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$ T& Our Lord ' s Agony in the Garden .
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and Bts £$ veat was like great drops of bloocf falling down W " the ground ; " from whfeace , I presume , it appears that the < vhsle system of his fibres was extremely relaxed , or that tho ciirSreiit of " the blood in his vessels was driven forward with £ tich prodigious rapidity ^ as to force its way through the extremities of the fine vessels of the skin , and mingle with ' the sweat which flowed profusely from him . A case , v £ hich , I * suppose / could not happen without being attended with xhdSrt acute pain , especially , in that extremely disordered-and itfitable state of the whole nervous system . A case , which
one cannot contemplate without shuddering , and to which the highest similar affections of the human fraitie , we have known , will bear no comparison * Some ancient writers , indeed , ' have spoken of like cases happening on very extraordinary occasions ; and a few examples in later ages have beep collected * . Hotv extremely miserable and distressing is the condition < rf any person , who through strong apprehensidns and fears
of evil , or other perturbations of the nervous system' by the painful passions , is thrown into a profuse though natural sweat . What then toast be his condition * who being in ^ an agony , his sweat was like great drops of blood fallirig to the earth !
Gracious Heaven ! In what a situation of distress was the Son of God and Saviour of the world now in ! Arid yrety even in this situation , his absolute submission and resignation to the will of God remained unshaken > and dictated these amazing words ; 0 my Father , if this cup may not pass from me , except I drink it ^ thy will b ^ -done /*
A strain ot riety , that even surpasseth ^ and is mote astonishing than , the extreme of misery which he suffered ^ Sut , was it possible , that such a submissive address as this could fail of acceptance with that mefciful God , who heareth prayer ? No surely . He who said , that none bf the seed of Jacob should seek his face in vain ; He # hp hath encouraged the humble and dutiful applications of all the miserable , by sayittg , ^ Gall upon me in th ^ d&y of trouble , I will deliver thee , and thou shah glorify me ¦ ¦ ' i could
not . reject such a prayer as this from nis own well-beloved sonv St . Luke tells us , that there appeared an angeltinte him from " heaven , strengthening him : /; e . a heav ^ iuy &b&-r spnget wa $ s < ent » coiMmissioned an < J einpowered by Godv to restore the enfeebled arid disoi ^ der ^ d st ^ tc of hi ^ whafe feodily * VitL Thcolog . Rcpos . v . iii . p . 378 . 476 . W +
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1807, page 376, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2382/page/36/
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