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

The Sorrows of his forsaken state were inexpressibly great; for according to the degree and sense we have of Happiness, such in proportion is our grief for the loss of it. Now Christ had the fullest enjoyment, and the highest valuation of Gods favour. His enjoyment was raised above what the most glorious Spirits are capable of: All his Faculties were pure and vigorous, never blunted with Sin, and intimately united to the Deity. How cutting then was it to his Soul, to be suspended from the perfect vision of God? To be divorced as it were from himself, and to lose that Paradise He always had within Him? If all the Angels of Light were at once deprived of their glory, the loss were not equal to this dreadful eclipse of the Sun of Righteousness: As if all the Stars were extinguished, the ⟨p. 177⟩darkness would not be so terrible, as if the Sun the fountain of light were put out. Whatever his Sufferings were in kind, yet in degree they were answerable to the full and just desert of Sin, and surpassed the power of the Humane or Angelical Nature to endure. In short, His Sorrows were only equalled by that Love which procured them.

The Sorrows of his forsaken state were inexpressibly great; for according to the degree and sense we have of Happiness, such in proportion is our grief for the loss of it. Now Christ had the fullest enjoyment, and the highest valuation of Gods favour. His enjoyment was rais'd above what the most glorious Spirits are capable of: All his Faculties were pure and vigorous, never blunted with Sin, and intimately united to the Deity. How cutting then was it to his Soul, to be suspended from the perfect vision of God? To be divorc'd as it were from himself, and to lose that Paradise He alwaies had within Him? If all the Angels of Light were at once depriv'd of their glory, the loss were not equal to this dreadful eclipse of the Sun of Righteousness: As if all the Stars were extinguisht, the ⟨p. 177⟩darkness would not be so terrible, as if the Sun the fountain of light were put out. Whatever his Sufferings were in kind, yet in degree they were answerable to the full and just desert of Sin, and surpast the power of the Humane or Angelical Nature to endure. In short, His Sorrows were only equall'd by that Love which procured them.