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    fied , that this his willing and determined purpose to Submit to the approaching sufferings and death , in obedience to the commandment of God , and to execute the designs of the divine benevolence for the salvation of mankind ^ was highly acceptable and pleasing to his Father , and rendered himself the object of his most special favour . Therefore ( saith he ) doth my Father lore me , because I lay down my life . ( John x . \ 1 , 18 . ) With such a composed state of mind and steady resolution had our Lord always looked forward

    to his approaching death , while yet at a distance ^ But , having be ^ n a partaker of the human nature and being found in fashion as a man , no doubt , he shared in all the natural weaknesses and blameless infirmities of our mortal frarne . Now we know by experience , that the painful ideas of an expected evil will often make much deeper and more powerful impressions upon us ,, when we apprehend it approaching near and almost instantly seizing us , than while we contemplate it at a considerable distance . Whilst in this situation ,, persons of well cultivated minds and possessed of a habit of reflection and self-government ,

    can look forward to expected unavoidable sufferings ( although with a real and very sensible concern ) yet with a certain composed tranquillity and steadfastness ^ resolved to endure them with submission and propriety . But when the expected sufferings advance into immediate presence and are on the point of commencing , distress invades the heart much more powerfully , and ^ every preparation of wisdom and fortitude is found scarce sufficient to support it against its own terrors . Such is our natural constitution : such our unavoidable ajid therefore blameless feelings from the apprehensions of near

    approaching sufferings . We know also ,, by experience ^ that when the mind is deeply impressed with painful apprehensions , it produces very considerable and prejudicial effects on the nervous system ^ and through it on the whole animal frame ; and reciprocally , when the nervous system and animal frame are much disordered , very great and injurious effects are occasioned thereby to the mind ,, which is reduced into a very dark , distressing , and uncomfortable state .

    It is very true ^ that , as the constitutions and habitudes of different persons vary exceedingly , so the degree of the mental and bodily sensibilities in different persons is very various ; and the proportion also of the reciprocal influences of the body upon the soul , and of the soul upon the body , But take mankind in general , and , I am persuaded , that they

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    313 Our Lord's Agony in the Garden .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1807, page 318, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2381/page/30/