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I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…
I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet. I. 19 : II. Christ in travel ... in three sermons on Isai. 53. 11 : III. A lifting up for the down-cast ... delivered in thirteen sermons on Psal. 42, 11 : four several sermons ... / preached by William Bridge ...
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1656
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
If it were only a Corporal Death▪ that Christ thus feared, then they should suffer with more boldness and courage than our Saviour: but come,1 says Gerard, and I will tell you what is the Reason that our Saviour was thus afraid, and they so bold: Our Saviour, saith he, drunk of the Brook in the way; but their drink was sweetened with his Death; Christ did conflict with Sin, Satan, Death, and Hell; Enemies whose force was never broken before: but the Martyrs only grappled with death; a broken Troop of Sorrows, that rallied again, but was broken, and overcome before: Christ did sustain the Malediction, and Curse of the Law. There was a Curse in his Death, but the Curse was taken out of the death of Martyrs.2 Christ did not only conflict with a temporal, but Eternal Death; but the Martyrs knew that they were free from eternal Death; Christ bare all their sins: But when they came to suffer, the sting of Death (which is sin) was taken out, and upon this account, one of the Martyrs said,3 when he came to suffer, Christ grieved at his Death, that I might rejoice in mine; he had my sin on him, and I have his Righteousness, and Merits on me. Yea, he did then endure the torments of Hell in his sufferings, that by our sufferings we might go to Heaven.
If it were only a Corporal Death▪ that Christ thus feared, then they should suffer with more boldness and courage than our Savior: but come,1 saies Gerard, and I wil tel you what is the Reason that our Savior was thus afraid, and they so bold: Our Savior, saith he, drunk of the Brook in the way; but their drink was sweetened with his Death; Christ did conflict with Sin, Satan, Death, and Hel; Enemies whose force was never broken before: but the Martyrs only grappled with death; a broken Troop of Sorrows, that rallied again, but was broken, and overcome before: Christ did sustain the Malediction, and Curse of the Law. There was a Curse in his Death, but the Curse was taken out of the death of Martyrs.