What better can we do, than - - - prostrate fall Before him reverent; and there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg; with tears Watering the ground, and with our sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow unfeign’d, and humiliation meek?
CHAPTER III.
Chief defects of the Religious System of the bulk of professed Christians, in what regards our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit—with a Dissertation concerning the use of the Passions in Religion.
Sect. I
SCRIPTURE DOCTRINES.
That “God so loved the world, as of his tender mercy to give his only Son Jesus Christ for our redemption:”
That our blessed Lord willingly left the glory of the Father, and was made man;
That “he was despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:”
That “he was wounded for our transgressions; that he was bruised for our iniquities:”