and again, that " he was made a curse for us : " all of which passages shew that God sent him into the world on purpose to bruise him. And when the time should come for executing upon his Son all that he was ordained to suffer, the prophet represents the Father as feeling a complacency in the very act : " Awake, O my sword, against my Shepherd, against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts." We may further ob- serve, that the Father had from the beginning delighted in the sacrifices which zvere offered, because they were types of that sacrifice, which Christ in due time should offer upon the cross. When Noah came out of the ark, he built an altar, and offered a burnt-offering upon it ; and then we are told, " The Lord smelled a sweet savour." So, at the very time that our Lord was bruised, the Father was pleased with it ; for the Apostle says of Christ, that he " gave himself an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour ; " plainly implying, that as God was pleased with the offering of beasts by Noah, and with the savour of the incense which was composed of bruised spices, so he was pleased with the offering of his own Son, while he was yet consuming with the fire of divine wrath. The Father has moreover exalted Jesus in consideration of his having endured the sufferings which he had appointed him. The Apostle having set forth Christ as obedient unto death, even the death of the cross, adds, " Wherefore God hath highly ex- alted him, and given him a name above every name." In the same manner, every blessing winch the Father bestows upon mankind is given as the purchase of Chris fs blood, and as the reward of his obedience unto death. Redemption includes every blessing of the covenant ; every evil we are delivered from, and every good which we are ever to possess : and this the Apostle ascribes wholly to the efficacy of Christ's blood ; " We have redemption," says he, " through his blood :" and another Apostle says, " Ye were redeemed with the precious blood of Christ."
Now did the Father give promises to his Son on the express condition of his suffering ? Did he send him