A Body of Practical Divinity

5. That Christ should die so willingly, John 10.17. I lay down my Life. The Jews could not have taken it away, if he had not laid it down; he could have called to his Father for a Legion of Angels to be his Life-guard; but what needed that, when his Godhead could have defended him from all Assaults? But he laid down his Life: The Jews did not so much thirst for Christ's Death, as he thirsted for our Redemption; Luke 12.50. I have a Baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished. Christ called his Sufferings a Baptism: He was to be baptized and sprinkled with his own Blood, and Christ thought the time long before he suffered. [Greek or Hebrew], How am I straitened till it be accomplished. Therefore to show Christ's willingness to die, his Sufferings is called an Offering, Heb. 10.10. By the offering of the Body of Jesus: His Death was a Free-will Offering.

5. That Christ should die so willingly, Iohn 10.17. I lay down my Life. The Jews could not have taken it away, if he had not laid it down; he could have called to his Father for a Legion of Angels to be his Life-guard; but what needed that, when his Godhead could have defended him from all Assaults? But he laid down his Life: The Jews did not so much thirst for Christ's Death, as he thirsted for our Redemption; Luke 12.50. I have a Baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitned till it be accomplished. Christ call'd his Sufferings a Baptism: He was to be baptiz'd and sprinkled with his own Blood, and Christ thought the time long before he suffered. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, How am I straitned till it be accomplished. Therefore to show Christ's willingness to die, his Sufferings is called an Offering, Heb. 10.10. By the offering of the Body of Iesus: His Death was a Free-will Offering.