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P. 254: Think much and deeply on our Lord's deadly pangs of the Body ... pierced through and through by the cruel nails... and make a resolution, with prayer, to think of that pain the next time you are tempted to any sin of the flesh. That will be, holding up the Cross for a weapon against foul and evil desire, as Moses held up his rod against the evil ways of Egypt; and be sure the Cross will not be held up in vain

P. 216: You see, our God is light; our Redeemer is light; our scripture is light; the ministers of it are light; all Christian people are children of the light, and have light within them. If so, what obligation is laid upon us, not to walk as if we were in darkness, but to walk uprightly as in the day, shewing the people of this world, that we have a better rule to direct us than they have.

P. 155: The incarnation signifies a nuptial union between Christ and the church, and attests to the fact that the "church shall never be destroyed." If Christ has become "flesh off or flesh" ... he is forever joined to her, linking his own fate to the fate of the church. Sibbes thus reads the incarnation as a figure of Christ's indestructible union with his church, and of the church's inevitable preservation.

P. 133: Donne believed Scripture translates us by carrying us from figure to figure, thereby reinterpreting us ... God ... relies on the ambiguity of double-sided images. Donne points out ... "water" in Scripture variously signifies chaos and ... sin on the one hand; on the other hand, water also variously signifies God's saving and cleansing action. "Water" means both things ... with only a turn of God's phrase.