The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation

Nor did Christ only endure pain in his body, but agony in his soul. He conflicted with the wrath of God; which he could never have done, if he had not been more than a man. We read that the Altar of wood was overlaid with brass, that so the fire on the Altar might not consume the wood, Exod. 27.1, 2. This Altar was a type of Jesus Christ. The humane nature of Christ, which was ⟨p. 356⟩as the wood, was covered with the divine nature, which was like the brass, else the fire of Gods wrath had consumed it; and all this Christ suffered was nostra vice, in our stead^*, Isa. 53.5. We eat the sour Grape, and his teeth were set on edge: We climbed the tree, we stole the forbidden fruit, and Christ goes up the ladder of the Cross and dies. Oh how lovely ought a bleeding Saviour ^*to be in our eyes? Let us wear this blessed crucifix always in our heart^*. Crux Christi clavis paradisi. The Cross of Christ saith Damascene, is the golden key that opens Paradise to us. How beautiful is Christ upon the Cross: The ruddiness of his blood took away the redness of our guilt. How lovely are those wounds which ⟨p. 357⟩wounded the red Dragon; When this blessed rock was smitten, water came out of it to cleanse us, and blood to cheer us, 1 John 5.6. When Christ was on the Cross (saith Bernard) jam fuit vitis amputata. Now the Vine was cut, and salvation came to us in the blood of the Vine; Oh how lovely is this bleeding Vine! Christs Crucifixion is our Coronation^*.

Nor did Christ only endure paine in his body, but agony in his soul. He conflicted with the wrath of God; which he could never have done, if he had not been more than a man. We reade that the Altar of wood was overlaid with brasse, that so the fire on the Altar might not consume the wood,