The Fountain of Life Or a Display of Christ in His Essential And Mediatorial G
The Fountain of Life Or a Display of Christ in His Essential And Mediatorial G
John Flavel
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Oh cursed sin ! it was thou usedst my dear Lord so j for Ch. 21. LORD'S SUPPER INSTITUTED. 253 thy sake he underwent all this. If thy vileness had not been so great, his sufferings had not been so many. Cursed sin ! thou wast the knife that stabbed him, thou the sword that pierced him. Ah, what revenge it works ! When the believer considers and remembers that sin put Christ to all that shame and ignominy, and that he was wounded for our transgressions, he is filled with hatred of sin, and cries... out, Oh sin, I will revenge the blood of Christ upon thee ! thou shalt never live a ;juiet hour in my heart. And it also produces an humble adoration of the goodness and mercy of God, in exacting satisfaction for our sins', by such bloody stripes, from our Surety. Lord, if this wrath had seized on me, as it did on Christ, what had been my condition 1 If these things were done in the green tree, what would have been done in the dry 1 Sometimes extraordinary representations are made of the love of Christ, who assumed a body and soul, on purpose to bear the wrath of God for our sins.
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