Sermons on several important subjects of religion and morality : to which are added two tracts ... . Whom^hey perjeciite, will take fad Vengeance uponThem in Flames of Fire. In the mean while,let Every ferious Chriftian deteft and abomi-nate fuch flagrant Inftances of Impiety : Andlet Us however make this good Ufe of Them,as they are Occaiions offered, to flir Us upand to awaken Us to a more fervent Zeal forour moft Holy Profellion, endeavouring alfoto adorn the Same with a Converfation fuitableto the Go/pel o/Curut^ SERMON SERMON XII. C H RI s ts Sacrifice of Him/elf explain-ed; and Mans Duty
Sermons on several important subjects of religion and morality : to which are added two tracts ... . Whom^hey perjeciite, will take fad Vengeance uponThem in Flames of Fire. In the mean while,let Every ferious Chriftian deteft and abomi-nate fuch flagrant Inftances of Impiety : Andlet Us however make this good Ufe of Them,as they are Occaiions offered, to flir Us upand to awaken Us to a more fervent Zeal forour moft Holy Profellion, endeavouring alfoto adorn the Same with a Converfation fuitableto the Go/pel o/Curut^ SERMON SERMON XII. C H RI s ts Sacrifice of Him/elf explain-ed; and Mans Duty to offer fpiri-iual Sacrifice inferred, and recom-mended. Ephes. v. I, Ye therefore Followers of God^ as dearChildren ; artd walk in Love^ asChrist alfo hath loved Us, and hathgiven Himfelf for Us, an Offeringand a Sacrifice to God for a fweet-fmelling Savmr, H E S E Words carry in theman inftrudive LeiTon concern-ing CnRiST*s Death and Paf-fion^ together with a praBicalConclufwn drawn from it, tofhew the Ufe and Improvement which Weought to m^ake of it. As Chilist hath lovedVol. II. P 226 CuKisT^s Sacrifice Us, and gave Himfelf a Sacrifice to God uponthe Crofs for Us (a fure Pledge and Token ofhis Kindnefs towards Us) fo ought We to givenp our fehes to God in all holy Obedience, butmore particularly in the Offices o^ Love towardsour Brethren, as fuch Offices are the moft ac-ceptable Sacrifices that We can offer to. Godmoft High. The general Meaning and Intend-ment of the Text being thus briefly opened,I may now proceed to a particular Confiderationof the two 7?tain Branches of it; namely, ourLords unexampled Sacrifice made in his Death,for the Honour of God and the Good of Men -,and Our own Sacrifice of Our Selves in thewhole Courfe of our Lives, which ought tobear fome Analogy to our Lords, and to be,as it were, a Copy drawn from it, as an hum-ble Imitation of it. I. I begin with our Lords Sacrifice, That GreatSacrifice which was from all Eternity forelaidin the Hi
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