Gospel-revelation in three treatises, viz, 1 The nature of God. 2 The excellencies of…

Fourthly, Christ he suffered these things from his Father, that makes the wonder greater, and so his sufferings greater; he did not suffer only from wicked men and devils, men indeed they are like themselves malicious, the devils are like themselves cruel, I but Christ he might have looked up to his Father, and have said, But oh blessed Father,¹ thou hast said from heaven, that I am thy well-beloved Son: Christ would have accounted it no great matter to have suffered from men or devils, so be it that his Father had shined upon him; Oh no, but here is the wonder, and the greatest thing for Angels, and men to admire at, that God the Father he inflicts these sufferings with his own hand upon him, and the chief sufferings of Jesus Christ they were inflicted by the very hand of God the Father himself; for a King to come and take his own child, and scourge him, and put him to death with his own hand, we would say, There was never such a thing heard of! yet thus it was in the work of our Redemption, God the Father takes Christ with his own hands, and puts him to death, For he made his Soul an offering for sin, it was he that bruised him: If you read Isa. 53.10. you shall find it was the Father that did it; And that was typified in Abraham's coming with his knife to sacrifice Isaac his Son, was not that a wonderful thing, that story of Abraham? Isaac must be sacrificed, and Abraham to sacrifice Isaac ⟨p. 127⟩his only Son with his own hands, what a strange history is that? but that was but the type, here is the Antitype, here God the Father takes his Isaac, his only Son Christ, and sacrifices him himself; surely there was some great thing to be done, that God the Father should do it thus himself.

Fourthly, Christ hee suffered these things from his Father, that makes the wonder greater, and so his sufferings greater; hee did not suffer onely from wicked men and devils, men indeed they are like themselves malicious, the devils are like themselves cruel, I but Christ hee might have looked up to his Father, and have said, But oh blessed Father,¹ thou hast said from heaven, that I am thy well-beloved Son: Christ would have accounted it no great matter to have suffered from men or devils, so bee it that his Father had shined upon him; Oh no, but here is the wonder, and the greatest thing for Angels, and men to admire at, that God the Father hee inflicts these sufferings with his own hand upon him, and the chief sufferings of Jesus Christ they were inflicted by the very hand of God the Father himself; for a King to come and take his own childe, and scourge him, and put him to death with his own hand, wee would say, There was never such a thing heard of! yet thus it was in the work of our Redemption, God the Father takes Christ with his own hands, and puts him to death, For hee made his Soul an offering for sin, it was hee that bruised him: If you read