R1USII. 201 " without reason attending, his understanding all the while " being otherwise busied, and his reasonable deliberation " not concurringtherewith ; for it is not necessary that'the " reasonable mind should always concur with the tongue, " men speaking in their sleep, and parrots also learning that "faculty. And that his mouth, with all the instruments of " speech, were writhed as it were, and wrested to utter the " same, and substanceof his natural instinct and inclination. " And further, that our Saviour Christ's prayer, though it "'were uttered by a person reasonable, yet it was nothing " in substance but a nature desired prayer : it being " directly and originally the proper cause of it. And " further, that the words of Christ were as the words of a " man in sleep. Whereas in my confutation of Mr. Beza's " judgment, (being that the prayer of Christ came from a " reasonable will,) I uttered these words in answer : As I " take it, it cannot stand ; for how could he, without tedious " and untimely troubling and obtruding his Father's ears, " (as I may so speak,) pray that the cup should pass from " him.' " I now, upon better deliberation, do, with grief and " sorrow of heart, confess before God and his angels, and " this whole assembly, that I have greatly erred in my " said opinions publicly delivered, and especially touching " the points about the most holy, earnest, meritorious, and " heavenly prayer of our Saviour in that bitter agony suf- " fered for our sins ; wherein my said speeches were not only " erroneous, rash, and presumptuous, but also suchas might " be taken to be dishonourable to our Saviour, impious and " profane, giving just scandal both to such as then heard " me, and those to whom the report hath come. Where- " fore I humbly beseech, first, Almighty God, and next " you all whom I have offended, to forgive me, promising, " by God's grace, to be more vigilant and circumspect " hereafter in what I shall publicly utter, either in this " or any other place : which, that I may the better perform, " I humbly desire you to pray for me, and now to join with " me in that most absolute form of prayer which our " Saviour Christ himself bath taught us." Mr. Rush absolutely refused to make this degrading recantation; for which, February 8, 1610, he was expelled from the university ;* and this is all that we knowof him. Baker's MS. Collee, vol. vi. p. 189, 190.
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