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    BIBLICAL CRITICISM,

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    Biblical Criticism,

    BIBLICAL CRITICISM ,

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    Our Lord ' s Agony in the Garden . Two Discourses . By the late Rev . IV . Turner . of Wakefidd . Discourse l . MATTHEW XXVI . 39 And he went a little further , and fell on his face , and prayed , saiing , ** O my Father ! if it he possible , let this cup pass from me ; nevertheless , not as I will 3 but as thou wilt . ' * This passage of / our Lord ' s History , relative to his agony

    in the garden of Gethsemane , is very affecting and surprising ; at the same time , it seems Somewhat difficult to apprehend the nature and design of his sufferings in this terrible scene ^ and what the import of this petition he offered up to his Father in these words .

    The blessed Jesus perfectly well knew from the beginning , not only all that he was to do and to teach , but also all that he was to suffer ; and that his public sufferings and death were necessary to ascertain his subsequent resurrection , and were therefore appojnted for him , by the counsels and

    good-pleasure of his heavenly Father , as an essential and fundamental part of that scheme of redemption , which God had purposed to effectuate for mankind ; the execution whereof was committed to himself ; he had willinglyundertaken it , and was now engaged in accomplishing it .

    His private thoughts had often dwelt on the contemplation of those sufferings and that death which certainly awaited him : he had often foretold them to his disciples ^ and conversed with them very particularly on the subject . He had even foretold them what kind of death he should

    suffer , and what circumstances of indignity and abus £ should attend it . He had declared to them what consequences of glory to God ,, of exaltation and power to himself , and of happiness to mankind , through the spread of true religion and righteousness in the world s and in the effectual and everlasting salvation of all who truly believe in hinr , should

    accrue from these his approaching sufferings and death . Whenever hfc had spoken on this subject , it was with an a ppearance of the utmost composure and of the most steadily determined purpose , willingly to submit to whatever he was to undergo . Moreover , he once declared himself perfectly well satis-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1807, page 317, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2381/page/29/