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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation from first to last / by Isaac Ambrose ...
London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680
Book 6 › Chapter 1 › Section 4: Of the Prayer that Christ there made.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. For the Person to whom he prays; it is his Father: As Christ prayed not in his Godhead, but according to his Manhood, so neither prayed he to himself as God; but to the Father, the first person of the God-head: Hence some observe, that as the Father sometimes saying, This is my beloved Son, he spake not to himself, but to the Son; so the Son usually saying, O my Father, he prays not to himself, but to the Father.
1. For the Person to whom he prayes; it is his Father: As Christ prayed not in his Godhead, but according to his Manhood, so neither prayed he to himself as God; but to the Father, the first person of the God-head: Hence some observe, that as the Father sometimes saying, This is my beloved Son, he spake not to himself, but to the Son; so the Son usually saying, O my Father, he prayes not to himself, but to the Father.
2. For the Matter of his Prayer: Let this Cup pass from me: Some interpret thus; Let this Cup pass by me, Oh that I might not taste it! But others thus; Let this Cup pass from me; though I must taste it, yet Oh that I may not be †too long, or tediously annoyed by it! That which leads unto this last interpretation is that of the Apostle, Christ in the days of his flesh offered up Prayers and Supplications with strong cries and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and he was heard in that which he feared, Heb. 5.7. How was he heard? not in the removal of the Cup; for he drank it up all: but in respect of the tedious annoyance or poisoning of the Cup; for though it made him sweat drops of blood, though it grieved him, and pained him, and made him cry out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Though it cast him into a sleep, and laid him dead in his Grave, and there sealed him for a time; yet presently within the space of forty hours, or thereabouts, he revived, and awakened as a Lion out of sleep, or as a Giant refreshed with wine; and so it passed from him, as he prayed, in a very short time, and by that short and momentary death, he purchased to his people everlasting Life.