SatisfaElion for Sin. · lOl r. 'That the curfe fhould oe execute on his bleffed t . body;' forafinuch as their bodies were liable to it, as being infirurhents of fin and difuonour to God : that it ihould be hanged on a tree, that all the world might therein read the anger of God againfi the break– ing of the firfi covenant,· by eating of the forbidden • tree; and, his being made a curft for us, fince it js written, ' Cm·fed is every one that hangeth on a tree:' That the curfe fhould go over, and death pafs , through, every part of that bldfed body: that .his head fuould be clifgracefully wounded with a crown r;f thorns put up.on it; his 'vifage marr'd more than . any man ; his back given to the fmiters ; his cheeks to t~em that plucked ·off the hair ; his face n0t hid from fuame and fpitting; his tongue 1):1ade to cleave to his .jaws; his hands and feet pierced, nail'd to a crofs; all his bones drawn out of joint ; his heart like wax, melted-in the midfi of his bowels ; his blood fhed; his firength dried up: and that, in end, it fuould ~xpireand die, be feparate from his foul, pierced with .;t fpear, ·and laid in the clufi of de;uh. 2. 'That it fhould ,he execute on his holy foul, in ' a fpecial manner .;' forafmuch as their fouls were the principal actors in fin : that . he fhould undergo the wrath of God in it, being all along his -life a man of · farrows, _and acquainted with grief: and that to- ~wards the latter end, there .fhould be an hour and pow- . er ofdarkne(s, wherein the malice of men, the power ;md rage of devils, fuould be jo.intly engag'd again£1: him, making their utmofi. efforts on him ; and the11. the full floods of heaven's revenging wrath fi}ould · come rouling in upon his foul : that they fhould fo overflow it, as to· !lrike bim with fore amazement, fill him with trouble, load him with heavinds, and . overwhelm him with ,exceeding forrow: that there fhould be fuch a preffure of Divine wrath on. his holy ~oul,as fuould pul him into an agouy,even to his fweat– lDS 4reat drops of b./aod; and !bould bring over it; a G 4 · total
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