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Secondly, Consider how dreadful a Revenge God took on his own dear Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, when he came to satisfy his Justice upon him for our Sins. His Wrath fell infinitely heavy upon him, and the pressure of it was so intolerable, that it squeezed out drops of clotted Blood from him in the Garden, and that sad Cry on the Cross, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And yet,

Secondly, Consider how dreadful a Revenge God took on his own dear Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, when he came to satisfy his Justice upon him for our Sins. His Wrath fell infinitely heavy upon him, and the pressure of it was so intollerable, that it squeezed out drops of clotted Blood from him in the Garden, and that sad Cry on the Cross, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And yet,

First, Our Lord Christ was supported under all his Sufferings by the ineffable Union of ⟨p. 119⟩the Deity. He had infinite Power for him, as well as against him; infinite Power to bear him up, as well as to crush him. In Christ's Sufferings, the Power of God seemed as it were to encounter with it self, and to run contrary to it self in the same Channel. And as he had the support of infinite Power in his Sufferings, so likewise had he in the greatest of his Agonies the Ministry of Angels to comfort him, and to refresh the Droppings and Faintings of his Humane Nature. And,

First, Our Lord Christ was supported under all his Sufferings by the ineffable Union of ⟨p. 119⟩the Deity. He had infinite Power for him, as well as against him; infinite Power to bear him up, as well as to crush him. In Christ's Sufferings, the Power of God seem'd as it were to encounter with it self, and to run contrary to it self in the same Channel. And as he had the support of infinite Power in his Sufferings, so likewise had he in the greatest of his Angonies the Ministry of Angels to comfort him, and to refresh the Droopings and Faintings of his Humane Nature. And,