Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

He suffered in his soul; yea, the sufferings of his soul, were the very soul of his sufferings; he felt in his inner man the exquisite torments and ⟨p. 112⟩inexpressible anguish of the wrath of God. Hence was that preternatural bloody sweat in the Garden; and hence that heart-rending out-cry upon the Cross, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

In all which sufferings from Heaven, from Earth, from Hell, from Friends, from Enemies, there was no allay or abatement of the least degree of misery. God spared not his own Son (saith the Text) but delivered him up. Wherein the severity of Divine Justice to Jesus Christ is displayed in these five remarkable considerations following.

First: God spared not: If mercy, pity, and forbearance might be expected ¹from any hand, surely it might be expected from God. He is the Fountain of mercy. The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy, saith the Apostle, Jam. 5. 11. The most melting and tender compassions of a Mother to her Sucking Child, are but cruelty in comparison with divine tenderness and mercy, Isa. 49. 15. Can a Woman forget her sucking Child, that she should not have compassion upon the Son of her Womb; yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

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