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The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…
The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings of Jesus Christ from his incarnation to his death and burial published by John Eliot ...
Boston: printed by John Foster, 1678
The Harmony of the GOSPELS in the holy History of the Humiliation a… › Chapter 10
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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.
6. In all this bitter conflict he had no humane help, for every time he came to his Disciples he found them sleeping, he fulfilled that Prophesy, Isai. 63.3. I have trodden the wine press alone, and of the people there was none with me. Yet to inform and convince us of the greatness of this work and bitter suffering, it pleased God to send an Angel to strengthen him, as Luke testifieth, Luke 22.43 and there appeared an Angel unto him from Heaven strengthening him. The Cup was so bitter, that it was as much as life could bear, yet he revived again, and went on in his work, till he drank the last draught on the Cross, & then it killed him, he drank at several times, that it might not yet kill him; because all was not yet finished; but when all was finished, he drank the bottom of the Cup, & then it killed him, he began with a soul Agony only, without immediate bodily sufferings, save what his body suffered by sympathy with his distressed soul; but on the Cross he suffered the extremity of bodily suffering, & Soul sufferings also both together, & then it killed him
6. In all this bitter conflict he had no humane help, for every time he came to his Disciples he found them sleeping, he fulfilled that Prophesy,