The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…

1. Knowing that all things were accomplished, in that which was the first and chief part of his suffering, in the punishment of loss, in his Soul Agony; therefore now he gave chief attendance to his suffering of the punishment of sense, which firstly was inflicted, and lay upon his body, and is aptly, eminently expressed in this word of sense, I thirst.

2. The second motive to this expression is, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, viz. Psal. 69.21. where he doth complain of the bitterness of the punishment of sense, under those two natural instances of hunger and thirst, and the bitterness of all the relief that man afforded him, it was nothing but gall and vinegar.

In this word I thirst, he speaketh like a Conqueror, that cometh off a Conqueror from a sore battle with a wonderful victory, yet his nature so spent with thirst, which is caused by the violence and extremity of the battle, and by wounds deep and great received in the battle, that he is ready to dye with the sense of his fainting nature; which deadly and extreme sense of dying pain, maketh him cry out I thirst. A like example of this painful issue of a glorious victory and conquest, we see in Sampson, Judg. 16.18, 19.

In this word I thirst, he speaketh like a Conquerour, that cometh off a Conquerour from a sore battail with a wonderful victory, yet his nature so spent with thirst, which is caused by the violence and extremity of the battail, and by wounds deep and great received in the battail, that he is ready to dye with the sense of his fainting nature; which deadly and extream sense of dying pain, maketh him cry out I thirst. A like example of this painful issue of a glorious victory and conquest, we see in Sampson,