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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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His expression of his sense of hunger is not recorded in the History, but it is in the Prophesy, Psal. 69.21. they also gave me gall for meat, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar for drink. He cried for, and needed both kinds of relief, in the sense of the want whereof he was ready to dye, and quickly did dye; extremity of hunger and thirst are among the greatest of torments: when he had no other relief to spent nature, then gall and vinegar, he presently dyed.
His expression of his sense of hunger is not recorded in the History, but it is in the Prophesy, Psal. 69.21. they also gave me gall for meat, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar for drink. He cryed for, and needed both kinds of relief, in the sense of the want whereof he was ready to dye, and quickly did dye; extremity of hunger and thirst are among the greatest of torments: when he had no other relief to spent nature, then gall and vinegar, he presently dyed.
Prop. 4. It would set forth his extreme sense of pain and torment which his body felt for the space of about twenty hours, to gather up a few Instances of the suffering of Soul, mind and body, that he passed through, from his entrance into the garden, until he dyed on the Cross; they were tormenting him both in body and mind all that time, without ministering unto him, that we know off, either food or rest. He suffered both loss of blood, and great pain by their twice cruel whippings, and twice crowning him with thorns, and being withal parched and burnt with heat, which made him complain, Psal. 69.3. my throat is dried, he sweat in the garden, but now his moisture is turned into the drought of Summer, Psal. 22.15. my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws, And thou hast brought me to the dust of death. All these and such like expressions se• forth his extreme