Book. tV. Looking unto ;;e(tu. Cbap.5. Sett.3 -~- -·----- ---·- ---. __________ _:. l<lbourd to pull him further, in telling him he was not far From heav~n ancglory. And fo the prople that fiu'nt~d for bread of life, th;;t were Jet!tterrd afn.rJ ll4 fherp hJ?ving no jh£ phr,:rd - hew,u Matth 9 . 31). movrd withetmp.r[/lon rn tl:em, H'??li. >: J<: i& dV7w' ; he was bowelled in !:cart, his very bowels were moved within him. 2. To his enrmies he was kind and merciful ; many a time he difcov ers himftlfe mof1 of all unto finncrs; he "Was never more familiar with any ~t lirfi acqu ::t intance, than with the woman of Smn11ri."t fhat was an adultreffe; and Uliar; that had been a finner, how fweet!y did he .app_ea re to her at the very firfi view? how ready \}'as he to . rew ve hr. ners ? how ready to pardon and forgive l!n!:lers ? how gracious to finners after the pardon and forgive· ndfe of!in? fee it in Feter, he nel'er call htm in the teeth with hisapolb!!e, be never upbraided him with it, he never fo much as tells him of it , -only helooks upon him, and afrerwards, lowft thou me ? 0 Peter Lcveft "thou ine? why, Feter l~veft t bfu me? tften he was wronged and injured by men, bu: what then? was he ' all on an hf'at ? did he ca11 for fire down "from heaven to dellroy them ? indeed his difcip!es being more fleili than fpirit, would Luk 9 . H,56· faine have had it [o 1 but he fweetly replies, 0 ,yu know nr.t v.·hat jpirit s }oU are of: the Son ofman is not C<•me to drjfroy mrn.r lives, bt.'t tofave them; · fometimes we fir de him {bedding teares for thofevety perfons that fhed his precious blood, Oh {erufalem, {erufo!rm,&c.-- if thcu had/1 k..nown, even thgu, at leajf in this thy da_r,the thing.' belonging to thy puce, &c. why, 0 my foul, tf thou would.ft but run through fuch pall'ages as thefe, how defireab!e are they! well might they Jing in that drq in the land of Ira. 16. x. 8, J d r r J' h . d L d h d ~; 1t av,- in tr:e way o 1 t ry JU r,emenrs 0 or ave we waite 1 or thee, the drjire of ourfoul u to thy nllme, and to the remembrance of thee. 3. The evcr-blelfed and holy perfon of Chriil is defirab!e c; • 6 above all. My beloved u' white and ruddy, the chiefrjl: ~J ten anr. >• 10 ' 1 thoufands .--yea, Le is altogether lovely, or deftretzble ~ fo Vatablm renders it, Chriftm eft totm de(ideria, Chrift u all deftr~s. Jf the aCl:ions ofChrift be defireable, what mull himfdfe be? if the paringsof his bread be fo fweet, what muft the great loafe, Chrifi himfelfe be? Chrifl: is admirable in aCl:ton aQd perfon, but above all, his perfon is rnofl: admirable; no creature in the wor1d yedds. the-like reprefentation of God, as the perlon of Jefu; ' Chrift;
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