THE COMPARATIVE COINCIDENCE OF REASON AND SCRIPTURE. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON: J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY. 1832. OUR last volume having concluded by recording the triumphant victory obtained by our blessed Saviour over our infirmities, and the power of darkness, in the garden of Gethsemane, we proceed to remark that this conquest was most glorious and illustrious; for the greater and more complicated were the extent of the obstacles to the performance of duty and the display of perfect magnanimity with which the great Redeemer was destined to conflict and overcome, was the extent of the merit of his conquest. To resist the mean and importunate impulses which extreme timidity, sudden panic,* and excessive horror would * It is probable that our blessed Lord twice experienced this dire sensation in the garden of Gethsemane. First, when he began to suffer from a deprivation of divine comforts; and, secondly, on his finding an imperious necessity for his sufferings. VOL. III. 700373 B |