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

The anguish of his Soul was not merely from sympathy with his Body, but immediately from Divine Displeasure. It pleased the Lord to bruise him: this principally respects the Impressions of Wrath made upon his inward Man.¹ Had the Cup he feared been only Death, with the bitter ingredients of dishonour and pain, many have drank it with more appearing resolution. The Martyrs endured more cruel torments without complaint; nay in their sharpest conflicts have expressed a triumphant joy. Whereas our ⟨p. 244⟩Redeemer was under all the innocent degrees of fear and sorrow at the approach of his Sufferings. From whence was the difference? Had Christ less Courage? He was the Fountain of their Fortitude: the difference was not in the disposition of the Patients, but in the Nature of the Sufferings. He endured that which is infinitely more terrible than all outward torments. The Light of Joy that always shined in his Soul, a sweet Image of Heaven, was then totally eclipsed. God, the Fountain of Compassion, restrained himself; his Father appeared a severe inexorable Judge, and dealt with him not as his Son, but our Surety. Under all the Cruelties exercised by men, the Lamb of God opened not his mouth, but when the Father of Mercies, and the God of all Consolations forsook him, then he broke forth into a mournful complaint. Now by this account of Christs Sufferings from Scripture, 'tis evident, they were truly penal; for they were inflicted for Sin, by the Supreme Judg, and were equivalent to the Sentence of the Law. And the benefit we receive upon their account, proves that they are satisfaction to Divine Justice, for we are exempted from Punishment, by his Submission to it. He freed us from the Curse of the Law, being made a Curse for us. ²The Chastisements of our Peace was upon him, by whose stripes we are healed. So that his Death being the Meritorious Cause of freeing the Guilty, is properly Satisfaction.

The anguish of his Soul was not meerly from sympathy with his Body, but immediately from Divine Displeasure. It pleased the Lord to bruise him: this principally respects the Impressions of Wrath made upon his inward Man.¹ Had the Cup he fear'd been onely Death, with the bitter ingredients of dishonour and pain, many have drank it with more appearing resolution. The Martyrs endured more cruel torments without complaint; nay in their sharpest conflicts have exprest a triumphant joy. Whereas our