35o Book IV. 1Lootttng unto 'Jjeftt.s'. Chap 1. Secr.6. prefent!y !lrikes her breafl:with ·her,Beak or Bill, and fo lets out lterown blond as a Medicine for them that they may fnck and live ; even fo Chrifl: feeing usfl:ruck' with the poyfon of fin, he is impatient of delay, hewonlq not fray till the Jt~vs let him bloud Luke"· , 0 , with their whips,·at\d thorns, and nayls; I h'fve a ,Baptifm to be bapti;<.ed with (faith Chrill:) andhow am I ftraightn;d till it be accomplijl>ed ?1 He is big with love, and.there– fore he opens all his pores of ~''own accord, he lm blond gu!h out from every part, ahd thereof he makes a preciOus Balfom to cure our wounds. 0 the Love of Chrifl ! Joh l'· , 9, .As Elih~&could fometimes fay, Behold my b:l'! if M wjne; whici11Jath no venf, it u ready tobnrft lik§ new BottIts ; fo the heaF of Chnfl: was fLlll, even full oflove, fo full that it could not hold, but it burfl: out through every pmand member of his body in ablo~dy fwear. I will not fay but that every drop of Chrifrs ,bloud was very precious, and of fufficien,t value to fav~ aworld, ~ut certainly that bloud which was not forc'd byw! 1ips, onhorns, or fpear, lS to be had tn fingular honour; as the myrrhe • that by inci!ion o~ ~e 'l'ree, flows our, is very precious, yet that whish drops out of its own accord, is accounted as the firfl: and choyce; and astheBalfom, which way foever it come, is fweet•· yet that which falls of its own accord, is held the moll pure and odoriferous ; to this al~ £cclus. 14 ., 5 • ludes that Apocryphal fayingin Ecclejiafticm, I g.avea {"!ut fme/lliize Cinamon, and I y~eldedap!.eafantodollr, l.k;thebeftmyrrhe: the vulgar tranflates ~~thus; &.!!•Ji Liba- • nw non incifM v~poravi; at the myrrhe-tree that i< not cllt, 1 cv•p•raud; as if Chrifl: Jlwuld.have faid, without any lancing, cutting, pruning, ont of meer love I poured out my blond upon the earth; this is cen•in ; at this time, no manner of violence was offered him in body, no man touched him, or came nea.r him; in a cold night (for tltey were fain w have afire within doors) lying abroad in rl1e air, .and upon cold earth, he rnfl:shim(elfinro a fweat of blond; furely, love is hor; he had a fire in his brea!l: that melts him into this bloudy fweat; 0 wonderful Love! 3. Tllis may inform us of the Defign,of Chrift in thefe very fufferings : Chrift vieepi B"n.Serm. in (faith lJernard) not only in hi< eyes, but in all hi< members, thll.t with the tears of hit body, Dom.p•lm. h~.mightwgjh and purifte hi< body, which •is the Ch~trch; .or Chrifl: weeps blond, th~t he might give us a fign of the enemies ruine; fweat in fi~knefs, is as a Crijis, or promifing fign, that Nature with all.her force hath ~rove againfl: the peccant humour, and hatlt now overcome it; fo thiS blouqy fweat IS a blelf~~ Crijis, or argument of fin decay– ing, and that the Lamb bath overthrown the Liqll>j, As Chrifl {ometimes faid; Nor;- Joh. ' 2 ·i 1 •P· is the judgment of thuworld, now jha/Lthe Prince of this worldbecaftout, and I, if I be liftedup from the earth, wi/Ldrawatlmen unto me. . · Thus far of Chri!t's paffion before his apprehenfion. And now we may fuppofe it about midnight, the very time which Chrifl: called the hour, amjpo>ver if dark..– nefs: what followed from twelve tiU three at night, we !h~ll difcover in the next Section. SECT. VI. Of {uda/s Trea{on, Chri.ft's apprehenjion, binding andleading 1111to Annas. By this time the Traitor Jttda<Was arrived at Gethfomani, and beinil ~ear the Gar– den-door, Jefus goes to his Difciples, and calls them from thetr ll~ep '· by an Irony (as fome think) he bids them jleep on nr:~• andtaks their rcft; meamng tf they IY.a!.t6,4So4f· coe1d for danger, that now was near ; but wtthal he adds, Behold theho~er" ~t hand, andtheSon of maHitbetrayedintothehandt of finners; rife, let_mbe gomg, beholdh~tS at hand that doth betray me.That ir might appear he underro.ok hts fuffenn~s Wtth choJl'e and freeeleClion, he not only refufed to fly, but he calls hts Apoftles to rtfe, that they Mat• • r. 47· m\ght meet his Murderers. And now they come with {wordt 11nd ftaves; or as JohJ• John 18. 1· adds, with Lamhorns and Torchet, and (JudM goi11g before them, and dra>Vtng near John J8.IZ,•3· Unto refm to kift him) they tool{_ him, and boul/d him. and led him away to Ann,u firft. . , . In this Period I Jlnll obferve, r. [nda<'s Treafon. 2. Chn~ s, apprehenfion. ·3. Chri!l:'s binding. 4· Chri!l:'s leading to An11a<, one of the Cluef Prtefls, as to l1is firfl ftation. 1. J~tdru's treafon; And while he yet jpak§, behold a mnltitHde,. and he that >rM ·· · called
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