Of domesticall duties eight treatises. I. An exposition of that part of Scripture out…

§. 29. Of the willingness of Christ to die.

§. 29. Of the willingnesse of Christ to die.

That Christ willingly died is evident by the circumstances noted about his death: when Peter counselled him to spare himself, and not to go to Jerusalem (where he was to be put to death) ^bhe called him Satan, and said, he was an offence to him: when Judas went out to betray him, ^che said unto him, That thou doest, do quickly: ^dWhen Judas was gone out to get company to apprehend him, he went to the place where he was wont, so as Judas might readily find him; yea, he met them in the mid-way that came to take him; and he asked them whom they sought, though he knew whom they sought: and when they said, Jesus of Nazareth, he answered, I am he: When they came to him, he drove them all backward with a word of his mouth, and yet would not escape from them: ^eHe could have prayed to the Father to have had more then twelve legions of Angels for his safeguard against those that apprehended him, but would not: ^fwhen by his adversaries he was provoked to have come down from the Cross, and could have done so, he would not. ^aAt the instant of giving up the ghost, he cried with a loud voice: which showeth that his life was not then spent, he might have retained it longer if he would: and thereupon the Centurion gathered that he was the Son of God. ^hWhen he was actually dead, and laid in a grave, he rose again. These & other like circumstances verify