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5 2 The Meritoriom Price of our Part I.
Th«re is food
didtor under all his tempraions by the Miniftcry of Angcis , as in
Ff.^i.ii, I 2. Hce foAll give Angels hi-s charge over thee t9 keep
thee iyi ail thy y^ajs-^ They PjaU bear thee tif in their hands , lej}
thou daP) thy foot againfi aftone. Therefore the fathers fending
oi an Angel to comfort his Son in his Agony,was not an evidence
that !iis FdriiCr was angry witii him Kr our iT.is, but ic was a lure
eviJence to him that his } athcr uas highly well pkafed with him
cv^n in the time ofhis Agony; and theietore alio he fent an Angel
to comfort him even in tnc viewer knowledoe of hi« Difciples,
that they mi^^ht take notice of thf love of the V^jthcr to his Some
in the time ot his Agony , and that they might leave ir upoo record
to the Church of God to the world, end: it is likely that
Gc d (cnt this Angel to allure him thjt Ms prayer was heard , and
to allure him that his naturall fearot dtath IIduIJ be wholly taken
from him before he made his ibiil a Ticririce for (in.
5. Ic is or.e chief pai c of thtothce of Angels toatt nd upon the
Mediator both at his Birth, Bap'i^nc and Death; G'ld hath cidaiivA
:hem to attend upon Chrift and upon all his mcmbcrS) cfpccially
in the time ot their fdddcrt trials and temptations ; and thert
r; in the timeof Chril^s threetold tcmptj:ion, the Angels came
j^nA miniilred to hinryl/^r.4. 1 1 . and this miniftery of Angels in
the time of his threefold temptation ,
was a fure argument not
of his Father wrath, but of his lathers love , The Angels »f
God Mufl iffcend and drfeend ufon the Sen vf Aian, John i .
5 i.
Tradcf!
Sir me things the natural!fear cf death Jhould not put
anr Saviostr into fnch an Agony , for many Aiartyrs have gene
through the (ears and p^.i/is $j diathWith men ccnrage and leffe
ear
J of death a great deal.
Dn ine. 1 have given you I :hink fuf^cient rcafons formerly to
prove I hat the fear of death was the cauf- of liis A^ony, and good
^cii!h mould H^aibns there are why Chrift fhould be more afraid of death then
•ipw. nv'iefot many Mart) r- have been, namely, for tlie clear manifeftation of
I!L'in".l'tyt1
the truth o* hi.s Humane Nature, and alfo for the accompljjhment
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