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'Thirdly, Then in the suffurings of Christ, as in a gospel-glass, you may see the odious nature of sin, and according learn to hate it, arm against it, turn from it, and subdue it. Sin never appears so odious as when we behold it in the red glass of Christ's sufferings, Psalm 119, 114, 127, and Romans 7:15 and 12:9. Can we look upon sin as the occasion of all Christ's sufferings, can we look upon sin as that which made Christ a curse, and that made him forsaken of his Father, and that made him live such a miserable life, and that brought him to die such a shameful, painful, and cruel death, and our hearts not rise against it? Shall our sins be grievous unto Christ, and shall they not be odious unto us? shall he die for our sins, and shall we not die to our sins? did not he therefore suffer for sin, that we might cease from sin? did not he 'bear our sins in his own body on the tree, that we being dead to sin, should live to righteousness'? 1 Peter 4:1, and 2:24. If one should kill our father, would we hug and embrace him as our father? no, we would be revenged onhim. Sin hath killed our Saviour, and shall we not be revenged on it. Can a man look upon that snake that hath stung his dearly-loved spouseto death, and preserve it alive, warm it at the fire, and hug it in his bosom, and not rather stab it with a thounsand wounds? It is sin that hath stung our dear Jesus to death, that has crucifed our Lord, clouded his glory, and shed his precious blood, and oh how should stir up our indignation against it. Ah, how can a Christian make much of those sins that killed his dearest Lord! how can he cherish those sins that betrayed Christ, and apprehended Christ, and bound Christ, and condemned Christ, and scrourged Christ, and violently drew him to the cross, and there murdered him! It was neither Judas, nor Pilate, nor the Jews, nor the soldiers that could have done our Lord Jesus the least hurt, had not our sins, like so many butchers, and hangmen, come in to their assistance. After Julius Caesar was treacherously murdered in the senate-house, Antionious brought forth his coat, all bloody, cut and mangled, and laying it open to the view of the people, said, Look, here is your emperor's coat; and as as the bloody conspirators have dealt by it, so have they dealt with Caesar's body; whereupon the people were all in an uproar, and nothing would satisfy them but the death of the murderers, and they ran to the houses of the conspirators and burnt them down to the ground. But what was Caesar's coat and Caesar's body to the body of our dear Lord Jesus, which was all bloody, rent, and torn for our sins? Ah, how this should provoke us to be revenged on our sins! how should we forever loath and abhoar them! how should we labour with all our might to be the death of those sins that would have been the death of so great a Lord, and will, if not prevented, be the death of our souls to all eternity! To see God thrust the sword of his pure, infinite, and incensed wrath through the very heart of his dearest Son, notwithstanding all his supplications, prayers, tears, ans strong cries, Hebrews 5:7, is the highest discovery of the Lord's hatred and indigation os sin that ever was or will be. It is true God discoveredhis great hatred of sin by turning Adam out of paradise, and casting the angels down to hell, by drowning the old world, and by raining hell out of heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah, and by the various and dreadful judgements that he has been a-pouring foth upon the world in all ages; but all this hatred is but the pitcure of hatred, to that hatred that God manifested against sin in causing the whole curse to meet upon our crucified Lord, as all streams meet in the sea. It is true God discovers his hatred of sin by those endless, and remediless torments that he inflicts uppn devils and damned spirits; but this is no hatred to that hatred against sin which God discovered when he opened the floodgates of his envenomed wrath upon his Son, his own Son, his only Son, that always pleased him, his Son that never offened him, Isaiah53:5, 6, and Proverbs 8:30, 31, and Matthew 3:17.
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Brooks shows what sin cost our Lord. This should help us to see how we should hate sin.

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