world. And therefore we may suppose that he felt a weight on his mind, which might borrow somewhat of its aggravations from the contemplation of the debt due to the violated law of God. At any rate, his patience, his giving up of himself to the disposal of God, shew us the behaviour which we ought to observe, when we are in sorrow and distress. We may, we must feel them. It would be against nature not to do so. But still, we must try to submit ourselves entirely to God, and say, "Not my will, but thine, O God, be done." And as our Saviour did, we must also make our prayer to God. We must pray to Him, for strength to bear distress as we ought: we must pray to him to make us resigned to his will.

You may remember, I told you, that Jesus prayed three times in the same words to the Father, and at each time returned to his three disciples. At the last time he

told them, that all their watching would now be useless, that the traitor Judas was at hand, and would soon betray him to the Jews. And so it was. For while Jesus was speaking, Judas, who knew the place, came up with a great multitude with swords. and staves to take him.

Here we will at present leave our blessed Redeemer. In the next Lecture, I shall, with divine assistance, go on with the sad and dismal story. He, who could have commanded legions of angels to save him, was contented to be betrayed into the hands of wicked men. And for what purpose? To save us all from the punishment of hell. The poorest creature that lives, has yet a soul for which the Saviour died. For he suffered every one of you, and bled. Will you not therefore take him for your Lord and Master? Can you refuse to obey, even unto death, so good a friend? Away then with every sin, which

cost your Saviour so many pangs! Resolve from henceforward to live neither to lust, nor to anger, nor to wickedness of any sort. But as Jesus Christ was crucified, so crucify every bad passion, that may lead you to sin here, and to misery hereafter.

And now to God, &c.

LECTURE LXXVIII.

ST. MATTHEW xxvi. 57.

And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the High Priest, where the Scribes and the Elders were assembled.

I Go on with the sad and shocking account of what our blessed Saviour Jesus Christ suffered for us and for our salvation.

In my last Lecture I shewed you his agony, his great distress of mind, in the garden. You may remember how he prayed to God three times to be delivered from what was coming on him. And I hope you remember, for this part of the

example it is your duty to copy, how patient he was, when he knew that the cup of distress could not pass from himthat God, the Father, had ordered it otherwise.

Judas, the traitor, was with them who came to take Jesus. He had given to these men a sign, by which they were to know Jesus from his disciples. And what do you think was the sign? A kiss-the mark of friendship and of love. By a kiss the wicked Judas betrayed his Lord. And indeed, among all our sorrows in this world, none perhaps is greater than to be deceived by our friends, and, when we think they are loving and caressing us, to find at the last, that they were doing so only to ruin us. Our blessed Lord, however, was not deceived. He knew the false man well. And he kept him among his disciples, because if Christ had not been betrayed and put to death, we should still have been in our sins. God would