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¹1. For his sorrow; the Evangelists diversly relate it; He began to be sorrowful, and very heavy, saith Matthew: He began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy, saith Mark: And being in an Agony, he prayed more earnestly, saith Luke: Now is my Soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour; but for this cause came I unto this hour, saith John. All avow this sorrow to be great, and so it is confessed by Christ himself:² Then saith he unto them, my soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death. Ah Christians! who can speak out this sorrow? The Spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity,³ but a wounded Spirit who can bear? Christ's soul is sorrowful; or if that be too flat, his soul is sorrowful, exceeding sorrowful; or if that language be too low, his soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death; not only extensively, such as must continue for the space of seventeen or eighteen hours, even until death it self should finish it; but also intensively, such, and so great, as that which is used to be at the very point of death; and such as were able to bring death it self, had not Christ been reserved to a greater and an heavier punishment. Of this sorrow is that especially spoken, consider, and behold, if ever there were sorrow like unto my sorrow: Many a sad and sorrowful soul hath no question been in the world; but the like sorrow to this was never since the Creation: the very terms of the Evangelists speak no less; he was sorrowful and heavy, saith one: amazed and very heavy, saith another: in an Agony, saith a third: in a soul trouble, saith a fourth. Surely the bodily torments of the Cross were inferior to this agony of his soul; the pain of the body, is the body of pain: Oh but the very soul of sorrow, and pain, is the soul's sorrow, and the Souls's pain. It was a sorrow unspeakable, and therefore I must leave it, as not being able to utter it.

¹1. For his sorrow; the Evangelists diversly relate it; He began to be sorrowful, and very heavy, saith Matthew: He began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy, saith Mark: And being in an Agony, he prayed more earnestly, saith Luke: Now is my Soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour; but for this cause came I unto this hour, saith John. All avow this sorrow to be great, and so it is confessed by Christ himself: