Eighteen sermons preached in Oxford 1640 of conversion, unto God. Of redemption, & justification,…

But it is certain God the Father made an immediate impression of pains upon his soul; his soul did immediately suffer: Look on him in the Garden, he was not yet touched, nor troubled by men, and yet he fell in a sweat: Consider the season of the year; this was then when they that were within doors were glad to keep close by the fire, he thus did sweat in the garden, when others freez'd within; this was much: but to sweat blood, thick blood, clotted, congealed blood (for so the words will bear it) not like that in his veins: and yet it came through his garments, and fell to the ground: this is a thing not to be comprehended. Our blessed Saviours encountering with his Father, he falls a trembling, & is overwhelmed as it were with the wrath, beseeching God intensively, saying Father, if it be possible let this cup pass from me; thou mayst give free pardon: which affections in Christ are such a thing, as puzzles us all: we must not say Christ did forget for what he came: but he did not remember: these words proceeded from the seat of passion, which while it is disturbed, reason suspends its Acts. Christ had Passions, though no impurity in them. As take a clean Vial full of pure water from the fountain, ⟨p. 390⟩and shake it, it may be frothy, yet it will be clean water still. Christ did not forget only he had the suspension of his faculties for a time. As a man in a sleep thinks not what he is to do in the morning, and yet he is not said properly to forget. He cried, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? He was contented to be forsaken for a time, that thou mightest not be forsaken everlastingly, and this was no faint prayer: if you read the place in the Psalm, He cried out unto God: And Heb. 5.7. Its said, Who in the days of his flesh when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong cries and tears. He cried to the Almighty: he made Gods own heart to pity: He would break, Isa. 53. yet his heart is repenting, and rolled together, so that he sent an Angel to support and comfort him. Psal. 27. those strong cries are expressed with a more forcible word, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? Consider how it was with Christ before any earthly hand had touched him, when he beseeched God for his life: this shows the wonderful suffering of Christ;