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V
E
ft.
Z.
Ephefiant,
Chap.
y.
581
for
me,
John
15.
13. Greater
love then this
bath
no
man,
when
any
man
be-
flomet h his
life
for
bù
friends,
i
Joh. 3.
16.
Hereby
we
perceived love,
that
he
laid
downehis
life for us.
But for
the better
underftanding
of
it,
2. things muff be opened.
I.
What
was Sacrificed.
z. What
the
fufferings
were in
which
he was
offered
for our
finàes.
For
the
a.The text
anfwereth himfelf,for
actions & perfwafions
pro-
perly
belongto the wholeperfon,yct
becaufe
the
perfon
doth them not
by every nature, thereforethe
Scripture
doth appropriate
them
to that
nature
in
which the perfon
did indure
them.S'
Peter
faitla,hefufered in
t
1,4.4.
1.
the
fefh
:
for
example, if
one fhould kill any, he
Both
murder
man,yet
he killeth not the foule, but
the body.
So
Chrift
offering
himfelfe
to
death,
the whole perfon wa
offered
up, 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,or
he
couldnot
have beene
a
holo-
cauft
to God. The
bodily
fufferings are
manifefl,
in
the garden,
in Cai-
aphas his
hall,on the
croffe.
The
foule
fufferings
ftood
in
three things:
r.
In
that
defertion
of
God
whereby
all
comfort
was eclipfcd and
hidden
from
the fight
of
his
foule, when
he
cryed, ciit
y
God,
my God
why
hay
thou
for
(aken me
a
not
that the Union
was diffblved,
or that he
had
not 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
impreon
of
Gods wrath, for this
feifed on
his foule,
My foule
is
heavie
unto
death.
I
have
trod
the wine-prefe
alone
:
the Fa-
ther fmit him for our
fakes,
whofe
finnes he
anfwered,
God
knowing
how
to
be pleafedwith him
as his
Sonne,
and
how
to let him
fede
an-
ger
as
our furety.
;.
In the
affaults
of
fpirituall wickedneffes
that
did
tempt
his inno-
cent
foule
with the power
of
finne,
they
did every way
affaile
him
,
though they
could not
in
any thing
prevaile againft him,
which
was
no (mall hell
to
his fpotleffe
foulc.Tbe
['dare
of
the
powers
of
darkeneffe
was come,
and
thofe that
in
the beginning
of
his
minifterie,
much
leffe
would now
leave him
untempted; and thcfc things wereevenadegree
of
the
fecond
death;
fo
farce
as
with the
union and innocencie
of
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
facrifice
propitiatory
of
two
goates,
the onekilled, the
other
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 to
God,
viz.
to
love him
fo
as
to
give our
Ff
a.
felves up
acceptable Sacrifices
to
him; this
the
faithfull did
fignifie in
their
offerings,
that
they did prefentthemf
elves
to God
by
the
hands
ofJeftts
Chrift the
high Prieft, yeelding their
old man
to be
flame
and
E
e e
confumcd