MEDITATION. XXXV.

How great was the breach which sin had made between God and Man, that my Lord must be broken to make it up. Could not something less have served the turn? If Christ must die or sin must not be pardoned, judg of the greatness of the fault, by the great∣ness of the Sacrifice and Satisfaction. What Page  311 hath sin done? It has filled Earth with troubles, it has filled Hell with Souls, it has turned Angels into Devils; it has provoked the God of Heaven to great and Righteous indignation, add unto all this, It has killed Christ the Lord of Life. He was wounded for our Transgression, he was bruised for our iniquities. Who would love who would like such an evil! If my Father had been stabbed, should I embrace the Murtherer, or like the Dagger besmeared with his blood? Oh hateful sin! i'le be revenged upon thee. I will make no provision for thee, I will lament because of thee, I will detest and abhor thee, I will be dead to thee, and endeavour to mortifie and kill thee. My Lord was not spared for thy sake, and thou shalt not be spared. Lord! Away with these lusts, all of them; Crucifie them, Crucifie them, since Christ himself did bear my sins in his own Body on the Tree, Oh let me be dead to sin and live to Righteous∣ness!