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A45222	The revival of grace in the vigour and fragrancy of it by a due application of the blood of Christ to the root thereof, or, Sacramental reflections on the death of Christ a sacrifice, a testator, and bearing a curse for us particularly applying each for the exciting and increasing the graces of the believing communicant / by Henry Hurst.	Hurst, Henry, 1629-1690.	1678 (1678)	Wing H3792; ESTC R27438	176,470	410

that Christ by one offering hath effected This man saith the Apostle after he had offered one sacrifice for sins sat down on the right hand of God Heb. 10.12 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified ver 14. He needed no more to offer any Sacrifice forsomuch as he had obtained Eternal Redemption by that one Sacrifice of himself and it was necessary he should once offer himself a Sacrifice because no other Sacrifices could purifie the conscience and clear from guilt Christ therefore did what was necessary and having done it sate down on the right hand of God expecting till his enemies were made his footstool and interceding that his Redeemed might be blessed with a full deliverance In one word the Apostle Ephes 5.2 tells us what Christ did and what acceptance it found with the Father Christ also hath loved us and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour Thus express is the Scripture in this point Sect. 5. Lastly It is more than once assumed and taken up as an unquestionable truth and of indisputable certainty So Heb. 8.2 we have such an High Priest who is set on the right hand of the Majesty in the Heavens Here it is assumed without particular proof that he had offered a Sacrifice before he sate down c. and so ver 3. makes it necessary he should have somewhat to offer and ver 4. assures us that the Levitical Priesthood and Sacrifices were examples and shadows of this our High Priest and the Sacrifice he hath offered which was more excellent than those typical ones were to this add Heb. 5.5 Christ made an High Priest and ver 6. a Priest for ever and after the order of Melchisedeck ver 10. Now whoever is an High Priest is ordained for men in things pertaining to God that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins ver 1. Christ then our High Priest as such and because he is an High Priest for us must offer some sacrifice for us Now the blood of Bulls and Goats and in a word all corruptible things are secluded from being this sacrifice and the Lord Jesus in his own person is supposed and taken undoubtedly to be this sacrifice Without dispute the 9th chap. 25th verse speaks this truth for the Levitical High Priest went into the holy place with the blood of others but Christ did not so enter when he entred for he entred not in by the blood of Goats and Calves but by his own blood cap. 9. ver 12. did he enter into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption for us These with many more which might be added comprize what we affirm That the Scriptures do in many places assume it as a thing certain in it self that Christ died a Sacrifice for us To conclude this Chapter and this general head of our discourse in a few words thou who professest thy self a Christian either professest thy self a Christian either professest this truth or knowest not what a Christian is made up of and needest to be catechized in the principles of thy Religion to which I recommend thee for better instruction CAP. II. Christ a Man yet a Sacrifice for us and how this could be OUR next undertaking must be what standeth second in our Promise a discovery how this can be that a Man should be a Sacrifice Is it not an inhumane cruelty to offer a reasonable creature in sacrifice to God Are not the Nations abhorred as barbarously salvage and bloody who used it and hath not God expresly forbidden it How then could Christ so excellently and transcendently holy pure and innocent be made a sacrifice for us This I shall endeavour to answer in these following particulars Sect. 1. There is no doubt to be made whether sacrificing of men were abominable in the sight of God and sober men God infinitely detested it and sober men have unanimously condemned it This was and ever will be a bloody murthering of the creatures never an acceptable worshiping the Creatour He that was a murtherer from the begining and delighteth in the death of man put his Idolatrous worshippers upon this diabolical practice and they who exercised their pretended Religion in such sacrifices did sacrifice to Devils not to God Psal 106.37 and shed innocent blood ver 38. In which passage you see whom such sacrisicers worshipped and in what account they and their worship was had with God the Lord tells you truly who it was these men worshipped and what truly was the thing they did it was murther Israel had a strict prohibition against this practice Levit. 20.2 3 4 5. and God doth dreadfully threaten him that shall dare to do so The blood of Bulls or of Goats could not by their own worth please the Lord. The blood of man could not but by its cry to the Lord awaken him to an abhorrence of the deed and punishing the doer Sect. 2. Albeit none may shed the blood of man in Sacrifice yet the life strength and whole of man should be Sacrificed that is consecrated to spent for and offered unto God which in a borrowed or figurative manner of speech is called and well may be so called a Sacrifice The scripture gives this name where there is neither life of Beast or Man taken away The Contrite heart is a Sacrifice which God will not despise Psal 51.17 In this sense the Apostle would perswade the Romans to give up themselves their bodies Sacrifices unto God Rom. 12.1 And conversion of the Gentiles was an Offering or a Sacrificing of them unto God Heb. 13.15 Rom. 15.16 The praises we offer to God but much more the whole Duty of a Christian is a Sacrifice 1 Pet. 2.5 This Metaphorical Sacrificing our selves and ours is both our duty and acceptable to God Although none may in Sacrifice take away the life of another man or of himself yet every man ought to make his life a sacrifice unto God This kind of Humane Sacrifice is our Reasonable service Sect. 3. When the Scripture is expresse in any point I have noe reason to be doubting whether it were so nor liberty allowed to my curiosity to enquire how it could be so or to Dispute that it either could not be or that it ought not to be so My Faith tells mee and my Reason consenteth to it That it is so because God saith it and that it might well bee so because God hath done it God sent his Son in the likenesse of sinfull flesh this speaketh the Incarnation of Christ our Lord and for sin this speaketh the end why God sent him viz. that by a Sacrifice for sin hee might condemne sin in the flesh Rom. 8.3 ver And the same Apostle informeth mee 2. Cor. 5.2 That God hath made him to be sin for us and if you enquire how Christ was made sin I shall answer in the words of a learned pen viz. Hee was a Sacrifice not