His aim was to reconcile GOD and man in His Cross, slaying the enmity by His Death. What were all His humiliations, what His sufferings, His buffetings, His scourging, His cruel mocking, His submitting to be betrayed by one disciple, and denied by another? What His faintness, His weariness, His agony, His sense of spiritual desertion, His dying a malefactor’s death? What were all these but so many infallible proofs that HE thirsted for the pardon of the human race; that HE desired the sweetness of
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