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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, teacher of the church in Roxbury. ; [Two lines from Acts]
printed by John Foster, 1678
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.
Answ. 1. Because Jesus Christ doth undertake and undergo that great Office of a Mediator betwixt God and man, to reconcile them and make peace, and that he might pacify God towards man, he must pay all the debt that man oweth to God, he must satisfy and pacify Divine justice, by suffering the penalties of the broken Law; he must undergo all the punishment which man is most justly obliged to suffer, man himself is never able to do this, Jesus Christ, God and man •e only is able, and is willing to do it, and therefore he willingly drinketh that Cup of Sufferings to the very bottom, Joh. 18.11. the Cup which my heavenly Father hath given me to drink, shall I not drink it? this reason is general to all the sufferings of Christ, and therefore a good reason of this part of his sufferings.
Answ. 1. Because Jesus Christ doth undertake and undergo that great Office of a Mediator betwixt God and man, to reconcile them and make peace, and that he might pacifie God towards man, he must pay all the debt that man oweth to God, he must satisfie and pacifie Divine justice, by suffering the penaltyes of the broken Law; he must undergo all the punishment which man is most justly obliged to suffer, man himself is never able to do this, Jesus Christ, God and man •e only is able, and is willing to do it, and therefore he willingly drinketh that Cup of Sufferings to the very bottom, Joh. 18.11. the Cup which my heavenly Father hath given me to drink, shall I not drink it? this reason is general to all the sufferings of Christ, and therefore a good reason of this part of his sufferings.
2. Jesus Christ drank deep of this Cup of sorrows and infirmities, that he might in his own person experience the difficulties of a sickly, crazy, infirm body, that ⟨p. 51⟩