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The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…
The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings of Jesus Christ from his incarnation to his death and burial published by John Eliot ...
Boston: printed by John Foster, 1678
The Harmony of the GOSPELS in the holy History of the Humiliation a… › Chapter 9
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CAP. IX.
The History of some of the Sufferings of Jesus Christ which he lay under and endured through all the course of his Humane life in this world, many of them in this most quiet time of his life before he entered upon his public Ministry
The History of some of the Sufferings of Jesus Christ which he lay under and indured through all the course of his Humane life in this world, many of them in this most quiet time of his life before he entered upon his publick Ministry
MY scope being to explain and set forth the sufferings of Jesus Christ, I shall endeavour according to my poor ability, to show what sufferings Jesus Christ underwent in all this course of his pilgrimage. Jesus Christ having undertaken to be our Advocate with the Father, and to procure our peace with God; as it was incumbent on him to purchase for us the Inheritance promised in the Covenant of works, by fulfilling the Law by his pure, perfect, and meritorious, active obedience unto the Law of God, which Adam left unperformed. So it was incumbent upon our Lord Jesus to suffer the punishment due unto us, for our transgression of the Law. The Captain of our Salvation must be made perfect by suffering. Hence when in his Infancy he fled for his life, from Herod's Jurisdiction into Egypt, this suffering of Christ was a part of the punishment due unto the sin of man, he having taken upon him the imputation of the guilt of the sin of man. The curse and punishment due to sin did justly fall upon him, and under that consideration were all the sufferings of Jesus Christ, he did not suffer affliction as a means of mortification of sin, as we do, for he had no sin to mortify, but all that he suffered was by virtue of his office of a Mediator, and he suffered in all things the punishment due to sin, his sufferings were all of them a branch of the curse, an effect of the guilt of sin, he suffered in all things as a public person, as a Mediator, and therefore in every thing that he suffered he underwent the wrath of God, the curse and punishment of the Law, which was due to sin, never did a man suffer such sufferings, and so, as Jesus Christ suffered. When he returned from Egypt, and his Parents by prudent fear were constrained to withdraw into an obscure corner of the Country, there to hide, and bring up the child, Jesus Christ suffered this as an effect of the guilt of the sin of man, as a branch of the curse and wrathful punishment of the sin of man; and this obscurity did run through his whole life.