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turall fear ofdeath, in which rcfpfds it might well caufc him tft \
fweat great drops like drops of blood ; fo then Chrirt had two ,
things :o doe at this time: the one as he was true Man , and the
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othu asheuasthe Mcdiatour ,• i. as he W2s true Man , he mull
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be touched with the fear of death as niuclj as his true Humane Nature
could bear without fin ;
and lecondly, as he was :\lediator,hc
muft folly and wholly overcome his naturatl tcarcof death by s
prayer, bcfort he could make his oblation ; tor by mutual] co-
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enant with his Father, his oblation muft be an adi vc Mediaroriall
oblation, hemuftlay downc his own liL by his ownadive
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will, dcfire and power; without the leart natural] unwillingneff
todic, Johnio.iy.ii. fothat iftherehad remained in him but
theleaft naturall unwillingneiTc to die when he made his obla-
tioD, the erticacy of his oblation had hztw loft : tliercforc there
was aneceilityforhimtopray, and to ftrivc in prayer until] hcc
oveicame it ,as I Ihall further explains the matter by and by in
No marvell then,
that our Saviour fell into fiich an Agony iii
the night bctorc his death, (ceing it was not an eafie
to Hve, to a defirc to die,
thing co alter
tlie property of nature from a defirc
and that not tor his own ends or benefit, but for the fake of the
Eled onely ;
and all this he muft perform in exad obedience 19
his Fathers will; hemurtobfervethcduetimeofevcryadion, the
manncr,the placc,and the peribns, and all other circumftances to
fulfill every circumftance juft as the Prophets had foretold, tiathing
muft fail, if he had bur failed in the leaft circumftance,hc had failed
in all, and his Humane Nature could not be exad in all
thefc circumfianccs
without the concunence of his Divine Nature.
In all thtfe refpcAs hi naturall fearc of death could not chufe
but be very often in his mmdc, and as
till he had overcome ir.
often to put him into pain
2 . Though it be very rare among mm to fweat blood ,and yet 6
live after it, yet 1 conceive it is not beyond the power ofHumane {
Nature fo to doi- ; M. Foxe in his Buoke of Martyrs rcponcth ^
from other Hiftorics, that one ScMnderbe^ was in fuch an Agony
When he was fi^'hting againft the Turks, That the {flood hdth been ^^t u f»k in lut
jctn te btrrft our •f his lips with vcrj ea^erneffe af^irit tnclj ;
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