book it is written of me : Ver. 8.

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the law ^, and did perfectly fulfil it ^ ; endured most grie- vous torments immediately in his soul % and most painful sulForings in his body ^ ; was crucified, and died ^ ; was buried, and remained vmder the power of death, yet saw no corruption ^. On the third day he arose from the
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I delight to do thy will, O my God j yea, thy law is within my heart. With ?Ieb. X. 5. Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou woiildest r.ot, but a body hast thou prepared me : Ver. 6. In burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure : Ver. 7. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written ©f me) to do thy will, O God. Ver. 8. Above, when he said, Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-oflerings, and offering for sin, thou wouldest not, neither hadst pla-jgure therein, (vrhich are offered by the law ;) Ver. 9. Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. Ver. JO. By the which will we are canctificd, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. John X. 18. 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. This commandment have I received of my Father. PlYil. ii. 8. And being found in fashion as a man, he hum- bled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
y Gal. Iv. 4. But when the ful- ness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a wo- man, made under the law.
'^ Mat. iii. 15. And Jesus an- •wrering, said unto him. Suffer it to be so now : for thus it becometh ?is to fulfil all righteouinesa. Then
he suffered him. Mat. v. 1 7. Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets : I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil,
^ Mat. xxvi. 37. And he took with him Peter, and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sor* rowful, and very heavy. Ver. .38. Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even nntO death ; tarry ye here, and watch with me. Luke xxii. 44. And be- ing in an agony, he prayed more earnestly : and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. Mat. xxvii. 46. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani ? that is to say. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me f
b Matthew, Chapters XX vi. and xxvii.
^ Philip, ii. 8. \See the last scrips tun in ^ immediately foregoing.']^
d Acts ii. 23. Him, being deli- vered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain : Ver. 24. Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death ; because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. Ver. 27. Be- cause thou wilt not leave my soi;l in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corrup- tion. And Acts xiii. 37. But he whom God raised again saw no corruption. Rom. vi. 9. Know- ipg that Christ, being raised from
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;lead% with the same body in which he suffered'"; with ivhich also he ascended into heaven, and there sitteth at he right hand of his Father % making intercession ^ ; and hall return to judge men and angels at the end of the A'orld '.