The works of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emanuel College in CambridgeThe works of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge

There is nothing that does so satisfy God the Father, as Obedience, and the more full the Obedience is, the more God the Father is satisfied thereby: Now it is said of our Lord and saviour Christ, That in this great sacrifice upon the Cross, he was Obedient. He was Obedient even to the death of the Cross. That he that did make the Law, should come down from Heaven, and be subject to the Law, what Obedience was here! Obedient to the Death. Yea, unto the Deaths (in the plural Number) And he made his grave with the sinners: and his Deaths was with the rich. He made ⟨p. 11⟩his grave with the wicked, and with the rich had his Deaths, Isaiah, 5• ver. 9. It is in the Plural Number in the Hebrew, though in your English translation it is in the Singular. As if the holy Ghost had called death, the Second death that our Lord Christ had in some measure suffered. For, if you consider things truly, and rightly, I believe you will find, that our Lord and Saviour Christ when he died, and was in his agony, he did not only endure the first, but the torments of the second death. He overcame no more than he submitted to: he overcame death by submitting to death. Now he overcame the second death also, and therefore in some measure submitted to the torments of it, so far as he was capable. Look what the first Adam should have endured for his sin in the fall, that the second Adam now did endure in some measure for to take it off: The day that thou eatest thou shalt die the death. It was not barely the corporal, and outward death, but it was the second death. If our Lord and Saviour Christ did not endure the torments of the second death, the wrath of God upon his soul; why did he sweat drops of blood, and tremble, and shake so, when he came to die? There is many Saints, and Martyrs, when they come to die, they go skipping, and leaping, and rejoicing: and our Lord and Saviour, when he came to die, he sweats drops of blood; surely there was more than an outward death: Oh! the wrath of God, and the torments of the second death was upon his soul. Thus obedient he was, and this obedience of his, it was voluntary, for he needed not to have died; but he saw that God the father was dishonoured by mans sin, and that poor man would be lost, and rather than that should be, he does voluntarily offer himself unto this Obedience.

There is nothing that does so satisfie God the Father, as Obedience, and the more full the Obedience is, the more God the Father is satisfied thereby: Now it is said of our Lord and saviour Christ, That in this great sacrifice upon the Crosse, he was Obedient. He was Obedient even to the death of the Cross. That he that did make the Law, should come down from Heaven, and be subject to the Law, what Obedience was here! Obedient to the Death. Yea, unto the Deaths (in the plural Number) And he made his grave with the sinners: and his Deaths was with the rich. He made