fee, if there be any forrow like unto my forrow. In the garden thus circumftanced, he was fore amazed and very heavy, and cried out, my foul is exceeding forrowful, even unto death.

But O God of power, what ails thee? Why do I fee the knees of Omnipotence beating one against another? What hand writing has appeared upon the wall against thee? What dreadful fyllables have been interpreted to thee? Haft thou been weighed in the balance and found wanting? Yes, wanting in every thing! charged with and indicted for every mischief! But how comes the God of nature, the physician and balm of the universe to be ill! Is it unto death? Even fo! So deep, fo fatal is his illness! Yea if the creator is ill, he muft, and will certainly die. This he knew, and in the bittereft agonies declares that his fickness was unto unto death, and therefore to look for remedies was felefs.

O vain and wicked people! Why did you bring bands and weapons of death to a dying man? Why did you try him? You could prove nothing; he had he had done it himself before you

came. You impertinently tried him who had been tried and caft before you apprehended him; and went about to kill him who was in his dying moments! Officious accufers, you came too late! Had you left him alone, he would have grieved, vexed, trembled, cried, fweated, and, if I may be allowed to say it, would have boiled to death in his own blood. For he was now refolved to be the deftruction of fin. And in order to that, made himself fin, as though he had been the whole existence of it and nothing else; and then expiring, funk down, and ceafed to be; that thereby, in him, by a masterly contrivance, it might receive a tremendous blow, and for ever ceafe to exift.

Jefus then rose from the dead a new man. In one fenfe, indeed, he was the fame after his refurrection as he was before. It is the fame person, but paffed from one mode of exiftence into another. That mode is fo different from the former, that the man who was born, lived and acted in Judea, is as though he had been blotted out of the book of existence and vanished into nothing: and he who is now in heaven, is as though he had

never exifted till the moment of the refurrection. For in that mode wherein he was flefh, and the likeness of finful flesh; he was .poor, hungry, thirsty, fleepy and weary as we are; but in that form, he exifts no more; he has for ever ceased to be that man. He neither did nor could undergo an effential change, being in this refpect unchangeable: but, as I faid, he I faid, he was nominally made fin, and had the characters and impress of a fallen ftate ftamped upon his frame, and was fo vifibly and ftrongly marked with the likeness of finful flesh, that people generally took him to be nothing higher; but this mode is totally ceased, for he now lives and prevails in the eternal triumphs of a new man, fprung up as it were out of nothing to poffefs and fill up a new state of existence, never before heard of.

Therefore the Father faith unto him, upon the refurrection morning, Thou art my fon, this day have I begotten thee. For though he afferts that he was his peculiar delight, and had lain in his bofom before the worlds were framed, yet to be revenged upon fin and teftify his love to man, he as it were, relinquishes all that prior

state

flate, and fixes all his affections upon him in

this new mode of existence.

And befide, the

new man born from the dead, looks fo fair and glorious, has done, has merited fo much, has vanquished fuch enemies, has removed fuch obstructions out of the way of divine love, that he is now the object of peculiar delight and fatisfaction.

It was therefore, neither necessary nor poffible to fuffer for fin often; nor indeed more than once. So the apoftle speaks, Hebrews 9. Nor yet that he fhould offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with the blood of others; for then must he often have fuffered fince the foundation of the world, but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away fin by the facrifice of himself. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after that the judgment, fo Chrift was once offered to bear the fins of many: and unto them that look for him, fhall he appear the fecond time without fin unto falvation.

The first creation was but the foundation of the

universe

"

univerfe; fomething laid to build upon, and to be finished in due time. It is here compared to a great house which had been long in the building. The foundation having been laid long before; in the end, or at the time of the confummation, Jefus appears; and, together with finishing the worlds, puts away fin by the facrifice of himself. There feemed to be a neceffity for his ap pearing foorter, or rather often, on account of many mifchiefs and riots that had happened about the building fince the foundation had been laid. But fays the apoftle, it was needlefs. το come to do other business, and his destroy fin once at last, when he had

He was

coming to

other work

to do at the fame time, was fufficient. For he could do this by the way as he was about

that.

He put it away. He heaved it and carried it, he took it up, to wit, as above from the people upon himself. He appeared to displace fin as it may be read. Not only to displace it from the people where it originally was, but to give it no place at all. Some render it, he appeared to the deftituting of fin. To make it deftitute