--------------~-------------~--~--------------- ' Cbap.x.Sett.z: · L9okingumo re[ut. Book. IV. 543 , had fpok!n theft words, he went fmh with hiJ· difcip/es O!Jer the brook,.Ctdron, whtreWtiS ll garden, into the which he entred, and his Job. I~ ~ 1, difciples. ·. In tbis paffage obferve_we thefe particulars. r . The river o- ,rer which they pa!fed. 2. The garden into which they entred. 3. The prayer he there made, and the dolours and agonies he there fuffered . . . . I . He and bis difcipleswent overthe brook Cedron.· So it was ' called (fay {orne) trom ~he many Cedars that grew all along the banks; or (fay others) fFom the darkne!fe of the vally, fo Kader fignifies darkne!fe ; and, this was done to fulfill a prophefle; he fludl drink..o( thebrool{_in rhe way . By thebro~k..or torrent, we may Pf l _ ilnderftand myftlCally th·e wrath cf God,and the rage ef men, the .l • r 10 ' 7• - very afflictions,which oefe! Jefus Chrifl:; and by his drmkJng of the brook , we may uildedbnd Cbrift endu~ing ~ fflicttOns, or (as others) his enduring m(lny afflictions; and not a f<w. I. That affiitlionJ are underftood by wdtm, we fin de it very frequently in . Sf:riptures; thejorrowJ of -death compajJed me, and the floods of Pf.l 8 , , Belial m.rde we afr.rid. - drep-cttlleth unto deep, at the noyfe ofthe _ l • 1 • 4 • '11Jater-Ipouts, 11/i tby wttves and rh,y bilkws aregone o!Jer me.-P,alm 4~· 7:. And,fave me 0 God, for the waters arecome in unto my foul,and,if pfalrn 69 •1 , jt h.rd not been the Lord w.ho W>f.S on our fide, --then the waterJ Pfalm I:l.i· r; JMdoverwhelmui us, the flreame hadgone over our foul, then the ~.1· proudw.rrers h~tdgone over our JQu/ · : 2. As waters fignifie afflictions, fo Chrifidrinking of thofe,. waters, it lignifies C hrijf J [ufferint, ofaffii/Jions; · or as others, it . lignifies ChrijfJ [itjferirJg of m11ny atJlictionJ. Thus we finde together two words with relation thereunto,arr ye able todrink..of the cup (faith Chrift) thllt I fbalJ drink of, and to be bapti:wl with the /J~tptlfme that I am b~pti:{,edwitb? he that drinke~h ~ath the water MJt, 1o,~l,; in him , and hetbatis baptized, dipped, or plunged, hath the water about hirn ; fo it notes the va·riety or univerfality of afflictions which Chrift fuffered ; it was wi,thin him, and it was about him·, he was every way affl icted. Not to fpeak yet of thofe fufferings, which yet we are not come to fpeak un·o ; we fi nde here in the way, betwixt the City and the garden, that Chnft wenr over the brook Cedron; in the night be wades through thewat'ers, yea, in a cold night he wades . through cold waters on bare feet; and as he wades through them, · he .:
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