The Fountain of Life Opened

If I (said one) should live a thousand years, and every day die a thousand times the same death for Christ, that he once died for me, yet all this would be nothing to the sorrows Christ endured in his death.¹ At this time the Bridegroom Christ might have borrowed the word of his Spouse the Church, Lam. 1.12. Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? See, and behold, if there be any sorrow, like unto my sorrow which is done unto me; wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me, in the day of his fierce anger.

1. 1Si possum vivere mille annos, & qualibet die millies mori pro eo, eadem morte qu• ille pro me mortuus est semel: nihil esset ad ••lorem quam habuit in se. Edmund de speculo Eccles. cap. 23.Si poss•m vivere mille annos, & qualibet die millies mori pro eo, eadem morte qu• ille pro me mortuus est semel: nihil esset ad ••lorem quam habuit in se. Edmund de speculo Eccles. cap. 23.

Here we are to enquire into and consider the extremities and agonies Christ laboured under upon the Cross, which occasioned this sad complaint of thirst. And then make application of it in the several inferences of truth diducible from it.

Now the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ upon the Cross were twofold, viz. his Corporeal, and Spiritual sufferings. We shall open them distinctly, and then show how both these meeting together upon him in their fullness and extremity must needs consume his very radical moisture, and make him cry I thirst. To begin with the first,