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    But let us attend to the several particulars which the evangelists relate concern ii ^ g the w hole of this transaction and some incidents preceding it . About three days before this agony in the garden , Jesus , having been informed of a request made by certain Greeks to one of his disciples to be introduced to him > he was thereby reminded of the great accession which should be made to his church by the admission of the gentiles into it ; and consequently of his own death , by which provision should be made for their admission , and that a few days only would intervene before that event . Oti / this occasion he found himself so affected by the prospect , that he openly declared , ( John xii . 21 . ) u Now is my soul troubled ; and what shall I say ?—( shall I say ) Father save me from this hour V So I think ( with a very judicious critic , ) the passage ought to bfe pointed , continuing the question to the end of this clause : —he adds , " but for this cause came I unto this hour / ' As if he had said , " In the near view I have of sufferings and death- shall I indulge this

    strong reluctance , implanted in animal nature , against them , ^ o far as to petition my Father to excuse me from the obligation , and release me from the necessity of enduring them 1 ] SFo / For it w $ . s for this purpose , that I might suffer death , and thereby a mean be provided for the reconciliation of the Gentiles and their admission into the Church of God ,

    that I was sent into the world , and have been conducted by the divine power and providence thus near the important season and event . Wherefore , the matter of my request to him on this occasion shall be this rather ; Father o-lorify thy name . May the knowledge of thy perfections , the honour of thy character , the purposes of thy

    benevolence and wisdom , and the extent of thy moral government over mankind be effectually promoted by every event thou hast appointed unto me . "' Observe , I pray you , the steadiness and temper with which our Lord , spoke on . this occasion concerning his approaching sufferings and death , even when he owned , that his soul was troubled with the prospect .

    Let us now proceed to attend our JLord through the several circumstances which we have recorded of his agony in the garden . That evening he had celebrated his last passover ; during which he said to his disciples , that he had earnestly desired to eat that passover with them before he suffered . Afterwards he had instituted another religious fes-

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    320 Our Lord ' s Agony in the Garden .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1807, page 320, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2381/page/32/