The Fountain of Life Opened

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,

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 shew how both these meeting together upon him in their fulness and extremity must needs consume his very radical moisture, and make him cry I thirst. To begin with the first,

First, His Corporeal and more external sufferings were exceeding great, acute, and extreme sufferings. For they were sharp, universal, continual, and unrelieved by any inward comfort.

First, His Corporeal and more external sufferings were exceeding great, acute, and extream sufferings. For they were sharp, universal, continual, and unrelieved by any inward comfort.

¹First, They were sharp sufferings. For his body was racked or digged in those parts where sense more eminently dwells. In the hands and feet the veins and sinews meet, and there pain and anguish meet with them. Psal. 22.16. They digged my hands, and my feet. Now Christ by reason of his exact and excellent temper of body had doubtless more quick, tender and delicate senses than other men. His body was so formed that it might be a capacious vessel to take in more sufferings than any other body can. Sense is in some more delicate and tender, and in others dull, and blunt according to the temperament, and vivacity of the body and spirits. But in none as it was in Christ, whose body was miraculously formed on purpose to suffer unparalleled miseries and sorrows in. A body hast thou fitted me.