L~oking unto !feftu. Book IV. Parq. 621 leaft an exp:lVefadion, fuch a motion of the minde as whereby for the prefent he was difenabled to minde any thing elfe, but the dreadful fenfe of~he wrath of G?d• ~what an ~gonJ was this? 0 what a ftrugltng paffion of m1xed gnef wasth1s! what . afHicting and confl1cting affection§ . ur.der the fight and fenfeof ... eminent peril wasjn this agony ? and being in an 11gony he prayed f.uk. u. 44 ; more earneftl;·; thrice had be prayed, but now i!l his agoAy he prayed more earnefi!y ; 0 my Father if it be poffible, let thu cup p.1j]ejt-om me, nevcrtheleffe not a.s. I will, but M thor1 wilr.. Though I feel the foul of paine in che_;pa.ine of my foul, yet there is di'V'inity in me which tells m~ there is a wage for Gn, and I will pay it : all; 0 my Father fith thou haft bent thy bow, lo here an open breft. fix herein :-.11 thy fhaft~ of fury, better I fuffer for a while . than tliat all bdeevers iliould be damned for ·ever; thy will is mine , lo I will beare the burthen offin, come and fhoot here thy arrows of revenge. Arid thus as he prayed he fweat, and.L k . his[weat w.u a.s it were gretJt drops of blood falling down to th~ u ' 1 Z·H· ground. Oh wh'lt man or Angel can conceive the agony, the fcare, the forrow, the amazement of that heart,that.w ithout - all outward violence, meerly out of the extremity of his own pafiion, bled through thd\eili and skin, not fome faint dew, but folid drops of blood ? now is he crucified without a Grotfe, feare . and Corrow are the naylcs, our fins the thornes, hii Fatl1ers wuth the fpe:tre, and all thefe together caufe a bleeding fho:Jre to . raine throughout all his pores; 0 my foul, ton!idcr of this, and if thou wilt bring this confideration home, fay, thy fin; werNhe c.1u{e oft hi& bh<dJ [weat; Jefus Corift isthat true Md1m -that , is <;one out of Paradtfe for thy llns, and thus laboured on earth with his bloo.dy fweat , to g.et the bread that s.:hoa muft . · feed on, 2. Confider his apprehenfion; {udas.is now at hand, wits a troope following him to apprcbend his M:tfl:er, fee how withoutall (hame he fet himf;:lfe in the van,. and coming to his Lord and Malter, gives him a mo!l- traiterous .and deceitful kitfe, w'hat· {ud.u, . betraJt ft thou rhe Son ofman with a kjf{e? haft thou fold the Lord of life to fuch cruel merchants as covet greedily his blood and life ? 0 ala>! at what price hall: thou fct c11e Lord of _ all the cre.uure'> ? at thirty pence ? what a vile and Oen<kr price . is tbis for a Lord offuch glory and M~jefty? God was. fold fot: . - K k kk 3 . thirty . ;
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