Book IV. Part.J· Looking unto feft~~, 674 ---------------------------~------------ . * I. Chrifts death was avoluntary death. J lay down mJ life • See !\lr.Brlll· thPit I may tak._e it againe ; no man tak_tth it from mr but I lay it flcy at Iaroe d ,f' r.frl'. I h f · d d J. ' Jw l.l:ical ~m· own eJ my J e J e, liVe power to 't] tt own,an 1 Mve powfr to ta}ze vlrmation. it ergaine ; not all men on earth, nor all devils in hell could have Job. tO, t7,18• enforced (hrifls deatb,ifhe had not pleafed; his death was avo- / luntary death, a fpontaneous act : fo is our mortification; thy ffat,I IO. 3· people jhafl be wilfing in thedfl) of thy power; many may leave their fins againft their wills, but to is is not true monit-icarion, it beares not in it the likene!fe of Chrifis death, for he dyed willingly : it _ may be thou lu~ ft a clamorous confcience, which continually dogs thee, and therefore thou leaveft thy fin; thus Judas came in with his thirty pieces offilver, and caft them down in the Temple at the high Prie!l:s feet, but no thanks to Jud.u, forthey were too hot for him to hold, or it may be there is fome penalty of the law, or fome temporal judgement that hangs over thy head like Democles [word, and therefore thou leaveft thy fin ; thus Ahab for a time acts the part of a penitent, but no thanks to Ahab ,for the Prophet had rung him fuch a peale £or his fin, as made both 1 King. u · •9 his eares ringle, in the place where dogs lick,rd the blood of n:._abuth, jhall dogs lick_thy Mod, even thine; or it may be there is in thee a feare of hell, in thy apprehenfton death is come, and is ready to 'Carry thee before the dreadful tribunal ofa terrible God, and therefore thou leavefi thy fin; Thus fea-men in a firelfe,part with their goods, not becaufe they are out of love with them, but becaufe they love their lives better, they fee plainly that either they mufi part with them, or perifh with them. Now in thefe cafes thy leaving offfin, beares no fimilitude with the death of Chrifi', for his death was voluntary, and true mortification is a voluntary acrion. ~eft. But may there not be fome reluctancy in this work betwixt the flefh and the fpirit ? and iffo , is it then voluntary? l anfwer. - Anfw. Yes, fuch a relucrancy we findein the humane nature of Cbrift ~ t.ht. 16, 3 9 . · concerning the cup, that it might paJTe from him,and yet his death was a true voluntary death. An action is faid to be voluntary, or involuntary according to the fuperiour faculties ofthe foul and not according to the inferiour; if the reafonable part be confenting, the aCtion may be calkd voluntary, though there be fome relucrancy in the fenfitive appetite. Thus in the Chrifti~rn, in
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