V E ft. Z. Ephefiant,Chap. y. 581 for me, John 15. 13. Greaterlove then this bathno man, when any manbe- flomet h his lifefor bùfriends, i Joh. 3. 16. Hereby we perceived love, that he laiddownehis life for us. But for the better underftanding ofit, 2. things muff be opened. I. What was Sacrificed. z. What the fufferingswere inwhich he was offered for our finàes. For the a.The text anfwereth himfelf,for actions & perfwafions pro- perlybelongto the wholeperfon,yct becaufe the perfondoth them not by every nature, thereforethe Scripturedoth appropriate them to that nature in which the perfondid indure them.S' Peter faitla,hefufered in t 1,4.4. 1. thefefh : for example, if one fhould kill any, he Bothmurder man,yet he killeth not the foule, but the body. SoChrift offeringhimfelfe to death, the whole perfon wa offeredup, yet not in the divine, but in the humane nature. For the a. thrfe fufferings wereeither outward or inward, of body or foule.For all thisnature was offered,orhe couldnot have beene a holo- cauft to God. The bodily fufferings are manifefl, in the garden,in Cai- aphas hishall,on the croffe. The foulefufferings ftood in three things: r. In that defertionof God whereby all comfort was eclipfcd and hidden from the fightof his foule, when he cryed, ciity God, my God whyhay thoufor(aken me a not that the Union was diffblved, or that he hadnot the life of grace in him; but he was fequeftred from the fenfe of all comfort, as if he had beene utterly forfaken, a. In the impreonof Gods wrath, for this feifed on his foule, My foule is heavie untodeath. I have trod the wine-prefe alone : the Fa- ther fmit him for ourfakes, whofe finnes he anfwered, Godknowing how to be pleafedwith him as his Sonne, and how to let him fede an- ger as our furety. ;. In the affaults of fpirituall wickedneffesthat did tempt his inno- cent foulewith the power of finne, they did every way affaile him , though theycould not inany thing prevaile againft him, which was no (mall hell tohis fpotleffe foulc.Tbe ['dare ofthe powers ofdarkeneffe was come, and thofe that in the beginning ofhis minifterie, much leffe would now leave him untempted; and thcfc things wereevenadegree ofthe fecond death; fo farce as with the union and innocencieof his perfon could be admitted. And three fufferings were fhadow.ed in the Law,for theholocauft was not onely bloodily killed, but burned with fire, Eyed. 29. and Levit.t 6.ro. the facrificepropitiatoryoftwo goates,the onekilled, theother not killed, teacheth that as well the foule whichcould not dye, was facrificed(in force manner) as the bo- dy by death. Now this doth teach us, 3: things. t. What is our duty toGod, viz. to love him fo as to give our Ff a. felves upacceptable Sacrifices tohim; this the faithfull did fignifie in their offerings, thatthey did prefentthemfelves to God by the hands ofJeftts Chrift the high Prieft, yeelding their old manto be flameand E e e confumcd
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