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 most unspeakable torments that ever any mortal man suffered, prepared for his most tender body; partly the distinct representation of the sins of the whole world, for the expiation of which he was now to suffer death upon the cross; partly the remembrance of the ingratitude of many, who would not esteem or reap any profit from this great benefit, struck such a deep impression into his soul, that it filled it with sad and incredible anxiety, so troubled his senses and tender flesh, that all the elements of his body being weakened, the opened pores on every side sweat out drops of blood. If the flesh, which properly suffered not this anguish, but only through a simple imagination, was thus afflicted, what did his soul feel? to whom, properly, these sorrows did appertain.

His prayer being ended, that counterfeit friend of Christ, Judas the traitor, came attended with a hellish band: he, I say, who renounced his apostleship, to be head and captain of a troop of hell-hounds, behold in the fore-front of that wicked multitude, impudently coming to his Master, whom before he had sold, betraying him with a kiss of peace and friendship.

In that hour, said Jesus to the company which came to apprehend him, " Are you come out, as it were against a thief, with swords and clubs? When I was daily with you in the temple, you did not stretch forth