The great duty of resignation to the divine will in afflictions enforced from the…

Secondly; The Greatness of his Sufferings. They were incomparable as to their value, so in their degrees. He endured the equal extremities of Infamy and Torment, that are so contrary to the inclinations of Mankind. He was Crowned with a cruel Diadem of Thorns, Scourged, Spit upon, Derided, Crucified; Insensible Nature, as if capable of Understanding and Affection, was disordered in its whole frame at his Death. The Heavens sympathized, in Eclipses of the Sun, in the darkness of the Air at Midday, as Midnight; the Earth quaked with deep Tremblings, and the Rocks were rent a sunder. And the Sufferings of his Soul from the ⟨p. 102⟩incensed Justice of God were inconceivably great. What is the worst we suffer either immediately from God, or instrumentally from Men, to his bitter Passion? Our Sufferings are but superficial shadows of Misery, compared to his deep Sorrows.

Secondly; The Greatness of his Sufferings. They were incomparable as to their value, so in their degrees. He endured the equal extremities of Infamy and Torment, that are so contrary to the inclinations of Mankind. He was Crowned with a cruel Diadem of Thorns, Scourged, Spit upon, Derided, Crucified; Insensible Nature, as if capable of Understanding and Affection, was disordered in its whole frame at his Death. The Heavens sympathized, in Eclipses of the Sun, in the darkness of the Air at Midday, as Midnight; the Earth quak't with deep Tremblings, and the Rocks were rent a sunder. And the Sufferings of his Soul from the ⟨p. 102⟩incensed Justice of God were inconceivably great. What is the worst we suffer either immediately from God, or instrumentally from Men, to his bitter Passion? Our Sufferings are but superficial shadows of Misery, compared to his deep Sorrows.

Thirdly; His Sufferings were most undeserved: For he was the Holy One of God, his Conception without the least taint of Sin, his Life of strictest Purity, and complete Obedience to the Divine Law. We may read the process of our Sins, and understand their Guilt in his Passion. He was made Sin for us, (a Sacrifice to atone the Divine Displeasure) who knew no Sin: As David when Guilty of Adultery and Murder, was fired with disdain at the relation of an incompassionate