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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

31.9 and is to all within the pale of the visible Church but by Adoption that he hath by a speciall grace adopted us into the dignity of his children Which we may be assured of when once we have received that Spirit of Adoption which the Apostle speaketh of Rom. 8.15 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the holy Spirit of God regenerating of us and working effectually in us working in us a childe-like disposition filiall affections towards this our heavenly Father a filial fear a filial love a filial affiance causing us to fear him as a Father to love him as a Father to trust in him and depend upon him as a Father Finding such a disposition such affections in our hearts now may we be assured that God is our Father And being our Father let us now call him so Vse 3 Call God our Father This is that which the Lord saith of his servant David Psal 89.26 He shall cry unto me thou art my Father And it is that which he requireth from his people the Jewes Jer. 3.4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me My Father viz. from the time that he had admonished them of their duty and corrected them for their sins And so again vers 19. of the same Chapter I said thou shalt call me My Father that is so own and acknowledge me And this let all the Lords people do This is the language which the Spirit of Adoption teacheth all Gods children to call God their Father Ye have received the Spirit of Adoption whereby we cry Abba Father saith Paul to his Romans Rom. 8.15 And the like to his Galathians Gal. 4.6 Because ye are Sons God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying Abba Father And this do we call God our Father and that not only with our tongues but our hearts so looking upon him so owning and acknowledging of him Which do we at all times in all estates and conditions God to be looked upon by his Children as a Father in Adversity as well as Prosperity in whatever God doth to us or we to him still look upon him under the notion of a Father 1. As first in receiving of mercies and blessings from him In receiving of mercies take them as from the hand of a Father as pledges and tokens of his love therein acknowledging his Fatherly affection 2. So also in confessing of sins and begging pardon for them In confessing of sins come unto God as unto a Father So doth the Prodigall Son in the Parable Luk. 15.18 I will arise saith he and go to my Father and will say unto him Father I have sinned against heaven and before thee 3. So again in deploring of wants spirituall or temporall In deploring of Wants and making suit for a supply of them come unto God as a Father So our Saviour teacheth us to do in that Pattern and Form of Prayer which he hath left us When ye pray say Our Father which art in heaven Luk. 11.6 directing Christians to make all their addresses unto God under that notion as a Father When thou pray st pray to thy Father Math. 6.6 4. And so again in Deprecations of evils feared when God seemeth to be coming against us In deprecating of evils feared yet call him Father So did David his Father-in-law King Saul when he was coming out against him hunting his soul to take it as he speaks yet even then he calls out to him My Father 1 Sam. 24.11 And the like do we to our heavenly Father Though he come against us as an enemy yet still call him Father So doth our blessed Saviour when he saw this bitter Cup coming towards him apprehended his Passion at hand He fell on his face saith the Text and prayed saying O my Father if it be possible let this Cup passe from me Matth. 26.39 5. And the like also in Evils felt When the hand of God lyeth heavy upon us In present sufferings pressing us sore yet still call him Father So doth the Church in those Texts forecited when God hid himself from her dealt most severely with her yet still she challengeth her Relation calling him her Father Doubtlesse thou art our Father Isa 63.16 But now O Lord thou art our Father Cap. 64.7 And so doth our blessed Saviour in the Paroxisme of his Passion hanging upon the Crosse still he retains his former language calling God his Father Father forgive them Luk. 23.34 And when the pangs of death were upon him he breatheth out his soul with those words Father into thy hand I commend my Spirit vers 46. of that Chap. And the like do we stirring up our hearts to a holy imitation of this our heavenly Pattern In all our afflictions and sufferings of what knide soever they be yet still call God Father so look we upon him so apprehend and acknowledge him A good sign of a gracious spirit so to doe To call God Father when he frowns a sign of a gracious spirit I scarce know a better then to call God Father when he frowns upon us is angry with us hath a rod in his hand when he is correcting us An easie matter it is so to do whilest he is smiling upon us whilest we receive or expect blessings and favours from him Blesse me my Father saith Esau to Isaac Gen. 27.34 But when he hath as I said a rod in his hand and we feel the smart of it when his hand lyeth heavy upon us when he writeth bitter things against us when he is turned to be our enemy fighting against us by his Judgements then to call him Father so to look upon him so to apprehend and acknowledge him surely this is no other but a fruit of that Spirit the Spirit of Adoption And this let all Gods children stir up their hearts to doe To look upon God as a Father of great use in Afflictions thus to look upon God in all their afflictions A thing which will be of great use to us for the quieting and comforting and supporting our spirits under whatever sufferings So long as a man looketh upon God as an Enemy to him or as a severe Judge coming against him he can have no comfort being conscious to himself of his own demerits but when once he cometh to look upon him as a Father this sweetneth the bitterest Cup making a man drink it the more willingly whilest it giveth him a comfortable hope and assurance of a wise and mercifull moderation of his Affliction a gracious support under it and a seasonable issue out of it all which it doth Q. How this may be attained But how shall we attain to this thus to look upon God in our suffering condition A. Learn to live by faith For this learn to live by Faith So lives the Righteous person as the Prophet Habakuk tells us Hab. 2.4 The just shall live by his Faith Live by it in all estates and

of life and the gain that would come thereby I am not unwilling with it But the bitternesse of it which I fear deters me from imbracing it And was not thy Saviours such A. was not his Cup a bitter Cup Christs death a bitter death his death a painfull yea a shamefull and accursed death And this he knew that it would be And yet behold him not unwilling to drink it to submit to it But as for thee thou knowest not what thy death may be Happily it may be easie and gentle However The paines of death misapprehended not so bitter as thou apprehendest it Few there be but indure more and greater paines in their life then they shall do at their death Neither is it properly death it self which is so painfull but the forerunners of it But suppose it bitter yet shall this deter thee from the drinking of this Cup which is so profitable unto thee I Obj 7 but I know not what conflicts I may there meet with Fear of soul Conflicts in death I must expect that Satan will be then busie And was it not so with thy Saviour The prince of this world commeth Answ The Case of our Saviour saith he foretelling his death Joh. 14.30 What conflicts had he as in the Garden here so upon the Crosse And did not the powers of Hell then surround and assault him Now is your hour and the power of darknesse saith he to the Jewes Luke 22.53 Repl I Repl. but he had strength to grapple with this Enemy and to overcome him He had strength which others want but my strength is weaknesse A. Be it so A. yet is not his power made perfect in weaknesse as the Apostle telleth thee 2 Cor. He is able ●o strengthen others 12.9 He that was able to bear up himself in these conflicts is he not able to do the like for thee Thou being his one of his members his Spirit is thine in thee and with thee and will be ready to succour and strengthen thee in this combate Remember what Paul said of himself When all forsook me the Lord stood by me and strengthened me 2 Tim. 4.17 He that prayed for Peter hath done the like for thee that thy faith shall not fail I Obj. 8 But I want Assurance assurance of Gods love and favour to me Want of assurance of Gods Love and favour how then can I willingly submit to death Not being assured how it standeth with me in reference to my future state and condition Of all arguments I confess this is the strongest A. But stil was it not so also with thy blessed Saviour The case of our Saviour in the Garden and upon the Cross Did not he in his Passion as also before it lye under a spiritual desertion God his Father for a time hiding his face from him and seeming to have forsaken him Yet in obedience to him he submits to what his will was And the like do thou However it standeth with thee as to Assurance yet acting thy faith trusting in the mercies of God through the merits of this thy Saviour shew thy self obedient to the will of thy heavenly father even obedient to the death But in the mean time labour for Assurance Directions by way of practise Let that be the first of those directions by way of Practise which having met with those Anticonsiderations opposing the former Motives I shall now come to propound unto you In the first place Dir. 1 I say that we may not fear death Labour for Assurance but be willing to submit thereunto when God shall give this Cup to us labour for Assurance 1. Assurance First that God is our Father This it was which sweetned this bitter Cup to our blessed Saviour here That God is our Father by Regeneration and Adoption that it was given him by his Father The Cup which my Father hath given me And this it was which made him so willing to set upon this journey to walk through the valley of the shadow of death because he was to go to his Father as he tels his Apostles Joh. 14.12 and elswhere O let every of us labour to make sure to our selves this blessed Relation that God is our Father And that as before was said not only by Creation which he is to all his Creatures but by Regeneration and Adoption that he hath begotten us again unto a lively Hope which St. Peter saith all true believers are 1 Pet. 1.3 and that he hath Adopted us into the dignity of his Children Both which we may rest assured of when we find our selves made partakers of that divine nature of which St. Peter speakes 2 Pet. 1.4 transformed into the Image of God made like unto him in those divine qualities of Holinesse and Righteousnesse wherein as the Apostle telleth us his Image doth chiefly consist Eph. 4.24 And made partakers of that Spirit of Adoption whereof the same Apostle speaketh Rom. 8.15 Whereby we cry Abba Father Owning God for our Father and that not in word only but in deed and in truth As by making our addresses unto him upon all occasions flying to him as Children to their Father so by yielding unto him all such respects as are due to a Father loving him as a Father fearing him as a Father honouring him as a Father trusting in him and depending upon him as a Father and in all things obeying him as a Father Being thus affected towards him now may we lay claim to this Relation being assured that God is our Father Which whilest we are what is it that should make us afraid of death Which is but our Fathers Messenger sent by him to bring us into his presence So our blessed Saviour looked upon it who speaking of his death cals it as you heard a going to his Father And may we but once come so to look upon it that death is our Fathers Messenger Not a Serjeant to arrest us at the suit of an offended God and to bring us before him as a severe Judg to be sentenced by him and to receive according to our demerits Such is death to all wicked and ungodly men and so no wonder if the apprehension of it be terrible unto them as the Officer is to the guilty Malefactor But a messenger our Fathers messenger such as Joab was to Absalom 2 Sam. 14. to bring us to our Fathers house into his presence to see him and to be with him to all eternity this would make it not unwelcome to us Every of us then labour to make this sure to our selves that we have such an interest in God that he is our Father 2. To which end labour to make sure our interest in Christ That Christ is our Saviour that he is our Saviour never resting till we have got him in our armes This when Simeon had done in a literall sense then he cryeth out Now Lord lettest thou thy servant depart in

The Action which is The Giving of this Cup The Cup which my Father hath given me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So it was Doct. it was God the Father which gave this Cup to his Son Christ God the Father gave this Cup to his Sonne gave his Son to dye Mark it Here is the chief and principal Doctrine that this former part of the Text affords us God the Father gave this Cup to his Son Christ Which in effect and for substance speaketh one and the same thing with that of the Apostle Rom. 8.32 God spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all So was it in the Type Abraham offered up his Son By Faith Abraham when he was tryed offered up Isaac and he that received the Promises offered up his only begotten Son so the Apostle to the Hebrewes hath it Heb. 11.17 And St. James the like Was not Abraham our Father justified by works when be had offered up Isaac his Son upon the Altar Jam. 2.21 This did he intentionally in affection and resolution binding his Son and laying him upon the Altar stretching forth his hand with the sacrificing Knife to slay him as the story sets it forth Gen. 22.9 10. Which in Gods acceptation was all one as if he had done what he purposed and intended to doe And so was it in the truth of that Type God the Father offers up his Son his only begotten Son Jesus Christ offers him up upon the Altar of the Crosse Where as the Prophet Isai describeth his Passion Isa 53.10 It pleased the Lord to bruise him he hath put him to grief when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin c. Thus did God the Father give this bitter Cup to his Son giving him to suffer and die that painfull shamefull accursed death of the Crosse Obj. Obj. But was this the Fathers act How is Christ said to give himself here to remove a stone which lyeth in my way to meet with an obvious Objection Did God the Father give this Cup to his Son give him to the death how then is Christ said to give and offer up himself So we finde it frequently elsewhere expressed He gave himself for us that he might redeem us Tit. 2.14 Who gave himself for our sins that he might redeem us from this present evil world Gal. 1.4 Who through the eternal Spirit offered up himself Heb. 7.27 He poured out his soul unto death Isa 53.12 So runs the phrase of Scripture ordinarily speaking of the Death and Passion of Christ as his own voluntary act I lay down my life for my Sheep Joh. 10.15 Therefore doth my Father love me because I lay down my life vers 17. And again as it followeth No man taketh it from me but I lay it down of my self I have power to lay it down c. vers 18. How then is this here attributed to the Father that he should give this Cup to him A. Answ 1 To this the Answer is obvious 1. Christ as God co-working with his Father If we look at Christ as God the Son of God here that trite but true Maxim will be of use Opera Trinitatis ad extra sunt indivisa All the external works and actions of the Trinity such acts as they do out of themselves for or upon the Creature they are common to all the three Persons so as they may be indifferently referred and attributed to all or any of them Such was the work of Creation the joynt work of all the three Persons Father Son and Holy Ghost and so attributed sometimes to one sometimes to another And such was this work of ●ed●mption however undertaken by one yet it was designed by all the three Persons being done by the mutual consent and agreement of all Father Son and Holy Ghost all concurring in the design though not in the execution of it What Christ as Mediator suffered he did it by the joynt consent of all the three Persons And therefore is it sometimes attributed to one sometimes to another Sometimes to the Father and sometimes to the Son who as they are one God so they have one will and one work The Son can do nothing of himself saith our Saviour but what he seeth the Father doe For what things soever the Father doth these also doth the Son likewise Joh. 5.19 Thus did Christ the Son not only imitate his Father doing works like unto his but Cooperate with him doing the same works And hence is it that the same Action is attributed sometimes to the one and sometimes to the other Thus we here finde the giving of Christ to the Death which yet was his own act attributed by him to God his Father he being the first worker in respect of Order and manner of working The Gup which my Father hath given me But secondly look upon Christ as Man A. 2 or rather as Mediator as God and Man As Mediator subservient to him so we shall finde him subservient to his Father readily doing his will Lo I come to do thy will O God Heb. 10.7 9. And as doing so suffering it Which he did in obedience unto him He humbled himself and became obedient to the death Phil. 2.8 And thus as his Father gave the Cup so he drank it so giving himself to the Death Even as it is not without ground conceived concerning the Type forementioned Abrahams offering of his Son Isaac This was Abrahams act and yet so as his Son concurred in it and that more then as a meer Patient being obedient to his Father at his command carrying of the Wood yielding himself to be bound and layd upon the Altar all which he did willingly So was it with our blessed Saviour Being acquainted with his Fathers will he yields himself to be bound which he was first in the Garden as we have it in the verse after the Text. and then by Caiaphas as we finde it Mar. 15.1 bears his Crosse submits unto the Death Thus the Father gave his Son and yet the Son gave himself But not to insist upon this Q. Explic. What God the Father did in and about the passion of his Son The way being thus cleared now come we by way of Explication to make enquiry what God the Father did in and about the Passion of his Son that he is here said to give the Cup to him The resolving of this Question will clear up this great and usetull truth A. This concurrence consisting in divers particulars The Action and concurrence of God the Father in and about the Death and Passion of his Son it consisteth in divers particulars Take we notice of five or six of them 1. He was privy to it he foresaw it he foreknew it He foresaw it This he did from Eternity So he doth all his Works Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the World Act. 15.18 Whatsoever God bringeth to passe in time it is

Exod. 15.24 and so against God in him as Moses tells them Exod. 16.7 and the Lord himself interprets it Numb 14.29 And the like they did upon other occasions as in the want of bread Exod. 16.2 Thus did they murmure in the Wildernesse And the like are the best of Gods Saints subject to If God bring them to the waters of Marah bitter waters giving them some bitter Cup to drink exercising them with some sharp afflictious their gestures their speeches their actions are too ready to bewray the secret discontents and impatience of their spirits Those instances of Eliah Jeremy Job Jonah are all obvious All eminent servants of God and yet how were they surprized with this distemper Now O Lord take away my life for I am not better then my Fathers saith Eliah in the Wildernesse 1 King 19.4 Why is my pain perpetuall and my wound incurable which refuseth to be healed Wilt thou be unto me altogether as a Lyar or as waters that fail saith Jeremy to his God in a distempered Passion Jer. 15.18 And again O Lord thou hast deceived me and I was deceived thou art stronger then I and hast prevailed I am in derision daily every one mocketh me cap. 20.7 And again v. 14. Cursed be the day wherein I was born let not the day wherein my Mother bare me be blessed and so he goeth on to the end of the Chapter in a great deal of passionate language bewraying a strange distemper that was upon him by reason of the contempt and treachery and ill use which he met with And the like we finde in Job Though looked upon and that deservedly as a pattern of patience yet we may hear him venting his Passion in the like language cap. 3. where from the 3d verse to the 16th he spends himself in such passionate expressions Let the day be darknesse wherein I was born c. And so Jonah when his gourd was withered and the Sun lay hot upon his head he breaks forth in Passion not sparing to tell God to his face that he did well to be angry even unto death Jon. 4.9 Strange distempers to be found in sanctified hearts Is it so that any of us have found or at any time shall finde any spice hereof in our selves as who can say he is free take we the reproof to our selves taking notice that it was far otherwise with our blessed Saviour our heavenly pattern Though his Cup was a bitterer Cup then ever any man upon earth tasted yet we finde him far from murmuring or repining when he was to drink it There are yet a third sort who drink this Cup Sort 3 but they faint in the drinking of it Such as faint un●● afflictions As the first sort make their sufferings too light so these make them too heavy their spirits drooping and sinking under their burdens A weaknesse very incident even to Gods own people yea to the best of them It is that which Jeremy saith of himself Jer. 8.18 When I would comfort my self against sorrow my heart is faint in me And the like we may hear from the Church in her Captivity Lam. 1. last My sighes are many and my heart is faint Such deliquiums such despondencies and faintings the strongest of Saints as I said are subject to It is that which David saith of himself when he was in some eminent danger My soul is bowed down viz. through fear Psal 57.6 and elsewhere being pursued by his implacable enemy King Saul hunted as a Partridge in the Mountains as himself expresseth it we finde him giving up himself for a lost man He said in his heart I shall now perish by the hand of Saul 1 Sam. 27.1 An infirmity arising partly from the weaknesse of nature An Infirmity from whence arising which contributes much to these despondencies but chiefly from the weaknesse of grace If thou faint in the day of Adversity thy strength is small saith the Wiseman Prov. 24.10 thy spiritual strength it argues Faith to be weak This it is which supporteth and beareth up the spirit under afflictions keepeth it from fainting I had fainted saith David unlesse I bad believed to see the goodnesse of the Lord in the Land of the living Psal 27.13 Faith in God believing his Promises and resting upon his power mercy truth it boyeth up the soul keepeth the head above water Where Faith faileth no wonder if the heart fainteth And it is often helped forwards by looking upon afflictions through false Glasses which represent them greater then they are As also by neglecting or refusing means of Consolation and comfort As it is said of Rachel the Benjamit●sh women descended from Rachel when her children were carried into Captivity she w●pt saith the Text and would not be comforted because they were not Mat. 2.18 Thus it is sometimes when God withdraws one blessing men overlook all others they enjoy and will take no comfort in them Like Children who if one of their toyes be taken from them they presently throw away all the rest But from what ground soever it ariseth or by what means soever it is procured or promoted it is a weaknesse and that such a one as deserves a just Reprehension It was not so with our blessed Saviour Never was there Cup like this Cup which he was now to drink yet behold here how he beareth up under it betaking himself to his suffering work with a holy and steadfast resolution The Cup which my Father hath given me shall I not drink it Thus much by way of Reprehension From which passe we in the second place to that which I principally aim at Vse 2 Exhortation to follow this Pattern Exhortation Where let me set this pattern before you propounding it for your imitation exciting and stirring up all who professe themselves the Disciples of Jesus Christ that herein they would endeavour to shew themselves conformable to this their Head Conformity to Christ is that which God hath predestinated all his Elect people to So the Apostle infoms us Rom. 8.29 Whom he did foreknow he also did predestinate to be conformed to the Image of his Son to be made like him and that as in glory so in grace Now as we desire the former have we an eye to the latter see that we imitate Christ in what was imitable in him following his steps So suffering as Christ did Which do we as in his Active so in his Passive Obedience so drinking those Cups which our heavenly Father shall give unto us as he here did this which was given to him not despising of not murmuring at not fainting under whatever Afflictions and Chastisements God shall please to exercise us with but bearing and suffering them patiently obediently willingly Every of which particulars give me leave to spend a little time upon The three former whereof are Negatives shewing us what we are not to doe the three latter Positives shewing us what we are to doe Begin with the former the

who preferred Barrabas before him Not this man but Barrabas now Barrabas saith the Text was a Robber Joh 18.41 Thus was he despised and rejected of men as the Prophet Isai foretold it Isai 53.3 Made a scorn and laughing stock having a scarlet or Purple Robe put upon him a Rod put into his hand instead of a Scepter a Crown of Thornes set upon his head instead of a Crown of Gold as the story sets it forth Mat. 27. v. 28.29 all to make him a scorn to the people who in defiance spit upon him as it there followeth Thus did he suffer in his Name And so in his Body being buffe●ed and caned as we find it Matth. 26 67. and 27.30 as also scourged v. 26. Now all these were ingredients in this Cup parts of his suffering But the two principals which made this his Cup so exceedingly bitter were these his suffering in Soule and his suffering of death Yet doth he thus submit to both these And the like are Christians to doe if ever God shall call them to the like tryals Christians to imitate him in suffering of both The latter of which they are all sure to meet with what man liveth and shall not see death Psal 89.48 And for the former none are sure of being exempted from it Now as to these two particulars being of so great importance and having so just an occasion offered from the Text give me leave to speak to them severally Begin with the former Suffering in Soul Thus did our blessed Saviour suffer Suffering in Soul not only in the outward man but also in the inward not only in his Body but in his Soul When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin Isai 53.10 that is the whole person of Christ not bis body only but his soul also which suffered in this his passion And that not only by way of Sympathie and fellow feeling with the Body as Socinions would have it but immediately As man afflicted the one so did God the other It pleased the Lord to bruise him he hath put him to grief saith the Prophet in the text last named Afflicting him as in his Body so in his Soul Which he did by inflicting on him a double Punishment such as the damned in Hell lye under a Punishment of Losse and a Punishment of Sense Of Losse hiding and withdrawing himself from him as to his sense and feeling Which he did fully upon the Crosse where being left under a cloud of spirituall desertion he cryeth out in the anguish of his soul My God My God why hast thou forsaken me Of sense pouring a viall of wrath into his soul such as was due unto those sins which he had undertaken So as now even The sorrows of Hell compassed him about as David in another sense speaks of himself Psal 18.8 This Cup did he drink upon the Crosse a Cup of divine wrath Which he had before tasted of even here in the Garden Where we find him in a strange and unparrallelled agonie sweating as it were drops of bloud falling to the ground as before we heard And what could it be that should thus affect his Body but the anguish of his soul then conflicting with the apprehension of that wrath which he was now to feele the wrath of God due unto sinners in whose room he was now to stand as a surety and Redeemer Thus were these waters even come into his soul as David in a different sense speaks it of himself Psal 69.1 And that as I said in an Immediate way Hence is it that he complaines unto his Disciples that his soul was exceeding sorrowfull Matth. 26.38 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 beset and surrounded with grief and anguish And St Mark reporting the same story tels us that he began to be sore amaz'd and very heavy Mark 14.33 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Expavescere gravissime ang● to be in great horrour and anguish Now what could it be that should thus affect him surely not barely the apprehension of those Corporall punishments which he was to suffer This were a thing very dishonourable to imagine that whereas many of the Martyrs have gone triumphing to the stake or gibbet going singing to the induring of far greater torments more cruell deaths then this was that he who was their Leader the Captain of their salvation should fall so far below them in resolution and courage as thus to tremble at the thought of his Crosse Surely there was somewhat more in this Cup which made it so bitter to him And what should that be But his suffering in soul And yet see how having recollected his spirits he here submitteth to the drinking of this Cup the suffering whatever his Father should please to inflict upon him The Cup which my Father hath given me shall I not drink it And thus are Gods Children to submit to the will of their heavenly Father if he shall call them to the tasting of this Cup. The tasting of it I say As for the drinking it off that they never shall Christ having drunk off this Cup hath freed those who are his from drinking in the like way that he did They being justified by his bloud shall be saved from wrath through him Rom. 5.9 This Cup is reserved for wicked and ungodly men who being Children of disobedience are also Children of wrath as the Apostle calls them Ephes 2.23 having wrath for their Portion The wrath of God commeth upon the Children of disobedience Eph. 5.6 This shall be the portion of their Cup which they shall drink and drink it off even wringing out the dregs thereof But so shall not those that are Christs They being Gods Children and Children by Grace the Grace of Adoption they are freed and delivered from wrath Yet not so but that they also may taste of this Cup which sometimes some of them doe Even the best of Saints being subject to spirituall desertions soul sufferings wherein God hiding his face with-holding from them the sweet sense and feeling of his love and favour writes bitter things against them setting their sins in order before them and letting some drops of his wrath as it were fall upon their souls filling them with inward horrour and terrour A bitter Cup of all Cups the bitterest of all tryals the sharpest There being two things principally which make it so 1. Because it seizeth immediately upon the soul Suffering in soul the greatest suffering upon the spirit Those wounds in the body which come nearest the heart are looked upon as most deadly Reas 1 And so is it with those sufferings which come nearest the soul It seizeth upon the spirit The Sword reacheth unto the Soul saith Jeremy Jer. 4.10 It is bitter because it reacheth unto thine heart saith the 18. v. there explaining the former And so doth this Tryall it seizeth upon the soul and that immediately As Hectick Feavers and some other diseases in the body which seize more immediately upon