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Rh agonies were to be lost, and that it had been happy for them if he had never been born.— He saw that he was to be wounded in the house of his friends; that his name was be blasphemed among his own followers that he was to be dishonoured by the  lives of those who called themselves his disciples; that one man was to prefer the gain of iniquity, another the blandishments  pleasure, a third the indulgence of  desire, and all of you, at times, the gratification of your favourite passion; to the  mercies of the God of peace, and the  love of a crucified Redeemer. While hour revolved that spread forth all  things before his eyes, we need not  that he began to be in agony, and that  sweated as it were great drops of blood.

On the crows that agony returned, was redoubled. Judge of what he felt the expressions of the Prophet in the psalm, “My God, my God, why ha thou forsaken me, why art thou so  from helping me, and from the words my roaring? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not, and in  night-season I am not silent. Our father trusted in thee: they trusted, and  didst deliver them. But I am a worm, no man; a reproach of men, and  of the people. I am poured out like. My heart is melted like wax in