The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…

4. The infirmities belonging unto our nature, both in soul & body: that this may be rightly understood we must distinguish: as first, about the infirmities bodily, some arise from an outward cause, some an inward: Those that arise from outward causes, Christ bare only so many of them, as by the counsel of God, or in respect of his Office, was needful for him to bear. Such were the calamities and sorrows ⟨p. 250⟩inflicted upon him by others, and borne by him as our High-Priest. These that arise from an inward cause, do either universally follow the whole nature of man, since it was fallen, as to be subject to heat, cold, weariness, pain, or the like, or else are personal, and arise not from the common sin of man, nor fall upon all men at all times, but are found only in some men, such as are some kind of diseases: the former sort Christ bare, not the latter. Now the infirmities of the soul are likewise of two sorts, some vicious and detestable, as sins: others unblameable, deserving rather pity then punishment, as to be ignorant of some things, fear, sadness, anger, and the like: the former sort were not in Christ, Luke 1. 35. Heb. 4. 15. Joh. 8. 46. The latter were, Luke 2. 52. Mark 13. 32. Mat 26. 37. John 11. 33. And those affections in Christ differed much from ours: for his were easily ruled by right reason, but not so ours: his were carried only to good objects, ours often to evil: Christ was troubled in his affections, and so are we, but with great difference: His affections were without sin: As a glass that is clean, and hath clean water in it, if it be shaked and tossed, yet there is no filth in the water: but if the glass be foul, and mud be settled at the bottom of the water, if it be shaked, the water is all foul: so is the difference between the trouble of Christs affections and ours.