et t ~·("';"''i'"'!l,'t'1 ;-;::~~i!fft'"', llooklV.379 ~l.~ 3· s~~c . 2. ~'-u~~t ~~ ..__._ ... __ .:P __ - __._;!3 ________,,_--~- perfo-;;:;;;;;-e, Cluilt in his birth and Chrift in his life, 0 how fweet? what bldfed ob· 'eets are rhefe ro look upon? bur above all conjitler'him ( fllth the Apoftle ) that cndu-. , J · · · · 11 h· r.lf C ,r.d · I ·.n h r · h : h f!c • " · 3. red fuch comradtfhonof jinne1s agamr tm. 1e_ . -- on1t er J~ w o Jor t e ,o~ t .tt vc:r 2 , was Jet befm him endu<ed 1 he crofs, and defpifed 1 he ~wno; of ,all ot!Jer pa.Ns, ac'h '. or pa!fages of Chrift, rhe holy Gho!l: bath only honoured Clmlt s palhon_ ( ht~ fuffermgs and his death) with this name of theory~ andjight. Why furcly this IS rh~ theory ~ver moft commended ro our view, and conhder:gton; 0 then let us look on tln<, confider of this. As in thismanner. -~ 1 • Conlider him palTing over .'he f:rook Cedron; it lignifies the wwh of God, and rage of men; the firft il:ep of lliS paOwn IS Onrp and fore; be cannot enter rbe door, bur firft he muft woderhrouoh cold wateiS on bare feet, nor mnH he only wade through them, but drink._ of them; 0 through many tribulations mufl: he go that will .Purchafe fouls, and throuoh many tribulations muft rhey go that will follow after him to the Kingdom of Glo;'y.---Confider him enrring into the Garden of Cethfcmine; ir. a oarden Adam finned, and 111 thts garden Chnft mull fuffcr, that the f.1me place whtch ~as the neft whe're fin was lmchcd, might now be the child-bed of grace and mercy; into this garden no fooner was he emred, bur he began to )Je agonized; all hi; powers and palllons within him were in conflic'l:. Confider 0 my foul how fuddenly he is ftruck inw a !!range fear; never was man fo afraid of the torments of hell, as Chrifi (£landing in our room) is of his Flthers wrath; fear is ftill fuirable to apprehenfion, and never man could fo perfec'l:ly ;~pprehend the oufe of fear as Jefus Chrift; nor was he only afraid bur very heavy ; /Yiy Jou! i1 exceeding forr:~tfnl ~ even tmto death. His forrowW1S lethal and deadIy, it tl)elted bis foul gradually as wax is melted with heat ; it continued with him till his laft· gafp, hi> heart was lik~ wax burning all the time of his pa!Tion, and at laft it mel!cd in the midjf of hi< b•we/s. Nor \'Jas he only afraid and pf, 1 heavy, but he began to be f~re amazed ; this lignihes an univerfal celfarion ofall the M:r: ~;: ~~: faculties of the foul from tbetr feveral func'l:10ns, we ufually call It a confiernat!On, It is like a Clock ftopped for the while from going, by fome hand or other laid upon it; or it it was not wholly a cdhtion, yet wa. it at leail an expavefacrion, fuch a motion of the mind as whereby for the pretem he was dilinabled to mind any thing dfe, but the dreadful fenfe of the wrath of God .• 0 what an agony v1as rhis? 0 what a. !hugling palllon of mixed grief was this? what atTlic'l:ing and confl:c'l:ing affetlions under the fight and fenfe of eminrnt peril was in this agony ? And being in an t'gony he prapd Luke u, ~1• rr.ore Mrnejlty; thrice had be prayed, bur nO\" in his agony he prayed more earnellly; 0 "•YFat her if it be po!fible. let thi< cup pafs from me, nevmhde{s not as I n·i/1, but ,., thou wilt. Though I feel the foul of pain in the pain of my foul, yet there is divinity, in me which tells me there is a wage for lin , and l will pay it all ? 0 my Father fith thou haft bent thy bow, lo here an open breafi, fix herein all thy fhafts of fuiy, better I fuffer for a while tb~n rbat all believers lhould be damned for ever; thy will is mine, lo I will bear the burrhen of fin, come and OJOot here thy arrow• of revenge. And rhus as be prayed he fweJt, A nd hi< Jive•lt was tU it were great drop' of blood fa/- Luke"' 441 ling down to the ground. Oh what man or Angel can conceive the agony, the fear, the forrow, the amazement of that_heart, rbat without all outward violence, meerly out of the extremuy of bu own pal110n, bled th~ough the fle01 and skin, not fome faint dew, but folid drops of blood? now is he crucified without a crofs fear and forrow are the nails,. our !ins the thorns, his Fathers wrath the fpear, and ~IJ tbefe together <auf: ableedi~1g fhower to rain throughout all his pores; 0 my foul, confider of this, and tf thou wilt brmg rlliS conltderatton home, fay, thy fins were the canfe of thi< b!oodv jiveat; Jefus Chrill: is that rrue Adam that is come out of Paradife for thy fini, and rhus laboured on earth with his bloody fweat to get tl.e bread that thou muft feed on. 2. Conlider his apprehenlion ; {~t:i," is now at band, with a troop following him to apprehend lm Maller, fee how without all lllamc he fer·bimfdf in the van, and comin<> ro hts Lord and Maller, gives him a moft tl aiterous and deceitful kits, What rud,,;, betr• .yejlthou the Son 'f ma11 tvi:h ,, kf.(s ? halt thou fold the Lord of life to fuch cruel merchants as. cover greedily his blood and life? 0 alas! at what price hall: thou fer the Lord ot all the crecttures? at thirty pence? what ·a vile and llender price H tlliS for a Lord of fuch Glory and Ma je!l:y? God was fold for thirty pieces of lilver, butmancouldnot be bought Without rhedearefl heart-blood of rheSonof God. At that time fatd Chnfl:, Ye be come '" it \Vcrc againft a thief with jivords ~nd jfave,·, l ck: ,, !3; p p I
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