The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By…

2. He gave up himself in his passive obedience, he was in some sense crucified in the womb, in that he was made of his creature; and coming forth into the world, all his life was a perpetual passion. The Gospel shows us the immense God in ⟨p. 203⟩swaddling clouts, the builder of all things working as a Carpenter, the holy one hurried up and down by a tempting Devil, the filler of all things hungry, the fountain of living water thirsty, the power of God weary, the eternal joy of the Father weeping, the owner of all things extreme poor; and not knowing where to lay his head in his own world. Thus as a man of sorrows he passes on towards his Cross; one of his own Apostles betraying him, another denying him, the rest forsaking him, the chief Priests bloodily conspiring against him, false witnesses unjustly accusing him, the tumultuous rabble crying out, crucify, crucify, and Pilate first confessing his innocency, and then condemning his person. And now arriving at his Cross, sorrows break in upon every part, his head raked with thorns, his face besmeared with spittle, his eyes afflicted with the tears of friends, his ears filled with the blasphemies of enemies, his lips of grace wet with vinegar and gall, his hands and feet nailed to the Cross, and his sacred body hanging between thieves, racked and tortured to death in a Golgotha of stench and rottenness. But all this is but the outside of his ⟨p. 204⟩passion; at the same time hell was let loose, and from thence the Devils as so many roaring Lyons came with open mouth to devour him, and (which is much more) Heaven thundered over his head, and the righteous God, as angry as our sins could make him, fell a smiting of him, Isai. 53. 4. and smote him in his Soul too, verse 10. and with smiting wounded and bruised him, verse 5. the smart and anguish whereof was so great that he was afraid, Hebr: 5. 7. and his fear was so high, that he began [Greek or Hebrew] to faint away, and [Greek or Hebrew], to be sore amazed, Mark 14. 33. and in this amazement, the Eclipse was so dark, that he was [Greek or Hebrew] surrounded with sorrows even unto death, verse 34. and in this spiritual Siege, he falls a praying, Father if it be possible, let this cup pass from me, nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt,