He did not take the human nature on him in its first, most perfect and vigorous state, but in that feeble forlorn state which it is in since the fall and therefore Christ is called “a tender plant,” and “a root out of a dry ground.” Isa. It was this nature, with all its weakness and exposedness to sufferings, which Christ, who is the Lord God omnipotent, took upon him. So it is compared to a leaf and to the dry stubble and to a blast of wind: and the nature of feeble man is said to be but dust and ashes, to have its foundation in the dust, and to be crushed before the moth. The human nature, on account of its weakness, is in Scripture compared to the grass of the field, which easily withers and decays. OUR Lord Jesus Christ, in his original nature, was infinitely above all suffering, for he was “God over all, blessed for evermore ” but, when he became man, he was not only capable of suffering, but partook of that nature that is remarkably feeble and exposed to suffering. Luke 22:44, “And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.” Edwards teaches that the soul of Christ in his agony in the garden had a sore conflict with those terrible and amazing views and apprehensions, of which he was then the subject.
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