348 BookiV• JLooatng unto ]efus-. --c~~~~ Nahum r. 6. M1t. o6.JJ• Mar.q. 31· J_uke "· 44· John"· 27. .of rhis worl.d, q. d. Now I fee God fining in judgment upon the w?rld; :i'hd~ Reprefenrwvc of all the world of Belre>ers, here I ll:and before Ius Tribunal ready ro undergo all the puniflrmenrs due to them for rherr fins: why, there is no orher way ro fave their fouls, aud ro fatisfie Ju!lice, but that the fire of thy indignation fiJollld kindle again!1 me; q• d. 0 I /z.now it ir afearfi,/.thing to fall into the hands of the livin.f God : Oh 1 kz?owGfJdi6 a confmning fire.; who ~an fta,;d befo""e hH indignatio·n? and 1rho can ab;-de in the fiercenefl of hiJ anser f hu fu~y IS po11red OUt fik§ fire, and the rocks are throWn t/tr.yn by him: BurfortiiiSendcameitnrorheworld; Omy Father, I will drink this Cup; lo l1ere an open brell:; come, prepare the Armory of rhy wrath, and herein !hoot all the Arrows of revenge.--And yet, 0 my Father, ler me not be oppreifed. fubverr. ed, or fwallo;yed up by thy wrath, let nor thy difpleafure continue longer than rny pa. tience or obcdrence ca.n endure; there is in me Helh and bloud in refpect of my Immani– ty, and my jlejh tremblcth for fear of thee, 1 am afraid of thy j~tdgments: Oh if it be pollible, if it bepoffible let thi.· c,p pafs from rr.e. S 10 C T. V. Of the dolours and agonies that Chrift there Juffered. 2.CHrifi's Pallion in the Garden was either before, or at his apprehenfion; l1is Palli– onbeforeJsdedared. r. Rylus Sotrow. 2. ByhisSweat. r. For his S?rrow; the Evangelills diverfly relate it; He beg..n to be (orrowful, and vcry heavy, fatth Matthew: He began to be fore ar,az.ed, and to be very heavy, faith Marlz.: Andbeinginanagony, he prayed more earnejlly, faith Lttk$: Nowumy Soul troubled, andwhat jhall Ifay? Father, Jave me fromthu hour; bm for thu cmtfe. came I tmtothi& hour, faith John. All avow this farrow to be great, and fait isconfefs'd by M•t. 26. <S. Chrill: himfelf: Thm faith he ltnto them, my Jo~tl i; exceedtng forrowful even Hnto death. Ah Chrilllans! who can fpeak our this forrow? The fpirit of aman will Jttjlmn hi& mfirProv.I8. 1 4• mity, but a woundedfpirit who can bear? Chrifi's foul is forrowful; or if that beroo flat, his foul is forrowful, exceeding forrowf~<l; or if that Language bee roo low, his foul is exceeding forrowful, even unto death ; not on!yextenfivtly, fu~h as mull continue for the' fpace of fevenreen or eighteen hours, even until death it felf fiwuld linin• it ; but alfo intenlively, fucb, and fo great, as that which is ufed to be at the very point of death; and filch as were able to bring death it felf, had nor Chrifi been referved ro a greater and an heavier punifi1ment. Of rhisforrow is that efpecially fpoken, Co,fider, and behold if ever there were forrow lik.e unto my forrow: Many a lad and forrowful foul hath no queftion been in the world ; bur the like farrow to this was never fince the Crea– tion: the very terms of the Evangelill:sfpeak no lefs; he was forrowful and heavy, faith one: amaz.ed and very heavy, faith another: in an agony, faith a third: in a foul-trON– ble, faith a fourth. Surely the bodily rorments of the Crofs were inferiour to this agony of his foul 1 the pain of the body, is the body of pain: Oh bur the very foul of for– row, and pain, is the foul's farrow, and the foul's-pain. It was a farrow unfpeakable, and therefore I mufi leave it, as not being able to utter it. 2. Foi· his Sweat; Lttks only relates it: And hu fweat w.u -t<it wcre,grcat drops of Luke ». 4~· bloud falling d~1~p to thegrotmd. In the wo.rds I obferve a Clymax. r. Hi& jiv~atwao a; it were bloud. Ethymuu, andTheophilall rnterpret rhofe words as only a fimrltrude, or figurative Hyperbol,e; an ufual kind of fpeech rocall a vehement fweat, a bloudy fwear: as he that weeps bitterly, is faid to weep ..rears of bloud. :Aug~tftine, Jcrome, Eptpha– nim, Athanafiut, Jren£as, and other•, from the beginmng of the Church, under– fiand it in aliceral fenfe, and believe it was truly, and properly a bloudy fwear; nor is the Objection confiderable, that it wasfie~tt gutt£ fanguin~, .a. it were-drops of blood; for if the Holy Gholl: l1ad only intended that ficut for J Stmrlaude or Hyperbole, he would rather l1ave exprelfed it., ao it were drops of water , than a; it were drops ?f bloud. We all know fweat is more like ro water than to blood : Befides, a firut, tn Scripture-phrafe, doth not alwajes denote a Similitude, but fometimes the very thing h it felf, according to the verity ;?f it: thus we beheldhuglory, the glory aoitwcre, of the L~k~ :~1•4;r. only begotten Son of the Father.-~nd their ~"!ds fee!"cd t,o them M tt were tdle Tales,and they believed them not. The words tn the Ortgmal, "''"''",are the fame; here Js rhe firft fiep of this Clymax, his fwear was a wonderful [wear, not afweat of water, but ofre~ gor~-bloud. --- -- ·- - - z. Great
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