The Fountain of Life Opened

First, The person complaining. Jesus said I thirst. This is a clear evidence that it was no common suffering. Great and resolute ⟨p. 464⟩spirits will not complain for small matters. The spirit of a common man will endure much, before it utters any complaint. Let us therefore see,

First, The person complaining. Iesus said I thirst. This is a clear evidence that it was no common suffering. Great and resolute ⟨p. 464⟩spirits will not complain for small matters. The spirit of a common man will endure much, before it utters any complaint. Let us therefore see,

Secondly, The affliction or suffering he complains of; and that is Thirst. There are two sorts of thirst. One natural and proper, another spiritual and figurative.¹ Christ felt both at this time. His soul thirsted in vehement desires and longings to accomplish and finish that great and difficult work he was now about. And his body thirsted by reason of those unparalleled agonies it laboured under, for the accomplishing hereof. But it was the proper natural thirst he here intends, when he said, I thirst. Now this natural thirst of which he complains, is the raging of the appetite for humid nourishment, arising from the scorching up of the parts of the body for want of moisture. And amongst all the pains and afflictions of the body, there can scarcely be named a greater, and more intolerable one than extreme thirst. The most mighty and valiant have stooped under it. Mighty Sampson after all his conquests and victories, complains thus, Judg. 15.18. And he was sore athirst, and called on the Lord, and said, thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant, and now shall I die for thirst? and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised. Great Darius drank filthy water,