2. Christs time-sufferings is more then our eternall suffe∣rings, because of the dignity of his person. Its true, a poore mans life is as sweet and deare to him Physically,Whence com∣meth the dig∣nity of Christs sufferings. as the life of a Prince, in the court of nature, in curia naturae; its a like taking to every man; but in curia forensi, if we speake legally, and in relation to many. David a king is more, for his royall place, to save and judge many thousands, then ten thousand of the people. 2. A prince shamed and disgraced, shll lose more honour, then a man of a low,The more ex∣celent the life of Christ was, the more hea∣vie was the lsse thereof. poore, and base condition; the honour of a free, and just prince, is by a thousand degrees more then the losse of ho∣nour in a wicked and base slave. Sinners had litle to lose in com∣parison of the Prince of life, like us in all things, except sinne.3. The more noble priviledge that life hath, as the more im∣mediate communion with God, the losse of life is a greater losse. It is more for glorious Angels to lose their happy and blessed life in the fruition of God, then for damned Devils to lose their being, who are in chaines of darkenesse. It is more for the Spi∣rits of just and perfect men, who are now up before the throne, to be made miserable, to lose life, and such a life; glory, and such a glory, then for slaves of hell, living in wickednesse, to be thrust downe to hell with everlasting shame; It is more that the whole Sea, and all the Rivers be dryed up, then that one win∣ter-fountaine be dried up. Christ had more to lose then all An∣gels and Men, even to be suspended of the vision of God, for a time was more then all that Angels and Men could lose for ever.4. Its true, the influence meritorious from Christs person on his suffering is not reall, but infinite in a morall estimation. But give me leave to thinke it disputable, whether or no, it de∣pendeth not on the free decree and pleasure of God, that the punishment of sinne be infinite in duration, or if it depend on the nature of sinne, and of divine justice; so as essentially God be necessitated, not from any free decree (that is not properly necessitie) but essentially from that spotlesse and holy justice, which is essentially in him, to punish those who equally sinned on earth, with equall torments in hell, and all with eternall pu∣nishment. Yet notwithstanding all this, Christ, by his death, not onely exhausted, the infinite punishment due to us; as infi∣nite mountaines of Sands can drinke up all the finite Seas, Ri∣vers, Brookes, and fountaines of the earth; but he purchased to 0