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A77498	The drinking of the bitter cup: or, The hardest lesson in Christ's school, learned and taught by himself, passive obedience. Wherein, besides divers doctrinall truths of great importance, many practicall directions are held forth, for the teaching of Christians how to submit to their heavenly father in suffering his will, both in life and death, patiently, obediently, willingly. / As it was lately presented to the church of God at Great Yarmouth, by John Brinsley, minister of the Gospel there.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing B4713; Thomason E1838_1; ESTC R210133	201,893	311

they cannot help upon the grounds aforesaid meerly out of the Principles of Reason See we that our Patience exceed theirs What our Saviour said to the Jewes concerning the Righteousnesse of she Scribes and Pharisees Ma● 5.20 Except your righteousnesse exceed theirs ye shall in no case enter into the Kingdome of Heaven I may say the like concerning the Patience of meer Marall Civill men Except our Patience exceed theirs it shall never finde such acceptance with God so as to obtain the promised reward See we that ours be true Christian patience Q. But wherein doth Christian patience exceed theirs A. Wherein Christian Patience differs from morall Why as in some other particulars so principally in these two It is Obedientiall And Voluntary Thus doth the true Christian suffer obediently and willingly which the Morallist doth not And thus see that we suffer when God calleth us to it Which are the two other branches of this part of the Exhortation yet behinde Of which briefly Suffering Patiently suffer Obediently in obedience unto God Christians to suffer Obediently So did not those Heathens which knew not God No more do meer Civil men who regard him not But thus let us suffer So did our heavenly pattern here the Lord Jesus What he suffered it was in obedience to his Father The Cup which my Father hath given me He humbled himself and became obedient Phil. 2.8 He learned obedience by the things which he suffered H●b 5.8 This was the principle which carried him on to and through that work And so let it be with us whatever we suffer looking upon it as a Cup coming from the hand of our heavenly Father drink it in obedience to him Thus are Christians to perform all duties both to God and Man As obedient Children as St. Peter hath it 1 Pet. 1.14 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Children of Obedience doing what they do in an obedientiall way to God their Father And thus also are they to suffer so approving themselves the children of God as by their Active so by their Passive Obedience And suffering obediently suffer also willingly Willingly So also did our blessed Saviour suffer as you have heard The Cup which my Father hath given me shall I not drink it He drinks this his Cup as patiently and obediently so willingly And so drink we these Cups which God our heavenly Father giveth unto us thus suffer we those afflictions which his Providence layeth out for us not only patiently and obediently but willingly Herein again true Christian patience differs from that of the meer Morall Civill man whose patience is patience per force he suffereth what he cannot help This being the Principle which he goeth upon Feras non culpes quod vitari non potest Sence What you cannot shift rather hear then quarrell with as that great Moralist hath it But such patience how commendable soever it may be with Man it is not so with God who accepteth no service but what is willingly performed That which St. Peter requires of Ministers in speciall that they should do their work their Ministerial service feeding the flock of God not by constraint but willingly 1 Pet. 5.2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God requireth it generally at the hands of all his people whatever service we do unto him doe it not by constraint but willingly And so in our sufferings be we willing to submit to his will This is their Reasonable service which St. Paul calls for Rom. 12.1 I beseech you brethren by the mercies of God that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable to God which is your reasonable service 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a service not like that of the unreasonable creatures under the Law as Theodoret and Erasmus and some other Expositors interpret those words and that truely though not fully Those bruit Creatures Sheep and Oxen c. they came to the Altar but they were either drawn or driven thither And there they suffered the sacrificing Knife to be put to their throats but they were first tied and bound Binde the Sacrifice with Cords even unto the horns of the Altar Psal 118.27 Now in opposition to this the Christians sacrifice must be a reasonable service As his Active so his Passive Obedience must be not constrained and compelled but willing Which if it be not he cannot expect his reward If I do these things willingly I have a reward saith Paul speaking of his Ministerial service but if against my will this dispensation is committed unto me what is my reward then 1 Cor. 9.17 18. And what he saith of his acting Two questions resolved a Christian may say the like of his suffering submitting willingly to the hand of God he may expect a reward Q. 1 which otherwise he cannot look for Whether Christians may not pray against sufferings Q. But what then it may be said may not a Christian pray against these evils And may he not use means to be freed and delivered from them A. A. The latter of these Questions I started before and returned some answer to it let me now speak a little more fully to it and to the former 1. Pray against evils Temptations Tryals This they may doe we may For this we have our Saviours practise to warrant us who in the Garden as you have heard thrice put up this Request O my Father if it be possible let this Cup passe from me Which also he had done before Joh. 12.27 Father save me from this hour And what himself there did he hath taught us to doe the like putting in this for one of those six Petitions in that his form and pattern of Prayer which he hath left us Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evill This a Christian may doe pray against temptations Evils as of Sin so of punishment that he may be either kept from them or delivered out of them But take it with this Proviso this Caution Not Absolutely but conditionally It must be not Absolutely but Conditionally with submission to the will of God So we finde it in our Pattern Christ prayeth that this Cup might passe from him but his request herein is not Absolute but Conditionall If it be possible let this Cup passe from me Math. 26.39 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If possible not simply and absolutely so for so all things are possible with God which he elsewhere taketh notice of Matth. 19.26 Mark 14.36 but if it were consistent with Gods decree Si tua decreta ferunt ut alio modo tuae gloriae homirum saluti aequè consulatur Grot. Annor ad loc and might not be prejudiciall to his Glory or the salvation of his Church and people as Grotius well explains it Or if it might stand with the will of God his Father So he there explains himself where to the aforesaid Petition he subjoyns this Retraction or rather Limitation Nevertheless not as I will but as

service he had for Paul to do for his name they presently perswade him to favour himself to decline it not to come upon the Stage where he was to act that part not to come near where the danger was An ordinary thing for some or other thus to attempt to pull the Cup from the mouths of Gods servants which he hath given them to drink But what saith Paul to the motion what ear doth he lend them what Answer doth he return them you may read it in the verse following v. 13. What do ye weeping and breaking my heart I am ready not only to be bound but to dye at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus See how this service of carnall love in them for such it was meeteth with a check a rebuke from him And no better intertainment let those unfriendly services of such as out of the like carnall affection shall indeavour to hinder us in our duty to God from doing or suffering his will meet with at our hands Do they goe about to withdraw our necks from his yoke shake them off It is our Saviours advice Math. 5.29 30. If thy right eye offend thee pluck it out and cast it from thee If thy right hand offend thee cut it off and cast it from thee Now what greater offence can there be to a Christian then to goe about to hinder his obedience unto his God Get thee b●hinde me Satan thou art an offence to me saith our Saviour there to Peter upon this account Accursed is that Relation that Affection which shall weigh down our Relation our Affection to our heavenly Father so as to take us off from our duty to him As for our Obedience to God that is absolute Others must be respected and obeyed only in him and for him If they advise request command any thing that is contrary to his will and our duty stop the ear against them If they be Superiors and so command sear them not rather suffer then yield remembring what Peter and the other Apostles there tell the Rulers Act. 5.29 Increpandus si subditus si aqualis penitus non f●rendus si verò superior sit nullo medo timendus est Ferus Annot. in Text. We ought to obey God rather then men If Equals and so advise regard them not If Inferiors and so intreat reject rebuke them So did our Saviour here to this his servant his Apostle Going about by this his rash interposure to hinder him in the course of his Obedience he giveth him a check for it What wilt thou do such a disservice to my Father and me thus to take the Cup from my mouth which he hath given me to drink The Cup which my Father hath given me shall I not drink it And so I have also done with this Second Particular Briefly of the Third Obs 3 the attempting of that which may hinder the salvation of others The hindering the salvation of others This also was Peters case here In making this attempt he did as much as in him lay hinder that great work which Christ was then about the work of Mans Redemption so as had he had his will himself and all others must have perished and been for ever lost And upon this account again our Saviour here giveth him this Check The Cup which my Father hath given me shall I not drink it Non vis ut ego cum bibam Quis ergo alius cum ●thet Si ego hunc calicem non bibam aternâ siti omnes peribitis Ferus Annot. in loc As if he had said What wilt thou not have me to drink this Cup Who then shall If I do not drink it you must all perish with everlasting thirst No such disservice can be performed by any to their brethren as to be any wayes Instrumentall in hindering or endangering their salvation This is that which our Saviour chargeth upon the Scribes and Pharisees Matth. 23.13 They would neither enter into the Kingdome of Heaven themselves nor suffer them that were entring to go in A heavy charge Take we all of us heed of any wayes coming under the guilt of it Applic. Christians to beware of doing this whether of being any wayes accessory to such a disservice of hindring the salvation of any Which may be done divers wayes 1. By evil counsell provoking others unto sin As Jobs Wife there did him By evil counsell if the words be rendered as our Translation readeth them bidding him Curse God and dye And so David in the matter of V●iah whom by his Letter he advised Joab to murder 2 Sam. 11. 2. By evill example By evil example whether drawing others into evil As Peter who by his Judaizing drew others into the like dissimulation Gal. 2.13 Or prejudicing them against that which is good as David who by his scandalous sins of Adultery and Murther gave great occasion to the enemies of God to blaspheme 2 Sam. 12.14 to think and speak evill of God and of his people and Religion A thing which the Apostle chargeth upon the Jewes who by their walking unanswerably to their Profession made the name of God to be blasphemed among the Gentiles Rom. 2.24 3. By False Doctrine seducing others drawing them aside from the truth into error By falle Doctrine A thing which the Lord complaineth of against the Shepheards of Israel Jer. 50.6 My people have been lost sheep their Shepheards have caused them to goe astray Which we finde elsewhere more plainly expounded cop 23. vers 13. of the same Prophesie I have seen fo●y in the Prophets of Samaria they prophesied in Baal and caused my people to erre drawing them into Idolatry And the like we finde charged upon that wicked Woman Jezebel who calling her self a Prophetesse she by her teaching seduced the servants of God to commit fornication both Corporall and Spirituall Idolatry and Adultery which two goe oft times together Rev. 2.20 4. By laying stumbling-blocks in the way of others giving them occasion of falling and miscarrying By scandals This we finde expressely charged upon Balaam and Bolack Rev. 2.44 the one taught the other to cast a stumbling-block before the children of Israel by setting fair and beautifull women before them which being Idolaters inticed them to Whoredome and Idolatry And thus did the sons of Ely lay a stumbling block before the people whom by their lewd practises they made to abhor the offering of the Lord as we finde it 1 Sam. 2.17 utterly to neglect his Worship and Service when they saw it so polluted and prophaned by the horrid impieties of those who had the management of it A thing which the Prophet Malachi also chargeth upon the Priests in his time Mal. 2.8 Ye are departed out of the way ye have caused many to stumble at the Law through their wickednesse giving occasion to the people to daisdain the Worship and service of God And so do they who by the abuse of their Christian

Death free the Believer This gust shall blow away all those dark and gloomy Clouds which here intercepted the light of Gods countenance so as from thenceforth he shall never know what doubtings or fears mean but shall enjoy a constant Sunshine of Gods grace and favour to all Eternity Thus you see what evils Death freeth the Believer from Generally Universally from the sense and fear of all Evils both Temporall and Spirituall And thus freeing them from Evils Consid 2 it bringeth great Good to them The great good which Death brings the Believer to letting him into Paradise or them to it Letting them into Paradise This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise saith our dying Saviour to that penitent Thief Luk. 23.43 meaning the Celestial Paradise Heaven whereof the earthly Paradise was a Type and shadow so called from those transcendent pleasures delights and contentments which are there to be found Paul being caught up into this Paradise he heard as he tells his Corinthians unspeakable words such as himself could not utter 2 Cor. 12.4 And so shall the soul ascending thither see and enjoy unspeakable things such as the tongue of man cannot expresse Eye hath not seen ear hath not heard neither have entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him 1 Cor. 2.9 What things are layed up in heaven for them And these shall Death let the regenerate soul into the possession of letting it into life Mors Janua Vitae Temporall death is the dore which letteth into everlasting life Of this Tree shall he eat who hath overcome this his last Enemy To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the Tree of Life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God Rev. 2.7 to partake of eternall life of those everlasting Joyes to which Death is the Entry Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord saith the Master having reckoned with his good and faithfull servant Matth. 25.23 Thus doth Christ reckon with all his servants at the day of death then giving to them according to their works This is the Evening wherein those who have laboured in his vineyard shall every one receive their Penny Matth. 20.9 The reward of all the service which here they have done unto him a superabundant recompense infinitely exceeding whatever they have deserved Even that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that eternall weight of glory as the Apostle calleth it 2 Cor. 4.17 Then shall the Crown be set upon the heads of all Gods Saints I have finished my course saith St Paul henceforth is layed up for me the Crown of righteousnesse 2 Tim. 4.8 All true believers they are Kings while here upon earth made so by Christ who hath obtained that honour and dignity for them He hath made us Kings unto God and his Father Rev. 1.6 Spiritual Kings But they are as yet but Kings Elect heirs apparent to the Crown having a right to it but Crowned they cannot be til death Now what Prince would be unwilling to hear of his Coronation daies And such is the day of death to the true believer his Coronation day At which time being divested of his rags he shall have a Robe put upon him A white Robe He that overcommeth shall be cloathed in white rayment Rev. 3.4 Thus was Christ himself cloathed in his transfiguration on the Mount His rayment was white as the light Matth. 17.2 And so shall his Saints be cloathed after their departure hence having white rayment a garment of glory put upon them Then shall they be cloathed upon with that their house which is from Heaven when once they have laid down this earthly Tabernacle The consideration whereof made the blessed Apostle to groan so earnestly as he said he did 2 Cor. 5.1 2. desiring his dissolution upon that account Then shall they enter into their Glory So did our blessed Saviour by suffering of death he entred into his Glory Luk. 24.26 And so shall all they who follow his steps imitate his obedience death shall be to them Porta Gloriae The gate of glory letting in the soul to the beholding and injoying of that glory and happinesse which now cannot enter into it Letting it into the presence of God where it shall see him Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God Matth. 5.8 And see him as he is as Saint John tels us 1 Joh. 3.2 Have a full sight of him see him after another manner then here it doth Now we see through a glasse darkly saith the Apostle but then face to face 1 Cor. 13.12 Now we see God only in the glass of his word and works which do but darkly represent him But after death believers shall have a clear and full view of him The beholding of God a beatifical vision Then shall their Faith be turned into Vision Which shall be to them as the Schools call it a truely Beatificall vision making the beholders happy Happy in as much as hereby they shall be transformed into the Image of God made like him we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is saith St John there 1 Joh. 3.2 This Believers in part are here upon earth Whilest they behold as in a glass the glory of the Lord they are changed into the same Image from glory to glory As the Apostle hath it 2 Cor. 3.18 Beholding God in the glass of his word thereby they come by degrees to be transformed into his Image to be made like him in holinesse But when they shall come to see him face to face then shall they be made perfectly like unto him Death brings the Soul to perfection so far as their finite natures are capable of partaking of his infinite perfections Then shal they be perfect as their heavenly Father is perfect Perfect with a perfection both of Grace and Glory 1. Of Grace Which is here imperfect Such is Knowledge and Love Of Grace and all other graces in the most sanctyfied soul But upon the dissolution of the Body the soul comming into the presence of God it shal attain a full perfection A perfection of Knowledge Now I know in part saith the Apostle but then I shall know even as I am known 1 Cor. 13.12 Of knowledg Many things there are which the most knowing men upon earth are ignorant of Many mysteries in Nature which by all their search they cannot find out the reason of Much more Celestiall Mysteries concerning God and Jesus Christ As the Trinity of Persons in the unity of Essence The Hypostaticall union of the two Natures The Godhead and Manhood in the person of Christ Mysteries too sublime for any of this side heaven to pry into so as to comprehend or yet apprehend them otherwise then by faith But these with whatever else may any waies conduce to the happinesse of the soul to know it shal have a clear knowledg of after death Seeing God as he is it shall