Chap.r.Sed-4- Book. IV. H9 drops, and gre~~t drop; ofblood, craify and thick drops; and hence it is concluded as preternatural, for though much may be faid for fweatino blood in a courfe of 11ature; Llriflotfe affirmes it, and Aug~<Jii~e grants _that ~e kzicw. a man th~t cou_ld f-woat . klood even Arift.l ; • tlt when he pleafed; In fatnt bodtes 11 lubtde thmolood ltke fweat bift. animal. c. may paffe through the pores ef the skin; but that through the %9· fame pores, craffe, thick, and great drops of blood iliould iifue ~~~~uft 1:14· de out, it was not, it could not be without a miracle: fo.me caU1111 "· det.o.'f. them grumes, others globes of blood; certainly the drops were great, fo great as if they had ilarted through his skin to outrun the lheams and rivers of his croife. • 3. Here is yet another elymax, in that thefe great drops of blood did not only diflillare ,drop out; but decurr_ere ,run a fiream down fo fail, as if they bad iifued out ofmoil deadly wounds; they were .r,reat drops af blood fa/Jing down to the ground; here's magnitude, and multitude; great drops and thofe fo many, fo plenteous,as that they went thorough his apparel,and all,ftreaming down to the ground; now was it that his garments were dyed with crimf@n-red; that ofthe Prophet though fpoken in another fenfe, yet in fome refpeCl: may be applyed to this, wherefore art thou red in thine 11pparel? anJ th; g11rments Me him that Ha . 6 3 z. treadeth the wine fat? Oh what a fight was here! his head and members are all on a bloody fweat ,' thi5 fweat trickles down, . and bedecks his garments which flood like a new firmament fiudded with ilars, portending an approaching ilorme: nor fl:ayesitthere, butitfall.rdownto tbegrw11d: Oh happy garden ,: watred with fuch teares of blood ! how much bette'r are thefe rivers than Abana,and Pharpar, rivers of Dam~fl:u.;, )(tt, than all the watm of Ifrael; yea,than all tbo!e river~ that waters the gar-:- den of edm ?-- ' . 1~ This may informe us ofthe weight and burthen of finne~ Vj'e." · that thus preifcth Chrift under it tiH he fweat a,nd bleed ; when , the firft Aa11 m had commirred the fi rft fin, this. ~as the·penalty, . in the fweat of thy face jhalt thou eat thy 6reaJ; but now the fecond Adam takes upon him all the Gns .of all b ~ lievers in the Gen.3-J9; world, he fweats not only in his face, but in all his body; 0 then bow was that face disfigured,wh,en,it ftood all on drops, and thofe droFs not ofa wa.try fweat, but efa gor~-bioo-d i' we fee ~n other men, ,that when .they are difq1-1ieted witb ,fe~re ot-griefe, tlie · olood' .
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