Sin to be abhorred as the cause of Christs Death. [ 1917]
AFter Iulius Caesar was treacherously murthered in the Senate-house, An∣tonius brought forth his coat, all bloudy, cut and mangled, and laying it open to the view of the People,* 1.1 said; Look, here is your Emperours coat, and as the bloudy-minded Conspirators have dealt by it, so have they also with Caesars body; where∣upon they were all in an uproar, crying out to slay those Murtherers, then they took the Tables and stools that were in the place and set them on fire,* 1.2 and ran to the houses of the Conspirators, and burnt them down to the ground; But behold a greater then Caesar, even the Lord Iesus himself all bloudy, rent, and torn for the Sins of the World; How then when we look on Sin as the cause of his death,* 1.3 and seriously consider that Sin hath slain the Lord of life, should our hearts be provoked to be revenged on Sin? How should we loath and abhor it, as having done that mischief that all the Devills in Hell could ne∣ver have done the like.