CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

If you say, How could Christ say he had finished his work,¹ when yet the dregs of the cup were to be drunk up, the worst seemed to be behind, viz. all that agony and sorrow he was to suffer?

If you say, How could Christ say he had finished his work,¹ when yet the dregs of the cup were to be drunk up, the worst seem'd to be behind, viz. all that agony and sorrow he was to suffer?

1. 1Quest.

First Austin answers it, by reading it in the future tense, I will finish thy work: ¹but that cannot be. The best answer is, that Christ thus speaks, because all was now at hand to be finished, he was in a prepared and ready disposition to consummate all, as we read he said a little before his death, It's finished, consummatum est. Now the Scripture accounts that as done, which is immediately to be done, and the man is ready to do it: Thus Abraham, Heb. 11. is said to offer up his son Isaac, and to receive him from the dead, when yet actually he did not offer him, but he was immediately fitted for it.

First Austin answers it, by reading it in the future tense, I will finish thy work: ¹but that cannot be. The best answer is, that Christ thus speaks, because all was now at hand to be finished, he was in a prepared and ready disposition to consummate all, as we reade he said a little before his death, It's finished, consummatum est. Now the Scripture accounts that as done, which is immediatly to be done, and the man is ready to do it: Thus Abraham,