36 Tbegreat Gofpel-Myftery ofthe Saint! comfort anSbolinell : fometimes I havebeen tempted, even to lay violent hands uponmy (elf. So did the Devil tempt Chrift too; Call thy felfdown offtbepinaele ofthe Temple; that was atemptation. Oh! but I am tempted unto fuch evil things, that truely I am afraid to (peak of, fuch Blafphemies, filch horrid, and wretched Blafphernies,as I thinknever came upon-theheart ofany childof God, fo that lam afraid to think, of them, and afhatned tomention them. And was not Chrift fo was not he tempted fo ? Saies the Devil to him, All this will Igive thee , if thou wilt flJ down andworfhip me. Oh horrid Blafphemy Bluth, blufh, 0 Sun : that the lord jefus, the God ofglory, fhould fall down to theDevil, and worthip the Devil.; what wretched blafphemy was here, that he should fpeak this ? and yet the Lord Jails Chrifl, hewas tempted to- it. What !ball I fay, He was in all things tempted like unto us, fin only excepted. Now there was never any High-Prieft that was Co tempted, and he was therefore tempted, that he might fuccourthole that areternpted4 He is mote able as our High-Prieft to inter- cede, topat in for you., and to fuccour you, than ever any High-Prieft was beforehim. 2. Again As he hath gone through more Temptations than ever anyHigh-Prieft did : So alfo, be is filled with more Compaffions. It behoved theHigh-Prieft to beMer- ciful: it is an office of love, and Mercy. Now our Lord and Saviour Chrift (faies the Apofile) is fuch an High- Prieft, as cannot but be touched with your infirmities : the High-Prieft that did go before him, fometimes, was not touched with their infirmities : Hannah came and prayed, and Eli's heart was not touched with her infirmity,at the firft. Ent our High-Prieft cannot but be touched, he does fympatMze with usunder all our infirmities. He is affli- &ed in all our afflietions. It was the work of the High- Prieft to fympathize with the people; and yet tlemith- fianding, there was a law,that the High-Prieft might not mourn for his kindred,, in that he might not, as others, l'nfY Pathize, or mourn... But nowt, our Lord Jefusyle does fully.
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