The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…

2. Weep for your selves and for your children: weep both for the present Generation, and for the rising Generations. Look not only on present things, but consider what your present actions do portend and threaten to bring upon you. And did you but consider what punishment, Calamities and miseries this days act will bring upon Jerusalem, you would then see that there is great cause to weep for your selves, and for your children, as well as for me.

2. Weep for your selves and for your children: weep both for the present Generation, and for the rising Generations. Look not only on present things, but consider what your present actions do portend and threaten to bring upon you. And did you but consider what punishment, Calamityes and miseryes this dayes act will bring upon Ierusalem, you would then see that there is great cause to weep for your selves, and for your children, as well as for me.

3. Jesus Christ gives them a Reason why they should weep for themselves and for their Children; viz. because of those terrible days that are coming upon them, which are described, First. By that usual note of attention, Behold, showing the certainty of such calamities coming on them, and the terribleness thereof, in both ⟨p. 107⟩these respects, those days will be remarkable, Behold. 2dly. Those days are described by the terrible effects thereof, which prove them to be a just matter of mourning and weeping for your selves and for your children. Those terrible effects of the calamity of those days are two. v. 29, 30.

3. Jesus Christ gives them a Reason why they should weep for themselves and for their Children; viz. because of those terrible days that are coming upon them, which are described, First. By that usual note of attention, Behold, shewing the certainty of such calamityes coming on them, and the terribleness thereof, in both ⟨p. 107⟩