Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

In this Argument, before we pass it, observe we the several passages; here's first, the groan; Oh! this Aspiration argues a compassionate pang of grief; it ran to the very heart of Christ, that Jerusalem had neglected their souls salvation, Oh Jerusalem! Secondly, here's an ingemination, or a double calling on Jerusalem, O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! the name doubled expresseth great affection in the speaker, as ⟨p. 189⟩when David doubled the name Absalom, it is said, the King was much moved, ¹and so he cried, O my Son Absalom, my Son, my Son Absalom; thirdly, here's the monstrous sin wherewith the Lord charges Jerusalem, Thou that killest the Prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee; Jerusalem was the very slaughter-house of the Prophets, in so much that very few of the Prophets had been murdered elsewhere, and so comparatively Christ speaks, it cannot be that a Prophet perish out of Jerusalem. Fourthly,² here's Christs willingness to save Jerusalem, which he discovers. 1. In his frequent applications to it, how often? q. d. not once, nor twice, nor thrice, but many and many a time have I come to Jerusalem, and spoke to Jerusalem, and wooed Jerusalem, how often? 2. In the acting, exercising, and putting forth of his will, how often would I have gathered thy children together? The will of Christ was serious, though not absolute; I know his divine will absolutely considered could not have been resisted; but this was^* not his absolute will, but only a will of divine complacency; and so he would not have the death of any, but that all should live; or he speaks here of his humane ministerial will (say some) and not of his divine: many a Sermon had he preached, and many an Exhortation had he dropped, and every Sermon, every Exhortation proclaimed his willingness, I would, yea, that I would have gathered thy children together. 3. In resemblance of his willingness, Christ would have gathered Jerusalems children as the hen gathers her chickens under her wings; in the metaphor Christs care is admirably displayed. 1. As the hen with her wings covers the unfeathered chickens. 2. As the hen provides for their food, not eating her self till they are filled. 3. As the hen defends her chickens from the ravenous birds, so that to blood she will fight in their defence; so hath Christs care been for Jerusalem.