It pleased God to Isa. liii. 5, 6.bruise him, to put him to grief, to make his soul an offering for sin, and to pour out his life unto death. He Ps. xxii. 1.hid himself from him, — was far from the voice of his cry, until he cried out, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” He made him 2 Cor. v. 21.sin and a Gal. iii. 13.curse for us; executed on him the sentence of the law; brought him into an agony, wherein he sweat thick drops of blood, was grievously troubled, and his soul was heavy unto death. He that was the power of God, and the wisdom of God, went stooping under the burden, until the whole frame of nature seemed astonished at it. Now this, as I said before that it discovered the indignation of God against sin, so it clearly holds out the desert of it. Would you, then, see the true demerit of sin? — take the measure of it from the mediation of Christ, especially his cross. It brought him who was the Son of God, equal unto God, God blessed for ever, into the form of a Phil. ii. 8.servant, who had not where to lay his head. It pursued him all his life with afflictions and persecutions; and lastly brought him under the rod of God; there bruised him and brake him, — 1 Cor. ii. 7.slew the Lord of life. Hence is deep humiliation for it, upon the account of him whom we Zech. xii. 10.have pierced. And this is the first spiritual view of sin we have in Christ.