292 On the P a!Jion~ 3· That his fu:fferings ought not to be paffed by, but fc rioufl y rega rded and con– .fidered: Is it nothing to y ou, ally e that pafl · hy? &c. . I. Let us reflect on our Saviour' s fu.ffcr– ings. But 0 where fuall we begin to re– ~ount then1! His whole life, from the man– ger, his uneafy cradle, unto his crofs and grave, '"'as a continued tract of fufferings. He did all along anfwer that charaCter gi– 'ven of hin1 by the Prophet, A man ofJar– -rows, and acqitainted7u;tb grief: ~ To fay nothing of the n1eannefs of his- " birth, aud the pains of circumcifion, the perfecutions of his infancy, his poverty and want, his travail and wearinefs, his failing and ·watching; his fweat and his tears, and all the other infirmities inddent to our hu– m-an nature, and inconveniencies attendihg a poor and firaitned efiate; he coutd not but lead a very fad and affliCted life, , con- , fi.dering that he lived in a perverfe and wicked generation, and the continual trou– ble of being witnefs to the follies and mif– carriages pf wicked n1en; to hear and fee difhonour done unto God, by the profane– nefs of fon1e, and the hypocrify of others; to obferve the covetoufnefs and injuflice, the fraud and oppreffion, the malice ' and envy,
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