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Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…
Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by R. Ibbitson and M. Wright, 1661
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3 He was in exceeding great fear, 1which naturally draweth the blood from the outward parts to the Heart; and yet in a cold night, 2lying upon the cold ground, and being in great fear, he sweat drops of blood. Who can imagine the bitterness of our Saviours Agony at that time? And what was it which put him into that agony? questionless, the apprehension of what he was to suffer, as appeareth by his Prayer in his Agony, Father, if it be possible let this cup pass from me. Now, if the apprehension of what he was to suffer was so bitter, oh how bitter think you were his Sufferings upon the Cross,3 when he cried out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? which words do not imply, that the Deity was severed from the Humanity, but that the Father had withdrawn from him all sensible feeling of his loving favour, had restrained the influence of those beams which might any way refresh his troubled soul;4 so that Christ might well take up the words of the captive Jews, and say, Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.