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56 Thi fiMeritaritm Price tf oar Part L
Luk^ II. 37. Yea he fpent 40. dayes together in fafling and prayer*,
whenbedidfirA enter pubiiqusly into his Mediators office,
then he prayed for power and ftrength to do the otfice of the Mediator,
and therefore it is no queOion but he did then pray in a
fpeciall manner to be dclirered from his naturall
unwillingnefle
to dicj when he came to make his oblation j for ifthere had remaincdinhimbutthe
leaft naturall unwillingnefTe to die at the
time of his oblation, it would have fpoylcd the cfficacic of his Mediatorial
oblation.
Secondly, He prayed alfotobe delivered from the dominion
oTdeath^ter he had made hisobiation>ajid God heard him,and delivered
him by his Refiirredion on the third day, Afh. 1. 24. 17.
Therefore, feeing Chrift wasfb dccpcly pofTeifed with this
Godly feare , lef^ he fhould offend God by his naturall unwillingneiletedie,
it mufl needs banifh far from him that horrid feare
ofGodswrath which your Authors fay this word /(Trfr* doth fig-
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nifie :
I confcfs I cannot but wonder that fuch learned men Chould
expound the word /r4rf , in this text, to mcane fiich a dreadfull
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feare as they mufl needs ieele that lie under the fenfe ofGods
wrath.
Secondly, Neither doth the word/ftor in this text, fignifie fuch
an amazed naturall fear of death, as that other word fear doth fig-
nifie in/l/