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Secondly, The death of the Cross was a most painful death. Indeed in this death were many deaths contrived in one. The Cross was a Rack, as well as a Gibber. The pains Christ suffered upon the Cross, are by the Apostle emphatically styled [Greek or Hebrew], Act. 2.24. the pains of death: but properly they signify the pangs of travail: yea, the birth pangs, the most acute sorrows of a travailing woman. His soul was in travail, Isai. 53. His body in bitter pangs; and being as Aquinas speaks, optime complectionatus, of the most excellent Crisis, exact and just temperament; his senses were more acute and delicate than ordinary: and all the time of his suffering so they continued; not in the least blunted, dulled or rebated by the pains he suffered.

Secondly, The death of the Cross was a most painful death. Indeed in this death were many deaths contrived in one. The Cross was a Rack, as well as a Gibber. The pains Christ suffered upon the Cross, are by the Apostle emphatically stiled 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Act. 2.24. the pains of death: but properly they signifie the pangs of travail: yea, the birth pangs, the most acute sorrows of a travailing woman. His soul was in travail, Isai. 53. His body in bitter pangs; and being as Aquinas speaks, optime complectionatus, of the most excellent Crisis, exact and just temperament; his sences were more acute and delicate than ordinary: and all the time of his suffering so they continued; not in the least blunted, dulled or rebated by the pains he suffered.

¹The death of Christ doubtless contained the greatest, and acutest pains imaginable. Because these pains of Christ alone, were intended to equalize all that misery, which the sin of man deserved, all that pain which the damned shall, and the Elect deserved to feel. Now to have pains meeting at once upon one person, equivalent to all the pains of the damned: Judge you what a plight Christ was in.