ilt the Soul of M aJt. 25 heart to it. The ingenuity that appeared in his firfi addrefs hid already procured fo1ne kindnefs for him ; for it is faid, A11d Jejus beholding him, loved him. But tnufl: he for his fake cut out a ne\v way to hea– ven, and alter the nature of things, which n1ake it i.mpoffible that a covetous rnan fhould be happy ? And what !hall I fpeak of his meek– nrfs, who could encounter the mc>nfhous ingratitude and di!fimulation . oF that mif– crcant who betrayed him, in no h~rfher . terms than this, Judas, betrayefl thou the San o; man with a k[fs? What further· e– vidence could we defire of his fervent and unbounded charity, than that he willingly laid down his life even for his moft bitter enemies; and, n1ingling his prayer~ with his blood, befought the Father that his death n1ight not ·be laid to their charge, but n1ight t-,ccon1e the n1eans of eternal life to thofe very perfons \\ ho procured it ~ 'rhe third branch of the divine life is Puritv j which, as I f.:1id, con J His purity.. fifis in a negleCt of worldy en- .. joyments and accommodations, and a re..:' folute enduring of all fuch troubles as we n1ect with in the doing of our duty. Now; furely, if ever any perfonwas wholly dead to all the pleafures of the natural life, ~t c .
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