The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

5. Look upon sin in Christ: See there what Humblings, what Breakings, what Woundings, what Piercings, what Wrath it brought upon Christ himself. It was that, which mingled that Bitter Cup, with such woeful ingredients; which, had we but fipt of it, when it was so tempered, would have laid our souls under more wrath, than All the damned in Hell do suffer. Christ did Bear Pure Justice for sin.

5. Look upon sin in Christ: See there what Humblings, what Breakings, what Woundings, what Peircings, what Wrath it brought upon Christ himself. It was that, which mingled that Bitter Cup, with such woful ingredients; which, had we but fipt of it, when it was so tempered, would have laid our souls under more wrath, than All the damned in Hell do suffer. Christ did Bear Pure Justice for sin.

Nay, it made him, who was God as well as man, sanctified by the Spirit to that work, strengthened by the Deity, To sweat drops of blood, and even to struggle, and seem to draw back, and pray against the work of his own Mercy, and to decline the business of his own coming into the world.

Nay, it made him, who was God as well as man, sanctified by the Spirit to that work, strengthned by the Deity, To sweat drops of blood, and even to struggle, and seem to draw back, and pray against the work of his own Mercy, and to decline the business of his own coming into the world.

Ah! none knows but Christ, nor is a finite understanding able to conceive, what Christ underwent, when he was to Bear sin, and with that To wrestle with the infinite wrath and justice of the infinite God; the Terrors of death, and the Powers of the world to come. Here is a Glass, wherein you may see The greatness of sin, The wideness of sin, The guilt of sin, The demerit of sin: All which are set out to the life, in the Death, Sufferings, Breakings and Woundings of the Son of God.