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THE ATONEMENT
OE
CHRIST.
ISERM.
XXxv.
had nothing
else
to
encounter
with
?
When
this
dreadful
hour
was come,
and
the
powers
of
darkness
were let
loose
Upon
him,
"
he began
to
be
sore amazed, and
very
heavy,"
Mark
xiv. 33.
He told
his
disciples,
My
soul
is
exceeding sorrowful
even
unto death
;
He
went
forward
a little,
and
fell 'on
the ground, and prayed,
that
if
it
were possible
that
hour
might
pass from him."
He
entreated
his
Father,
"
with
prayers and
supplications,
with strong cries
and tears,"
Iieb.
y, 7.
Such a
terror
was
upon
his
spirits,
that
three
times he
repeated
the
same petition,
that
he
might
be
excused
if
possible
from
drinking
that
cup
of
sorrow.
The
agonies
of
his
soul
pressed great. drops
of
blood through the pores
of
his
body,
and bathed
him
in
a
crimson
sweat.
These cries
and
tears, these agonies and these
sweats
of
blood
preached
the
doctrine
of
atonement
with
dreadful
power,
and uncontested
evidence. And
as
upon the
cross, so
in
the-
garden,
it
is
probable
his
Father
forsook
him,
or
hid
his
face
from
him, so
that
he
had need
of
an angel
to
be sent
down
from
heaven
on
purpose
to
comfort or
strengthen
him
;
Luke
xxii.
43.
It
was
here
that
he
learned
feelingly
what
was
the curse
of
the
broken
law,
what
was
that
indignation and
wrath,
tribulation and
anguish,
that
were due to
the
sin
of
man. -Here the
seed
of
the
woman
maintained
a
combat
with
that great
serpent, the
devil,
and had
his heel
bruised
;
that
is,
his
dower
nature
filled with
anguish. And it
is
most
proba-
ble,
that
his
nature
being worn
out
with this
load of
dis-
tress,
was
the
true
reason
why he
expired
on the cross
much sooner
than
was
expected,
so
that " Pilate
mar-
yelled
to
hear that
he was
already dead," .Mark
xv.
44.
I
think it
is
impossible for the socinians,
who
repre-
sent
the death
of
Christ
chiefly
as
a martyrdom
for the
truth
of
his
doctrine, and
an
example
of
patience
in
suf-
fering, to
support their
scheme
against
this
argument,
or
to
give
any tolerable
account
of
this
amazement
which
possessed
his
spirit before
his
enemies came
near
him,
and
of
these agonies
of
soul which
our
blessed
Lord
sustained. Surely such sorrows and such
terrors
de-
monstrate the
work
of
propitiation,
and the dreadful la,
hour of
reconciling
an offended
God
and
sinful man.
VII.
This doctrine
of
satisfaction for
sin by
the death
of
Christ
is
declared, and confirmed, and explained
at