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Thus seing our Saviour grie∣ved, not absolutely against his Will, but onely in some respect: That wee may Secondly con∣ceiue the Matter of his Griefe more plainely, here consider. 1. The obiect, 2. The Subiect of his Griefe. The Obiect, or Motive which moved him to Grieve; Aquinas sayth, * 1.1 was the Euill which Inwardly hee apprehen∣ded. For as the Obiect of out∣ward Paine, is some hurt appre∣hended by the sense of Touch∣ing,
so the Obiect and Motive of Griefe, is some evill apprehen∣ded inwardly, either Really or Imaginarily. Thus the Soule of our Saviour might inwardly ap∣prehend some things as hurt∣full, either in Relation to him∣selfe, as his Death and Passion; or in Relation to others, as the Sinnes of his Disciples, Incre∣dulity of the Iewes, or Misery of his friends. The Subiect of his Griefe in this perplexitie, were all the Faculties of his Soule; Vnderstanding, Will, * 1.2 Superior and Inferior Facul∣ties. For seing his body was passible and mortall, and his Soule had all naturall powers, as well as supernaturall: when these Faculties of his blessed Soule looked (Largely) not only to God and Mans Saluation immediat∣ly, but also to the Meanes which
lead to Eternity, they could not but grieve; howsoever when (Strictly) they looked onely to God and Mans Saluation, they were affected with Griefe. Briefely Bernard telleth vs, * 1.3 He was, Turbatus, non Perturbatus, Moved, not Removed from his trust in God, and resolution to worke our good; which Di∣vines doe thus exemplify. A Physitian prescribing a Leper to drinke some poyson for his Health, the Leper in his vnder∣standing conceiveth that Health is a good thing, & so taking the vnderstanding (Strictly) there is no Griefe in it; In like manner hee willeth his Health, taking the Will (Strictly) neither is there Griefe in it: But when he willeth his Health by this Phy∣sick, and remembreth hee must drinke that Poyson, then hee
is grieved & sorowfull. Hence it is evident that they do mightily extenuate the meritorious & vn∣valuable Sufferings of our Savi∣our, who affirme that he suffered not immediatly in his Soule, but onely by Sympathy, that is, that only the Paines that arose from his Body tormented his Soule. Whereas, the Soule of our Savi∣our being the immediat Obiect of the wrath of God, his Suffe∣rings are called in the Originall, Deaths, Es. 53.9. Because he suf∣fered the First Death, and the E∣quiualent of the Second Death.
Tertia par∣te 15. a b. in C. 1.2 36. 1. c.
Aquin. 3.15 a. 5. ••n C.
Bern. Epist. 25.