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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.
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.
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,