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2. For the pain, it was a painful death; that appears several ways; As— 1. His legs and hands were violently racked, and pulled out to the places fitted for his fastening, and then pierced through with nails. 2. By this means he wanted the use both of his hands and feet, and so he was forced to hang immovable upon the cross, as being unable to turn any way for his case. 3. The longer he lived, the more he endured, for by the weight of his body his wounds were opened and enlarged, his nerves and veins were rent and torn asunder, and his blood gushed out more and more abundantly still. 4. He died by inch-meal (as I may say) and not at once, the cross was a death long in dying, it kept him a great while upon the rack, it was full three hours betwixt Christ's affixion and expiration, and it would have been longer if he had not freely and willingly given up the Ghost; it is reported that Andrew the Apostle was two whole days on the Cross before he dyed, and so long might Christ have been, if God had not heightened it to greater degrees of torment supernaturally.

2. For the pain, it was a painfull death; that appears several wayes; As— 1. His legs and hands were violently racked, and pulled out to the places fitted for his fastening, and then pierced through with nails. 2. By this means he wanted the use both of his hands and feet, and so he was forced to hang immovable upon the cross, as being unable to turn any way for his case. 3. The longer he lived, the more he endured, for by the weight of his body his wounds were opened and enlarged, his nerves and veins were rent and torn asunder, and his blood gushed out more and more abundantly still. 4. He died by inch-meal (as I may say) and not at once, the cross was a death long in dying, it kept him a great while upon the rack, it was full three hours betwixt Christ's affixion and expiration, and it would have been longer if he had not freely and willingly given up the Ghost; it is reported that Andrew the Apostle was two whole dayes on the Cross before he dyed, and so long might Christ have been, if God had not heightened it to greater degrees of torment supernaturally.

I may add to this, as above all this, the pains of his soul whiles he hanged on the cross, for there also Christ had his agonies, and soul conflicts, these were those [Greek or Hebrew], those pains, or pangs of death, from which Peter tells us Christ was loosed.