Monthly preparations for the Holy Communion by R.B

II. His Sufferings are the things here next to be commemorated. Great were his Trials, from God, from Hell, and from this World. With great composedness and gallantry of spirit did he endure them, and work his ⟨image 4⟩passage through them to that exalted state, wherein he had so much to do with God for us: In all these and in his preparations for them, doth he appear most exemplary to us, claiming and urging our Conformity to his obedient, submissive, and resolved self. And in his Meritorious Sufferings and Expiatory Death, must we discern and think severely on, what there and thence was evident; viz. Gods Wisdom, Majesty, Holiness, and his Governing Justice, and Prerogatives; the sinfulness of sin, the misery of Revolted Man, the equity and power of God's Violated Law; and the eminence of the Divine above the Animal Life, Nature, and Concerns.

II. His Sufferings are the things here next to be commemorated. Great were his Tryals, from God, from Hell, and from this World. With great composedness and gallantry of spirit did he endure them, and work his ⟨image 4⟩passage through them to that exalted state, wherein he had so much to do with God for us: In all these and in his preparations for them, doth he appear most exemplary to us, claiming and urging our Conformity to his obedient, submissive, and resolved self. And in his Meritorious Sufferings and Expiatory Death, must we discern and think severely on, what there and thence was evident; viz. Gods Wisdom, Majesty, Holiness, and his Governing Justice, and Prerogatives; the sinfulness of sin, the misery of Revolted Man, the equity and power of God's Violated Law; and the eminence of the Divine above the Animal Life, Nature, and Concerns.

III. Our Interest in, and Benefit by these his Sufferings, are next to exercise our thoughts. He died to let us see,