and SAVIOUR, JESUS CHRIST, and his APOSTLES, &C. of their doctrine, and the evidence of thy truth, as thou didít communicate to me ; that fo I working in them as thou hail done in me, and thus confirming with great effi- cacy and demonitration of the Spirit, they may eftabliíh the fame doêtrine which I publifhed in perfon, that the world may, by this evidence, be convinced that I was really fent by thee, and that my difciples aft by the fame divine commit-lion as I did. Almighty and Holy Father, all thofe whom thou haft thus given me, who have wifely embraced my doctrine, and fincerely obeyed it, I defire that thou wouldeflmake them partakers of the fame happinefs with myfelf, and exalt them to behold the in- comprehenfible glory wherewith thou didit 245 originally inveft me in thy eternal love, before the foundation of the world. The generality of mortals, O righteous Father 1 the covetous and ambitious, the crafty and defigningmenof this world, havenot known thee, nor been willing to embrace and obey the revelation of thy will: but I have known thy will, and have made it known to my difciples, men of fimplicity and honelly; and they have embraced and obeyed it : and I will continually make it known to them more and more, that they may grow up and improve in faith, in holinefs, and in all good works, fo as fi- nally to arrive and caufe others to arrive at that eternal happinefs, which is the effea of thy infinite love and mercy to- wards me and them, CH AP T ER XXXIII. CHRIST'S Agony and Prayer in the Garden of Gethfemane: Judas bebrayeth . Jesus with es Kifs: The Officers and Soldiers, at CHRIST'S Word, fall to the Ground: CHRIST healeth a Servant of the High-Priefl, whofe Ear was cut off by Peter: His Dfcipiles flee : He is led bound to Annas and Caiaphas. H E prayer of our great Intercelfor being ended, he, with his difciples, Came down from the Mount of Olives into a field below, called Gethfemane, through which the brook Cedron ran, and in it, on the other fide of the brook, was a garden, called the garden of Gethfemane. Herehe defired his difciples to fit down, perhaps at the garden-door within, till he Mould retire to pray, taking with him, Peter, James, and John, thofe three feleft difciples whom he had before chofen to be witneffes of his transfiguration, and now to be eye-witneffes of his paillon, leaving the other difciples at the garden-door to No. 21. watch the approach of Judas and his band. The fufferings he was on the point of undergoing were fo great, that the very profpea of them terrified him, and made him exprefs himfelf in this doleful exclama- tion, Myfoul is exceeding forrowful, even unto death : tarryye here, andwatch. On this great occafion he fuftained thofe griev- ous forrows in his foul, by which, as well as by dying on the crofs, he became a fin- offering, and accomplifhed the redemption ofmankind. He now withdrew from them about a flone's cart, and his human nature being now overburdened beyond meafure, he found it neceffary to retire and pray, 3 0 that
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