The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…

Quest. Who was it that put his Soul into this distress? I answer, it was his Father that gave him this Cup to drink, Joh. 18.11. the Cup which my heavenly Father hath given me shall I not drink it?

Isai. 53.6. the Lord hath laid on him the iniquities of us all, he suffered the wrath and curse of God, the punishment due to the sin of man, he is our surety, he stood in our stead, and divine justice inflicted upon him all the punishment due to our sins. And he spared not to lay upon him till he was fully satisfied, Rom. 8.32. He spared not his own Son, here he drank the first deep draught of the wrath of God due to our sin, on the Cross, he drank the last draught, and then he dyed.

5. He turned the Innocent reluctancies of humane nature into prayers unto his Father, who laid this load upon him, and subdued, and suppressed them with humble, holy submission to his will, and then drank, and this he did three times, he made three draughts of this bitter cup which he drank in the garden. And it pleased the Father to give him interims of some ease, so that after his first submission he went unto his Disciples, and awaked them, (poor watch men) and then returned to his dreadful work again, and submitted the second time, and drank, then went he again to his Disciples and did the same with a check to Peter by Name, and returned again and prayed, and submitted, and drank the third draught, and then he had an interim again. And by that time the Traitor Judas and his Companions were come into the Garden.