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Secondly, This sanctifying or consecrating himself to be a Sacrifice for us, implies the greatness and dreadfulness of that breach which sin made betwixt God and us. You see no less Sacrifice than Christ himself, must be sanctified, to make atonement. Judge of the greatness of the wound, by the breadth of the plaster. Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt offering for sin, thou wouldst not, but a body hast thou prepared me, Heb. 10.5. All our repentance, could we shed as many tears for Sin, as there have fallen drops of rain, Since the Creation, could not have been our atonement: but God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself. And had he not sanctified Christ to this end, he would have sanctified himself upon us, in Judgement, and fury for ever.

Secondly, This sanctifying or consecrating himself to be a Sacrifice for us, implys the greatness and dreadfulne•s of that breach which sin made betwixt God and us. You see no less Sacrifice than Christ himself, must be sanctified, to make attonement. Judge of the greatness of the wound, by the breadth of the plaister. Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt offering for sin, thou wouldst not, but a body hast thou prepared me, Heb. 10.5. All our repentance, could we shed as many tears for Sin, as there have fallen drops of rain, Since the Creation, could not have been our attonement: but God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself. And had he not sanctified Christ to this end, he would have sanctified himself upon us, in Judgement, and fury for ever.

Thirdly, This his sanctifying himself, implies his free and voluntary undertakement of the Work. It is not I am sanctified, as if he he had been merely passive in it; as the Lambs that typed him out were,¹ when plucked from the fold: but it's an active verb that he uses here, I sanctify my self, he would have none think that he dyed out of a necessity of compulsion, but out of choice. Therefore he is said to offer up himself to God,