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On
':be
Excellency
e
f
Chrift.
his
onely
Son
with
his
own
hands,
what
a
firange hiftory
is
that
?
but
that
was but
the
type,
here
is
the Antitype,
here
God
the
Father
takes
his Ifdac
,
his
only
Son
Chrifc
,
and
facrifiées him himfelf;;
furely
there
was fome
great
thing
to
bee
done'.,
that God
the Father fhould
do
it
thus
-him
felt.
Fifthly
,
Not
onely God
hee comes
.
himfelf
upon him
and
indi,its thefe
..
evils,
but
hee
Both
no:
fpare him
at
all.
You
will
fay,
If
God
himfelf mull bee the Executioner,
and
come
and lay
his
hand upon him, hee will lay
his
hand
gently upon
his
own
Son.
Nay
, when
Jefus
Chrift
the
Son
of
God
came.
to
take
our
fins
upon him
,
the Father would
not
fpare
him one
whir
,
but lets
out the fulnefs
of
Jullice
upon him
.,
lets
out
his
Juflice
to
the full , Rom,8.3
a.
it
is
faid
,
That
God
fpared
not
his
own
Son, certainly
if
God
would have fpared
any
, o.ae
would have thought is
fhould
have been
his Son
t
Oh here
behold the JuRice
of
God the
Father,
that
when
his
own
Son
takes
fin
upon
him,
and
that
by
imputation
,
hee mull
pay
to
the uttermoíl farthing
to
Juftice , yea though
,
hee
prayed
withßrong
crying:
and
tears
,
as
in
Heb.
5.7. Though
it
is
true
,
the
Father
did
carry him
through ,
yet in
this
God would not fpare him,
notwithtaanding
any
of
his
cryes, but bee
mull fuller
to
the
uttermoil
,
and pay the
uttermoft.farthing
that
Divine
fu-
Rice did require for
the
fatisfying
of
it for mans
fins.
Many
poor
creatures
think
that
having
to
deal with
God
who is
a
aaerc-ful
God,
though
they
have the
guilt
of great
tins
upon
them,
yet if
they cry
out
to
God for mercy
that
God
wit
s
fpare them
;
why,
art
thou
dearer to God than
Jefus
Chris}
was, thy fins are thine
own
,
his was
but
by
imputation, yet
when
bee cryed,
bee
mutt
not
bee fpared''?
What
thoughts
mutt the Angels
in
Heaven have
upon this when
they
fee
him
whom
they knelt to
bee
the
eternal
Son
of
Gad
under
the
hand
of
the
Father
, and the
Father no.
fo
much
as
to
fpare
him._
in any thing?
Certainly
if
wee do no: know
thefe
things,,
or
beleeve
them,
if
wee
think
to
put
o.Ff
God lightly,
if
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