I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…

Prop. 2 I ad in the Second place, That as he did truly suffer in his Soul; so he did suffer in his Soul immediately: for look where the Disobedience of the First Adam began, there the Obedience of the Second Adam did begin also: Now the Disobedience of the First Adam, was not only in his Body, in eating with his mouth, the forbidden Fruit; but in his Soul likewise, and he did eat with his Body, because he did affect with his Soul to be like God: there did his sin begin, viz. in the Pride and Unbelief of his heart; and therefore the Obedience of the Second Adam was not only to be performed with his Body, but with his Soul, and to begin there: the Soul is not properly said to suffer, when the Body suffers, and by way of sympathy; but when a grief is taken, or an affliction,¹ which doth first arrest the mind and heart of men. Now Christ did truly suffer in his Soul; for as his active Obedience was Spiritual in his Soul, as well as Corporal in his Body; so was, and ought to be, his passive also: and if Christs Sorrow did not begin in his Soul, why is it said, that he troubled himself?² John 11.33. When he saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping, he groaned in the Spirit, and was troubled; ³but according to the Original, and your Margin, he troubled himself; Why so, but because this trouble of his did begin from within? and upon this account he did sweat drops of Blood, when his Body was in good health, and free from every sickness: the Body will not sweat, but when Nature is oppressed, when it's under some outward burden, then it sweats: Christ was under no outward burden of Disease; only death was now approaching, the fear of which ⟨p. 68⟩alone, simply considered, could not make him sweat drops of Blood; for says he, I have a Baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished. ⁴Surely there was some other evil, the apprehension whereof, did immediately fall upon his Soul, which did run, and flow over into his Body. Christ did suffer in his Soul immediately: That's the Second Proposition.