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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
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Prop. 2. Water, moisture is the chief and greatest part of aliment and sustenance of the body, and therefore thirst is first and chiefly felt and complained of, a• we see in Sampson, and Dives in Hell cried for a drop of water; thirst is a sinless punishment, which Jesus Christ suffered to the utmost extremity, even till it killed him.
Prop. 2. Water, moisture is the chief and greatest part of aliment and sustenance of the body, and therefore thirst is first and chiefly felt and complained of, a• we see in Sampson, and Dives in Hell cryed for a drop of water; thirst is a sinless punishment, which Jesus Christ suffered to the utmost extremity, even till it killed him.
Prop. 3. Bread is the staff of life, it is the most solid sustenance, therefore nature spent with pain, grief, and torment, and such like punishments, doth also greedily hunger, and vehemently desire, and crave for solid sustenance, as well as for moisture, to cool and moisten, so did Jesus Christ in this his last Agony, express his hunger, as well as his thirst, and both together do express the fullness of his extreme sense of torment, which he felt in this last finishing Agony, hunger is a sinless punishment, which Jesus Christ suffered to the uttermost extremity; until it killed him.
Prop. 3. Bread is the staff of life, it is the most solid sustenance, therefore nature spent with pain, grief, and torment, and such like punishments, doth also greedily hunger, and vehemently desire, and crave for solid sustenance, as well as for moisture, to cool and moisten, so did Jesus Christ in this his last Agony, express his hunger, as well as his thirst, and both together do express the fulness of his extream sense of torment, which he felt in this last finishing Agony, hunger is a sinless punishment, which Jesus Christ suffered to the uttermost extremity; until it killed him.