Of Eletlion. heard and delivered in their Temptations, T he truth of it is, we fuall be~ fooner, and more eaftl y heard, than be was; for he bore the flrefs, the brunt, Chap. il. for all the refl, to fuffer be10g trampled, to procure audtence and difpatch for~ thrt. Therefore be of good courage, for he bath overcome for thee, and thou /halt more eaftly get off than he that made way for thy fuccour. And whether thy Temptations be fm~ll or great, thou maifl by viewing what Chrifl fuffered, ·comfort thy felf agatnfl etther: For m tnat tt is fa id Hf wtU tempted i" a/J. thi"!P like M we are, it comprehends all forts and va: rietie1: As he was~man oj forrows, fo of temptatiottr, Our fpirits are oft– ner expofed to temptations and difquie'tments from things that arc in them. [elves fmall, though great unto us, Gnats trouble us ofmer than Wild– beafls. A Mote on the Eye frets it: Ao hair, lying upoo the bean, eats into it. And when we look to Chrifl,. we confidering him as we do men of great Spirits, think that fmall ti)ingsmade no impreffion upon his great heart: But 0! he had withal the foftefl and tenderefl heart that ever was, more than of any man: For the fame temper of foftoefs that makes him merciful to us, alfo reodred him mofl fenftble of all that befell himfelf;and he was left to the infir– mity of his Flelh in fufferings ; he was affetl:ed with the meannefs of his Pa– rents, difefleemed io his own Country,Matth.r3·1'5·56,p. And at his Death, when they Ctlf/ Lotr upon hu Garments, ii was a trouble to him., ana he paffi– onately complains, and of the mouths they made at him, Pfal.. 22. ver{. '1• 18. lt is much, that a man dying on the Crofs, in his cruel pains and torturts, forfaken of Cod, and'conflid:ing with his wrath, and fo wholly fwallowed up therewith, lhould have room in his heart and thoughts to mind pnrting his Garments, a11d cafling Lots for huVefl••re, after he was devefled of them; yet he lays to heart fo fmall an occurrence; it was his t~ndernef~ , In tender flefb, as in that of Chtldren, Fleas make a great knot and mark With the lea!t of their bitings, which on others mal« no impreffion, s ( 2 CHAP.
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