Chap.z.Sect.6 LOikingunt~Jtfus. Book. IV. Part+ 611 turne our worldly griefe into godly forrow for fin Rs fin. Chrift herein poynted the women to the true caufe and fubjett ofall their forrew, which was their fins; and thus we have caufe to weep indeed. Oh! our fins were the caufe of the fufferings of Chrifr, and in that refpeel:, oh that our head> were fountainei, and our eye! rivers ofteares! oh that our teares were as our meat and drink! oh that we could feed with David on the bread ofteareJ, and that the Lord would give us plenteoufnrj[e of ttarn to drinf<.e ! oh that the Lord would ftrike (as he did at Rephidim) thefe rocky hearts of ours with the rod of true remorfe, that water m1ght gufh out! oh that we could thus mourne.over Jefus whom we have pierced, and be in bitternef{e for him, M one t!Mt i& Zacb.x tl 10 • in bitternef{e for his first-borne ! s. No foone ewas come to the place of execution, btJt they Mat.17.H<. gave him vinrgar to drink_ mingledwith galt: in that they gave him drink it was an argument of their humanity ; this was a cuftome amongfr Jews and Romans that to the condemned they ever gave wine to drink: give ftrong wine unto him that i& ready Prov.3 x. G~ to perifo, and wine unto thofo that be of heavy heart . . But in that they gave him vinegar mingled with gall, it was an argument.of their cruelty and envy. Theophila[!; fpea.ks plainly, that the vinegar mingled with gall was poyfonous and deadly, and there- Thcopbi. in mar fore when Chrift had tafred it, he would not drink, choofing rather the death of the cro!Te, to which he was deLtinated by his Father, than any poyfonous death. Ah brethren, are not we apt to think hardly of the Jews for V fo giving Chrifl: fo bitter a potion at his time of death ? and yet little do we think that when we fin we do as much. See but how God himfelfe compares the fins of the wicked Jews to very G poyfonh, fohr t~eir wine u of the win{e of Sodohm~, a~g of the ji6 e~ds ofbeut.p:j:, omora , t ezr grapes Are grapes o gall, t ezr cluJ.ers are ztter, 33, their wine i& the poy{or1 of 'Dragons, and the cruel venome of Afpes. In this refpect we may think as hardly of our felves as of the Jewes, becaufe fo oft as we Gn againfr God we do as much as mingle ranke poyfon, and bring it to Jefus Chrift to drink. 6. Tbeycrucifiedhim,(i.) they faftened him on thecroffe. Mlt.~7df• and then lift him up. A great quefrion there is amongil: th~ learned, whether Chrift was fatl:ened on the croffc after it was Iii i 2 erected,
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