3. His sufferings and rendering up himself as an atonement and Sacrifice upon the Cross, This also was wholly of God for us;1 The Prophet Isaiah is affected with it, He laid upon him the iniquities of us all, and by his stripes we are healed, Isa. 53.5. Thus every where his death is said to be for us, he died for us, he gave himself for us, and it must needs be so, for in him was found nothing worthy of death; There was no sin or guile found in him, he was not under that Sentence pronounced upon Adam and his posterity: And here again, the people of God may lift up their heads with joy, Christ died, he became ⟨p. 194⟩a Sacrifice to the justice of God not because of himself but of us; Hence it's said, His blood speaks better things then that of Abel Heb. 12.24. Abel's blood cried for vengeance, this for mercy, and if Abel though dead speaketh, how much more must Christ who though dead is risen again: May not this be an Axe laid to the root of all thy unbelief? Shall the godly heart be any more bowed down when he shall remember all those Agonies which Christ did undergo were for us; Shall thy sins be accounted great, and Christs death not greater? Go thou troubled and grieved Soul, we will give thee leave to aggravate thy sins to the highest; Let them be never so bloody, yea, hadst thou committed more then thou hast done, yea, all that all the wicked men of the world have done, Were all their sins thine? yet here is the Red Sea to drown that great Egyptian host; Oh that men could have as good cause to judge that they are ingrafted in Christ, and are such to whom Christ belongs, as they may conclude that if such, Christs death doth overcome all their sins; It was nothing In Christ but in thee that made him a Curse upon the Cross.
3. His sufferings and rendring up himself as an atonement and Sacrifice upon the Crosse, This also was wholly of God for us;1 The Prophet Isaiah is affected with it, He laid upon him the iniquities of us all, and by his stripes we are healed, Isa. 53.5. Thus every where his death is said to be for us, he died for us, he gave himself for us, and it must needs be so, for in him was found nothing worthy of death; There was no sin or guile found in him, he was not under that Sentence pronounced upon Adam and his posterity: And here again, the people of God may lift up their heads wiih joy, Christ died, he became ⟨p. 194⟩a Sacrifice to the justice of God not because of himself but of us; Hence it's said, His bloud speaks better things then that of Abel Heb. 12.24. Abels bloud cried for vengeance, this for mercy, and if Abel though dead speaketh, how much more must Christ who though dead is risen again: May not this be an Axe laid to the root of all thy unbelief? Shall the godly heart be any more bowed down when he shall remember all those Agonies which Christ did undergo were for us; Shall thy sins be accounted great, and Christs death not greater? Go thou troubled and grieved Soul, we will give thee leave to aggravate thy sins to the highest; Let them be never so bloudy, yea, hadst thou committed more then thou hast done, yea, all that all the wicked men of the world have done, Were all their sins thine? yet here is the Red Sea to drown that great Egyptian host; Oh that men could have as good cause to judge that they are ingrafted in Christ, and are such to whom Christ belongs, as they may conclude that if such, Christs death doth overcome all their sins; It was nothing In Christ but in thee that made him a Curse upon the Crosse.
- 1His sufferings.
