The Fountain of Life Opened

And this kind of desertion which is respective, temporary, and only in regard of manifestation, is justly distinguished from the various ends and designs of it, into probational, cautional, castigatory, and penal. Probational desertions are only for the proof and trial of grace. Cautional desertions are designed to prevent sin. Castigatory desertions are Gods rods to chastise his people for sin. Penal desertions are such as are inflicted as the just reward of sin, for the reparation of that wrong sinners have done by their sins. Of this sort was Christs desertion. A part of the curse, and a special part. And his bearing it was no small part of the reparation, or satisfaction he made for our sins.

And this kind of desertion which is respective, temporary, and only in regard of manifestation, is justly distinguished from the various ends and designs of it, into probational, cautional, castigatory, and poenal. Probational desertions are only for the proof and trial of grace. Cautional desertions are designed to prevent sin. Castigatory desertions are Gods rods to chastize his people for sin. Poenal desertions are such as are inflicted as the just reward of sin, for the reparation of that wrong sinners have done by their sins. Of this sort was Christs desertion. A part of the curse, and a special part. And his bearing it was no small part of the reparation, or satisfaction he made for our sins.

More particularly, to open the nature of this desertion of Christ by his Father, there being much of intricacy and difficulty in it. I shall proceed in the explication of it Negatively, and Positively.

First, Negatively, when Christ cries out of Gods forsaking him, he doth not mean that he had dissolved the personal union of the two natures. Not as if the marriage knot which united our nature to the person of Christ was loosed, or a divorce made betwixt them. No, for when he was forsaken of God, he was still true and real Godman in one person.