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.ao Jhi^Merltmom^rici 9four Parti.
1. To the tirrt queliioo, who did wound him , bruife him, and
flripchim Thcanfweris, Ic was Satan, by his inltrumcnts, ac-
\ cording to Gods predi^tioPjin Cjtn. 3.15. Thou (halt pierce him
\ in the tootfoals.-that is to ray,Thou Satan (halt put the promifed feed
i to death as a wicked rfialera(^or, by thy inrtrumcnts , the Scribes,
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Piiarifecsjsnd the Roman SoulJiers.-thou (halt pierce his hands and
feet, by nailing them 10 the CrolTe, >^ff. 4. 27, 2S. All this was
idone according to the detaminace councd of C/od, and in that re-
rpe(S God may be faid to wound him ;
buu yet God did not wru id ^
^ bim as an angry j'ldge, for our fin», as you would have ic ; but for 1
the tryal of his Mediatorial obedience ;
and theiefote he is (aid to
learn obedience by the things tha: he (utfercd. Htf). 5.8.
2. Ihcfecondquel^ion is this, Where did Chrill bear thefe
vround5, bruifes, and l^ripe*} whether in his body, or iw his Soul, oc
in both/
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The anfwcr i, that hi bare them in his body only , and not in
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his Soul :
his Soul was no: capable of bearing wounids bruifes.and '
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ftripes : Satan could not wound his Soul,bot yet he did Wuund his
body, by (birring up the wicked Jews and' Romans to wound,bruift
nnd Itiipc
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him in his Body and this T4/«/artirmcihj (ay ing, That
t^^e lervt fHlftled aU hisfufferings^'jufl 4S it rms fcretold bj aH tht\
rropi^etf. All. 13.27. :9. if lb, then the Wdunds, bruifcs and
irriprs here rp>)ken oF.cannot be underl^ood ofinward wounds,brui(^ ,
ti aid (Griper, h-om Gods wrath, for our fins; as you would have it. |
Secondly, ^f;rr doth teach us to expound this Tcxt^of Chrifts
Bov'.ilyfiilTerings only: His words run thus, //^ ^*^'f #«ryj"»j ;«
h:s body on the Tree', (i Pet. 2. 24.) That is to (ay, He bare our
pimKhments, (forfuch punidiments after the Hebrew phrafe arc
ex led Sin, ) when he fuflfered as a (inful malefactor, upon the Tree. .
li Prffrjpluafo (he bare mr fins in his Sodjj tn the Tree, ) had
mcint any thing of his bearing our fins, by Gods imputation, or of
his bearing of G ids wrath for our (ins • as you would have it; then
triJy his cate of fulfvTings had not been a fit example to have been
applycd t) the cafe of thole beleeving fervants, that fuflTcrcd unjufl
bodily punifhments from their cruel Heathen Mailers- the Apo-
(lle doth exhort thnfc beleeving StrvantN to patient fuffering, from
fhecxjmplcofChril}, who did no (in , neither was there any
guik found in his mouth , and when hc^Mffcred^ he thicatncd nor,
hut.
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