Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

1. Consider him passing over the Brook Cedron; it signifies the wrath of God, and rage of men; the first step of his passion is sharp and sore; he cannot enter the door, but first he must wade through cold waters on bare feet, nor must he only wade through them, but drink of them; through many tribulations must he go that will purchase souls, and through many tribulations must they go that will follow after him to the Kingdom of Glory.—Consider him entering into the Garden of Gethsemane; in a garden Adam sinned, and in this garden Christ must suffer, that the same place which was the nest where sin was hatched, might now be the child-bed of grace and mercy; into this garden no sooner was he entered, but he began to be agonized; all his powers and passions within him were in conflict. Consider O my soul how suddenly he is struck into a strange fear; never was man so afraid of the torments of hell, as Christ (standing in our room) is of his Fathers wrath; fear is still suitable to apprehension, and never man could so perfectly apprehend the cause of fear as Jesus Christ; nor was he only afraid, but very heavy; My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. His sorrow was lethal and deadly, it melted his soul gradually as wax is melted with heat; it continued with him till his last gasp, his heart was like wax burning all the time of his passion, and at last it melted in the midst of his bowels. ¹Nor was he only afraid and heavy, but he began to be sore amazed; this signifies an universal cessation of all the faculties of the soul from their several functions, we usually call it a consternation, it is like a Clock stopped for the while from going, by some hand or other laid upon it; or if it was not wholly a cessation, yet was it at least an expavefaction, such a motion of the mind as whereby for the present he was disabled to mind any thing else, but the dreadful sense of the wrath of God. O what an agony was this? O what a struggling passion of mixed grief was this? what afflicting and conflicting affections under the sight and sense of eminent peril was in this agony? ²And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; thrice had he prayed, but now in his agony he prayed more earnestly; O my Father if it be possible, let this cup pass from me, nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.

1. Consider him passing over the Brook Cedron; it signifies the wrath of God, and rage of men; the first step of his passion is sharp and sore; he cannot enter the door, but first he must wade through cold waters on bare feet, nor must he only wade through them, but drink of them; through many tribulations must he go that will purchase souls, and through many tribulations must they go that will follow after him to the Kingdom of Glory.—Consider him entring into the Garden of Gethsemane; in a garden Adam sinned, and in this garden Christ must suffer, that the same place which was the nest where sin was hatched, might now be the child-bed of grace and mercy; into this garden no sooner was he entred, but he began to be agonized; all his powers and passions within him were in conflict. Consider O my soul how suddenly he is struck into a strange fear; never was man so afraid of the torments of hell, as Christ (standing in our room) is of his Fathers wrath; fear is still suitable to apprehension, and never man could so perfectly apprehend the cause of fear as Jesus Christ; nor was he only afraid, but very heavy; My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. His sorrow was lethal and deadly, it melted his soul gradually as wax is melted with heat; it continued with him till his last gasp, his heart was like wax burning all the time of his passion, and at last it melted in the midst of his bowels.