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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

not any think to charge their sins in whole or in part upon him Let not any man say saith St. James when he is tempted I am tempted of God for God cannot be tempted with evill neither tempteth he any man Jam. 1.13 Sin is no wayes Gods work At the first his works were all good very good And God saw every thing which he had made and behold it was very go●d Gen. 1. last He did not then create Evil neither hath he done it since The evil of sin I mean As for the evill of Punishment that he challengeth to be his Creature I create evil Isa 45.7 the evil of Punishment Not so the evil of sin That was the Devils Creature having him for the Author of it Thence it is that our Saviour tells the malicious Jews Ye are of your Father the Devil and the lusts of your Father you will doe Joh. 8.44 And St. John layeth it down as an universall truth He that committeth sin is of the Devil 1 Joh. 3.8 So much of sin as there is in a man so much of Satan he being the proper Author of it When he speaketh a lye he speaketh of his own for he is a lyar and the Father of it saith our Saviour in the former of those Texts Joh. 8.44 And the like may be said of all other sins they have Satan for their Father their proper Author Whence it is that he is called by the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The or that evil one the wicked one 1 Joh. 2.13 and elsewhere As for God he being absolutely good evil is inconsistent with him it cannot dwell with him as the Psalmist hath it Psal 5.4 Being holynesse it self he hateth sin cannot behold it without abhorrence Thou art of purer eyes then to behold evil and canst not look on iniquity saith the Prophet Hab. 1.13 Such an utter Antipathy there is betwixt the pure and holy nature of God and Sin that he cannot look upon it without detestation It is the only thing which he perfectly hates so hating it as that he hateth the Workers of it for its sake So it there followeth Psal 5.5 Thou hatest all workers of iniquity So hateth them as that he will not let their sins goe unpunished Fulgent l. ● ad Monym Now as Fulgentius rightly Deus non est ejus rei Auctor cujus est ultor God cannot be the Author of that whereof he is the Avenger This is the true Protestant Doctrine which as it hath been so let it ever be held and maintained that God neither is nor can be the Author of sin any sin or yet a partaker in it Q. But what say we then to the case in hand The case in hand cleared Was not he the Author of this sin the horridest sin that ever was committed the putting of the Lord of life to death which if he so concurred in as hath been declared how can he be free from it A. For answer hereunto The Evasion of some Romish Doctors Actum Judaeorum non voluit Deus passionem vero Christi voluit Et p●steà Voluit itaque tota Trinitas ut Christus pateretur nec ta●en voluit ut Judaei occiderent quià voluit poenam Christi sed non voluit culpam Judaeorum P. Lumb Sent. l. 1. Dist ult Cap. 2. 〈◊〉 Non volebat Deus actionem Judaeorum quae mala erat sed volebat passionem ●●n●m Idem cap. 3. ibid. if we will consult with some of the Romish Doctors they will here help us with an Evasion God the Father saith P. Lumbard did indeed will the death and suffering of his Son Christ but not the Act of the Jewes in putting him to death the one whereof was good the other evi● That Christ should suffer it was good but that they should lay hands upon him was evill In malis operibus saepe accidit ut actio sit mala passio bona Bellarm. lib. 2. De Amiss Grat. c. 11. And to the same purpose Bellarmine treading in his steps determines the case after the same manner God saith he did indeed will and determine that Joseph should be sold into Egypt and that Christ should be slayn but the wicked Acts of those who sold the one and crucified the other he neither decreed nor willed but only foresaw and permitted Thus would they here have it that God gave this Cup to his Son to drink Deus igitur voluit ac praedefinivit opera ista virtutum quae in passione consistunt cum voluit ac praedefinivit ut Jeseph venderetur Christus occideretur Opera autem mala vendentium Joseph occidentium Christum non voluit nec praedefinitiv sed praescivit permisit Idem ibid. but not to Judas and Pilate and the rest that they should hand and reach it unto him He willed that he should bear this punishment not that they should inflict it His passion being good their Action evil But as for this Retracted and rejected we finde it ingenuously retracted by some of their own Suarez a late learned Jesuite states and concludes the point generally and confidently Dicimus tàm esse certum Deum influere immediatè ac per se in omnem actionem creaturae ●t id negare erroneum sit in fide Suarez Metaph. tom 1. disp 22. Sec. 1. num 7. and that not as his own private opinion but as agreed upon by the most approved Schoolmen that God hath an immediate influence upon every action of the Creature and that to deny this is E●roneum in fide an Error in the Faith Yea it is positively layd down by another of them as the common Tenent of the Schools though the Pope could never be brought to determine it one way or other that the very Act of sin as it is an act Thom Cajer Ferrar. Capreol Albert. Alexand. Greg. Scotus ibid. citati Actus peccati in quantum ●ctus est à Deo est tanquam à Causâ Alvarez Disp 24. is from God as the Cause of it And it must needs be so inasmuch as the Creature as it hath its being from God so also its motion Man living in him also moveth in him and from him according to that of the Apostle In him we live and move and have our being Act. 17.28 And therefore to leave them For the returning of a full satisfactory Answer Two things here cleared up I shall clear up unto you these two things which I shall do with as much plainnesse as I can 1. How God willed the death of his Son And 2. How he concurred with Judas and the rest in putting him to death and yet both without sin For the First God gave this Cup to his Son he willed that he should suffer and dye Gods willing that his Son should die which he might doe And this he might doe in as much as 1. He hath jus Supremi Dominii a right of Supreme and absolute Dominion and Soveraignty