An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…

when he saw the eyes of Christ so sparkling of love, and then considered that he had sinned against that Christ that had so loved him, broke all those bonds of love, ⟨p. 90⟩then he went out, and wept bitterly; the word is in Mark 14. 72. [Greek or Hebrew], He did break out in weeping. ¹For so it may signify, that force that there is in doing any thing, to lay a force upon ones self to do a thing, He did break out, break out in weeping, he was not able to bear it, his heart burst even in sunder, when he considered how he had burst asunder the bonds of Love. Oh that after such manifestations of Mercy and goodness, such warmings of heart in Communion with Jesus Christ, what thou, Oh my soul! what, canst thou find in any ways like Gods ways? canst thou find the like love and the like sweetness in any as thou hast done in God, yet for all this unkind, unloving dealings, God follows thee with Love, his heart is yet open unto thee; As a man that goes from the Sun yet he hath the warm beams of the Sun that follows him, and doth warm him; ²so the hearts of the Saints do many times go from God, decline from him, yet they have the warm beams of Love that follows after them to draw their hearts again to him; Oh! return, return into this bosom of infinite Love, here thy soul may have everlasting embracings. And I was to them, as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

when he saw the eyes of Christ so sparkling of love, and then considered that he had sinned against that Christ that had so loved him, broke all those bonds of love, ⟨p. 90⟩then he went out, and wept bitterly; the word is in Mark 14. 72. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, He did break out in weeping. ¹For so it may signifie, that force that there is in doing any thing, to lay a force upon ones self to do a thing, He did break out, break out in weeping, he was not able to bear it, his heart burst even in sunder, when he considered how he had burst asunder the bonds of Love. Oh that after such manifestations of Mercy and goodness, such warmings of heart in Communion with Jesus Christ, what thou, Oh my soul! what, canst thou find in any waies like Gods waies? canst thou find the like love and the like sweetness in any as thou hast done in God, yet for all this unkind, unloving dealings, God follows thee with Love, his heart is yet open unto thee; As a man that goes from the Sun yet he hath the warm beams of the Sun that follows him, and doth warm him;