therefore, that thou fhalt have the Benefit and Comfort of that which my Father and I have covenanted for thee, I am come down from Heaven to Earth on purpose to give thee Intelligence, and to certify thee of it: Know, therefore, that as I have been born of a Woman, and have taken this Body upon me, it is on purpofe that I might offer it upon the Crofsa Sacrifice to God, to give him Satisfaction for thy Sins, that his Mercy may be extended to thy Soul, without any wrong to Justice; and this thou art to believe, and not in the Notion, but from thy very whole Soul. Now the Motives are many: Firft, if they do not. leave their Sins, and come to Jefus Chrift, that their Sins might be washed away by his Blood, they are fure to be damned in Hell; for

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the Law hath condemned them already, John 3. 18, 19. Secondly, But if they do come, they fhall have the Bofome of Chrift to lie in, the Kingdom of Heaven to dwell in, the Angels and Saints for their Companions, fhall bine there like the Sun, fhall be there for ever, fhall fit upon the Thrones of Judgment, &c. Here is Grace.

Methinks if I had but time to speak fully to all things that I could fpeak to, from these two Heavenly Truths, and to make Application thereof; furely, with the Bleffing of God, I think it might perfuade fome vile and abominable Wretch to lay down his Arms that he hath taken up in Defiance against God (and is marching hell-wards, poft hafte with the Devil) I fay methinks it should stop them, and make them willing to look back, and accept of Salvation for their poor condemned Souls, before God's eternal Vengeance is executed upon them. O therefore you that are upon this March, I beseech you confider a little: What, fhall Chrift become a Drudge for you? And will you be Lrudges for the Devil? Shall Chrift covenant with God for the Salvation of Sinners? and fhall Sinners covenant with Hell, Death, and the Devil, for the Damnation of their Souls? Shall Chrift come down from Heaven to Earth to declare this to Sinners? and fhall Sinners ftop their Ears against thefe good Tidings? Will you not hear the Errand of Chrift, although he telleth you Tidings of Peace ard Salvation? How if he had came, having taken a Command from his Father to damn you, and to fend you to the Devils in Hell? Sinners hear this Meage, he fpeaketh no Harm, his Words are eternal Life, all Men that give ear unto them, they have eter

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nal Advantage by them. Advantage, I fay, that never hath an End.

Befides, do but confider thefe two things, 'tis like they may have fome fway upon thy Soul.

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Firft, When he came on his Meffage, he came with Tears in his Eyes, and did even weepingly tender the Terms of Reconciliation to them I fay with Tears in his Eyes. And when he came near the City (.e.) with the Meffage of Peace, beholding the Hardness of their Hearts, he wept over it, and took up a Lamentation over it; becaufe he faw they rejected his Mercy, which was Tidings of Peace. (I fay) wilt thou then flight a Weeping Jefus, one that fo loveth thy Soul, that rather than he will lofe thee, he will with Tears perfuade with thee?

2. Not only fo, but also when he came, he came all on a gore of Blood, to proffer Mercy to thee, to fhew thee ftill how dearly he did love thee; as if he had faid, Sinner here is Mercy. for thee; but behold my Bloody Sweat, my Bloody Wounds, my curfed Death; behold and fee what Danger I have gone through to come unto thy Soul: I am come indeed unto thee, and do bring thee Tidings of Salvation, but it cost me my Heart's Blood before I could come at thee, to give thee the Fruits of my everlasting Love. But more of this anon.

Thus have I fpoken fomething concerning Chrift's being the Meffenger of the New Covenant; but because I am not willing to cut too fhort off what fhall come after, I fhall pass by these things, not half touched, and come to the other which I promised even now; which was to fhew you, that as there were Levitical Ceremonies, in, or belonging to the first G Covenant

Covenant, for thefe Types or Levitical Ceremonies, did reprefent the glorious Things of the New Covenant. In thofe Ceremonies, you read of a Sacrifice; of a Priest to offer up the Sacrifice; the Place where, and the Manner how he was to offer it; of which I fhall fpeak fomething.

First, As touching the Sarifice, you find that it was not to be offered up of all kind of Beafts; as of Lions, Bears, Wolves, Tigers, Dragons, Serpents, or fuch like. To fignifie, that not all kind of Creatures that had finned, as Devils, the fallen Angels; fhould be faved: but the Sacrifice was to be taken out of fome kind of Beafts and Birds: to fignifie, that fome kind of God's Creatures that had finned, he would be pleafed to reconcile them to his felf again; as poor fallen Man and Woman, thofe miferable Creatures, God the God of Heaven, had a good Look for after their Fall: but not for the curfed Devils, though more noble Creatures by Creation than We. Here is Grace.

Now though thefe Sacrifices were offered; yet they were not offered to the End, they fhould make the Comers to, or Offerers thereof perfect but the Things were to represent to the World, what God had in after Ages for to do; which was even the Salvation of his Creatures, by that Offering of the Body of Jefus Chrift, of which these were a Shadow and a Type for the accomplishing of the fecond Covenant. For Chrift was by Covenant to offer a Sacrifice, and that an effectual one too, if he intended the Salvation of Sinners: A Body hast thou prepared me; I am come to do thy Will, Heb. 10.

fhali therefore fhew you, Firft, what was of God in the Sacrifice, in the Type,

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and then fhew you how it was answered in the Antitype. Secondly, I fhall fhew you the Manner of the Offering of the Type; and fo answerable thereto, to fhew you the Fitnefs of the Sacrifice of the Body of Chrift, by way of answering fome Questions.

For the firft of these.

Firft, God did expect that Sacrifice which he himself had appointed, and not another. To fignify that none would ferve his Turn, but the Body and Soul of his appointed Chrift, the Mediator of the New Covenant, John 1. 29.

Secondly, This Sacrifice must not be lame nor deformed; it must have no Scar, Spot or Blemish, to fignify that Jefus Chrift was to be a compleat Sacrifice by Covenant, 1 Pet. 1. 29.

Thirdly, This Sacrifice was to be taken out of the Flock or Herd; to fignify that Jefus Chrift was to come out of the Race of Mankind, according to the Covenant, Heb. ro. 5.

But, Secondly, As to the Manner of it: First, the Sacrifice, before it was offered, was to have the Sins of the Children of Ifrael, confeffed over it to fignify that Jefus Chrift muft, Ifa. 53. 4, 5, 6, 7. 1 Pet. 2. 24. bear the Sins of all his Children by Covenant. As for thee, by the Blood of thy Covenant, in his own Body on the Tree, Zech. 9. 10, II.

Secondly, It must be had to the Place appointed, namely, without the Camp of Ifrael: to fignify, that Jefus Chrift must be lead to the Mount Calvary, Luke 23: 33:

Thirdly, The Sacrifice was to be killed there; to fignify, that Jefus Chrift muft, and fuffer without the City of Jerufalem for our Salvation.