" "He
through the eternal Spirit offered himself."
And it must be this, because, as was said, the altar is greater than
the gift; but there is nothing but Christ's divine nature greater
than his human. To be sure, a sorry bit of wood, a tree, the stock
of a tree, is not.
It must be this, because the Scripture says plainly, the altar
sanctifies the gift, that is, puts worth and virtue into it. But was
it the tree, or the godhead of Christ, that put virtue and efficacy
into this sacrifice that he offered to God for us? If thou canst but
count thy fingers, judge.
Let the tree then be the tree, the sacrifice the sacrifice, and the
altar the altar; and let men have a care how, in their worship, they
make altars upon which, as they pretend, they offer the body of
Christ; and let them leave off foolishly to doat upon wood and the
works of their hands.
XXIV. DEATH.
Seeing man was taken from the ground, he is neither God nor angel,
hut a poor earthen vessel, such as God can easily knock in pieces
and cause to return to the ground again.
And the time of need is the day of death, when I am to pack up all
to be gone from hence, the way of all the earth. Now the greatest
trial is come, except that of the day of judgment.
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