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came
to save from misery were
partakers
of
flesh
and
blood,
he also
himself took
part of
the same,
that
he
might
suffer in
the
flesh,
and
by
his sufferings
put
away
our
sins
;"
lieb.
ii.
14.
Háppy
was he
in his
Father's
bosom,
and
the delight of
his
soul
through
many long
ages before
his
incarnation:
But
he
condescended to
be
born
"
in
the likeness
of
sin-
ful flesh,"
that
he
might
feel
such
smart
and sorrows
as
our
sins'had
exposed
us to.
His
innocent
and
holy soul
was
incapable
of
such
sort of
sufferings till he
put
on
his
clothing
of
human nature, and
became a
surety
for sinful
perishing creatures.
Let
us
survey
his
sufferings
a
little.
He
was
born
to
sorrow, and
trained
up
t4uough the common
uneasy
cir-
eumstances
of
the infant
and childish state,
,
till
he grew
up
to man
:
What
pains did
attend
him
in
hunger and
thirst,
and weariness; while he travelled
on
foot from
city to
city,
through
wilds
and
deserts, where
there
was
no food
nor rest
?
The
Son
of
man sometimes wanted
the
common
bread of nature, nor
had he where
to lay his
head.
What
uneasy sensations
was
he exposed to,
when
he
was
buffeted, when he
was
smitten
on
the
cheek,
when
his
tender
flesh' was
scourged
with
whips,
and
his
temples
were crowned with thorns, when his hands and
his
feet
were
'barbarously torn
with
rude
nails,
and
fast
-.
cued
to the cross,
where the whole weight
of
his
body
hung
on
those wounds
?
And
'what man
or
angel can
tell
the inward anguish, when
his
"
soul
was
exceeding sor-
rowful unto
death,"
and the conflicts
and
agonies
of
his
spirit
forced
out
the
drops
of
bloody sweat
through
every
pore.
It
was
by the
extreme
torture
'of
his
nature
that,
he
was
supposed
to
expire
on
the
cross;
these, were the
panes
of
his
atonement
and agonies
that
expiated
the
sins
of
men.
"
O blessed
Jésus
!
what
manner
of
sufferings
were
these
?
And
what
manner of
love
was
it that
willingly
gave up thy sacred
nature
to sustain them
?
And
what
was
the
design
of
them,
but
to
deliver
us
from
the
wrath
of
God
in
hell, to save
our
flesh
and
spirit
from
eternal
anguish and distress
there
?
Why
was
he made such
"
a
cure
for
us,
but
that
he
might redeem
us from the curse
of
the law
;"
Gal.
iii.
13.
and the
just
punishment of our
own
iniquities?"
Let
us
carry our thoughts of
his love,
and our benefit