malicious Enemies accufed and condemned him with Falfhood and Rage, and then infulted him with a cruel Triumph; when his falfe Friends betrayed, and his frail ones forfook or denied him; when the Wrath of GOD fell upon him, and the big Grief burst out at every Pore in Drops of Blood; when he was mangled with Whips, and rent with Thorns, and deformed with Buffetings, and even then expofed in mock Grandeur; when, fuch an Object of Pity, he was loaded with the Crofs, and led through the Streets, before a gazing, taunting Multitude?-But what need I fay more, or why fpeak of that laft Scene, which furpaffes all? All this was a free Endurance; he merited not the leaft Pang, or the leaft Stripe; he was the Well-beloved of the Father, in whom God was well-pleased. Or, yet again, Did he quit his Love towards you and this Earth together? Is he not gone up to the Prefence of God, to appear for you, and folicit your Interefts? And is not your Soul the daily Object of his Providential Tenderness, Care, and Bounty? Surely, he is willing to give you any thing, all that Salvation you need. Would Gop we were as ready to receive it, as he is to give it!

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malicious Enemies accused and condemned him with Falfhood and Rage, and then infulted him with a cruel Triumph, when his falfe Friends betrayed, and his frail ones forfook or denied him; when the Wrath of GOD fell upon him, and the big Grief burft out at every Pore in Drops of Blood; when he was mangled with Whips, and rent with Thorns, and deformed with Buffetings, and even then expofed in mock Grandeur; when, fuch an Object of Pity, he was loaded with the Crofs, and led through the Streets, before a gazing, taunting Multitude?-But what need I fay more, or why speak of that laft Scene, which furpaffes all? All this was a free Endurance; he merited not the leaft Pang, or the least Stripe; he was the Well-beloved of the Father, in whom God was well-pleafed. Or, yet again, Did he quit his Love towards you and this Earth together? Is he not gone up to the Presence of God, to appear for you, and folicit your Interefts? And is not your Soul the daily Object of his Providential Tenderness, Care, and Bounty? Surely, he is willing to give you any thing, all that Salvation you need. Would Gop we were as ready to receive it, as he is to give it!

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T I will chufe to conclude, for the nt, with a practical Review of what already appeared before us. Confider elf then, whoever thou art, as a Man,. ated to ferve the Purposes of thy Maker's lory; and yet as an infolent Worm, who aft dared to join thy Fellows in Rebellion against the Majefty of GOD. Thou haft caft off Submiffion; thou haft loft all Loyalty of Heart towards thy Heavenly King; thou hast affected Independence, and arrogantly fet up to be thy own Mafter. See to it; thou hast been doing thy own Will,. and taking the Way of thy own Pleasure : The Gifts of GOD thou haft turned to thy own Ufe, and vainly boafted thyself of what (r) Rom. viii. 1.

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