Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons

First, Thereby he testified that he had not lost his confidence in God as a Father, in the former words he had cried out and said, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me: Men might think: if he had so dyed) that he had quite lost his confidence; but now that he concludes all with this, it shows, that God had not forsaken him, and that he had not lost his confidence in God. Possibly a dying Christian may be in an Agony at the beginning of his Sickness, yet may sweetly believe at the last. n ⟨p. 163⟩the former part of his death, Christ was in an Agony, but he closes up all with full assurance of faith. Father into thy hands I commend my spirit.

First, Thereby he testified that he had not lost his confidence in God as a Father, in the former words he had cryed out and said, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me: Men might think: if he had so dyed) that he had quite lost his confidence; but now that he concludes all with this, it shews, that God had not forsaken him, and that he had not lost his confidence in God. Possibly a dying Christian may be in an Agony at the beginning of his Sickness, yet may sweetly believe at the last. n ⟨p. 163⟩the former part of his death, Christ was in an Agony, but he closes up all with full assurance of faith. Father into thy hands I commend my spirit.

Secondly, Thereby also he did commend the souls of all those that he dyed for, into the hands of God; for he was now offering up himself through the eternal spirit unto God for us, as our common person, and as in his Prayer, John 17. he did not only pray for himself, but for us; So in this act and deed he did commend the souls and spirits of all those that he dyed for into the hands of God: As he dyed in our room and stead, so in our room he said, &c. And when should he do this more fitly, then at the last of his suffering?