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Carracters [sic] in blood, or, A bleeding saviour held out to a bleeding sinner wherein he may know whether he hath been called by, and followed after the leadings of the spirit : being a draught of the spare-hours of a lover of the faithful / by R.O.
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Ottee, Robert, d. 1690.
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us look back on the patience of Christ it may be it may raise our hearts a little he is not like furious man that will be gone if they will not hear at the first or second knock he will in a spleen be gone but Christ waits tell his head is wet with the Dew c. methinks this should make us willing to wait on him it may be he doth not presently answer all our requests It may be with Paul thou and I have some thorn in the Flesh that we have sought God for the taking of it away and we begin to be impatient and to say we have waited and prayed and looked long and yet 't is not taken away we looked for peace and behold no good we looked for healing and behold trouble and we begin to fret and say as Jehoram King of Israel did when trouble began to arise and the Famine increase 2 Kings 6. 33. Behold this evil is of the Lord what should we wait for the Lord any longer Ah poor soul whoever thou art I pitty thee that hast been at any time in this sad temper but stay thy self soul with this that Christ waited tell his head was wet with the Dew c. And to what end did he and doth he wait but to be gracious so he saith Is. 30 18 And therefore doth the Lord wait that he may be gracious unto you Note the force of that word therefore for that very end that he may be gracious Oh! how long hath he waited for you it may for some ten twenty thirty fourty years and yet he saith he will wait Therefore will the Lord wait not onely hath but will wait Oh why then should not we wait then for him I but dost thou find after all this waiting that Jesus Christ is come in thou wilt say it may be I would have Christ for my Saviour First Hast thou received him for thy Priest the Priest's under the Law were changed by reason of mortallity but this man because he continueth for ever hath an unchangeable Priest-hood but art thou able to say thou art willing to cast thy self on him to bear away thy iniquities I tell thee he is able to bear them there is help laid on one that is mighty and he is able to save to the utmost all that come to God by him Heb. 7. 25. And he is not one that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was tempted as we are that he might the better succour them that are tempted and because of this Priest-hood We may come boldly to the Throne of Grace Heb. 4. 15. Heb. 2. 8. Alas we durst not have looked God in the Face had not Christ been our Priest and undertaken this but now we may come boldly and plead Christ with him Oh who shall condemn 't is Christ that dyed Rom. 8. 34. Yea when he let Angels go those noble Creatures yet he condescended to take on him the Seed of Abra'm he would be a Priest for poor lost man Heb. 2. 16. Yea he by this bare our iniquities into the Wilderness of forgetfulness Lev. 16. 21. And truly we had need of one to bear away not only the iniquity of our transgression but to bear the iniquities of our services he is the Antitipe of Aaron the Priest to bear away the iniquity of our Holy things Exod. 28. 38. When poor Believers are troubled with vain thoughts and their Spirits are wandring in Prayer or Hearing or Meditation or Reading These Worm eaten services the worms of evil thoughts will be creeping in and eating out the heart of our prayers yet Christ will bear away the iniquity of these Holy things yea when not only vain but wicked thoughts come in as in Prov. 5. 14. I was almost in all evil in the midst of the Congregation Yea thy very secret sins which made David cry out Cleanse me from my secret sins Psal 19. 12. Yet he is a Priest to bear away all sorts of sins The blood of Christ cleanseth from all sins Now Soul try thy self art thou willing to have Christ for thy Priest do not deceive thy self 't is not so easie to take Christ for thy Priest 't is no small matter to come of from thy self Secondly Hast thou received Christ for thy Prophet to teach thee All Gods Children shall be taught of the Lord Isa 54. 13. And a Prophet shall the Lord thy God raise up unto thee of thy brethren him shall ye hear in all things Acts 3. 22. And this was of old Prophesied by Jacob Gen. 49. 13. The Scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a Law-giver from between his feet until Shiloh come and to him shall the gathering of the people be this Shiloh was Christ and this gathering of the people to hear him begun to be fulfilled Luke 19. 48. For all the people were very attentive to hear him or as some margins have it they hanged on him Now art thou willing to hear him and to hang on his lip to be taught by him and none other and to hear no other Doctrine then what he Teaches dost thou indeed take him for thy Prophet and with the Apostle Gal. 1. 9. Dost account him accursed that brings any other news of Salvation This is a second way we should receive Christ But I proceed to the next Thirdly Dost thou receive Christ for thy King to Rule and give thee Laws as well as teach thee Isa 33. 22. The Lord is our Law-giver the Lord is our King not only King to save us but our Law-giver to rule us He is our King and he will save us we must not think to be Kings our selves Alas what can we do but he will save us save us from sins Matth. 1. 21. And he will save us from our enemies too the people of Israel did not save themselves by their own arm but by the Lords arm and by the Lords right hand Psal 44. 3. so in Hos 1. 7. I will have mercy on the House of Israel and will save them How by themselves by their own arm not so the Text tells you by the Lord their God and 't is Christ that is that horn of Salvation in Luke 1. 69 71. That will save us from our enemies and from the hand of them that hate us and it is he in Isa 63. 1. That is Mighty to save and as he will rule in the Salvation of his people so he will rule secondly in the destruction of his enemies Jam. 4. 12. As he is able to save so likewise to destroy He shall Rule his enemies with a Rod of Iron Psal 2. 9. Psal 110. 2. God will send the Rod of his strength out of Zion and he shall rule in the midst of his enemies and Vers 6. He shall wound the heads of many Countries Though the proud ones of the World say this man shall not Reign over us yet he will bring them into subjection whether they will or no have but
Carracters IN BLOOD OR A Bleeding Saviour Held out to a BLEEDING SINNER WHEREIN He may know whether he hath been called by and followed after the leadings of the Spirit Being a draught of the Spare-hours of a Lover of the Faithful By R. O. London Printed for the Author 1671. Academiae Cantabrigiensis Liber To all those into whose hands this may fall whether Teachers or Learners MY earnest Request to all is that you would take every one his Portion as you find it according to Truth what 's not Truth let that be returned to me or blotted out but if thou find ' si it truth when brought to the test of Holy Write then I advise thee to receive and embrace and put it in practice and if thou dost not resolve so to do lay it down and 〈◊〉 no further whether it be reproof to any or conjolation to any be sure not to reject it it may be it may meet with some that will cry tear it cut it burn it to the Law and to the Testimony Man if it agree not with that I say so too but if it agree with that take heed as for thy life thy Soul Man or Woman what thou dost whatever Men say Man that 's insignificant thy great concern is to hearken what God the Lord speaks if he speaks Peace man say not thou there is no peace and if he say return no more to folly take heed and venture not for Gods speaking Peace to any admits of no liberty of Sin though this be the very guise of Professors at this very day I shall say no more to thee now only begg thee to be serious and not dally with the things of thy soul R. O. 1 Cor. 5. 7. For even Christ our Pass-over is Sacrificed for us THere is not a necessity of opening the design of the Apostle in this Chapter therefore I shall not take up time nor room in it but in the Words you may please to take notice of five things First Of a Pass-over Secondly Who the Pass-over is and that is Thirdly The Service to which he is appointed and that is to be slain or sacrificed this may be proved else where as 2 Acts 23. Fourthly The end for which he is slain that is 1. To declare the glory of Gods grace 2. To work our Salvation Fifthly Here are the persons for which all this is done and that is for Believers and that is gathered from those little words us and our for even Christ our Pass-over is Sacrificed for us what us Paul and the believing Corinthians time is precious with me or else I might a little shew you the import of a Sacrifice and what it doth denote and also shew the necessity of poor Believers Offering a Sacrifice But I intreat to be excused here and that I may discourse a little Methodically let me gather up my design in a plain conclusion from the Words though many may be drawn clearly out of them and 't is this that the sins of Believers are passed over or acquitted by vertue of the Sacrifice of the Lord Jesus I shall First Prove this to be truth from the Word of Truth Secondly Show a little why it is so Thirdly Improve this point for Soul advantage First Prove that Christ is a Sacrifice for believers sins 3 Rom. 25. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation By vertue of what or through what why his blood through Faith in his blood Pray you mark he doth say through Faith in him no then he might have done away sins and not have dyed and bled I but 't is through Faith in his Blood not through the Vertue of his Life but through his Death and if you read on you shall see that this was for the remission of sins or the passing over of sins for it will bear that sence so in Rom. 5. 6. In due time Christ dyed what for not to be an example only not for the testimony of his Doctrine but for the Ungodly he dyed and he dyed for the Ungodly yea saith Paul and the believing Romans Vers 8. When we were Sinners Christ dyed for us Mark this for sinners not for the righteous and them that be perfit but for sinners and while they were sinners us that are now Believers were Sinners when Christ dyed for us us believers that are now justified by Faith Vers 1. so Heb. 9. 12. Not by the Blood of Bulls and Goats not by the tears of our repentance and sorrow no nor by our blood but by his own Blood not our own but by his own Blood whose blood Christ the High-Priest who hath obtained eternal Redemption for us and Vers 15. For this cause he is the Mediator what cause that by means of death he might redeem the Transgressors that were under the first Testament and Ver. 26. But now once in the end of the World hath he appeared to put away sin by the Sacrifice of himself not to bring the news of sinners putting away sins by the sacrifice of themselves but by the sacrifice of himself and he was offered to bear the sins of many Vers 28. where are they then that take upon them to assert he did not bear believerssins are not these plain words need they any interpretation and here is not one single Text only but 't is the whole scope of the Apostle many more might be produced but I 'le only mentionone more and then I hope their Sandy Foundation will be shaken that build on their own faith and repentance as if that bear the burden of sin from us 1 Pet. 2. 24. Who his own self bear our sins in his own body on the Tree here 't is plain as words can make it certainly thou must renounce thy reason to deny so many plain sillables this the Prophet David prayed for and dost thou think the Spirit of God doth things in vain in the Sam. 24. 10. O Lord take away the inlquity of thy Servant so Job 7. 21. And why dost not thou take away my iniquity Dost thou think sin and the burden of it can be taken away and not be born on no back shoulders or arms how then should it be taken away and if it must be taken and born away dost thou think the Holy God the infinite first being absolutely considered in his own essence and nature in an abstractive sence disunited to the Humane nature dost thou think the God head purely considered will come under sin to bear it away no purity it self is to pure to look on sin much less to touch sin as it were no no poor deluded Creature God in his simple essence and being cannot bear sin but clothing himself with our nature he can hear sin away for which cause he is called the Lamb of God that taketh away Sin John 1. 29. A Lamb is queit and dumb before the Shearer which place will well serve to expound that place Isa 53. 7. Which thou wilt not have understood