in Cont hifg ctempt otl. 8 Y And as the Humane Nature was neceflàry to qualifie`Chap. V. him for sufferings, and to make them fuitable, fo the Divine was to make them fufficient. The lower na- ture confider'd in it felf, could make no fatisfation : The Dignity of the Divine Perlon makes a temporal punifhment to be of an infinite value in God's account. Betides, The Humane Nature had funk under the coins Deus weight of wrath, if the Deity had not beenperfonally Homo,udus prefent to fupport it. Briefly, To perform thefir.ff part re mortem ofhis Office, he muff fuffer, yet be impaffible ; Die, non potuit, yet be immortal; and undergo the wrath of God, to b°saobpede. deliver Man from it. buir. 2. To make Intercejon for us, it was requifite that He fhould partakeof both Natures, that he might have credit with God, and compafon to Man. The Son hath a prevailing interefl in the Father, as he teffifies, I know thou heardfl me always. A Priviledge which John I e. 42. neither Abraham, Mofes, nor any other who were the molt favoured Saints, enjoyed. And, as Man, he was fit for Paffion and Compafon. The Humane nature is the proper fubjeet of feeling pity, efpecially when it hath felt mifery. God is capableof Love, not, in ffriet - nee, of Companion. For sympathy proceeds from an experimental fenle of what one hath fuffer'd, and the fight of the like afilion in others revives the affecti- ons which were felt in that Bate, and enclines to pity. The Apofile offers this to Believers as the ground of comfort, that He who took our nature and felt our griefs intercedesfor us. For we havenot an High-Priefi Heb. 4, 15, that cannot be toucht with the feeling of our Infirmi- ties, but was in all things tempted as we are, yet with- out sin; that with an humble confidence we may come to the Throne ofGrace. He hath drunk deepefi of the Cup of Sorrows, that hemay be an Allfuffzcient Com- forter to thole that mourn. fie hath fuck tender Bowels, M we
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