Christ's Sufferings - Thomas Brooks (Puritan Quote)

That Christ the God of life was put to death. That He who is one with the Father should cry out of misery, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” That He who had the keys of hell and death at His girdle should lie in the sepulcher of another, having in His lifetime nowhere to lay his head nor after death to lay His body. That that head before which the angels cast down their crowns should be crowned with thorns, and those eyes purer than the sun put out by the darkness of death. Those ears, which hear nothing but hallelujahs of saints and angels, to hear the blasphemies of the multitude. That face that was fairer than the sons of men to be spit on by those beastly wretched Jews. That mouth and tongue “that spake as never man spake” accused for blasphemy. Those hands that freely swayed the scepter of heaven and those “feet like unto fine brass” nailed to the cross for man’s sins…. Oh! How should the consideration of this stir up the soul against it and induce the soul to fly from it and to use all holy means whereby sin may be subdued and destroyed.

- Thomas Brooks in Precious Remedies on the Puritan Hard Drive