Inference 2.
How afflictive and intolerable are inward troubles.* 1.1 Did Christ complain so sadly under them, and cry, I thirst. Sure∣ly then they are no such light matters as many are apt to make of them. If they so scorcht the very heart of Christ, dryed up the green tree, preyed upon his very spirits, and turned his moisture into the drought of Summer: they deserve not to be sleighted, as they are by some. The Lord Jesus was fitted to bear and suffer as strong troubles as ever befell the nature of man, and he did bear all other troubles with admirable patience; but when it came to this, when the flames of Gods wrath scorched his soul; then he crys, I thirst.
Davids heart was for courage as the heart of a Lion, but when God exercised him with inward troubles for sin; then he roars out under the anguish of it. I am feeble, and sore broken; I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. My heart panteth, my strength faileth me; as for the light of mine eyes, it is also gone from me, Psal. 38.8, 10. A wounded spirit who can bear? Many have professed that all the torments in the world, are but toys to it. The racking fits of the Gout, the grinding tortures of the Stone, are nothing to the wrath of God, set on upon the conscience. What is the worm that never dies, but the efficacy of a guilty conscience? This worm feeds and nibbles