Sighs from hell, or, The groans of a damned soul discovering from the 16th…

1. In that, Though he were rich, yet he became poor, that thou, through his poverty, might be made rich, 2 Cor. 8, 9. He laid aside his glory, Joh. 17. and became a servant, Phil. 2. He left the company of Angels, and encountered with the Devil, Luk. 4. Mat. 4. He left Heavens ease for a time, to lie upon hard Mountains, Joh. 8. In a word, he became poorer, than they that go with flail and rake; yea, then the very Birds or Foxes, and all to do thee good. Besides, consider a little of these unspeakable and intolerable slightings, and rejections, and the manifold abuses that came from Man upon him. How he was falsely accused, being a sweet, harmless, and undefiled Lamb. How he was undervalued, so that a Murderer was counted less worthy of condemnation than he. Besides, how they mocked him, spa• on him, beat him over the ⟨p. 126⟩head with staves, had the hair plucked from his cheeks. I gave my Back to the Smiters, (saith he) and my Cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not my Face from shame and spitting. His Head crowned with Thorns, his Hands pierced with Nails, and his Side with a Spear; together, with how they used him, scourging him, and so miserably misusing him, that they had even spent him in a great measure before they did crucify h•m. Insomuch, that there was another fain to carry his Cross.

1. In that, Though he were rich, yet he became poor, that thou, through his poverty, might be made rich, 2 Cor. 8, 9. He laid aside his glory, Joh. 17. and became a servant,