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Secondly, Christ also suffered the full sense of the wrath of God; the arrows of the divine displeasure were shot in the spirit and soul of Christ. To be brief, this you must know, whatsoever believers should have suffered for their sins, whether it be in the loss of the sense of Gods love, or in the sensible feeling of the wrath and divine displeasure of Almighty God; all that Christ suffered, so far as can be suffered without sin, and without the guilt of a defiled conscience.

Secondly, Christ also suffered the full sense of the wrath of God; the arrows of the divine displeasure were shot in the spirit and soul of Christ. To be brief, this you must know, whatsoever beleevers should have suffered for their sins, whether it be in the losse of the sense of Gods love, or in the sensible feeling of the wrath and divine displeasure of Almightie God; all that Christ suffered, so far as can be suffered without sin, and without the guilt of a defiled conscience.

Now to all this did Christ give up himself for believers, to the end that believers who have lost the love of God might have it; Christ gave up himself in regard of sense, for a while to lose all sense of Gods love, to the end that believers might not feel the insupportable burden of the infinite wrath of God, Christ took it upon him and endured it; and all this Christ did willingly and freely, and of his own accord, therefore the Phrase in the Text is Emphatical, Who gave himself, and Christ saith of himself, I lay down my life. Believers did with full consent sin, Christ must with full consent suffer, or else Christ could not deliver believers from the wrath of God. This appeareth, because that Christ when he knew that Judas should betray him, he goeth to that place where he was wont, and knew that Judas would come there. After that, Judas and the Soldiers come out of seek Christ, Christ cometh and offereth himself, Whom is it that you seek? saith he, We seek Jesus of Nazareth; I am he, saith he, he offereth and declareth himself to them, putteth himself into their hands; and whereas he makes them to let all his Disciples scape, yet he suffereth them to take himself: Could Christ make them let the Disciples go, and could he not have made them let himself go? Again, our Saviour did but speak, and they went backward, and fell to the ground, he that could throw