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2. How admirably the satisfaction our Lord Jesus made by his death and sufferings answered to the sentence here passed upon our first parents.
(1.) Did travailing pains come in with sin? We read of the travail of Christ's soul (Isa 53:11); and the pains of death he was held by are called odinai (Ac 2:24), the pains of a woman in travail.
(2.) Did subjection come in with sin? Christ was made under the law, Ga 4:4.
(3.) Did the curse come in with sin? Christ was made a curse for us, died a cursed death, Ga 3:13.
(4.) Did thorns come in with sin? He was crowned with thorns for us.
(5.) Did sweat come in with sin? He for us did sweat as it were great drops of blood.
(6.) Did sorrow come in with sin? He was a man of sorrows, his soul was, in his agony, exceedingly sorrowful.
(7.) Did death come in with sin? He became obedient unto death. Thus is the plaster as wide as the wound. Blessed be God for Jesus Christ!
18 thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee;
and thou shalt eat the herb of the field:
19 in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,
till thou return unto the ground;
for out of it wast thou taken:
for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Man became mortal; although he did not die the moment he ate the forbidden fruit, his body underwent a change, and that would lead to dissolution; the union subsisting between his soul and God having already been dissolved, he had become liable to all the miseries of this life and to the pains of hell for