A commentary or exposition upon the four Evangelists, and the Acts of the Apostles: wherein the text is explained, some controversies are discussed, divers common places are handled, and many remarkable matters hinted, that had by former interpreters been pretermitted. Besides, divers other texts of Scripture which occasionally occur are fully opened, and the whole so intermixed with pertinent histories, as will yeeld both pleasure and profit to the judicious reader. / By John Trapp M. A. Pastour of Weston upon Avon in Gloucestershire.

Verse 38. My soul is exceeding sorrowfull]

He had a true hu∣mane soul then; neither was his Deity to him for a soul, as some Heriticks fancied: for then our bodies only had been redeemed by him, and not our souls (〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, as that Father hath it,) if he had not in soul also suffered, and so, descen∣ded into hell. The sufferings of his body were but the body of his sufferings: the soul of his sufferings, were the sufferings of his* 1.1 soul, which was now undequa{que} tristis beset with sorrows, and heavy as heart could hold. The sorrows of death compassed him, the cords of hell surrounded him, Psal. 18. 4, 5. the pain whereof he certainly suffered, non specie & loco sed 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, something answerable to hell, and altogether unspeakable.* 1.2 Hence the Greek Letany. By thine unknown sufferings, good Lord deliver us. Faninus an Italian Martyr, being asked by one why he was so merry at his death, sith Christ himself was so sorrow∣full?* 1.3 Christ, said he, sustained in his soul all the sorrows and con∣flicts with hell and death due to us: by whose sufferings we are de∣livered from sorrow, and fear of them all.

Tarry ye here and watch with me]

Yet not for my sake so 〈◊〉〈◊〉, as for your own; that ye enter not into temptation.* 1.4

Notes

• * 1.1

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  Act. and 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 853.
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  Luk. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 40.