CtreP.2.14 ACommentarie spontfe soo himfelfevnto death, not ignominious only before m.6,bur accurfed be- foreGod the Fathers delight and darling, became ti e obtcaof fuch wrath,aswould haue crufhed all creatures in heauen andearth to prices. Now thebitternefiè of this pail'ion inand about the umeof his death, mayappeare, i.by his complaint tohis Father in the garden, tellifying hew heauie his foule was vnto ir, which if it had beene but an ordinary death, it couldnot haue difmaied him, no more then many martyrs, who 3 haue not fhrunke at ir. y. By the !range dropper of water and blood 3 that fell from his face. 3. His fundry cryes to his Father, that if it were 4 politble the cuppe ofdeathmight pa(fe from him. 4. By thofe moll vn- worthy things, which the moil innocent lambe of God fuffered at the hands offinners; being taken as a theefe with (words and ( laues, bound and taxied away, andbrought as amalefaéior before the Magi flrate:be- forewhome,though he were cleared, yet mull he be fcourged by the Iewes, (iript of his owne apparell,cloathed with fcorneful kingly robes, the crowneof thornes, and a rcede put in his hand in (lead of a fcepter; lead away as a fheepc to the (laughter, wherebetweene two theeueas the cheifeofall fnners,he was crucified,his ioynts (iretched andracked, his hands and feete digged withBayles, his fide peirced with a fpeare: in (lead ofdrinke, he had vinegar temperedwith gal reached him: all forts ofmenmocked him that trufiedin his God : the high Priefls fcoffed,the paffengers wagged their heads, the fouldiers flouted him, nay, the rerie thcefe on the croffecould with his Iati breath blafpheme him. 5. But all thisTeemed leffe then nothing to that which he inwardly felt , beeing a, one oppreffed and forfakenof God, whichmade him cry our, crl,fr God, Mat.ay.45. mygod,w,yhaff thoufor»l`rnme. Thus did theSonne of God make ex- changeof the greate(i glorie aboue all comprehenflon, with thegreatefl infamie, and the greatc(i ioyes with the greateli forrowes that call bee imagined, even the forrowes ofhell : the which confederations notably fet ourthe qualifie ofthis paillon, vnto which our Lord gaue himfelfe. Vie. In that Chrill gaue himfelfe, t, welearnt, that there canbe nei-, ther other Friel+, nor other facrificc, then Chrifi himfelfe : both which our Apoflle accurately noteth in a diuerfe phrafe,which at the fir(i feem CO found the Idle fame : neither doth our Englt(h fo ditlingui(h them as Wray;an at. the Greeke loth, The former is in our text, which more properly beto- keneth that Chrill offered no other oblation or facrifice then himfelfe: á$ iavAr hence is it Paid, that for this ende Godgaue Chrif>ta bodie, that in the fame ücb.ao.s. he might performe this part ofhisFatherswill. The latter isin r.Tim.a. 6. which implyeth more direly, that Chrifi himfelfegauehimlelfe,and that there canbe noother priefl in this oblation thenhe that is the facri- fice: neither indeede can he beoffered of any other faue himfelfe, who Cireumnaneea aggauating Chn(ts fu$<r inst. s There can be now noother Pricft nor fa. orificebetides Chtiahimlèlfe. for
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