The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation

3. Christ is lovely in his sufferings; when he did make expiation for our sins^*; but what, lovely in his sufferings? lovely when he was buffeted, spit upon, besmeared with blood? O yes, he was most lovely upon the cross^*, because then he showed most love to us; He bled love at every ⟨p. 355⟩vein; His drops of blood were love-drops. The more bloody, the more lovely^*. The more Christ endured for us, the more dear he ought to be to us. Osorius writing of the sufferings of Christ, saith, ⁴that the crown of thorns bored his head with seventy two wounds^*; and Tully when he comes to speak of the death of the Cross, shows his rhetoric best by an Aposiopesis, or silence; what shall I say of this death? Though a great Orator, he wanted words to express it.

3. Christ is lovely in his sufferings; when he did make expiation for our sins^*; but what, lovely in his sufferings? lovely when he was buffeted, spit upon, besmeared with blood? O yes, he was most lovely upon the crosse^*, because then he shewed most love to us; He bled love at every ⟨p. 355⟩veine; His drops of blood were love-drops. The more bloody, the more lovely^*. The more Christ endured for us, the more deare he ought to be to us. Osorius writing of the sufferings of Christ, saith, ⁴