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on
the Excellency
of
Cbriff,
the
Lord
of Life
fhould
dye ,
that
bee that dwelt
in
that
light
that
is
unapprochable ,
.
fhould
have darknefs
to
cover
him ,
that
bee
that
is
the
bleffed
God
should
bee
made
a
curie
for
the
fm of
man ,
are
not there
things
wonderful in
Chriffian Religion
?
and
yet
all
there
are things
that
may
bee faid
of Chrifl
;
for
the Lord of Life to
come and
dye,
and
that
accurfed
death
,
this was
a
wonder
that
all
the
world
feemed
to
bee
affe&ed
with , the
very infenfitive
creatures
;
for
at the death
of
Chrift
the
Sun
withdrew
his
light
as
being
amazed
with
this wonder
, not able
to
_be-
hold
it
,
and
the earth
thaked and
trembled
, and the
graves opened
at
this
wonder
,
the very ftones clave in
fun-
der
at
this
wonder
;
there
was
fuch a
mighty concuflion
of
things at
this
time
,
that it
made
one
that
knew 'nothing
of
the
caufe
of
it ,
One
Dionyfus, feeing
the darknefs at
that
Alt
Deus na-
time
,
and
fuch
great things
which
were
done
,
cry our,
trite patttur
.-
Certainly
either the God
of
Nature
fullers at this
time
, or
áwtmuncli
the
world
is
at
an
end.
So
great
a
wonder
it
was
that
the
mac?irczdif
at
Folucrur.
-Lord
of
Life
thould
thus dye
an accurfed
-death'; Angels,
yea
all infenfitive creatures they flood amazed at
it
and
feemed
to
bee exceedingly
affeaed
with it.
And then
in
the third
place,
Why,.Chrifl
may
dye; and
yet not
fuller
fomuch
to
.make,
us
wonder,
many
of the
fervants of God
have
died
cruel deaths
;
But
then
in the
third
place,.
There
is
a greater wonder
in
Chris
shumilia-
tion, than
itrthe
fuffèrings
of the
fervants
of
God,
becaufe
though
their
bodies
fuffered
yet
they
had
much
freedome
in their
fouls
,"
they were
filled with
joy
and comfort in
the
time
¿f
-theirfuffertngs,
fo
it
was
in the
Martyrs
;
.Oh
but
is
was
otherwife with
'Chri,
though bee were
the
fountain
of
all-
confolntion ,
yet Chrill
fuffers
in
his foul
_,
bee
was
forrowfulin
his
fout
to
the
very
death,
hee gave
his foul
to
bee an
.offering
for
fin
,
and .indeed die fuffering
of
Chrifis
foul,
was
the
foul
of
his
fuffering, the
chief of
his
fuffer-
ing, when
as
Chrift
was
in
the
Garden
,
there
hee
acknow-
ledges that
his
foul
was
compaifed
round
about
-wi
-h
for
-
M,tth
t
.3
s. row.
>,
his
f000t
was
very.
fórrowfa
;
and
in
another Evangelifl
bee