The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…

There be some accidental parts and points of punishment, which fall upon man but cannot fall upon Jesus Christ, which I will touch in a few instances.

There be some accidental parts and points of punishment, which fall upon man but cannot fall upon Iesus Christ, which I will touch in a few instances.

Instance 1. Eternity of punishment befalls man, Math. 25.41, 46. Everlasting fire, Everlasting punishment, Mark. 9.44, 45, 46, 48. the worm dyeth not, nor is the fire quenched. But this is so, because of the inability of a finite Creature to satisfy infinite justice. But Jesus Christ is God-man, and therefore he is able to satisfy infinite justice in a finite time, because he is an infinite person, and therefore his sufferings are of infinite value, his sufferings make up in value, what they be short in time of duration. He suffered infinite punishment, wrath and curse, in a finite short time. As the first Adam if he had stood, though a finite person, should have finished perfect active obedience to the Law, in a finite time, because he was a person fitly qualified by God, for such a service, being furnished with the perfect image of God. So the second Adam did in a finite time finish all obedience to the Law, both active and passive, and fulfilled our Covenant of works, being an infinite person, and infinitely qualified for that work, having the Spirit without measure, an infinite person suffered & obeyed satisfactorily, in a finite time, he had Gods image perfectly, and therefore perfectly fitted and qualified for that great work. Thirty three years and an half were requisite, wherein Jesus Christ might perform and fulfil perfect obedience to the Law, both active and passive; and perform all that which Justice did require at the hand of man.

Instance 1. Eternity of punishment befals man, Math. 25.41, 46