The harmony of the divine attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of man's redemption…

2. The most evident and sensible proof of the greatness of Gods Love to Mankind, is in the Sufferings of our Redeemer to obtain our Pardon. He is called in Scripture, ¹A man of Sorrows, the title signifies their number and quality. His whole Life was a continual Passion: He suffered the contradiction of Sinners, who by their malicious Calumnies obscured the lustre of his Miracles and most innocent Actions: He endured the Temptations of Satan in the Desert: He was often in danger of his Life; But all these were nothing in comparison of his last Sufferings. 'Tis therefore said, that at the bare apprehension of them, He began to be sorrowful, as if He had never felt any Grief till then: His former Afflictions were like scattered drops of Rain; But as in the Deluge All the Fountains beneath, and all the Windows of Heaven above were opened; So in our Saviours last Sufferings, the Anger of God, the Cruelty of Men, the Fury of Devils broke out together against him. And that the degrees of his Love may be measured by those of his Sufferings, it will be fit to consider them with respect to his Soul and his Body. The Gospel delivers to us the relation of both.

2. The most evident and sensible proof of the greatness of Gods Love to Mankind, is in the Sufferings of our Redeemer to obtain our Pardon. He is called in Scripture, ¹A man of Sorrows, the title signifies their number and quality. His whole Life was a continual Passion: He suffered the contradiction of Sinners, who by their malicious Calumnies obscur'd the lustre of his Miracles and most innocent Actions: He endured the Temptations of Satan in the Desert: He was often in danger of his Life; But all these were nothing in comparison of his last Sufferings. 'Tis therefore said, that at the bare apprehension of them, He began to be sorrowful, as if He had never felt any Grief till then: His former Afflictions were like scatter'd drops of Rain; But as in the Deluge All the Fountains beneath, and all the Windows of Heaven above were opened; So in our Saviours last Sufferings, the Anger of God, the Cruelty of Men, the Fury of Devils broke out together against him. And that the degrees of his Love may be measured by those of his Sufferings, it will be fit to consider them with respect to his Soul and his Body. The Gospel delivers to us the relation of both.