Jot ,Satisfallion for Sin. t.0tal eclipfe of comfort, and as it .'were melt it -Within pi m : that .fo, while he was dying a bodily death' on the crofs, he might die alfo a fpiritual death, fuch as ~ mofr pure and holy foul was capable of. Here was the death determin'd in the covenant, for the fecond Adam our Reprefentative, a death in vir• tue of the curfe ~ransferr'd on him, long-lafl:ing and , e~quifite for the full f.1tisfaC1:ion of revenging jufl:ice. (I.) It was a long-lafiin'gdeath. He was a dying, in .the fiile of the covenant of works, not only upon the crols, but all along the time of his life ; the death that was the penalty of that covenant, working in him .from the womb, till it . laid him in the grave. ' . ' Wherefore he behov'd to be conceiv'd of a woman of low efl:ate; and born in the ftable of an inn, no room for him in the inn itfelf; bid in a manger, no cradle to receive him; his infant-blood ' !bed in his ~ircumcifion, as if he had been a: finner; yea, his.in– fant life fought by a cruel perfecutor, and·his ·mother ()blig'd to run her country, with him, 2nd go unto Egypt. Returning, he beho~/d to live an obfcqre life~ in ao obfcure place, from which nothing great nor good was expected, John i. 46. .and coming out of his obfcurity, to be fet up as an objeCt of the world'~ ill-will ~nd fpite, obloquy and maltreatment, till by the hands of Jew and Gentile he was put to death on the crofs. (2.) It was an exquifite death. No pity, no [paring in it: bllt the curfe .carried it to the _l1ighe1l pitch. No fparing from an angry God, Rqm. viii. 32. No fparing from wicked men let loofe on him, pu1l1ing him like bulls, raring on him and de· v ouring him like lions, and renting him l,ike dogs, ' when once their hour andpower ofdarknefs was come, Pfalm x~ii. 12, 13, 16. Not a good word fpoken to him in the midfi of his torments, by thefe that .flood by; but he cruelly mocked and infulted in thein• . · J\1uch lefs a good deed done him. Not a drink of w~ter allowed him, but vinegar· otfered him, in his ·'' - · · ·· · · · · thirfi ' .. ~
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