The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, William ... - Adkinshorton.net

-Q JhedMeritoriom Thrice of our Parti.
Great did fweat blood in tliecouragicusdctence of himrelfcaiid
other> in a dcfpt. rate alTault : and it is not unkno .•- n unto many
that divers years iincc there was a fweating IkknelTeor a violenr
f their
fwe^ting F.aver, that caufdmany perfons to fwcat out
bodies a bloody humor, and yet many of them did recover and
But if tlieir fweating bl«;od had been a figii
live many years after.
of Gods wrath up 'n their rMils(as you fay it was in Chril^ j the:i
I tiiinli they could rot hare lived any longer by the flrtngrh ofnature.
5. Doe but confi.ier a liitlc more rerioufly what ahorrid thing
to nature rhe approach of deatii is : fee iniiow many hi»rnd txprcllions
David doth dcfctibc it, in Pfal. 116.;. and in Pfal. 1 3.
4,5. and in P/4/. 5 5.4,5. in this laft place Drf-yi^ faith t.ius (J\[y
heart is fore pained within me , and. the terrors of death are fallt»
upon me, fearfulfefs and tremblii^g
are fain upon me^ an^ hsrror
huth 9Z-errfhelmed me : he faith, that hu heart woi fore puined
(namelv,as the pains ofa woman in travelJand in v. f^. horror hatb
tveryvhelmed me, rameiy,with an amazed quakingjas it often fa's
cut when the human fcnicsare fmitten with (udden fVar,and lb oi.r
Saviour wa^ pained in his minde with the thoiighi of his death a
longtime befb;e the time of his death came: and therefore it
mu'f needs affed him the deep. r when the time of his death was
at hind.
Suppofe that Adam in his innocency had grapl'd \"' ith the fear
of dca:ii, would it not have v\ rought a f^rangc rxutation in his nalurall
afTcdi> ns and would it n- t have wrought a Grange paine
jn his minde doubtlelTc it would,and like enoug i it would have
c.iu'ed a vi'lent fweat over ail lis bod) • no marvell then, if it
wrought fuch a fweating Agony upon our Savi urs pure Nature.
4. iti^nofirangenew dodrine to make thcnaturall fcare of
death to be thecau!eof Chrifli A::ony, fcemg other learned men
due aftirm it : ChrilltpLerCaylile'mhisTvcinfc of Chril^s dcfcent
into hell, p.4 6. faith thus . fVM not Chrifi extreamljf af-
Jii^ed, >Xhen hefvrfiar of deathfweat drops in cjuantitj/ Oi thicks
oj drop s of blood and /6. Iritha godly Martyr faith thus in his
AjiAver to Sii Tho: Moore B. 2. Chrifl did n$t onelj weepy tut he
drops of blood, running do^n
fc^redftftre. that hefrveat drops Itke
upon the earth, which was inoie then to weep :
no w ( faith he J if I