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On
the Excellency
of Chrif.
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and
his
death
was
but
a
few
dayes,a
day
or
two,
how
can
lie
by fuffering
that that
was
but
finite,byindiiring
a
little
while
pain
upon the Crofs
,
and
by
being under death
but
a
day
or
two
,
how
can bee deliver
you from an
infinite
fufferin
and
from
eternal
death
?
This was
the temptation
that
lay
upon him, and hee
was
in
a
moil lamentable
agony
of
fpirit
upon this
temptation; but
now
in
his
calling
to
minde
this
,
that
though
Chria
in
his
humane
Nature
was
but
finire,
and
that
that
hee
fuffereci
could
bee
but
finite
,
yet
be-
caufe
his
humane
nature
was
united in one Perlon unto the
Divine
Nature
,
hence what
the humane nature did
fuffer,
though
finite,
came
to
bee
of infinite value
and
worth,
and
though
his
death
that
hee was
under,
was
but for
a
day
or
two, yet it
was
of
merit
fufficient
to
ranfome from
eternal
death
,
becaufe
the Perfon that
was
God
as
well
as
man,
was
under
the
power
of
death;
and by
recalling what
hee
had heard heretofore
about Chrift being
God
and man in
one
Perfon
,
hee
came
to
bee
eafed ,
and
the Tempta-
don
began
to vanifh
;
and the
truth
is,
there
is
no way
that
I
know of,
to
fatisfie ones
heart
and
confcience
in
the
fut.
ficiency
of
Chrias merits, but
in this,
that
it
was
the merit
of
him
that
was
both God and man in one Perron.
It
is
true,
thofe
that
do
not fee
a
neceility
of
an
infinite merit,
they
can eafily
fatisfie
themfelves,
and
fay
they beleeve
in
Chria
Jefus
that
dyed for them.
I
but
how
cana
thou
tell
that
this
death
of Jefus Chrifl
is
of infinite merit to
fa-
tisfie
the
inññtte
Jullice of God
that
requires fatisfa&ion
for
thy
fin
?
Why
Goct
bath
fo
appointed
it,
and
I
hope
in
-God
it
is
fo;
but
if
thou
cana
fee the ground
of
this,
that
will bee a marvellous
help
-to
thy faith that thou
cana
look upon thy
Mediator
as
God and
man in
one
Perfon,and
therefore thou
cana
look upon
whatfoever hee bath
done
nr
fufrered
as
of infinite
value ,
and
fo
thou cana
prefent
it
with boldnefs
unto
Cod.
The right underífanding
of
Chrifl
thus
,
will
help
us
to
honour Chritl
much
, and
will
make him
to
bee
a
further
obje
l
of
our
faith.
Thus Chrift.is
wondexful
in
his
Perfon
,
in his
Perron
as
relating to
Go&
the