The saints dignity and duty· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardness. /…The saints dignitie and dutie· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardnesse. /…

Thirdly, and lastly, The last particular to which Christ gave himself for believers was to suffering, Christ gave himself to death for believers. Here for the understanding of this you must know, That there are two kinds of sufferings, to which the Lord Christ gave up himself for believers. First, sufferings in body. Secondly, sufferings in soul: First, the suffering of mans wrath. Secondly, the suffering of Gods wrath: Christ for believers gave up himself to both these.

Thirdly, and lastly, The last particular to which Christ gave himself for beleevers was to suffering, Christ gave himself to death for beleevers. Here for the understanding of this you must know, That there are two kinds of sufferings, to which the Lord Christ gave up himself for beleevers. First, sufferings in body. Secondly, sufferings in soul: First, the suffering of mans wrath. Secondly, the suffering of Gods wrath: Christ for beleevers gave up himself to both these.

First, Christ gave himself up to the sufferings in body, to the suffering of the wrath of man for believers; you that are acquainted with the History of the Gospel know the truth of this. How did Christ suffer himself to be scorned, to be hated, to be reviled, and persecuted by men? Christ he gave himself up in his passion; First, to be arraigned, attached by soldiers with staves, and halberds as a malefactor: after that he gave himself up to be reproached, his ears to be filled with blasphemies, and with mocks, his face to be buffeted, to be spit upon, his head to be all wounded with thorns, his hands and his feet to be pierced with nails, and his side with a spear. Thus Christ gave up his body to the suffering of the wrath of man in bodily tortures, for believers; and in the last place, he gave himself up to the suffering of a dissolution of soul and body, that which we call death. This is the first sort of suffering to which Christ gave up himself for believers, to the suffering of bodily tortures, to the suffering of the wrath of men. There is no kind of suffering that man is outwardly subject to, but Christ endured, in every member of his body, and in his name; his ears with their mocking speeches, and his eyes with their mocking gestures, when as they clothed him with purple, and gave ⟨p. 13⟩