The Fountain of Life Opened

It's said of Possidonius that in a great fit of the Stone he solaced himself,¹ with discourses of moral virtue, and when the pain twinged him, he would say, O pain, thou dost nothing, though thou art a little troublesome, I will never confess thee to be evil. And Epicurus in the fits of the Colic refreshed himself ob memoriam inventorem, (i. e.) by his invention in Philosophy.

It's said of Possidonius that in a great fit of the Stone he sol•ced himself,¹ with discourses of moral vertue, and when the pain twinged him, he would say, O pain, thou dost nothing, though thou art a little troublesom, I will never confess thee to be evil. And Epicurus in the fits of the Colick refreshed himself ob memoriam inventorem, (i. e.) by his invention in Philosophy.

1. 1Nihil agis dolor, quam vis sis molestus, nunquam co•fi••bor te esse malum.

But now Christ had no relief this way in the least. Not a drop of comfort came from heaven into his soul to relieve it, and the body by it. But on the contrary his soul was filled up with grief, and had an heavier burden of its own to bear than that of the body. So that instead of relieving, it increased unspeakably the burden of his outward man. For