The Fountain of Life Opened

This bitter doleful out-cry of Christ gives evidence enough of the reality of it. He did not feign but feel the burdensomness of it. Fourthly, This desertion fell out in the time of Christs greatest need of comfort that ever he had in all the time of his life on earth. His Father forsook him at that time, when all earthly comforts had forsaken him; and all outward evils had broken in together upon him. When men yea the best of men stood afar off, and none but barbarous enemies were about him. When pains and shame, and all miseries even weighed him down, then even then to complete and fill up his sufferings, God stands afar off too. Fifthly, And lastly, It was such a desertion, as left him only to the supports of his Faith. He had nothing else now but his Fathers covenant and promise to hang upon. And indeed as a Judicious Author pertinently observes; the Faith of Christ did several ways act and manifest it self,¹ in these very words of complaint in the Text.

This bitter doleful out-cry of Christ gives evidence enough of the reality of it. He did not feign but feel the burdensomness of it. Fourthly, This desertion fell out in the time of Christs greatest need of comfort that ever he had in all the time of his life on earth. His Father forsook him at that time, when all earthly comforts had forsaken him; and all outward evils had broken in together upon him. When men yea the best of men stood afar off, and none but barbarous enemies were about him. When pains and shame, and all miseries even weighed him down, then even then to compleat and fill up his sufferings, God stands afar off too. Fifthly, And lastly, It was such a desertion, as left him only to the supports of his Faith. He had nothing else now but his Fathers covenant and promise to hang upon. And indeed as a Juditious Author perninently observes; the Faith of Christ did several ways act and manifest it self,¹ in these very words of complaint in the Text.

1. 1Mr. Ca• his Correction Instruction p. 51.52.