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. /…

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 ⟨p. 16⟩them down backward, could be not have killed them with his word if he pleased? Again when Peter drew out his sword, and went about to defend him, Peter (saith he) put up thy sword, I can pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more then twelve Legions of Angels. One Angel in one night slew in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand men, and what then could twelve Legions of Angels have done? This Christ could have had for a word speaking to his Father, but he did freely and willingly give up himself to all these torments for believers; and he did not only suffer them as a man, but as a God: For as I told you in his obedience, so I tell you in his passion, you must not sever the Divinity of Christ from his humanity; For howsoever the Godhead could not suffer, yet notwithstanding the Godhead did these things; it was the nature of Christ that suffered:

Now to all this did Christ give up himself for beleevers, to the end that beleevers 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 beleevers might not feel the insupportable burthen 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 Emphaticall, Who gave himself, and Christ saith of himself, I lay down my life. Beleevers did with full consent sin, Christ must with full consent suffer, or else Christ could not deliver beleevers from the wrath of God. This appeareth, because that Christ when hee 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 Souldiers 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 hee 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