The souls exaltation A treatiseThe soules exaltation A treatise

For the first, what our Saviour suffered when he was in that agony in the garden, when he crieth out, Father, if it be possible let this cap pass from me. The Scripture discovers the pith of all that anguish of soul, and the whole compass of it, what it was that did thus fill the soul of our Saviour, and that is in these two things, and you shall find them both in Mark 13.33. where the text saith, when our Saviour was to enter into the combat, he saith thus; he began to his amazed, and to be very heavy: let me express them thus: he began to be driven to an astonishment, and to have his soul filled with the indignation of the Lord. First, our Saviour Christ foreseeing the wrath of God, and the combat of God the Father coming against him, he began to be amazed: the word in the original is this; That so you may see the depth of the distress, and the bottom of the cup. The word amazement comes from a word that signifies to be in a stand, or to be astonished: such a sorrow as men use to have for the loss of some dear friend; nay the preposition in that which is added signifies a grief beyond astonishment: whatsoever grief could befall a creature without sin, that all befell our Saviour: this word carries two things with it:

For the first, what our Saviour suffered when he was in that agony in the garden, when he crieth out, Father, if it be possible let this cap passe from me. The Scripture discovers the pith of all that anguish of soule, and the whole compasse of it, what it was that did thus fill the soule of our Saviour, and that is in these two things, and you shall finde them both in Marke 13.33. where the text saith, when our Saviour was to enter into the combate, he saith thus; hee beganne to his amazed, and to be very heavie: let me expresse them thus: hee beganne to bee driven to an astonishment, and to have his soule fild with the indignation of the Lord. First, our Saviour Christ foreseeing the wrath of God, and the combate of God the Father comming against him, hee began to be amazed: the word in the originall is this; That so you may see the depth of the distres, and the bottome of the cup. The word amazement comes from a word that signifies to bee in a stand, or to be astonished: such a sorrow as men use to have for the losse of some deare friend; nay the preposition in that which is added signifies a griefe beyond astonishment: whatsoever griefe could befall a creature without sinne, that all befell our Saviour: this word carries two things with it: