business in itself, you know how unwelcome it must needs be to Christ: ‘Father, if it be possible’ (says he), ‘let it pass;’ yet because it was his Father’s will, he submits, ‘Not my will, but thine be done,’ Mat. 26:39. As it was his Father’s will, he had no reluctancy, neither would simply all our cries or mediation have ever moved him, no more than straws can move a mountain; but that it was his Father’s will, it was enough. For besides that reason for it, John 10:30, ‘I and my Father are one’ (saith
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