The Evil ofEvils, or the a man of Sorrows, according as the Scripture (peaks; Howwas he content to have his Body whipt and fcourged,was laughed at and (corned, and though he was poí%flor of Heaven and Earth, yet had not a houle to put his head in ; yea,tobearthewrath ofGod for theSinofman, tobe made a Curfe for man, under theCurfeof he Law, and to beunder that pain & extremity through the wrathofhis Father,when he fweat, great dropsof Bloud ? all this Chrift would en- dure : But now if it had been to have commit- ted the leaft fin to have faved al the World, Chrift wouldneverhave done it : thoughChrift could becontent to fuffer all kindof Miferies, yea,the wrath of his Father;. .yet had it beento have committed the leaft fin, Chrift would have let al the World be Damned eternally rather than he would have done that, there is fo much evil in it. Athi&ions taken in the ftrength and latitude of them, yet they haveno greater evil in them thenChrift is capable of. 1 fay, take them in the flrength and latitude of them, cer- tainly there was never any Aí`Bii &ion fence the worldbegan endured likeChrifts, and yet there benoother thanChrifl,God and Man, is capab!e of and it may ftandwith the bleflèdnefs of his Divinity, 1 hat that perfon, bothGod and Maxi, couldbe underTuch Athi Lions: Ch riff wag con- tent with thefe,Hemade his Soul an Ffëring for Sin: But fin is fo great anevil, that Chrift is not ca- pableof it; Chrift never entertained the leaft thought of it, but call it offif it came to him therfore certainly there is moreevil in the leafs Vin,
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