-fJn the Pa!Jiou. 307 r-uitur. Thus \ve have given you fo1ne rude imperfect hints of his great and unfpeak– able fufferings. But 0 how li~tle of them do we underfiand to very good purpofc! lt was for this reafon. the ancient fathers of the Greek church in their liturgy, after they have recounted all the particular pains as they are fet down in his paffio'n, and by all and every one of them called for n1er-: -cy, do after all ihut t1p with this fupplica– tion: By thine unknown farrows and fo/- ferings, felt by_ thee, but not diflinClly known by us, have mercy upon us, and.fave us. I I. We proceed, in the next place, to con-· fider the interefl: that we have in the fuffe.r– ings of our Saviour: lJ it nothing· to you.? Have you no interefl: nor con<;ernrnent at all in them! Much, ·certa_inly, €Very way. We were the occafion of his fufferings, and the benefits of them redound untq us. When we fee a perfon ubdergo any fad and grievous puniihn1ent, we cannot cl1u{e but inquire into the grounds and occafions of their fufferings; and the rather if they have the repptation of innocence and integrity. And here not only the moft innocen r, but the n1oft excellent perfon that ever was in the world, undergoes thofe dreadful fuffer-· ings which we mentioned before;. who never
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