fpect of his Soul and his fpiritual Life, undergoing the Wrath of God: If. liii. 10. Ye it pleafed the Lord to bruife him, he hath put him to grief: when thou fhalt make his foul an offering for fin,' &c. Pfal. Ixix. 1. Save me, O God, for the waters are come in unto my foul.' & xviii. 5. The forrows of hell compaffed me about: the 'fnares of death prevented me.' The Wrath of God did operate on his Soul, filling it with Trouble, fore Amazement, Heavinefs, and exceeding Sorrow, and cafting him into an Agony, even to his fweating great Drops of Blood, and at length bringing over it a total Eclipfe of Comfort, and ast were melting it within him: John xii. 27. Now is my foul troubled; and what fhall I fay? Father, fave me from this hour: but for this caufe came I unto this hour.' Mark xiv. 33. 34. And he taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and began to be fore amazed, and to be very heavy, and faith unto them, My foul is exceed( ing forrowful unto death.' Luke xxii. 44.

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being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly: and his fweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. Matth. xxvii. 46. And about the ninth hour Jefus cried with a loud voice, faying, Eli, Eli, lama fabachthani? that is to fay, My God, my God, why haft thou for" faken me ?' Pfal. xxii. 14. I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax, it is melted in the midst of my bowels.' That was a fpiritual Death, fuch as a holy Soul was capable of. Now the Wrath of God could justly fall upon Chrift a Perfon perfectly innocent, inafmuch as he flood Surety for Sinners: Heb. vii. 22. By fo much was

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Jefus made a furety of a better testament.' Compared with Prov. vi. 1. 2. My fon, if thou be furety for thy friend, if thou haft ftricken thy <hand with a stranger, thou art fnared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the 'words of thy mouth.' 2 Cor. v. ult. For he hath 'made him to be fin for us, who knew no fin; that we might be made the righteousness of God < in him.'

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He humbled himself to an Extremity, in refpect of his Body and his natural Life, undergoing the curfed Death of the Crofs: Phil. ii. 8. And be· ing found in fashion as a man, he humbled himfelf, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the crofs.' He did really die, and not feem to die only: Mark xv. 44. 45.. ' And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead unto him the centurion, he asked ther he had been any while dead. he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Jofeph.' His Death was real, in that his Soul was separated from his Body: Luke xxiii. 43. And Jefus faid unto him, Verily I fay unto thee, To-day fhalt thou be with me in paradife.' verf. 46. And when Jefus had cried with a loud voice, he faid, Father, into thy hands I I commend my fpirit: and having faid thus, he gave up the ghoft.' Yet neither was his Soul nor his Body feparated from his divine Nature in his Death: Luke xxiii. 43. forecited. John xx. 13. And they [the angels] fay unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She faith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I 'know not where they have laid him.' The Death he died, was the Death of the Crofs: Phil. ii. 8.

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He became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." The Death of the Crofs was a painful, fhameful, lingering, and curfed Death. Chrift's Death on the Cross was a painful Death, in that his Body was fixed to the Tree by Nails driven through his Hands and his Feet: Luke xxiii. 33. And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, there they crucified 'him.' Pfal. xxii. 16. The wicked pierced my 'hands and my feet.' It was a fhameful Death, in that he hung on the Crofs ftript of his Cloathing Matth. xxvii. 35. And they crucified him, and parted his garments, cafting lots.' Heb. xii. 2. Jefus, for the joy that was fet before him, endured the cross, defpifing the fhame,' &c. What that shameful hanging on a Tree had a particular Eye to, was our naked firft Parents finning by eating the Fruit of a Tree. It was a lingering Death, in that the Wounds being in the extreme Parts of the Body, he was alive on the Crofs, from the third to the ninth Hour: Mark xv. 25. And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.' verf. 34. And at the ninth hour Jefus cried with a loud voice, &c. It was a curfed Death, inafmuch as it was written in the Law, Curfed is every one that hangeth on a tree, Gal. iii. 13. Com pared with Deut. xxi. 23. He that is hanged, is accurfed of God.? The Curfe denounced in the Law, on those hanged on a Tree, was a ceremo nial Curfe, not hindering the Salvation of Peni, tents: Luke xxiii. 33. And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, there they crucified the malefactors.' verf. 43. And Jefus faid unto him, Verily I fay unto thee, To

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day fhalt thou be with me in paradife.' But the Curfe that lay on Chrift in his Humiliation, was a real and fubftantial one, whereof the Tree of the Crofs was but the Sign and Badge: Gal iii. 13.

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Chrift hath redeemed us from the curfe of the law, being made a curfe for us for it is written, Curfed is every one that hangeth on a tree.' The Inftruments of the cruel Death Chrift was put to, were the Jews and Romans: Acts iv. 27. For of a truth against thy holy child Jefus, whom thou haft anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Ifrael were gathered together. But every Point of it was determined before, in the eternal Counsel between the Father and the Son, for the Salvation of Sinners, verf. 28. For

to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counfel determined before to be done.' Compared with Zech. vi. 13. Even he fhall build the temple of the Lord, and he fhall bear the glory, and shall 'fit and rule upon his throne, and he shall be a prieft upon his throne, and the counsel of peace fhall be between them both.' Howbeit, the wicked Inftruments had no Eye to that in what they did: Acts xiii. 27. For they that dwell at Jerufalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every fabbath-day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him. Neither did it excuse them from the Guilt of most horrid Murder in their crucifying the Lord of Glory: Acts ii. 23. Jefus of Nazareth being delivered by the ⚫ determinate counfel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and flain.' Chap. vii. 52. Which of the

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prophets have not your fathers perfecuted? and they have flain them which fhewed before of the coming of the juft One; of whom ye have been " now the betrayers and murderers.".

He fo humbled himself after his Death, in refpect of his Body being buried: 1 Cor. xv. 3. 4. For I delivered unto you first of all, that which 'I alfo received, how that Chrift died for our fins according to the fcriptures: and that he was buried,' He was buried in a Garden: John xix. 41. 42. Now in the place where he was cru'cified, there was a garden; and in the garden a new fepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. There laid they Jefus.' What his being buried in a Garden had a particular Eye to, was Man's firft finning in a Garden.

He fo humbled himself after his Death, in refpect of both Soul and Body, continuing under the Power of Death for a Time: Rom. vi. 9.

Chrift being raised from the dead, dieth no more; 'death hath no more dominion over him.' He continued under the Power of Death for a Time, in fo far as, for a Time he continued in the State of the Dead, his Soul and Body remaining feparate: Acts ii. 31. He [David] feeing this before, fpake of the refurrection of Chrift, that his foul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did fee cor( ruption.' That is expreffed in the Creed, in thefe Words, He defcended into Hell. The Place where his Soul was, during its feparate State, was Paradife Luke xxiii. 43. To-day fhalt thou be ་ with me in Paradife.' The Time he continued under the Power of Death, was three Days: Matth. xii. 40. As Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly fo fhall the

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