·On the PL~!Jio!!. 29 I fymbolically reprefented unto us in that holy ordinance. . This paffionate complaint of the Pro– phet Jeremiah, which we have read, thou.gh in its firfl: and literal fenfe it may refer to the fad condition of the Jewi(/; nation and the holy city.under the Babylonij!J captivi– ry, (as many prophecies con·cerning the Meffiah had a literal completion in thofe who were his types); yet certainly in its highefi and fullef1: fenfe it is only applicable to our bleffed Saviour: of him alone it could be [1id, in fhict:nefs and propriety of fpeech, that there. was t1C7Jer forrQW like– his forro'Z.u. Let us then coli.fider the w:ords as our Saviour' S- con1plaint of the dulnefs and fl:u.. pi.dity of Jnen, who go up and down in the • . world, WhoC001e and pafs, Without regard– ing his fufferings, which were fo grievotJs, wherein themfelves arc fo nearly concern– ed. And fr.on1 thence I would confider thcfe three things. L Il1e-greatn.efs of our Saviour's fuffer~ ings, exprcifed in thefc words, See if there be all:)' Jorraw like unto my forro?.u. ~ 2. Our interefl: and conccrnn1ent in them, infinuatcd in .that pafiionate interrogation, Is it Hothiug to you? B b 2 j. That
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