Christ sustained the wrath of God from the beginning to And that in order to reconcile sinners to God For there is a propitiation in his blood XVII.XIX. Not for all mankind and every individual; but, according XX. to the counsel of God and Christ, for the elect only XXI. XXII. His supreme power in Judea Which, being a foreign and a heathen power, suggests several things of great moment XXV. XXVI. On the Crucifixion and Death of Christ. The Cross of Christ is the foundation of all Religion The cross of Christ had probably nothing very different The history of the discovery of the cross by Helena Which, by many arguments, is shown to be fabulous Crucifixion was preceded, 1. By beating Our Lord was crucified, probably, in the most usual form XXVIII. The circumstances that commonly followed crucifixion These were not wanting to the cross of Christ XXIX. XXX. Yet cursed The crucifixion of Christ ought to be devoutly contem- est concern His being scourged, bearing the cross, and being stripped David and Zechariah prophesied of the crucifixion XXXV. XXXVI. XXXVII. XLVI. All things, in short, happened to Christ, according to the Scourging was exceedingly grievous to Christ And his expulsion from the city, bearing the cross And his being stripped of his garments But above all, the punishment of the cross itself It is not without a spiritual sympathy, that we should LX.-LXII. We should turn all our grief and anger against sin The crucifixion of Christ, in its several parts, is a spring From the death of Christ, we learn to live and to die holily LXXIV. LXXV. It is profitable for our instruction, to consider that the I. VI. The dead body of Jesus was wrapped in clean linen, as The mixture of myrrh and aloes was added by Nicode- This attention to corpses was probably referred by the The form of the Jewish sepulchres VII. VIII. IX. X. Jonah's great fish is not a Whale, but rather a Sea-dog With regard to the analogy as to time, the simple explan- We should not so much inquire, what some of the an- Christ's descent into hell, as it respects the body, denotes burial, or the state of death IX.- V X XIV.-X Not as if Christ descended locally, either into the place of XVIII-X He conducted himself, however, in every respect most ho- lily, remaining altogether without sin - XX 3. For information The two states of the Messiah, the one of Humiliation, the The subject of the Exaltation is Christ; properly accord- ing to the human nature, and improperly according to XI I' The glory of Christ's body after the resurrection was great, even on earth, yet not consummate as it is now in SECT. The certainty of Christ's resurrection is confirmed; 2. By the testimony of the Angels XXIV. XXV. 3. By the frequent appearances of Christ XXVI. Which, for weighty reasons, were not made to the whole XXVII. 3. Because the glory of the Father, and of the Son, The advantage arising to us from this event XLI. XLII. XLIII. XLV. |