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the Excellency
of
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you fee
Porters fweating under their burdens
,
seer
Jefus
aril}
fweatiug
under the burden of
fin.
Betides
that other
exprefion,
if.it
bee poffible
let
tlais cop
pair from
Knee,
and then
the fecond
time,
and thexhird
time
to
do
it again
:
Why
the
Martyrs
have
gone chearfully
to
their deaths
,
whofe
deaths have
ken
as
cruel
as
the death
of
Jefus Chrifl , and more cruel for
the
outward parr of
it,
but
here
even
the
great Champion from
whom
all
the
Martyrs
that
ever were,had
their
f}renarh
, bee,
when
hee
comes
to
dye,
If
it
bee
pofble
let
this
esp pats
from
mee,
faith
hee
;
certainly
bee faw
that
which
the Martyrs
never
faw:
Hee
fuffered
in
his
Soul.
Fourthly,
Chrift
bee fuffered
there
things from his
Fa-
ther, that
makes the
wonder
greater,
and
fo his
£ufferings
greater
;
hee
did not
Suffer
onely from wicked
men
and
de-
vils,
men
indeed
they are like
themfelves
malicious,
the
devils
at
like themfelves cruel
,
I
but
Chrift bee
might
have looked up
to
his
Father,
and
have
faid,
But
oh
blefled
Father,
.
thou haft faid from heaven
,
that I
am thy
well-
beloved
Son
:
Chrift would have
accounted it
no
-great
matter
to
have fuffered from
men
or
devils
.,
fö
bee it that
Ins
Father
had
lhined
upon
him
;
Oh
no,
but here
is
the
wonder, andthe greateft thing
for
Angels,
and men to
ad-
mire at
,
'that
God
the Father
hee
inA
Cts
thefe
fufferings
with
his
own hand upon
him
',
and
the
chief
fufferings
of
Jefus Chrift
they were
infli&&ed
by
the very hand
of
God
the
Father
himfeif; for
a
King
to
come and
take
his
owK
childe, and
fcourge
him, and
put
him
to
death with
his
own
hand,
wee would
fay,
There
was
never
fuch
a
thing
heard
of
!
yet
thus
it
was
in
the work
of
our
Redemption,
God
the Father takes
Chrift
with
his
own hands;
and
puts
him to
death , For
hee
made'
his Soul
an
offering
for
fn
it
was
hee
that
brssifed
him
If
you
read Ira.
53.io.
you
(hall
finde
it
was
the Father
that
did it
;
And
that
was typified
in
_Abrahams
coming
with
his
knife
to
facrifice
I
faac
his
Son,
was
not
that
a
wonderful
thing,
that
ftory
of
Abraham
?
I
faac
mu fl
bee facrificed
, and
to
facrifice
)faac
his