Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

Secondly: Faith represents the severity of Divine Justice to Jesus Christ, and the extremity of his sufferings; and this sight is a melting sight.

The Apostle tells us, Gal. 3. 13. he was made [Greek or Hebrew], a Curse, and Execration for us: It relates to the kind and manner of his death upon the Cross, which was the death of a Slave, servile supplicium; a free man was privileged from that punishment. It looks upon, and well considers the sad plight and condition Christ was in, in the days of his Humiliation for us. It's said of him, Matth. 26. 38. he was [Greek or Hebrew] undequaque tristis, surrounded with griefs, exactly answerable to his name, Isa. 53. 3. a man of sorrows. Let him look which way he would, outward or inward, upward or downward, to Friends or Enemies, he could behold nothing but sorrow, and what might increase his misery. Another Evangelist saith he was sore amazed, Mark. 14. 33. [Greek or Hebrew] It notes such a consternation as makes the hair of the head stand upright, horripilatio. A third tells us his s•ul was troubled, Joh. 12. 27. [Greek or Hebrew], Unde Tartarus, a word from whence Hell is derived, ⟨p. 170⟩and denoting the anguish and troubles of them that are in that place of torments.

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