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

This will appear more fully, by considering what the desert of Sin is. By our Rebellion we made the forfeiture of Soul & Body to Divine Justice: Death, both the first and the second, was the Sentence of the Law. Now the Sufferings of Christ were answerable to this Punishment. The Death which the Law threatened for Sin, was to be accompanied with Dishonour and Pain. And he suffered the Death of the Cross to which a special Curse was annexed. And this was not only in respect of the Judgment of Men, before whom a Crucified person was made a Spectacle of public Vengeance for his Crimes, but in respect of Gods declaration concerning it. The Jews were commanded that none should hang on a Tree longer then the Evening;¹ lest the Holy Land should be profaned by that, which was an express mark of Gods Curse. Now the legal Curse was a Typical signification of the real, that should be suffered by our Redeemer. Besides, his Death was attended with exquisite pains: he suffered variety of torments, by the scourges, the thorns, the nails, that pierced his Hands and Feet, the least vital, but most sensible parts. ⟨p. 243⟩He refused the Wine mixed with Myrrh, that was given to stupefy the senses; for the design of his Passion required, that he should have the quickest sense of his Sufferings, which were the Punishment of Sin. And his inward Sorrows were equivalent to the pains of loss and sense that are due to Sinners. 'Tis true, there are circumstances in the Sufferings of the damned, as Blasphemy, Rage, Impotent fierceness of mind, which are not appointed by the Law, but are accidental arising from the perverseness of their Spirits: For the punishment of the Law is a Physical evil, but these are Moral: and that punishment is inflicted by the Judge, but these are only from the guilty Sufferers: Now to these he was not possibly liable. Besides, the Death that the Sinner ought to Suffer is Eternal, attended with despair, and the intolerable anguish of Conscience. Now our Redeemer having no real Guilt, was not liable to the worm of Conscience, and his Temporary Sufferings were equivalent to the Eternal, upon the account of his Divine Person, so that he was not capable of Despair. But he endured the unknown terrors of the second Death, so far as was consistent with the Perfection of his Nature.

This will appear more fully, by considering what the desert of Sin is. By our Rebellion we made the forfeiture of Soul & Body to Divine Justice: Death, both the first and the second, was the Sentence of the Law. Now the Sufferings of Christ were answerable to this Punishment. The Death which the Law threatned for Sin, was to be accompanied with Dishonour and Pain. And he suffered the Death of the Cross to which a special Curse was annext. And this was not onely in respect of the Judgment of Men, before whom a Crucified person was made a Spectacle of publick Vengeance for his Crimes, but in respect of Gods declaration concerning it. The Jews were commanded that none should hang on a Tree longer then the Evening;