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8. Now he discovered his pity and compassion, in weeping over Jerusalem; ¹And when he was come near, he beheld the City, and wept over it, saying, if thou hadst known, even thou, &c. We read of Joseph, ²that there was in him such a brotherly and natural compassion, that his bowels yearned upon his Brethren, and he could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him: his love was like an hot Furnace: now Jesus Christ hath the same heart and bowels of a man; and I conceive as Christ was a man void of sin, so the acts of natural virtues (as to pity the afflicted, to compassionate the distressed) were stronger in him than possibly they could be in any other man; sin blunteth natural faculties, especially such as incline to laudable and good acts, as to love, and pity, and compassionate, the miserable; in this respect Joseph was nothing to Christ; when Christ saw Jerusalem, he wept, and wept; his compassion strangled, and enclosed within him, it must needs break out; it may be in some measure it eased Christ's mind, that his bowels of mercy found a vent; we read that pity kept within Gods bowels, pains his very heart; so that it must needs come out, Mine heart is turned within me, ³my repentings are kindled together.

8. Now he discovered his pity and compassion, in weeping over Jerusalem; ¹And when he was come near, he beheld the City, and wept over it, saying, if thou hadst known, even thou, &c. We read of Joseph, ²that there was in him such a brotherly and natural compassion, that his bowels yearned upon his Brethren, and he could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him: his love was like an hot Furnace: now Jesus Christ hath the same heart and bowels of a man; and I conceive as Christ was a man void of sin, so the acts of natural vertues (as to pity the afflicted, to compassionate the distressed) were stronger in him than possibly they could be in any other man; sin blunteth natural faculties, especially such as incline to laudable and good acts, as to love, and pity, and compassionate, the miserable; in this respect Joseph was nothing to Christ; when Christ saw Jerusalem, he wept, and wept; his compassion strangled, and enclosed within him, it must needs break out; it may be in some measure it eased Christ's mind, that his bowels of mercy found a vent; we read that pity kept within Gods bowels, pains his very heart; so that it must needs come out, Mine heart is turned within me,