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Cause . And that any thing could have enabled him , had he been an impostor , to speak repeatedly on a subject , so revolting to the
feelings of his stated or occasional attendants , without any appearance of self-condemnation-or cmban ; : .-smerit , I must confess
myself incapable of conceiving . Any present or future benefit or fame lro : i an attempt to deceive niankin-i could- not have been in his ccnu-mplation , unless he could regard a * such the circumstance of sufievins ; the most disgraceful kind of execution as a malefactor
at the har . d oi public justice , in consequence of persevering in the
attenrpt to the last . Hut wvre it to be granted , that lie ii ) i . ^ hl have soiue undiscovered reason frn" si >' . akin £ at times on the oiiWisive : ibjoct of his approaching sufferings and death , and that too very circumstantially ,
and also thai" he might possess firmness of mimi , sufficient to
enable him to do it without danger of betraying si ^ ns of a consciousness of guilt , even upon the > upposition of his having been an impostor , so long as thosr events wore at some distance ; yet that , when they were so near as to be within |* i lew hours of taking place , he should still retain tlu * power
of directinghis own attention and that of his followers to them , with 1 lie same apparent calmness , stems to be unaccountable upon any hypothesis , except that of his intellect be inn at the time
disordered , of which we have no indication upon record , unless his conduct in this instance must be regarded in that light .- But how is it -possible to regard it in that light , if we impartially examine bow he acted oil the occasion referred to ?
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When he and his twelve disciples were met together to eat the paschal lamb , a contention arose among the latter about superiority , which he , as if not affected by the view of the sufferings he was just iroing to endure ,
reproves in the most beautiful manner 03 / an action expressive of his his own great humility . Serene under the prospect of a most agonizing and disgraceful death , to be precetied by a complication of most unmerited and cruel
treatment , he rises from supper * washes the feet of his disciples , explains the meaning of the action , and , with an evident solicitude to preserve harmony among them , recommends to them mutual condescension , shewing by what he had done , that the way
to obtain true dignity was to be humble . Having remarked , that they had continued with him in his temptations , he assures them with a confidence , which pre - cludes the idea of his entertaining the smallest doubt of his . ability to fulfil his promise , that be ap-1
pointed untothem a kingdom , as his father had appointed unto hin > . Me thru informs them , that one of their , number would be base enough to deliver him up into the hands of his inplacable
enemies . Such ingratitude . 111 a constant attendant , who had been favoured with a place among his selected friends and companions , and enjoyed frequent opportunities of tracing in his words and actions marks of the most uniform
and exalted piety , and of the most u neon fined and inextinguishable benevolence , seems for a time to have wholly diverted his thoughts from his own situation , and to have filled his generous mind with deep Borrow , for
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128 ^ 4 n Address the Lord' ' s Supper , by Mr . Bretland , &f Exete ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1809, page 128, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1734/page/8/
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