Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an…

Behold our Lord Jesus himself, that could bear the spiteful buffetings of some, the bloody scourgings of others, the scorn and derisions of many; that could suffer the treason of one Apostle, the denial of another, and the unkindness of them all, ⟨p. 99⟩without complaining; yet when the Deity did but withdraw it self for a time, that the humanity might suffer for our sins, how mournfully doth he sigh out that expression, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Matth 27.46. It was not his torturing from men, nor the terrors of devils, not the presence of all the powers of darkness that Christ complained so much of; as the absence of God: Now meditate, O sinner, if the departure of God▪ though partial and temporal, were so terrible to his Saints, to his Son; how intolerable will the loss of God be to thee, when it shall be total and eternal! Do they mourn so bitterly when for a small moment he forsaketh them, though with great mercies he gathereth them, when in a little wrath he hides his face from them, though with everlasting kindness he hath mercy on them? Isa. 54.7, 8. How bitterly wilt thou complain, when he shall forsake thee to eternity, when he shall hide his face from thee for ever, and not bestow on thee the least mercy or the smallest kindness! This will be a woe with a witness: Suffering may be the portion of Saints; but separation from God the punishment of Devils. As the face and ⟨p. 100⟩comfortable presence of God is the greatest felicity of the saved;¹ so the full withdrawings or absence of God will be the greatest misery of the damned.

Behold our Lord Jesus himself, that could bear the spiteful buffetings of some, the bloody scourgings of others, the scorn and derisions of many; that could suffer the treason of one Apostle, the denial of another, and the unkindnesse of them all, ⟨p. 99⟩