An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

Lastly, Their humble condescension is seen, In the compassionate restoring and reclaiming of such who have gone astray. There is a weakness of parts, and a weakness of graces. Now when some through this latter weakness, have been overcome by temptations, they do not superciliously and scornfully reject such, but labour in a spirit of meekness to recover them. Christ himself is a president for this, when he compareth himself to the Shepherd that went and fetched the lost sheep home upon his own shoulders. As also to that good Samaritan, who poured oil into the wounds of that wounded passenger to Jericho. This counsel the Apostle gives such as are spiritual, Gal. 6. 1. To restore such as are fallen in the spirit of meekness. And Paul himself, with what tears and sorrow did he bewail some Corinthians that had defiled themselves?

Lastly, Their humble condescension is seen, In the compassionate restoring and reclaiming of such who have gone astray. There is a weakness of parts, and a weakness of graces. Now when some through this latter weakness, have been overcome by temptations, they do not superciliously and scornfully reject such, but labour in a spirit of meekness to recover them. Christ himself is a president for this, when he compareth himself to the Shepherd that went and fetched the lost sheep home upon his own shoulders. As also to that good Samaritan, who poured oyl into the wounds of that wounded passenger to Jericho. This counsel the Apostle gives such as are spiritual, Gal. 6. 1. To restore such as are fallen in the spirit of meekness. And Paul himself, with what tears and sorrow did he bewail some Corinthians that had defiled themselves?

If you ask, What grounds there are, why the godly, though thus exalted by God, ¹are yet humble to others? The Reasons are,

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