A65285:799
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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Resp. The Humane Nature being united to the Divine, the Humane Nature did suffer, the Divine did satisfy: Christ's Godhead as it did support the Humane Nature that it did not faint, so it did give Virtue to his Sufferings. The Altar sanctifies the thing offered on it, Matth. 23.19. so the Altar of Christ's Divine Nature sanctified the Sacrifice of his Death, and made it of infinite value.
Resp. The Humane Nature being united to the Divine, the Humane Nature did suffer, the Divine did satisfie: Christ's Godhead as it did support the Humane Nature that it did not faint, so it did give Vertue to his Sufferings. The Altar sanctifies the thing offered on it, Matth. 23.19. so the Altar of Christ's Divine Nature sanctified the Sacrifice of his Death, and made it of infinite value.
Quest. Wherein doth the Greatness of Christ's sufferings appear?
Resp. In the Sufferings of his Body, he suffered truly, not only a [Greek or Hebrew], an Appearance; the Apostle calls it Mors Crucis, The Death of the Cross, Phil. 2.8. Tully when he speaks of this kind of Death, Quid dicam in crucem toiler? though he were a great Orator, he wanted words to express it. The thoughts of this made Christ sweat drops of Blood in the Garden, Luke 22.44. It was an ignominious, painful, cursed Death; Christ suffered in all his Senses, 1. In his Eyes, they beheld two sad Objects, he saw his Enemies insulting, and his Mother weeping. 2. In his Ears, his Ears were filled with the Revilings of the People,