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or
the Excellency of
Ghriit.
if
wee think
that
a
few cryes
to God
at,laft
will bee
e-
nough
to
caufe
God to
fp
re
us
,
and
pafs by all
our fins,
do
but
know
God
in
Chriit
,
and
a
thoufand of thy
vain
thoughts
about
God,,
and the
pacifying
God
for
thy
fin, wilt
vanith
away
and come
to nothing,
did
we
but
know
God
aright in Jefus
Chrif
.
Sixthly,
Yea
but
yet further,there
is
a-
further.wonder in
this
humiliation of
Chrif}_.
God did
not.fpare
him;
I
but
when
God
deals
thus
with
his
Son
,
will hee leave
him
For
one
to
fuffer much
,
yea-
and
though
it
bee
much
from
God
,
yet
fo
long
-as
they may have
the pretence
of
God
with them, that
God
doth not leave them it
is
notfo
much.
But
in
all
there
fufferings,God
the Father
leaves him
this
is
that
is
exprefl;
by that
fpeech
,
that
wonderful
fpeech
of
Chrií
+Atpo-n
the Crofs,
My
Geld,
my
God,
why
haft
thoufor=
taken
mée
;
There
was
.
never
a
fpeech
fpoke
in
this
world
Ivfauh.17.46'
that
had
matter
of
fo
much
admiration
as
that
fpeech of
Jefus Chrifi
that
was
the
eternal
Son
of God, in
the- middet}
of
his
fufferings,
that
hee fhould. thus
cry
out,
certainly
bee
did nor
mifiake, what
Chrift
apprehended
to
bee,
was,
-wee
many
time
may
apprehend
that God
hath forfaken
us,
wheiï
there
is
no
fuch
thing
,
but certainly
Chritt
was-never'
de-
ceived in
his
apprehenfions,
but what hee
did
apprehend,
it
was
true
: But now.what
this forfaking
of God
was
,
it
is
a
very
hard
thing
,
a
great myftery,
which
is
too deep
for
us to"dive
into,
but
that
there
was
a
forfaking, and
that
hee
was
not deceived,
but
that
hee
apprehended
was
real,
that
muff
needs bee
granted
,
or otherwife wee
mull grant
thit
Chrift was-deceived ,
which
would bee
blafphetny
for
us to
fay.
Seventhly,
Yea.
again
yet further, the
Wonder
in Chrifs
humiliation was this,thát
all
this Chrifl
forefaw,and
yet
did
willingly undertake
it to
favemankihcle, fee what
the
heart
of
Chrifi in his-fuflerings
towards
his
elel1
ones ,
was,that
rather than
hee
would
fee
them to bee
plunged into
the
bet=
tornlefs
gulf
of
eternal
mifery,
hee would
put himfelf
into
it to
keep
them
out
,
bee
did
It
willingly
-;
When
bee
did
firfl