9. Consider the darkness that spread over all the Earth; now was the Sun ashamed to show his brightness; considering that the Father of lights was darkened with such disgrace; the Heavens discoloured their beauty, and are in mourning robes; the Lamp of Heaven is immantled with a miraculous Eclipse; the Sun in the firmament, will sympathize with the Sun of Righteousness; it will not appear in glory, though it be midday, because the Lord of Glory is thus disgraced. And now hear the voice that comes from the Son of God, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Christ in the Garden tasted the bitter cup of God's fierce wrath, but now he drunk the dregs of it; he then sipped off the top, but now he drunk all off, top, and bottom, and all. O but what's the meaning of this; My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Surely, 1. This was not a total, but a partial dereliction, this was not a perpetual, but a temporary forsaking of him; the Godhead was not took away from the manhood, but the union remained still, even now when the Manhood was forsaken. 2. This was not a forsaking on Christ's part, but only on the Father's part; the Father forsook Christ, but Christ went after him; God took away the sense of his love, but the Son of God laid hold upon him, crying, and saying, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 3. This forsaking was not in respect of his being, but in respect of the feeling of God's favour, love, and mercy; certainly God loved him still, Oh but his sense of comfort was now quite gone, so as it never was before: In his agony there was some inklings of God's mercy, now and then at least there was some star-light, some little flash of lightning to cheer him up, but now all the sense and feeling of God's love was gone, and not so much as any little star-light of the same appeared. Christ now took the place of sinners, and God the Father shut him out (as it were) amongst the sinners; he drew his mercy out of sight, and out of hearing, and therefore he cried out in a kind of wonderment, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? After this he speaks but a few words more, and he gives up the Ghost. He dyes that we might live, he is dissolved in himself, that we might be united to his Father;
9. Consider the darkness that spread over all the Earth; now was the Sun ashamed to shew his brightness; considering that the Father of lights was darkned with such disgrace; the Heavens discoloured their beauty, and are in mourning robes; the Lamp of Heaven is immantled with a miraculous Eclipse; the Sun in the firmament, will simpathize with the Sun of Righteousness; it will not appear in glory, though it be midday, because the Lord of Glory is thus disgraced. And now hear the voice that comes from the Son of God, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Christ in the Garden tasted the bitter cup of God's fierce wrath, but now he drunk the dregs of it; he then sipped off the top, but now he drunk all off, top, and bottom, and all. O but what's the meaning of this; My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Surely, 1. This was not a total, but a partial dereliction, this was not a perpetual, but a temporary forsaking of him; the Godhead was not took away from the manhood, but the union remained still, even now when the Manhood was forsaken. 2. This was not a forsaking on Christ's part, but only on the Father's part; the Father forsook Christ, but Christ went after him; God took away the sense of his love, but the Son of God laid hold upon him, crying, and saying, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 3. This forsaking was not in respect of his being, but in respect of the feeling of God's favour, love, and mercy; certainly God loved him still, Oh but his sense of comfort was now quite gone, so as it never was before: In his agony there was some inklings of God's mercy, now and then at least there was some star-light, some little flash of lightning to cheer him up, but now all the sense and feeling of God's love was gone, and not so much as any little star-light of the same appeared. Christ now took the place of sinners, and God the Father shut him out (as it were) amongst the sinners; he drew his mercy out of sight, and out of hearing, and therefore he cryed out in a kind of wonderment, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? After this he speaks but a few words more, and he gives up the Ghost. He dyes that we might live, he is dissolved in himself, that we might be united to his Father;
