The Fountain of Life Opened

This last Act of Christs preparation for his own death, is contained in this Scripture: wherein we have an account, First, Of his Prayer. Secondly, Of the Agony attending it. Thirdly, His relief in that Agony, by an Angel that came and comforted him.

First, The Prayer of Christ, in a praying posture he will be §1found when the enemy comes. He will be taken upon his knees. He was pleading hard with God in prayer, for strength to carry him through this heavy trial, when they came to take him. And this prayer was a very remarkable prayer, both for the solitariness of it, he withdrew about a stones cast vers. 41. from his dearest intimates. No ear but his Fathers shall hear what he had now to say. For the vehemency and importunity of it, these were those [Greek or Hebrew] Heb. 5.7. strong cries, that he poured out to God in the days of his flesh. And for the humility expressed in it, he fell upon the ground, he rolled himself as it were in the dust, at his Fathers feet. And in divers other respects it was a very remarkable prayer, as you will hear anon.

First, The Prayer of Christ, in a praying posture he will be §1found when the enemy comes. He will be taken upon his knees. He was pleading hard with God in prayer, for strength to carry him through this heavy trial, when they came to take him. And this prayer was a very remarkable prayer, both for the solitariness of it, he withdrew about a stones cast vers. 41. from his dearest intimates. No ear but his Fathers shall hear what he had now to say. For the vehemency and importunity of it, these were those 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Heb. 5.7. strong cries, that he poured out to God in the daies of his flesh. And for the humility expressed in it, he fell upon the ground, he rolled himself as it were in the dust, at his Fathers feet. And in divers other respects it was a very remarkable prayer, as you will hear anon.