----- ·------------·----- L18king tmto 1efNJ. Book IV. Part.3~ 6IS Chap.z.Se6t.7 the material bufinelfe1: and therefore let the end be ohferved as well as the meritorious caufe i without this confideration the contemplation ofChrifrs death, ·or tae medit·ation ofthe fiory of Cbrifts fufferings would be altogether unprofitable; now what was the end? furely this; Chrift lifted up, that he might draw Job. n.J!., t~fl men to him; Chrift hanged or; a tree, that he migl:t be are our fins I Pet.l,li< tm the tree. this was the plot, which God by ancient defigne bad aymed at in the crucifying ofChrift, and thus our faith mull: take it up; ifldeed our comfort hangs on this; the intent, ayme, and defigne ofChrift in his fufferings is that welcome newes, and the very Spirit of the Gofpel : 0 remember this ! Chrifl is cru. cified, and why fo? that whofiever belee'lleth iN himjhould not perifh, but have life e·verlafting, We are now at the height ofChrift, fufferings, and the fun is now in his meridian, or height of afcent, I ihal1 no more count houre 'by houre ; for from the jixth houre till the ninth houre (that is from twelve, t •ll three in the Mar. 11·41• afternoone) there w.u d11r/znef[e over ~til tke land. But of that, and of the confequents after it, in the next Section. ----------------·-· .... ---- SE .€T. 7· Of the co11jequentJ after (hriflJ crucifying. THe particulars following I ihall quickly difpatch. As· thus. - . I. About twelve when the Sun is ufually brightefi, it began · now to darken . This darknelfe was fo great that it fpread over · all the land of fewry; fome think, over all the world, fo we · tranfldte it in L uf«, 11ml there wtU a d•11kmf[e.o·ver ~til the uzrth; Luke :tJ · ~4. and many Gentiles, befides Jewes, obferved the fame as a gt:eat ' miracle, Di&nJfim the Areopagite (as SuidM relates) could fay S~id. ilt vita St at firfi Gght of it, either the world is enaing, or the GDaof nature is D/4'/1, • fuffering This very darkneffe was the occafion of that Altar erected inAthtnJ, and dedicated lilnto the Hnk~Jown GoJ. Of this At\,17.11~· p,rophefied .
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