Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

Thirdly: As the danger of unworthy receiving should compose us to the greatest seriousness, so the remembrance of that frame and temper Christs spirit was in, when he actually suffered those things for us, should compose our spirits into a frame more suitable and agreeable to his; when we see his death, as it were, acted over again before our eyes, was his heart roving and wandering in that day? Did he not sense and mind the work he was going about? Was his heart like thine, stupid and unaffected with these things? Look but upon that Text, Luke 22. 44. and you shall see whether it were so or no. It's said (when this Tragedy drew nigh, and his Enemies were ready to seize him in the Garden) That being in an Agony, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was, as it were, great drops of Blood falling down to the ground: And Matth. 26. 38. he saith, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. His soul was full of sorrow, and is thine full of stup•y? God forbid.

If thy heart be cold, Christ's was hot: If thou canst not shed a tear, he poured out clods of blood from every part. Oh! how unsuitable is a dry ⟨p. 13⟩eye, and an hard heart to such an Ordinance as this!

Fourthly: As the frame Christs spirit ¹was in, at his death, should command the most solemn frame upon our spirits, at the recognizing of it, so the things here represented, require and call for the highest exercise of every grace of the spirit in our souls; for we come not thither as idle Spectators, but as active Instruments to glorify God by exercising every grace upon Christ, as Crucified for us.