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    therefore , suppose , that his agony in the garden contributed any thing to that purpose , otherwise , than as any of his former sufferings or services may be allowed to have done . Nor , indeed , can I recollect one passage , where the

    redemption or reconciliation of the world is treated of , that takes the least notice of the agony in the garden , as a medium or instrument for effecting it . However , very important purposes will appear to have been answered by this transaction , if we consider ,

    First : —That hereby his own character , and his example to us of a perfect and unreproved submission to the will of God , his Father , were greatly illustrated .-One great design of his coming into the world was to reclaim mankind from a state of alienation from God , and rebellion against his providential and moral government to a sincere obedience to his commandments and submission

    to his disposals . It was necessary to this end ^ that he should exhibit in himself a perfect pattern of conformity to the one , and subjection to the other . Accordingly , we find him obeying in ill things every commandment he had received from his Father , His law was written in his heart , and he never departed from it . He fulfilled all righteousness ^ and it was to him as his meat and drink to do the will of

    Htm that sent him , and to finish his work . He also submitted cheerfully to every humiliation appointed for him . He endured poverty with perfect contentment , and labour , fatigue and hardships , without a murmur . He bore the contradictions , oppositions and persecutions of wicked and malicious men with meek composure and patience . He was unruffled ; under slander and reproach , and the attempts of violence

    moved him no otherwise , than to employ caution and prudence for self-preservation . To complete his character of a perfect resignation to the tvill of God in sufferings , and his example to men of bear- * ing all sorts of afflictive dispensations with humble piety * there seemed only to remain , that he should endure some

    severe bodily affliction . Tt was by no means necessary , that he should be subjected to all the varieties of bodily affliction and disorder , to which our frail nature is liable ; it would be quite sufficient to complete his own character and his example to us , if he was found to suffer , and to behave with a dutifuF resignation to the will of God under some one severe trial of the kinds common amongst men . We do not find in the preceding history of his life one

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    Our Lord ' s Agony in the Garden . 427

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 427, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/31/