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^ ho have attended to , and are acquainted with the human constitution , will readily allow , that this reciprocal influence is very evident and considerable , and produces very important effects to most persons , according as the accidents and events of life are diversified with regard to them .
It is observable in relation to the blessed Jesus , that the Apostle Paul in the 10 th chap , of the Epistle to the He ^ brews , v . 5 , quotes a prophecy of the Psalmist concerning him in these words : — But a body hast thou prepared me ;" or , as the marginal reading is— " hast fitted me ;* ' which seems to lead one to conclude , that the body which was prepared for him , was such a one as was best fitted to the office he was to support ; and suited to the quality of those duties he was to perform in the world . These were , by no means , of the athletic and heroic kind ; a robust , hardy frame and unfeeling habitudes of body therefore were not necessary , or expedient for him : but rather , after having taught men the gentler duties of meekness , humility , patience and
submission to the will of God under sufferings , he was to set before t ^ hem an example of these virtues in his own person . He was to bear our sufferings and share in our sorrows . He was to be tempted , or tried , in all points , like as we are , that he m ight be touched with a feeling of our infirlfiities ; and in that he himself suffered being tempted , he might be better enabled and disposed to succour them that are tempted . Or , as the Apostle elsewhere expresseth it ; " For as much , as the children are partakers of flesh and blood ,
he himself likewise took part of the same , and of all the infirmities to which they are subjected in the flesh / " Now for these purposes a more delicate constitution and great sensibility of the nervous system seem more adapted : and probably this might be the case with our Lord . But b < this as it will .
From the preceding observations ^ , I suppose , it will appear very natural and accountable , that notwithstanding our Lord had formerly spoken concerning his sufferings and death with perfect composure and steadiness , and though he continued still , firm find unmoved , in the resolution of his mind and spirit to endure them , yet , when they drew near , he was more deeply and painfully impressed with the expectation of-them , and that these impressions might occasion certain disturbed emotions of his spirits , and these emotions produce violent agitations of his whole frame ^ beyond what he had ever experienced before .
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Our Lord ' s Agony in the Garden . 319
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1807, page 319, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2381/page/31/
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