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Secondly: As the Travel of Christ, was a sore Travel; so it was a long and tedious Travel; he was in the pains of this Travel from his Cradle, to the last breath of his Cross; not only in his Death,¹ but in his Life all along: Upon which account, Matthew doth apply those words of the Prophet Isaiah, Surely he hath born our griefs, and carried our sins unto what Christ did, and suffered in his Life; for saith the Gospel of Matthew, Chap. 8.16. When evening was come, they brought unto him, many that were possessed with Devils, and he cast out the spirits with his Word, and healed all that were sick: Mark tells us, that all the City was gathered together at the door, Chap. 1.32.33. So that he did cure, and heal them with his own Trouble; according to that of John, 11.33. when Lazarus was ⟨p. 94⟩dead,² and he saw them weeping, he groaned, and he wept, and so he raised Lazarus: well therefore, might the Evangelist apply that of Isaiah. to this occasion; for he took away the Diseases of the People by his own suffering with them, and cast out the Devils by his conflicting with them; and so though he did not come into the extremity of this Travel, till the last, yet he had many pains and pangs all along, whilst he lived: He wept, and he wept, and he wept again: three times we read of his weeping; once at the raising of Lazarus, those were his Regal Tears; once at his coming into Jerusalem, when he said, Thy House is left to thee desolate, those were his Prophetical Tears; once at the last in his Agony, when he prayed with cries and tears, Heb. 5. those were his Priestly tears: his whole time was a weeping time, a sorrowful time; and therefore the Apostle counts of his Sufferings from the time of his coming into the World, Heb. 10.5. Wherefore, when he cometh into the World, he saith, Sacrifice and Offering thou wouldst not, but a Body hast thou prepared me. This Travel then, was a long, and tedious Travel.