Looking U?Jto 1-eftn, Booi< IV· others, it muft be of the felfe fame nature, as true, as real, as cordial, as Gncere, as folid as that to our felves; we muft lave o11r nl'ighbaur, as our [elves ( i.) unfaignedly, and without diilimulation.- Againe, I anfwer, to the fecond, Chrift is needful notwithll:anding our utmoft ho!inetfe in two refpect s, r. Becaufe we cannot come td full and perfed holineif:, and fo his grace is requiGte to pardon and cover our fa ilings. 2, Becaufe that wh ich we do attaine unto it is ·not of, or from our fe!ves, . and lo his fpiri.tis requiGte to frrengthen us unto his fervice. We muft be holy asChrill is holy, yet frill we mull: look at the holineife of Chrifr, as the fun, a~d roote, and fountaine; and that our ho!ineife is but as a hearne of that fun1 but as a branch of that root but as a il:reame of that fountaine . ' ' For the third, how we muLl: conforme to'this life? I anfwer; r . Let us frame to our felves fome Idea of Chrifl, let us fet before us the li(e ofChrift in the whole, and all the parts of it, as we finde it recorded in Gods book. It would bea Ltrge pidure ifi {hou!d draw it to the full, but for a tail: I £hall give it in few lines. Now then fetting aGde the confideration of Chrift as God , or · as Mediatour , or as head of his Church.--- 517 r, I look at the minde ofChriil:, at his judgement, will,aff.:Cl:i• ons; fuch as love, joy, delight, and the refi:; and efpccially at the compaffions of Jefus Chrifr. 0 the deare affections, and cornpaffions which Chrift had towards the fonnes of men! this was his errand from heaven, and while he was upon the earth he Luke 4 . 18. was ever ading it, I meane his pitifulncife, I meane his affedions, and compaffi~n in healing hroJ:.!n hearts; ~o the Pfalm~'ft~ he heal- Pfal 147 , 1 , · eth the brok!,n m heart, and hmdeth up tbetr WQunds; It IS fpoken · afrer the manner ofa Chirurgion, he had a t~!nder heart towards all broken bea~·ts 1 he endeavoured to put all broken bones into their native place againe ; nor fpeak l thus only of him in refpect of his office; but as be was man, he had in him fucb amsnd, that he could not but compafli,onace all in mifery ; 0 what bowels ! what ft :rr ngs, and boylings, and wreftlings of a pained heart, touched w:th forrow, was ever, Upiln occafion, in Jefus Chrift? perufe Ehcfe texts, and 'fefus went forth, .tpd Jaw a great multitt~de, and he was .movedwith compa/Jion tawtlrds thrm, and he heaiuJ Marth. 1·. 4 14_;. U uu 3 thtir
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