The divine life in three treatises

What Christ here prophesieth to them did afterwards all ⟨p. 299⟩come to pass. As soon as ever danger and trouble did appear, they began to flag, and to show how ill they could adhere unto him or suffer with him, without his special corroborating grace: In the garden when he was sweating blood in prayer they were sleeping; Though the spirit was willing, the flesh was weak: They could not watch with him one hour, Matth. 26▪ 40, 41. When he was apprehended, they shifted each man for himself, Matth. 26. 56. [Then all the Disciples forsook him and fled. And as this is said to be that the Scriptures might be fulfilled, Matth. 26. 54, 56. so it might be said to be, that this prediction of Christ himself might be fulfilled. Not that Scripture Prophesies did cause the sin by which they were fulfilled, nor that God caused the sin to fulfil his own predictions, but that God cannot be deceived who foretold in Scriptures long before that thus it would come to pass: when it is said that [thus it must be that the Scripture may be fulfilled] the meaning is not, that [thus God will make it be] or [thus he causeth men to do] that he may fulfil the Scriptures: It is not necessitas consequentis vel causata that is inferred from predictions; but only necessitas consequentiae; a Logical Necessity in ordine cognoscendi & dicendi; not a Natural Necessity in ordine essendi: not a Necessity of the Thing it self as caused by the prediction or decree; but a necessity of the truth of this conclusion in arguing; [such a thing will be, because God hath decreed, foreknown or foretold it:] or [whatever God foretelleth, must necessarily come to pass; (that is, will certainly come to pass: but this God hath foretold: therefore this will come to pass.]

What Christ here prophesieth to them did afterwards all ⟨p. 299⟩come to pass. As soon as ever danger and trouble did appear, they began to flag, and to shew how ill they could adhere unto him or suffer with him, without his special corroborating grace: In the garden when he was sweating blood in prayer they were sleeping; Though the spirit was willing, the flesh was weak: They could not watch with him one hour,