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Thus suffered our Sauiour (according to his owne fore-telling) many wrongs, in∣iuries, & reproches of his enemies, for our sakes. And, in the end, after all his vvhyp∣pings, buffettings, mockings, and reui∣lings, hee was * deliuered to death [vpon the Crosse] for our sinnes.
Yea; hee was deliuered to death, by the determinate counsell, and foreknowledge of God.
Otherwise, it had not been in the power of his enemies to depriue him of life. For,
no man could take his life from him: but he layd it downe of himselfe. For he, [be∣ing both God and man,] had power to lay downe his life; & power to take it again.
Yet, forasmuch as he came downe from heauen, not to doe his owne will, but the * will of God which sent him; hee (there∣fore) vvillinglie gaue * himselfe for our sinnes: that hee might deliuer vs from this present euill world, according to the will of God, euen our Father.
And that, by his suffering; hee might make an excellent and merritorious satis∣faction vnto his Father, for mans iniquity.
For, to this end especially was the passion of our Sauiour Christ; that GOD might thereby bring to passe a worke, in which he might more fully manifest both his iustice and mercy, then hee did in the Creation: namely, the reconciliation betweene him∣selfe and man; through the suffering of his onely sonne for sinne.
So that the Passion of Christ, being con∣sidered as a bare passion, ministers no com∣fort vnto vs: but all our ioy standeth in this, that by fayth we apprehend it, as a full satis-faction, meanes, or agreement, made vnto God, for our iniquities.
Rom, 4. 25.
Acts, 2, 23,
Iohn, 10, 18.
Ioh, 6, 38,
Gala, 1, 4.
Ierome.
Chrisostome.
Augustine.
Augustine.