I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…

The punishment which the Law (The day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt die the death) doth threaten, is death, and the Wrath of God, paena sensus, et paena damni. Now those that oppose the Truth in hand, say that Christ did not bear the Wrath of God, nor was forsaken by God, as to his Soul: And is an outward forsaking, being left to the malice of men, equivalent to the Wrath of God.

Either Christ did bear the Wrath of God, or not; either he did endure the punishment of loss and sense upon his Soul and Body, or not; if he did, then he did endure the same punishment in kind, that we should have done; if he did not, but somewhat equivalent, then there is some evil that is equivalent to the Wrath of God: But there is no evil equivalent to the Wrath of God, surely therefore he did endure our punishment in kind, even the Wrath of God, and the torments of Hell for us: so far as they were due to us by the Threatening in it self considered. And if Christ have thus suffered for us, both in his Soul and body, then his Travel was a sore Travel. But,

Either Christ did bear the Wrath of God, or not; either he did endure the punishment of loss and sence upon his Soul and Body, or not; if he did, then he did endure the same punishment in kind, that we should have done; if he did not, but somwhat equivalent, then there is some evil that is equivalent to the Wrath of God: But there is no evil equivalent to the Wrath of God, surely therfore he did endure our punishment in kind, even the Wrath of God, and the torments of Hel for us: so far as they were due to us by the Threatning in it self considered. And if Christ have thus suffered for us, both in his Soul and body, then his Travel was a sore Travel. But,

Secondly: As the Travel of Christ, was a sore Travel; so it was a long and tedious Travel; he was in the pains of this Travel from his Cradle, to the last breath of his Cross; not only in his Death,