e have heard of it, but it is hid from all
living. Where then is this redemption from the curse? Where shall a ransom
be found? Indeed God hath found it; it is with him. He hath given his Son
a ransom for many, and his blood is more precious than souls,--let be(157)
gold and silver. Is not this then a great privilege, that if all the
kingdoms of the world were sold at the dearest, yet they could not buy it?
What a jewel is this! What a pearl! Whoever of you have escaped this
wrath, consider what is your advantage. O consider your dignity ye are
advanced unto, that you may engage your hearts to him, to become his, and
his wholly! for "ye are bought with a price," and are no more your own; he
gave himself for you, and was made a curse to redeem you from the curse. O
how should you walk as privileged men, as redeemed ones!

I beseech you all to call home your thoughts, to consider and ponder on
this sentence that is passed against us. There is now hope of delivery
from it, if ye will take it home unto you; but if ye will still continue
in the ways of sin, without returning, know this, that ye are but
multiplying those curses, platting many cords of your iniquities, to bind
you in everlasting chains. Ye are but digging a pit for your souls, ye
that sweat in your sins, and travel in them, and will not embrace this
ransom offered. The key and lock of that pit is eternal despair. O
consider how quickly your pleasures and gains will end, and spare some of
your thoughts from present things, to give them to eternity, that thread
spun out for ever and ever;--the very length of the days of the Ancient of
days, who hath no beginning of days nor end of time! Remember now of it,
lest ye become as long miserable as God is blessed, and that is for ever.

All men would desire to have privileges beyond others, but there is one
that carries it away from all the world, and that is the believer in Jesus
Christ, who is said to be in Christ, implanted in him by faith, as a
lively member of that body whereof Christ is the head. Christ Jesus is the
head of that body, the church; and this head communicates life unto all
the members, for "he filleth all in all." There is a mighty working power
in the head, which diffuseth itself throughout the members, Eph. i. 19,
22, 23. There are many expressions of union between Christ and believers.
There is no near conjunction among men, but this spiritual union of Christ
with believers is represented to us un