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On
the Excellency
of
Chriff.
6i
earth, the Eternal
God
,
whofe
Naine
alone
ù
excellent
,
can
hee
bee
crucified
?
yet
that Perlon
that
was
the Lord
of
glory, whole
Naiiie alone
is
glorious
,
that Perron
was
cru-
cified
but fuffered
in
his
humane nature
;
whatfoever
Chriff'did
fuller
in
his
humane
nature, it
may bee
faid
that
that Perfon
that
was
God did
fuller,
though
not
the Divine
Nature
,
the Divine
Nature
could
not
fufter
,
but the fame
Perlon that
was
God
as
well
as
man
hee did
fuffer
;
it
is
the
Scripture phrafe
clearly
,
and I
might
give you
many
Texts
of
Scripture
to
Phew
you
that
that
perfon
that
was
God,fuffered, but
that
is
enough,
They.crrsoifeol
the
Lord
of
glory,
i
Cor.2.8. But
you
will fay,
to
what
great
purpofe is
it
for us
to
underfland this
that
Chrift
was
God
and
man
in
one Perlon
, is
it
not
enough
to
tnderffand that
bee
was
God
and man
?
what need wee
look
fo
much at
the union
of the two Natures
?
My.
brethren
, Know
that
there
is
a
great
deal
in
this
,
in
knowing
the union
of the
two Natures.
It
is
of
marvellous
ufe
unto
you for
the
helping
of
your
faith
,
to
know
not
onely
that
Chrill
had
thofe two
Natures,
but the union
of
thofe two
Natures.
You will fay,
How may
it
help
our
faith
?'
Thus
, becaufe hereby you
may fee
that
whatfoever
Chrift
did:,or
fuffered,
though
but
in
his
humane
nature,
yet
it
was
of infinite value and
efficacy,
and the infinite .value
and
efficacy
of what Chrift
did and
fuffered ,
doth arife
from
the
union
of the two Natures
, becaufe
it
was
that
Perfon that
was
God, did
fuch
things , and
fuffered
fuch
things.
I
remember
I
my
fell
once knew
a
very godly
man
in the
-time
of
his ficknefs was
in
a
great
Agony,
under
a
very
great
temptation
,
and
at Mid-night
lent
a
mile or
two for
a
Minifter,
and hee
comes
to
him, and
this was
his
temptation
:
Fearing hee
fhould dye
,
and the
Devil came
A
tem
tat;ó
with
this
temptation,
Why,thy fin doth deferve an infinite
of
the
Devü
n
punishment, thou
haft
finned
against an
infinite God, and
to
a
gódlyman
,.
thou doll deferve
eternal death
;
but Chrift in
whom you
have
truffed
,
hee
being
man and
fufféring
onely
in
his
luimane_nature,
hee
could fuffer onely
that that
was
finite,
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