On the P aj]iott~ . tranfaetion, ~rhercin he was delivered into the hands of !inner&, prefents us with a firange and amazing fpecracle. Look into t11c garden, and behold the Son of God proflratc v;ith his face upon the ground, in , · 'the faddd1: difcon1pofure of.fpirit that could _Foffibly confifl: vY ith his perfccr innoccncy. He \F/ as forrowful and very heavy, and tells his difciples, lv1y Joul is exceeding /orro?.uful, even unto death. , It feems, . h;;ll} he re– n1aincd long in this rendition, his -own grief would haYe ki.lled bin1. Here it was that he fuffered that which the Evangelifb caHeth an agony; but \vhat the nature and n1eafures of it were, he alone can tell who did feel it. It is not poilible for /us ta ·eomprehcnd the n1ixture of that bitter cup;, - yet we may guefs _fon1e ingredients of it.. And, firfl:, _without quefiion, he had a. clearer forefight of that painful and curfed death which he was fo ihortly to undergoo .' 1 Th_is king of terrors did reprefent himfelf to hin1 in his greatefi pon1p, clothed with with all the circumfl:ances of horror. And.. · ev~n this could not but .be very dr~adful,. : . perhaps more to hin1 than it would have been to fon1e other perfon. There is a fort– of natural fioutnefs and couragt; d~pending. n1uch on the temper and confiition of the body,_
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