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ON
the
Excellency
®f
Cbrift.
God,certainly
wereit
not
for
fore
great and wonderful de-
fign
that
God
had
to
bring
about,God the
Father
could
not
have been well
pleated
with
fuch
a
thing , with
the death
of
his own Son,
and putting
him
to
death
,
and
that to
an ac-
curled
death,yet
he was
well pleafed;
certainly
there
was a
wonderful defign
that
God
had
to
bring about
by
fach
a
way,
i
o
And
then further,
the humiliation
of
Chrift is
won-
derful
in
regard of the
efficacy
of
his
humiliation
,
that
by
his
death,
all
the
wrath, and
the
Juflice of
God fhould bee
as
it
were fwallowed up
in reference
to
all the elect
, that
the
wrath and jut ice
of
God thould bee
fwallowed up
in
a few dayes fuffering
of
Jefus Chrift
(of
this
man
jells
Chrill)
that
God
should account
it
as
much
as
if
all
the
ele&
had
been under
his
wrath
to
all
eternity, the
efficacie
of
Chrifls
fuffering
is a
wonderful
efficacie, for
it
is
an
in-
finite
efficacie
,
it
is
infinitely
fatisfaaory.
i i
Yea
further ,
not
onely
fatisfaotory
to
Gods
Juftice,
but it
is
that that
takes away the fling
and
venome
of all
Chrif4s futfer
the
fufferings
of
the
Saints
to
the
end of the world; the
ef-
inns
cakes
a-
ficacie
of Chrifts humiliation
it
is
in
reference unto
God
nn
neiand
evii
the
Father
, and
it
is
in
reference
unto
the
Saints
;
I
fay
that
is
in
the
hr
reference unto the
Father
,
it
fatisfies all his
Saints futfer
--
Juftice and
Wrath
And in reference unto the
elect}-
ings
ones ,
it
is
that
which -takes
away the fling and the
venome of all
their
huniliations
and
fufferings
to
the
end
of the world
;
though
God hath
fo
appointed
that
his
Saints
that
bee
fees
his
heart
upon
to
do good
unto
for
ever,
thould
here in this
world
fuller
many
hard things, bee
un-
der
grievous
aiñiaions
,
yet there
is
fuck
a
way taken ,
as
that
Jefus
Chrifls fufferings
íhould
take away
all
the
fling,
the
venome, the
evil
of
their
fufferings,
and
fo
Chrift
was
wonderful in his
fufferings
in that regard
:
There
was
ne-
ver
fufferings, nor
fuck
a
death in
the world; that
it
thould
take away
the
fling
of
all fufferings,
and death
too,
for
JO
many
thoufands
of
people, and
yerthis
did
it.
Chrift
fuffered
12 And
further,
Chrifl
is
wonderful
in his fufferings;
as
a
common
beçauCe
bee fuffered
as
a-
common Perfon
y
bee
did
not
Perfon.
S
3
fuffer
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