On tbe ·Pa.ffioit. 295 ~n the human nature. l~t the approach of death, it is faid, he beg·an to be forrorcuful, as if he had never felt any grief before. His· forrner affiicrions were like fcattered drops of rain; but, in this great deluge, all the fountains beneath, and all the windows of heaven were opened; the wrath of God a– gainfl: a Gnful world, ·the malice and cruel– ty of n1en, the rage and fury of devils, break out together againft him. If we take the n1eafure of his fufferings by the appre– hcnfions whieh he had of then1 before, we !hall find, that, when he is talking vvith his difciples about them, and encouraging hin.1felf and his followers with the affurance of the reward fet before them; yet he cloth not diifemble the fear and trouble where• · with he was fcized; No·w i'.r mfflttl troubl– ed; and -·what jhall I fly? Father, .fizve me from this hour~~~, &c. Certainly, if therehad been no more in his fuff-erings than what is comn1.only incid~nt to huh1an nature, as to endure pain or death, he \vho had a per– fect innoceney, the freefi and mofi huire refignation, -the fullefl: affurance of the re– ward to come, would never have beep half fo much a.ffrighte9 with the apprehcnfion of them. The view of that fad night's tranfacrion, ·*John xii. 27.
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