Christ's obedience and the torments of the second death.

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“He was obedient even to the death of the cross.” That He that did make the law, should come down from heaven, and be subject to the law, what obedience was here! “Obedient to the death.” Yea, unto the deaths (in the plural number). And He made His grave with the sinners: and His deaths was with the rich. “He made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich had His deaths, “Isa. liii. 9. It is in the plural number in the Hebrew, though in our English translation it is in the singular. As if the Holy Ghost had called death, the second death that our Lord Christ had in some measure suffered. For, if you consider things truly and rightly, I believe you will find that our Lord and Saviour Christ when He died, and was in His agony, He did not only endure the first, but the torments of the second death. He overcame no more than He submitted to: He overcame death by submitting to death. Now He overcame the second death also, and therefore in some measure submitted to the torments of it, so far as He was capable. Look what the first Adam should have endured for his sin in the fall, that the second Adam now did endure in some measure for to take it off: “The day that thou eatest thou shalt die the death.” It was not barely the corporal and outward death, but it was the second death. If our Lord and Saviour Christ did not endure the torments of the second death, the wrath of God upon His soul; why did He sweat drops of blood, and tremble, and shake so, when He came to die? There is many saints and martyrs, when they come to die, they go skipping, and leaping, and rejoicing: and our Lord and Saviour, when He came to die, He sweats drops of blood; surely there was more than an outward death: Oh! The wrath of God, and the torments of the second death were upon His soul.”

William Bridge. The Great Gospel Mystery of the Saint's Comfort and Holiness, Opened and Applied from Christ's Priestly Office. The Works of the Rev. William Bridge vol. 1. Soli Deo Gloria Reprint 1989.
 
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