The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By…

1. It appears by the Will of Christ: when he paid down his Obedience, what was his meaning? Surely not a tittle of his Obedience was irrationally done, nor a drop of his Blood irrationally shed; what then was his meaning in it? Was it not to dissolve the Chains of Sin, open the Prison of Wrath, and spoil and triumph over the bloody Jailer Satan? Was it not to procure the standing of the Body of Nature, the shedding down of the Spirit of Grace, and the opening a door to Heaven and eternal Life? These were the things on which the divine and humane Will of Christ were both set: his divine Will was set upon them; for before the foundations of the World, even in his joyous Eternity with his Father, his delights were with the sons of men, Prov. 8. 31. and when the World was up, he appeared to Abraham in a humane shape, and to Moses to usher in a temporal Redemption; the first as a praeludium to his Incarnation, and the latter as a praeludium to our Redemption, and both as a demonstration that the work of Salvation was in his Heart. And afterwards in the days of his flesh, his humane Will never parted from his divine, but in a rape of Love always run upon Redemption; ⟨p. 274⟩this he sought for in a long circuit of Obedience, and sought with a [Greek or Hebrew] till it was finished; this he sought for in his bloody Agony, and when his humane Will as Nature shrunk back from the Cup of Wrath, yet the same Will as Reason kissed and drunk it off to the bottom in order to Redemption; this he ardently pursued after through Cross-tortures and Soul-travels, and rather than fail of it, he would for a time be forsaken even of God himself; and when he cried out, I thirst, his greatest thirst of all was after this, and could never be quenched till he came to a consummatum est. Thus stood the mind of Christ in the business.

1. It appears by the Will of Christ: when he paid down his Obedience, what was his meaning? Surely not a tittle of his Obedience was irrationally done, nor a drop of his Blood irrationally shed; what then was his meaning in it? Was it not to dissolve the Chains of Sin, open the Prison of Wrath, and spoil and triumph over the bloody Jaylor Satan? Was it not to procure the standing of the Body of Nature, the shedding down of the Spirit of Grace, and the opening a door to Heaven and eternal Life? These were the things on which the divine and humane Will of Christ were both set: his divine Will was set upon them; for before the foundations of the World, even in his joyous Eternity with his Father, his delights were with the sons of men,