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Christ s willingness to the work of redemption from everlasting till he accomplish it. . . . . . 137
CHAPTER I. . , . . . . ..
, 137 Two things to be considered in the obedience which Christ
performed, the will and the deed. From all eternity he
expressed his willingness to undertake the work. CHAPTER II. . . .
: . . 141 Renewed his consent as soon as he came into the world. His human nature from his first conception agreed to it. This apparent from Ps. xxii. CHAPTER III. . . -., -\. M ,.. ,. . , . 147 That appellation, Jesus the Nazarite, explained. CHAPTER IV. ...... .YJ
; 149 Nazarites of the law types of Christ. CHAPTER V. . . . . . . .- 152 Christ how presignified as a Nazarite by these types. The
parallel between him and Sampson. CHAPTER VI. . . . . . . 158 Christ called a Nazarite though not born in that city. CHAPTER VII. . . . .
; 161 Prophecy of Christ, Isa. xi. 1, Jer. xxiii. 5, and Zech. iii. 8, fulfilled in Christ a Nazarite or inhabitant of that city.
PAGE CHAPTEE VIII. ...... 164 As Christ expressed his will and consent in the dedication of
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himself to the work, so shewed his willingness in all the
parts of the performance. CHAPTER IX. . . . . . . .166 Did not shrink at the approach of his greatest sufferings, his
death.
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Christ s actual performance of our redemption. In the general he gave himself for us. The particular parts of our redemp tion are, That he was made sin and a curse ; and by his death obtained a victory over Satan, whereby he delivers us from his slavery ; and hath performed all righteousness which might answer the law for us. And that Christ, as our great Shepherd, takes care to preserve and secure us
safe thus redeemed and freed by him, . . . 172
CHAPTER I. . . . . . . . 172 God presently, on man s fall, making the discovery to him
of a Redeemer, Adam transmitted the knowledge of him
to his posterity, and he was accordingly proposed to the
faith of the patriarchs. CHAPTER II. . . . . . . . 174
Christ gave himself for us to redeem us. What is implied in that expression. Greatness and value of such a gift. Christ giving himself a high testimony of his own pecu liar love to us.
CHAPTER III. ...... 180
CHAPTER IV. ... 188 How Christ made a curse for us. Suffered the curse of the moral law.
Christ made sin and a curse for us. In what respect Christ was made sin for us. Uses.
CHAPTER V. ...... 192
CHAPTER VI. ...... 196 The sufferings of Christ immediately foregoing his cruci
Particulars of the curse wnich Christ endured. Infirmities which sin hath brought upon us. A painful, wretched
life.
fixion, described in an exposition of John xviii. 1-21.
CHAPTER VII. . .
r . . 215
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Exposition of John xviii. 1-21 continued.
CHAPTER VIII. . . . . ,. . 223 Christ taken and bound as the victims used to be to the
CHAPTER IX. ..... 240 Peter s denial of Christ. An addition to his sufferings.
altar. Influence of this his binding on our being loosened from these chains of sin.
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PAGE CHAPTER X. . . . . . . . 250 Account of Christ s examination before Caiaphas. CHAPTER XL . . -. ... 262 The last sufferings of Christ coming to his death. Both
CHAPTER XII. ...... 269 The extremity of pain which Christ endured in his body. Harassed day and night, without a moment s rest. Crowned
the shame and torments to be considered.
CHAPTER XIII. ...... 271 The greatest of all Christ s sufferings, those of his soul.
with thorns, torn with rods, and crucified.
Causes of those sorrows. Greatness of those sufferings. Wherein they did consist. How it could consist with his
being the Son of God, to be forsaken of God, and to
bear such extremity of his Father s wrath.
CHAPTER XIV. . . . . 286 Uses of Christ s being made sin and a curse for us.
CHAPTER XVI. ...... 299
CHAPTER XV. . . . . . ,295
7 which Christ gained over Satan by his death.
Victor}
Christ s great concern and interest to destroy the power of
S&tan. Conquest which he had over him by his death, and his open and glorious triumph after the victory, ex
pressed in Col. ii. 15.