:Lam.r.u. Job.t.J4. .Luk,14.rt. Book. IV. Looking u~!o 1efus. Chap. 1. Secr.3 this forrow ii that efpecially fpoken, Confider, and behold if ever there wereforrow lik! unto my forrow; many a fad and fo.rrowful foul hath no quelhon been in the world, but the like forrow to this was never Gnce the creation; the very termes of the Evangelifrs fpeak no lelfe, he was forrowjisl and hea-vy, faith one; a· ma<:,e,d and very heavy~ faith another; in an agony, faith a third. in a (oul-trouble,faith a fou'nh. Surely the bodily torments of the crolfe were inferiour to this agony ofhis foul; the paine of the body is the body ofpaine; Oh but the very foul of forrow, and paine is the fouls forrow, and the fouls paine. It was a forrow unfpeakable and therefore I mu£1: ka ve it, as not being able to utter it. 2. For his fweat, Luk! only relates it, And his fweat was .u it were great drops of 6/ood falling down to theground. In the words I obferve aclymax, I. His (weat WM M it were blood ; Eth]- miw, and TheQphilall interpret thofe words as only a fimilitude, or figurative hyperbole; an ufual kinde of ipeech to call a vehement fweat a bloody fwea,t; as he that weeps bitterly is faid to we~p teares ofblo9d 1 ~ugufline; [trome_,_ !Jpiphanius, Atha- - natuu, Ireneus, and others from the begtnnwg of the Church underftand it in a literal fenfe, and bekeve it was truely, and properly a bloody fweat ; nor is theobjeCl:ion confiderable, that it was jicut gutt£ f anguinu, a; it were drops of blood; for if the holy Ghoft had only intended that Jicut for .a fimilitude, or hy- . perbole, he would rather have exprelfedir, .u it were drops of water th~n a; it were drops ofblood. We all know fweat is mor~ like t~ water than to blo'od: Befides a jicHt inS cri pture phraze doth not alwaies denote aGmilitude, but fometimes the very thing it felfe, according to the verity of it; thus we beheld his glory, the glory as it were ofthe only begotten Sonne ofthe Father.-·- and th~ir words feemed to them as it were idle tales, and they believecl them not. The words in tl1e Original rh rJ,-a', are the fame; here is the fir£1: ftep of this clymax, his fwea·t was a wonderful fweat, not a [\\·eat of water, but of red goreblood. 2. Great drops of blood, ~ro,"'f6o, d:tp.d.T@-. There is f udor .diaphoreticvM, a thin faint fweat, and (udor grumoju.s, a thick, concrete, and clotted fweat; in th is bloody fweat of Chrift it - ~arne not from-him in fmall dewes, but in great drops, they were · · drops,
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