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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

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

conditions This is the Anchor which he rideth by in whatever storms and tempests When sense and feeling fail he lives by Faith And thus let us learn to live So lived our blessed Saviour in his Passion upon the Crosse when sense and feeling failed him so as he did not finde those sweet influences and gracious communications from God his Father as formerly he had done as to his present apprehension he had even forsaken him of which he complains yet even then he lives by Faith setting that awork still calling God his God My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Matth. 27.46 Thus did he by this eye of Faith see one contrary in and through another Mercy in the midst of Judgement a tender Father in the habit of an angry Judge And thus learn we of him to live This is the proper life of a Christian to live here not by sense but by Faith The life which I now live in the Flesh I live by the Faith of the Son of God saith Paul of himself Gal. 2.20 Whilest he lived in the Flesh in the body he lived by Faith Faith in Christ resting and relying upon Gods grace through him And thus let us live and that in all estates Whatever our condition be however the Lord be pleased to deal with us Suppose as Hezekiah complains Isa 38.13 he breaketh all our bones as a Lyon or that with Job we feel the Arrowes of the Almighty sticking in us the Poyson whereof drinketh up our spirits and the terrors of God set themselves in array against us as he speaks Job 6.4 or that with Paul we are troubled on every side having fightings without and terrors within as it was with him 2 Cor. 7.5 being exercised both with Temporall and Spirituall conflicts in the outward and inward man both which God 's dearest children are subject to in this life yet even in this condition set faith awork to look through all these clouds that so we may behold our Fathers face see the light of the countenance of a reconciled God and Father in Christ making discovery of his yet continued love and favour to us Q. But how shall Faith make this discovery A. Why by looking through the Glasse of the Promise which represents God as he is not as he seemeth to be And this let us have recourse unto hearkening what the Promise will say to us In our saddest extremities when sense and feeling represent God unto us as an Enemy now hear what the Promise saith That will give us assurance of what we have heard that being once our Father he will be ever our Father So as though he may be angry with us yet he will not utterly reject those whom he hath taken into Covenant with himself If they break my Statutes c. I will visit their transgressions with the Rod and their iniquities with stripes neverthelesse my loving kindenesse will I not utterly take from him so runs that Promise forecited Now the word of Promise is a sure word a word of truth which God will not fail in the performance of I will not suffer my faithfulnesse to fail my Covenant will I not break so it there followeth And therefore whatever sense and feeling say hear what the Promise saith casting our Anchor upon that ground living by Faith in it It is the want of this that maketh Christians so dejected under their afflictions and troubles as often they are Living by Sense a cause of great dejections They live by sense and feeling apprehending God to be as they feel him Whereas if Faith were acted and set a work as it might be what a constant clear Sunshine day might the life of a Christian be Were a man aloft above the Clouds he should see the Sun shining clearly in the darkest gloomiest day of Winter and were the soul mounted as it might be by Faith upon the wings of the Promises what a constant apprehension of Gods love and favour might it injoy beholding God as a reconciled Father even then when there is nothing but wrath and anger in his face Which let all his Children endeavour to doe To close up this point Vse 3 in the last place Is God thus a Father when he strikes Christians to receive correct on from God as from a Father then receive we correction from him as from the hand of a Father So our blessed Saviour here taketh this Cup as from the hand of his Father And so take we all those Cups which he shall reach forth unto us all those Afflictions and Crosses wherewith he shall please to exercise us take them as from the hand of a Father Q. And how is that A. Why With a quiet and humble submission with a reverent and humble submission and subjection neither slighting of them nor fainting under them My Son despise not the chastening of the Lord neither be weary of his correction saith the Wise man to his Son Prov. 3.11 But quietly and contentedly submit to his Dispensations Humbling our selves under his hand as St. Peter exhorts 1 Pet. 5.6 So do children if ingenuous well-natured and nurtured receive correction from the hands of their naturall Parents and in like manner receive we chastisements from the hand of our heavenly Father That is the Exhortation which the Apostle presseth and that upon this very ground Heb. 12.9 Moreover saith he we have had Fathers of our bodies which corrected us and we gave them reverence should we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of Spirits For within the next Verse he subjoyneth a Reason For they verily for a few dayes chastened us after their pleasure but he doth it for our profit that we might be partakers of his holynesse vers 11. Naturall Parents sometimes prove unnaturall to their children correcting them in passion it may be out of some mistake or out of a corrupt judgement so doing more hurt then good by their Corrections But so doth not our heavenly Father who being a wise and mercifull God never correcteth his children but where need is and then he doth it in such a manner as may be for their spiritual advantage so as they may be the better for it And therefore whatever the Rod be kisse it whatever the Cup be take it as from the hand of a Father drinking it not only patiently but willingly submitting our wills to his will So doth our heavenly Pattern our blessed Lord and Saviour However he could have wished that this Cup might have passed from him yet he submits his will to the will of his heavenly Father Neverthelesse not as I will but as thou wilt Mat. 26.39 And this he doth willingly The Cup which my Father hath given me shall I not drink it But of this I shall have occasion to speak more hereafter Thus I have done with the Agent who it was that presented this Cup to our Saviour My Father Come we now in the next place to the Action it self

it is day Joh. 9.4 And the like do we whilest the day of life lasteth be we working the works of God that so we may have finished our work before the night of death cometh The labourer having wrought hard in the day and finished his work this maketh the night welcome to him and his rest sweet and comfortable And so will the night of death be to the soul that hath been working for God it will now be to it a quiet rest This made our blessed Saviour so willing now to dye he had finished his Fathers work I have glorified thee on earth I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do Joh. 17.4 And this made the Apostle so confident as not to fear his departure when he apprehended it at hand I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith 2 Tim 4.7 He had been faithful to his Lord and M●ster in doing the work which he had committed unto him And thence he concludes that he should now receive his Crown that Crown of righteousnesse as he there cals it an ample reward which the righteous God would give him for all his service Whereupon he is not unwilling to think of his departure O that every of us may indeavour thus to approve our selves to God and Jesus Christ thus to work his work whilest our day lasteth Then when the evening of death cometh we shall be sure to have our Peny Which being assured of it will make us not unwilling to go to receive it 4. Be frequent in casting up our accounts Dir. 4 Be frequent in casting up our accounts betwixt God and our souls The day of death is the reckoning day wherein every one must give up his account unto God Give an account of thy Stewardship for thou mayest be no longer Steward saith the Master ' in the parable to his Servant Luk. 16.2 In this life we are all Gods Stewards being betrusted by him with many Talents which we are to improve for him And hereof at the day of death we must give an account to him O that the thought of that day may not be terible to us make up our account aforehand And this do we often They who are frequent in casting up their accounts are not unwilling to be called to a general reckoning which they who have bin remiss careless herein would be Surely this is one thing which maketh men so unwilling to hear of death when it cometh they have then all their accounts to cast up Take heed it be not so with us Be we strict and constant observers of our own hearts and lives Often calling our selves to an account making it our daily work Every night reflecting upon the day past call we to mind according to that trite direction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. wherein we have transgressed what evil we have committed what good we have done or left undone So making even betwixt God and our souls by suing forth our discharge in the name and upon the account of Jesus Christ This exercise being conscientiously performed it will be of speciall use to make this great reckoning day not unwelcome to us when it shall come 5. Dir. 5 That we may not be unwilling to depart hence Lay up a stock in heaven and to leave this world send somewhat afore us into that other world Laying up a stock in heaven 1. A stock for our selves That is our Saviours counsel For our selves a flock of good works Matth. 6.2 Laye up for your selves treasures in Heaven This do we by doing of good works as works of Piety so of Charity Sell that you have and give almes provide for your selves bags which wax not old a treasure in the heavens that faileth not saith that parallel Text Luk. 12 33. A man that hath his chief estate in another Country which he hath made over by bils of exchange or put into the banck there he will not be unwilling upon a just occasion to follow it Now such are acts of charity and mercy being done for Gods sake they are as so many bils of exchange made over for heaven a stock put into the banck where he who hath so put it out shal at his coming thither receive it again with abundant increase He that hath pity on the poor lendeth to the Lord and that which he hath given he will pay him again Prov. 19.17 O that rich men to whom God hath given abundance of this worlds goods and whose care it is to make the best improvement of what they have would but take this Course thus to make themselves friends of their Mammon as our Saviour adviseth them Luk. 16.9 that so when they fail when they dye they may receive them into everlasting habitations This would make them not so unwilling to dye as for the most part they are and that upon this account because they must leave what they have in this world and have no stock layed up in another 2. For others a stock of prayers And thus laying up a stock in heaven for our selves do the like also for others laying up a Stock a Stock of prayer for them Which whilest we do for all Gods people whom we leave behind us do it in a special manner for our near and dear Relations So did our heavenly pattern here The Lord Jesus whom in the Chapter before the text we find upon his knees putting up a devout prayer unto God his Father as for his Church in general so for his Apostles in speciall I pray for them I pray not for the world but for them which thou hast given me Joh. 17.9 And the like let them do who are to leave near and dear Relations behind them Wives Husbands Children kinred friends lay up a stock of prayers for them in Heaven whereof they may reap the benefit when themselves have left them This will make them the lesse unwilling to leave those whom they have thus provided for In the sixth place Dir. 6 having thus laid up our best treasure in heaven Set the house in order now set we our houses in order upon earth That is the Counsel and charge which the Lord giveth to Hezekiah when he sent him those tidings that he must dye he bids him set his house in order Isai 38.2 Set thine house in order for thou must dye and not live A thing of great use as in reference to the living who shal be left behind so also to him who is to depart hence who having thus setled his temporal concernments in this world will be more ready for his removal into another when God shall call him to it And therefore let not this be neglected by those who have ought to dispose of Let them be careful to make their Wills and Testaments before hand So also did this our heavenly pattern the Lord Jesus who at his last Supper having ordered other things before he then finished his Will and Testament setting his Seal to it Of such use was that Sacrament then and there instituted the Sacrament of the Lords Supper being as a seal set by Christ to his Testament for the confirming of all his former grants and assuring of whatever he had promised Now what he did as to Spirituals let those who would be ready to dye when God will have them doe as to Temporals Setling them aforehand Not putting off this work as too many do to the death bed which as it is attended with many other inconveniences so it often proves no small disquietment to the spirit of the dying person making him loath to leave this world in so unsetled a condition as through this his former neglect in reference to his own relations and concernments he is like to do Set thy house in order Which being done Dir. 7 now in the last place to close up all what remains but to commit the Soul unto God Commit the soul to God Which that we may do quietly and comfortably in death as our blessed Saviour did who breathed out his Soul in those words Father into thy hands I commend my spirit Luk. 23.46 do we it before do it in Life So did David Psal 31.4 Into thy hands I commit my spirit So did the Apostle who making a confession of his faith to his Son Timothy 2 Tim 1.12 there tels him I know saith he whom I have believed and I am perswaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day His precious soul this was his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his Depositum that which he had committed to the custody of God and Jesus Christ And the like do we that we may be willing to depart hence as he was commit we our souls unto God aforehand Which do we first by Faith believing on him which the Apostle there saith he did casting our selves into the armes of his free grace and mercy through Jesus Christ Then by obedience committing the keeping of our souls unto him in well doing as unto a faithful Creatour as St. Peter exhorts 1 Pet. 4. last indevouring carefully and conscientiously to walk before him in all wel-pleasing all the daies of our life So doing now as we shall have comfort in life so when death cometh we shall have no cause to be afraid of it And thus have I now through a gracious assistance preached this doctrine unto you which I look upon as the hardest lesson in Christs school Now what remaineth but that we all beg it of our great Lord Master that he would so effectually teach it us that as occasion is we may practise what we have heard shewing our selves conformable to this our heavenly Pattern as in his Active so in his Passive Obedience being obedient to our heavenly Father as in doing so in suffering his Will even Obedient to death For which let us now pray FINIS