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    I am therefore very unwilling to admit , that our Lord meant at all to beg of his Father an exemption from suffering and death on the

    cross-There is another interpretation , which maybe given of our Lord ' s petition in the text , much more consistent , I think , with his general character and conduct , consequentl y * much more eligible , and which , I am strongly persuaded , exhibits our Lord ^ s real meaning .

    I readily acknowledge he means here a cap of death , and prays that it may pass , or be taken away from him ; but I apprehend , he means something very different from his death on the cross . It was this cup , this present cup of death , or deadly cap , which was now put into his hand , and of which he was actually drinking ; not thai cup of death s which he was to drink the day following on the cross . In short , he means the grievous sufferings he then endured , which , if not removed , must ; in the natural course of things , soon issue in his death . At the beginning of these sufferings he declared to the three disciples , " My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death : " i . e . I feel the functions of life ready to sink under the load of distress which overwhelms my spirit . And whoever considers with

    attention the symptoms of his agony described by St , Luke , will , I presume , readily allow , that , in the natural order of things , it would not be possible for a human frame to subsist long in such a condition without suffering death . Such symptoms would certainly prove the agonies of death in any other person , in whom they should take place and continue for any considerable time .

    Now , our Lord perfectly well knew , that it was not that'kind of death which was appointed to him to suffer for the redemption of the world . He could therefore see no reason , why that cup of death might not pass from him without his drinking it up : t \ e . actually dying under his present sufferings ; or any reason which rendered it at all improper to in . plore his Father . t » take it away , if he pleased .

    No doubt , God might have very wise and good ends in view in putting this deadly cup into his hand , and causing him to drink so much of it , or suffer so much , by it ; and I have endeavoured to point out two of those ends which actually were answered thereby : yet , as the redemption of the world , that great errand on which he was sent into it , was to be effected by another kind of sufferings and death , it might very possibly , and very probably , be quite consistent with the counsels and will of

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1807, page 487, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2384/page/35/