ALEXANDER SHANKS, LATE PASTOR OF THE ASSOCIATE CONGREGATION, WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. -Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? Luke xxiv. 26. For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. Heb. ii. 10. Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience, by the things which he suffered: And, being made perfect, he became the Author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him. Heb. v. 8, 9. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. WASHINGTON, PA. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY JOHN GRAYSON, 1820, gift CONTENTS. Page i Luke xxii. 44.-And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of SER MON II. The Exercise of the Son of God in his Agony. Heb. v. 7.- Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications, with strong cry- ing and tears, unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard, in that he feared. The Son of God mocked and wounded. Matth. xxvii. 28, 29, 30.-And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews. And 73 The Triumph of the Son of God in his Death. Col. ii. 15. And having spoiled principalities and pow- Gal. vi. 14.-By whom I am crucified unto the World. 272 |