John Trapp on Matthew 27:46

Verse 46. Jesus [illegible: 1 word] with a loud voice] Therefore he laid down his life at his own pleasure: for by his loud outcry it appears, that he could have lived longer, if he had listed, for any decay of nature under those exquisite torments that he suffered in his body, but much greater in his soul. That which for the present seems to have expressed from him this dolefull complaint was, the sense of his Fathers wrath in the darkning of the body of the Sunne over him: which though God causeth to shine upon the just and unjust for their comfort, yet was not suffered to shine upon him, for those three sorrowfull hours together. When Theedorus the Martyr was racked and tortured by the command of [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. Iulian the Apostate, an Angell, in the forme of a young man, stood by him and comforted him, wiping off his sweat with a fine linen cloth, and powring cold water on his vexed limmes. When Mr Saunders Martyr was examined before Steven Winchester, he felt a most pleasant refreshing issuing from every part of his body to his heart, and from thence ebbing and flowing to each part again. William Hunten Martyr cryed out at the stake, Act. and Mon. fol. 13[illegible: 1 letter]8. Sonne of God shine upon me, and immediately the Sun shone out of a darke cloud so full in his face, that he was constrained to look another way: whereat the people mused, because it was so dark Ibid 1398. a little before. And I my self was an eye-witnesse of a like answer returned from heaven, to a like prayer made by a penitent malefactour executed at Evesham in Worcestershier, many [non-Latin text not transcribed] [illegible: 1 word] plus quam [non-Latin text not transcribed] [illegible: 2 words] quam derelinquere. years since. But our Lord Christ was forsaken of all these creature-comforts: and (which was worse then all) of his Fathers favour to his present apprehension; left forelorne and destitute for a time, that we might be received for ever. Howbeit, perplexed though he were, yet not in despair; persecuted, yet not2 Cor 4. 8, [illegible: 1 letter]. forsaken, cast down, yet not destroyed. He could say My God in the [non-Latin text not transcribed] midst of all, by the force of his faith, which individuateth God (as a Father saith,) and appropriateth him to a mans self. And Hilary hath a good note, which here comes in, not out of place. Habes conquerentem relictum se esse, quia homo est: habes eundem profitentem Latroni in paradiso regnaturum, quia Deus est: As man he cryes out My God, my God, &c when, as God, he promiseth paradise to the penitent theef.