The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ

3. He suffered much inward trouble, not only from the sense he had of his outward troubles, and from the temptations of the Devil, but also from Gods withdrawing the sense of his favour, & putting into him the sense of his wrath: the fiery wrath o• God typified by that fire from heaven that consume• the sacrifices, took hold of him: as believers have great inward peace of conscience arising from hi• righteousness: so had he great inward sorrow arising from the guilt of our sins, he tells his Disciples that his soul was very sorrowful and very heavy, ev•• unto death, Mat. 26.28. and as this was the occasion […] ⟨p. 75⟩his sweating great drops of blood, so probably of his sudden death: he dyed before the others that were crucified with him, of which it is hard to assign any other reason than this, that the sense of Gods wrath much hastened his death, as God tells Moses, that no man can see his face and live• that is the sight of Gods love and glory as the Saints see it in heaven, is such that the nature of man in this state of mortality cannot b•ar it: it would kill him to have such a sight: so there is a parity of reason that the sense of Gods wrath in the extremity of it, is too much for mortal man to bear, and was the thing that hastened the death of Christ.

3. He suffered much inward trouble, not onely from the sence he had of his outward troubles, and from the temptations of the Devil, but also from Gods withdrawing the sence of his favour, & putting into him the sence of his wrath: the fiery wrath o• God typified by that fire from heaven that consume• the sacrifices, took hold of him: as believers have great inward peace of conscience arising from hi• righteousness: so had he great inward sorrow arising from the guilt of our sins, he tells his Disciples that his soul was very sorrowfu• and very heavy, ev unto death,