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The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…
The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings of Jesus Christ from his incarnation to his death and burial published by John Eliot ...
Boston: printed by John Foster, 1678
The Harmony of the GOSPELS in the holy History of the Humiliation a… › Chapter 14 › Section 4
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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, Judg. 16.18, 19.
1. The Conqueror slew a thousand of his Enemies with the jaw bone of an• Ass, never man had the like victory.
1. The Conquerour slew a thousand of his Enemies with the jaw bone of an• Ass, never man had the like victory.
2. He was so spent in the fight that he was ready to dye for thirst.