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…

Thirdly, In that he is a Father of mercies, a Father, there is implied, That he doth lay our misery to heart. For although he cannot be passionately affected, as man, nor is sensible of our infirmities, as Christ was, yet this doth not hinder, but that our misery is taken notice of, as really so, as to be succoured by him, as if it were in the most compassionate Father that is. That expression of God concerning the Israelites miseries under bondage is remarkable, Exod. 2. 24, 25. He heard their groaning, he remembered his Covenant, he looked upon his children, he had respect or knew them. See here ears, eyes, memory and mind, all are affected with their trouble. So Isa. 63. 9. it is said, In all their afflictions, he was afflicted. As then anger against wicked men, though in God it be not the ebullition of blood about the heart, or accompanied with a pale countenance, yet it is more really, and dreadful in God than in man. Therefore better have all the men of the world angry with thee than God. So it is in his mercy, in him mercy, though it have not humane concomitants, yet it's more real, operative and efficacious, than all the merciful fathers in the world is; and thou hadst better have God show mercy to thee, than all the men of the world. For

Thirdly, In that he is a Father of mercies, a Father, there is implied, That he doth lay our misery to heart. For although he cannot be passionately affected, as man, nor is sensible of our infirmities, as Christ was, yet this doth not hinder, but that our misery is taken notice of, as really so, as to be succoured by him, as if it were in the most compassionate Father that is. That expression of God concerning the Israelites miseries under bondage is remarkable, Exod. 2. 24, 25. He heard their groaning, he remembred his Covenant, he looked upon his children, he had respect or knew them. See here ears, eyes, memory and mind, all are affected with their trouble. So Isa. 63. 9. it is said, In all their afflictions, he was afflicted. As then anger against wicked men, though in God it be not the ebulsition of bloud about the heart, or accompanied with a pale countenance, yet it is more really, and dreadfull in God than in man. Therefore better have all the men of the world angry with thee than God. So it is in his mercy, in him mercy, though it have not humane concomitants, yet it's more real, operative and efficacious, than all the mercifull fathers in the world is; and thou hadst better have God shew mercy to thee, than all the men of the world. For