The good old way, or, An excellent and profitable treatise of repentance made

Oh what a great thing is this, that could not be done by the Angels, Archangels, Potentates, powers, or all the creatures of God, without his own son? who of necessity must come down from heaven, to take our nature, and become man. Here have ye the Chirurgeon: great was the cure, that this mighty Lord took in hand.

Oh what a great thing is this, that could not be done by the Angells, Archangels, Potentates, powers, or all the creatures of God, without his own sonne? who of necessity must come down from heaven, to take our nature, and become man. Here have ye the Chyrurgion: great was the cure, that this mighty Lord took in hand.

Now, what was the salve? certainly ⟨p. 40⟩of an unestimable value, and of many compositions: I cannot recite all, but rather must leave it to your hearty considerations, Thirty three years was he curing our sore: he sought it earnestly, by fasting, watching, praying, &c. The same night that he was betrayed, I read how busy he was about a plaster in the Garden, when he lying flat on the ground, praying with tears, and that of blood not a few, but so many as did flow down on the ground again; crying on this sort, Father (saith he) if it be possible, let this cup depart from me. That is, if it be possible, that else the sins of man kind can be taken away, grant that it may be so. Thou heardest Moses crying for the Idolaters: thou heardest Lot for the Zoarites: Samuel, David, and many other, for the Israelites. And, dear Father, I only am thine own Son, as thou hast said, in whom thou art well pleased: wilt thou not hear me? I have by the space of thirty three years, done always thy will: I have so humbled my self, that I would become an abject amongst men, to obey thee. Therefore (deer Father) if it be possible ⟨p. 41⟩grant my request, save man-kind, now without any farther labour, salves, or plasters. But yet (saith he) not as I will, but as thou wilt.

Now, what was the salve? certainly