.. Exceeding Sittfulnef ofSin. a 7 fl:oryofthe Gofpel,that the text faith, he fellgro- velling upon thegroundupon the apprehenlion ofGods wrathand dijlevfere upenhimforfin, which he was to feel. : he fell down grovelling upon the ground. When he that upholds the Heavens and the Earth by his Power, *now falls gro- velling upon the. Earth, having the weight andburden ofmans Sinupon him he falls upon his face, he falls to the ground. Certainly Bre- thren, Chrift had that weight and burden upon him, that would have preft all the Angels in Heaven; and Men in the World clown to the bottomlefs gulf ofdefpair if all' the ftrength ofall themen that ever *ere linee the beginning ofthe world, and all the Angels in Heaven were put into one, and he -had but that weight upon him that Chrift had it world` have made him fink down into eternal defpair : for had not Chrift been God as well as Man, he could never have born it, but would have funk down eter- nally : But the burden andweight was fogreat that hefinks down to theground. 2 A fecond effe&ofChrifts bearing the wrath of.God forSin is this, Hejìoe,etgreat drops ofblood; the word in the Original is dodders ofBlood ; Blood thickned into Clods. Never was there fuch a"fweat ; it was in theWinters night,a cold night, abroad upon the ground in a cold Win- ters night, and he had nothingelfeupon him to makehim fweat but the burden offin, and the weight ofthewrathofGod being ponhim, he being under that burden fweat, and fuch a fweat as made theveryblood break through his very Veins)
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