...of man's redemption, he was his beloved Son; His Elect, in whom his foul delighteth, Ifai xlii. 1. " Therefore doth my Father love me, becaufe I lay down my life, that I may take it again, John x. 17. The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things in to his hand," John iii. 35. .Surely...

...work is of Gr:d, who fays, " This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleafed:" and Chrift fays, " Therefore doth my Father love me, becaufe I lay down my life, that I may take it up again." — His fatisfactory facrifice, that he offered to juflice, is of God; for, " It pleafed...

...giving himfelt" a facrifice ; and fee how the Father loves him for this, John R. 17. "Therefore doth ths Father love me, becaufe I lay down my life, that I may take it up again." Eph. v. 2. " He gave himfelf a facrifice of a fweet-fmelling favour unto God." The Father...

...that Chrift did voluntarily die, as he John x. 18. faid of himfelf, No man taketh away my Life from me, but I lay it down of myfelf: I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. For it was in his power whether he would come into the power of...

...laid down his life with the greateft cheerfulnefs and fponlanerty that could be, John x. 17, 18. " Therefore doth my " Father love me, becaufe I lay...man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myfelf :" and indeed the vohmtarinefs of Chrift, in his obedience unto death, gave his death the nature and...

...? \\ A* Yes, it was ; for though he had a command to die for us, John x. 1 8 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myfelf ; I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. Yet he came willingly ; Pfalm xl. 6, 7. Sacrifice and offering thou...

...perfon, the declarations are clear, manifold,and unequivocal, "I lay down my life, «hat '! " might take it again. No man taketh it from " me, but I lay...it down of myfelf. I have power" "to lay it down, and I have power to tatte it '« again." Among other proofs of his divine miflion, that was to be the...

...infolvent debtor. But Chrift came and fuffcred willingly : " Lo, I come, I delight to do thy will."f " Therefore doth my Father love me, becaufe I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No one taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myfelf."| You attempt to make this...

...abafement and differing, to which none could conftrain him ? Thus he fays to himfelf, John X. 17, 18, "Therefore doth my Father love me, becaufe I " lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man " taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myfelf : I have " power to lay...

...part of his wonderful atonement. Hear his own Declaration, in the concluding scene of his obedience. " I " lay down my life, that I may take it again ; no man taketh it " from me, but I lay it down of myself ; I have power to lay it " down, and I have power to take it again." I wish...