·306 0JJ th~ Palflon. unto l1in1. And, in that'fad moment his n1ind feems to have been fo intent upon his fuf– ferings, that he was diverted from the aau... al confideration of, that glory which he purchafed by then1. Now, to be thus fuf– pended from the perfect vifion of God, to be divorced, as it were, from_himfdf, and to lofe the fenfe of thofe inward con1forts whieh were wont to fufiain him in -all his " . adverfities, ho"v _cutting mufi it mufi needs be to his foul, fo pure and holy, and which had fo high a value for the divine love? Confider then, and fee, .ifever there wa.t tnzy firro'w like unto his .forrow. Now it is finifhed, the fharp conflier is at · ~ clofe; one cry more, and the hleffe~ Jefo.! bowed down his head andyielded ttp the ghofl. No wonder then if the powers of l1eaven and earth1 be moved. The earth trembleth Qnd ihaketh, the rocks rent, the graves are opened, the veil of the ten1ple was rent in two, the fun himfelf fhrunk in his beams, :and darknefs covered the face of the earth; · which a learned man of Greece is faid to have obferved at that time, and fron1 thence· to have concluded, That either the God of uature {uffered violence, or that the frame of the world was about · to diffofve: Aut J)eus naturce patitzlr,_aut mschlna mu.ndi fol~ , vitur, ' .
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