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    Our Lor&k'Agcwy ih the Garden . 321

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    tival in perpetual memorial of his own sufferings and death , and of that new covenant , or dispensation of God to mankind , which is confirmed by the shedding of his blood . He then went out of the house and city , where these things had been dtorife ^ unto Mount Olivet . Probably , it was £ y this time late in the evening . There he tQld his disciples , " all ye shall be offended because of me this nVht : " for

    that the prophecy was going to be fulfilled initmediatel y ^ which saith , < I will smite the shepherd , and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad / ' At the same time he informed them , that h& Shckild rise again from the dead , and promised , that wheii he was risen , he would go before them intp Gallilee . Observe again , with what temper he still spoke of his death , though nbw ih very near vie \ V \ After some other discourses with his disfciples he left the mountain , and came down to a place in the valley called Gethsemane , where was a garden , to which he arid his disciples were wont to resort * - .

    When we consider our Lord in this situation , well-knowing , that the series of his sufferings , which were to end only in death on a cross , was to begin within the space of an hour , or at most two ; and that he was going to the place where the first scene would operi , through the treaehery of Judas ; it is natural to conclude , that his mind now laboured with most weighty and affecting thoughts ; and perhaps the darkness and solemn silence of the night might contribute somewhat to urge the painful impression deeper bh his spirits ; neither doth it seem at all strange , that the labours of his mind , united wjth the innocent reluctances of nature against sufferings and death , should be too much for his bodily trame , which , probably , was very delicate and Susceptible of impressions , to bear them undisturbed ; or that great agitations were occasioned by ttetfi through the whole nervous system :

    and that these , in turn , greatly increased the distressed state of his mind . This seems to me toUiUve been pretty much the case with hirm and the natural eau £ e of what followed . No doubt , the whole was under the direction of the infinitely powerful and wise hand of his heavenly Father ^ yet operating , as usually on other occasions ^ by the stated train of natural causes and effetts . Jesus regarded it as a cup which his Father had put into his hand .

    ( To be continued in our next . )

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1807, page 321, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2381/page/33/