Lord’s Day 16, Chapter 3: The Death of the Cross (2) / Chapter 1: The Death of the Son of God (1)

Chapter 3: The Death of The Cross (continued) Such is the meaning of the cross. No other death than that by crucifixion might the Lamb of God, that must take away the sin of the world, die. For Him it would not have been proper had He died suddenly of heart failure, or of some common disease, or of the weakness of old age. Nor might the enemy stone Him to death, as they sometimes sought to do even before His hour had come; or cast, Him down the precipice, as they meant to do at Nazareth;...