Whatsoever Chrift fuffered was only for us: not only for our Good or our Example, as the Socinians would have it, but in our Stead, and to expiate and make Satisfaction to God's Juftice for our Sins. For,

1. He is faid exprefly to die in our Steads. ̓Αντίλυτρον ὑπὲρ πάντων, I Tim. ii. 6. Λύτρον ἀντὶ TON, Matt. xx. 28.

2. To be a Sacrifice and Propitiation for our Sins, Eph. v. 2. Пergoed Qudia, Heb. ii. 17. Εἰς τὸ ἱλάσκεθαι της αμαρτίας, 1 Job. ii. 2. c. iv. Io. ἱλασμός.

3. Our Sins were laid upon him, Ifa. liij.

4, 5, 6.

He was made Sin for us, 2 Cor. ix. 21.

And a Curfe for us, Gal. iii. 13.

4. He had no Sin of his own to fuffer for, and therefore he could not have fuffered but for our Sins.

And he being God as well as Man, his Sufferings could not but be of infinite Value and Merit for us.

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1. Hence fee how odious and offenfive Sin is to God.

2. When we read or hear of Christ's Sufferings, how fhould we be affected with it, confidering that they were all for our Sakes, and Sins.

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How much more when we fee him crucified before our Eyes in the Bleffed Sacrament? What did our Lord fuffer for us?

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1. The first kind of Sufferings he underwent, were in his Temptations foon after his Baptifm: Of which note, Matt. iv. 1.

1. He was led by the Spirit, Luke iv. 1. that which even now defcended upon him.

2. Into the Wilderness, a Place remote from Men, and filled only with Beasts.

1. To fulfill the Type of the Scape-Goat, Lev. xvi. 20, 21, 22.

2. To give the Devil all the Advantage he could defire in his Temptations, Matt. iv. 2.

3. There he fafted Forty Days and Forty Nights: So Mofes had fafted, Exod. xxxiv. 28. and Elias, Reg, xix. 8.

Our Saviour fafted this Time,

1. To fhew the Harmony between Law and Gospel.

2. To teach us how to fit our Selves for the great Work of the Ministry.

Acts xiii. 2. Hence our Ember-Weeks.

This gave the Occafion of the Churches obferving Lent every Year, which the always did; and therefore it is no Piece of Popery.

4. After these Forty Days he was an hungry, to fhew he was truly Man.

5. The Devil obferving this, thinks he had got the Advantage over him, and therefore fets upon him, not doubting of conquering, having overcome the firft Adam in Paradife it felf.

And fo firft tempts him to prove himself to be God,by turning Stones into Bread, Matt. iv. 3. Luke iy. 41.

2. All his Life afterwards he was fubject to the Infirmities of the humane Nature: He was weary, John iv. 6. He was reviled Matt. xii. 24. Stoned, John viii. 59. c. x. 31, 32.

3. His greateft Suffering began in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Where behold him,

1. Exceeding Sorrowful, Matt. xxvi. 37, 38. 2. So great were the Apprehenfions of what he was to undergo, that he prayed against it, ver. 39.

Whatsoever God had prepared for him, he
ftill crys out, Thy will be done.
His own Difciples Traytors.
Soldiers to apprehend him.
Falfe Witneffes to accufe him.
Judges to arraign him.
Thorns to crown him.
A Rabble to abuse him.
A Crofs to crucifie him.
Still, Thy will be done.

3. Behold him in his Agony! Luke xxii. 44.

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LUKE xxiii. 33.

And when they were come to the Place which is called Calvary, there they crucified him.

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OW was the Power of Darkness let loose upon our Lord, Løke xxii. 53. Gen. iii. 15.

I. He was betrayed by one of his own Difciples, Pfal. xli. 9. John xiii. 18. Pfal. lv. 12, 13. and that with a Kifs too, Matt. xxvi. 49.

II. Apprehended. Where obferve,

1. They came upon him with Swords and Staves, as if he had been a Thief, Matt.xxvi: 47, 55.

2. He confeffed himself the Perfon they fought for, John xviii. 5. which daunted them fo, that they fell to the Ground, John xviii. 6. 3. His Difciples making fome little Resistance, and Peter cutting off Malchus's Ear, John xviii. 10. Jefus cured it, Luke xxii. 51.

4: Then they bound him, John xviii. 12. altho' he could have had Twelve Legions of Angels to affift him, Matt. xxvi. 53.

III. Arraigned. Where obferve,

1. When they had firft carried him to Annas to take his Counsel, John xviii. 13. Then they led him to Caiphas the High-Prieft, Matt. xxvi. 57. where the Sanhedrim or Council was then held,

Here

Here they fought false Witness against him, Matt. xxvi. 59.

Here they queftioned him in many Things, but he answered nothing, Matt. xxvi. 60, 61, 62. according to Ifa. liii. 7.

Here they fmite and abuse him, Matt. xxvi. €67.

Here Peter denied him thrice, Matt. xxvi: 72, 75.

Here they accufe him of Blafphemy, Matt. xxvi. 65.

Here they took Counsel to kill him, c. xxvii. r. Here Judas recanted, and hanged himself, c. xxvii. 5.

2. From Caiphas they led him to Pilate, c. xxvii 2. Luke xxiii. 1, 2, 3, 4.

3. From Pilate to Herod, Luke xxiii, 6, 7, 8.
where he was abused, v. 11.

4. From Herod to Pilate again, Luke xxiii. 11.
who excufeth him, Luke xxiii. 14, 15. John
xix.
4. and would have released him, Luke
xxiii. 16. but they rather chofe Barabbas,
v. 18. and cried, Crucifie him, v. 21. His
Wife fent to him, Matt. xxvii. 19. and
Matt. xxvii. 24. But they accuse him of
Treafon, John xix. 12. Hence Pilate con-
demns him, John xix. 16.

IV. Being condemned, they carried him to be crucified.

1. They crown him with Thorns, Matt. xxvij. 29. Gen. iii. 18.

And abuse him, Matt. xxvii. 30, 3o.

2. They laid his Crofs upon him, Job. xix. 17. Gen. xxii. 6. But left he fhould be weary, and fo not fo fenfible of Pain, they com

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