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SEAM.
VII.
FALLING
SHORT
OF
HEAVEN.
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various
wretchedness
and
folly,
yet
we
cannot
suppose
his
present exaltation and
blessedness does indulge
real
sorrow, or
admit
any
smarting
affliction
;
though
in his
humble state
on
earth,
his
human
love
expressed it-
self
agreeably in such
mournful
compassion
and ten-
derness.
II.
We come
to consider,
what there
was in
this
per-
son
that
might
attract
our
Saviour's
love.
1.
He
had
probably
some
natural
qualifications
which
were
agreeable and
pleasing.
His youth
is
expressed;
Mat.
xix. 20.
A
young man
in
the prime
of
his
days,
in
the
force and flower
of
his age,
the
beauty
and vigour
of
his
nature
:
And
it
is
very
likely,
that
he might
be
of
a
comely figure
and ingenuous countenance
;
for
it
is
said,
our
Saviour beholding
him,
loved
him.
He
fixed
his
eyes,
and probably
saw
something
in
him
delightful
in his
very
aspect
and
appearance,
which
might
partly
induce
him
to those various
expressions
of
love before
-men-
tioned,
and
to pity
so
lovely
a youth,
who
was
enslaved
to
riches,
and bound
to
destruction
in
fetters
of
gold.
2.
He had a courteous and
obliging carriage, which
appears
in
several
instances;
viz.
he
kneeled before
our
Lord,
and paid
hirn
great
respect
with
the gesture
of
his
body;
he
saluted
him,
good
Master!
which
our
Lord
did
not
reprove,
when he said,
there
is
none good
but
God
;
but put
him
to the trial,
whether
he would own
him
to
he God
or
no.
He
acknowledged
Christ
as his
superior, though
he
was
so
much
a
stranger
to him,
and
so
much
a
poorer
man
than
himself.
By his
whole
de-
portment
we find
him a
person
of
great
civility
;
he knew
how to pay
the honours
of
his
country
well,
to give
titles
to whom
titles
are
due, and
to
do
these things
gracefully.
A
courteous, humble, and
decent
behavi-
our,
without
affectation
or
flattery,
is so
far
from
being
reproved
by
Christ,
that
not
only, in this place,
our
Lord
seems to be
pleased
with
it,
but
in
many places
of
the New
Testament,
it
is
recommended
to
make
christi-'
anity amiable
:
It
is
pleasing
to
human
nature,
and can-
not but
gain
love
and
esteem
with all
wise
and
virtuous
persons.
3.
He
was
religiously
educated
even from bis
child-
hood,
and had
grown up
in
sobriety,
perhaps,
from
his
very
cradle;
for he
was
but
a
young
man when
he
camé
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