211.
These things hold likewise in the other stones of this building, chosen before time: all that should be of this building are fore-ordained in God's purpose, all written in that book beforehand, and then in due time they are chosen, by actual calling, according to that purpose, hewed out and severed by God's own hand from the quarry of corrupt nature;--dead stones in themselves, as the rest, but made living by his bringing them to Christ, and so made truly precious', and accounted precious by him that hath made them so.
Though this is not only true, but a most important truth, it would yet have been well to have obviated the apparent carnal consequences.
Ib.p.

216.
All sacrifice is not taken away; but it is changed from the offering of those things formerly in use, to spiritual sacrifices.

Now these are every way preferable; they are easier and cheaper to us, and yet more precious and acceptable to God.
Still understand,--to the regenerate.

To others, they are not only not easy and cheap, but unpurchaseable and impossible too.

O God have mercy upon me! Ib.p.