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159. CHRIST'S SADNESS.

Christ was not sad, i' th' garden, for His own
Passion, but for His sheep's dispersion.


160. GOD HEARS US.

God, who's in heaven, will hear from thence;
If not to th' sound, yet to the sense.


161. GOD.

God, as the learned Damascene doth write,
A sea of substance is, indefinite.

_The learned Damascene_, _i. e. _, St. John of Damascus.


162. CLOUDS.
He that ascended in a cloud, shall come
In clouds descending to the public doom.


163. COMFORTS IN CONTENTIONS.

The same who crowns the conqueror, will be
A coadjutor in the agony.


164. HEAVEN.

Heaven is most fair; but fairer He
That made that fairest canopy.


165. GOD.

In God there's nothing, but 'tis known to be
Even God Himself, in perfect entity.


166. HIS POWER.

God can do all things, save but what are known
For to imply a contradiction.


167. CHRIST'S WORDS ON THE CROSS: MY GOD, MY GOD.

Christ, when He hung the dreadful cross upon,
Had, as it were, a dereliction
In this regard, in those great terrors He
Had no one beam from God's sweet majesty.