Chap·t. Sect+ jLool\ing unto jjcftt.S. Book IV. 349 2 . Great drops of bloud, J-eit"~" "'·""-;@·. There is fudor diaph~retic'!', a thin faint fweat and f 11 dor grumo(m, a thick, concrete, and clotted fweat; m t,lus bloudy fweat of Chrill, it came not from him in fmall dews, but in great ~rops; they were drops, and reat drops of b/oud, craffieand thick grops; and he~cett IS co9cluded as preterna. • turaf ; for though much may be fa~d for fweatmg bloud 111 a courfe of Dature; Arifto- kljl.l.}· de tie affirms it, and A~<gujline grants.that he k_new aman that couldfweat bloud even when he hijl. •••m.c,,9 pleafed. in faint bodi<S a fubule thuJ bloud, hkcfweat, may pafs through the pores of A~g.l. ,'.4·d• the ski~; but thatthi·ougb the fame po.res, crafs, .thick, and great drops of bloud lhould c,,, o.,,c, '-4 ilTue out, it was not, it could not be wnhout a Mtracle: Some call themgru ..es, others globes of bloud; certainly the drops were ~re.at, fo great, as tf they I:adflaned through ltis skin to outrun the llreams and nvers of Ius Crofs. 3 . Here is yet another clymax, in that thefe great drops of blo\ld did not onlydiftil• · fare drop out . bur decurrere; run a Jlream down fo fall:, as if they had ilfued out of molt deadly wo~nds; they were greaf drops of bioud falling d•wn to theground; here's magnitude and multitude ; great drops, _and thofe fo many, fo plenteous, as.that they went through his apparel and all, ftreammg down to th~ ground : now was lt that hts garments were died with crimfon red.' that o~ the Prophet, though fpoken in another fenfe, yet in fome refpect may be applted to t!us : Wherefore art thoJt red m thme ap- H 6 parell and thy garments likghi"' that treadeth the wine-fat.? Oh what a light was here! a, 3 ' 2 ' His Head and Members are all on a bloudy fweat, thts fweat trtckles down, and bedecks his garments, which flood li~e a new firmament !ludded ':"ith ftars, portending an approaching llorm: nor llayes u there, but Jt falls down to tlie ground: Oh happy Garden watered with fuch tears of bloud! how much better are thefe rivers than Abanaand Pharphar, rivers of Dama/cm; 'yea, than all th<'waters of lfrael; yea, than all thofe Rivers rhatwater the garden of Eden?-- I. This may inform us of the weight and burden of fin , that thus prelfeth Chrifl: 'fi under ir till he fweat and bleed: when the fir(! Adam ·. had committed the firft fin, this V e; wa!the penalty, in :he fweat of thy face jh"_lt thou. eat thy bread; but now the fecond Gen. 3. , 9 , Adam takes upon hrm all the lms of all Behevers 111 the world; he fwcats not only in his face, but in all his Body. 0 then. how was that face disfigured, when it fiood all on drops, and thofe d.rops, not of·a- \vatry fweat, but of a gore-bloud? We fee in other men, that when they are difquiefed with fear or grief, the bloud ufually runs to the heart ; indeed that is the principal member, and therefore, leaving the other parts, it goes thither, as of choice, to comfort that ; but our fweet Saviour contrariwife (becaufe he would fuffer without any manner of comfort) he denies to himfelf this common relief of nature; all the powers of our fouls, and parrs of our bodies were ftained with fin, and therefore hefweats bloud from every part: we fin, and our eyes will fcarce arop a tear for fin ; but his eyes; and ears, and head, and bands, and (eer, and - heart, and all runriversoftearsof bloudforus, even for our fins.--·Let Jefuites and Friers in meditating of Chrifl's fufferings, cry out again(\ the Jews; in this bloudy fwear of Chrifi I fee another ufe; alas ! here's no Jew, no [uda<, no Herod, no Pilate, • no Scribe, AO Pharife6s ; here's no tormentors to whip him; no fouldiers to crown.his Head with thorns; here's neither nails, nor fpear to fetch his blood out of hi!i,Body; how comes it rhen to pafs? Is there any natural caufe? ah no: the night is cold, which naturally draws blond inwards ; in the open air he lies groveling on the ground,and there he fweats, and bleed1. 0 my heart, who hath done this deed? As the L•rdliveth, 5 _ , the man th.r bath done thu thing, Jl.all [ierely die. So faid David, when Nathan repli- ' Jm. 1 '• f' ed upon him, tholl art the man. 0 my hrarr! my finful heart! 0 my finful, deceitful, abominable heart! thou art the Murderer; thy !in fare upon the heart of Chrifl:, v. 7 ' as heavyas~mountainof Lead or Iron; when none was near, but a few dull, heavy, fleepy Dtfctples; then all the fins of Believers (and amongft them, thy fins) fell upon the foul ofChrift, as fo many murtherers; and fqueezed bloud, and made him cry out, JJfySo,.l i1 heavy, heavy unto death. Go thy wayes now,and weep with Peter, and fay Wtth David, I have finned againft thee Lord. 0 how lhould thefe eyes of mine look upon Chrill rhus fweating, bleeding, frreaming out bloud, clods of bloud, great drops v.,,. of bloud, from all the parts and members of his Body, but I mufi mourn IYIJer him, "'Z<eh. "·'"' one that mourneth for hu only Jon, but I ,;mft be in bittemefs, M one that u in bitternefs for hu firft-born? 2. This may inform us of the extraordinary love of Chrift. It is faid of rhe Pelican, that w.hen her young ones are firuck with the tail of fome poyfonous Serpent , flJe LI z prefemly
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