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instance of bis suffering any bddily disorder ^ and of his be . haviour under it . For aught we are told , his health was uninterrupted . But here , I apprehend * we find him enduring one of the most severe and distressing bodily
disorders ^ 01 all those to which our frail nature is subjected a disorder , which , in lower degrees , is very common amono-s t mankind ; a disorder too , under which , I believe / men usually find it most difficult to preserve a pious submission to , and dependance on God , without murmuring or despairing : I mean a violent nervous affection .
Here we see him attacked by this disorder suddenly—and with symptoms the most terrible , and probably , the most excruciating that were ever known or heard of ; which in a short space reduced him to such a state of debility , as to render it proper for an angelic messenger to come to strengthen him . i \ dd to this , that it attacked him at a season ., when
he perfectly well knew , that the dreadful series of his last sufferings was about to commence , ^ hich alone would call for all his fortitude , resolution and powers , to bear them properly . It is ^ I think ^ not possible to conceive of a severer bodily suffering , or that any circumstance could have been added to this to render it a severer trial of our Lord ' s piety and resignation to the will of his Father .
And how does he acquit himself under bis trial ? First , by offering up this humble submissive request to his Father for rerief : Father , if it be possible , let this cup pass from me ; -nevertheless ? not my . will but thine be done . " And
when he ( band this request not granted ; secondly , by this declaration of his entire resignation to the divine will : O my Father , if this cup may not pass from me , except I drink it , thy will be done / * Surely , this was enough to
complete his own character , and perfect his example to us of an unreproved submission , to the will of God under the afflictive dispensations of his providence . Accordingly , when this purpose was fully acctamphshed , we find the trial vva * immediately removed , as unnecessary to be continued longer . It seems to me , that the apostle had a particular reference
to our Lord ' s sufferings in the garden ., and to his behaviour tinder them , when he said ( Heb . v . 8 . ) , cc Though he were a son . * yet learned he obedience by the things which he
Suffered . " Secondly . Another important purpose of these bitter ¦ sufferings of our Lord in the garden was to give him an affectit \< Z experience of the weight of bodily afflictions and pains * to ^ which in en are subjected in this mortal state
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42 ft Our Lord s Agony in the Garden .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 428, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/32/
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