The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan…

1. The former we find often pressed in Scripture; as Job 6. 14. To him that is afflicted, pity should be showed to his friend. Put on therefore, saith the Apostle, Col. 3. 12. as the Elect of God, holy, and beloved, bowels of mercy. Which is a Metonymical form of speech, often used in holy Scripture, whereby is meant pity, and compassion towards them that are in any misery, or affliction; yea such a measure of pity and compassion, as affecteth the heart and bowels; and that with as true a touch and feeling, as if we our selves were in the same case with them.

1. The former we find often pressed in Scripture; as Job 6. 14. To him that is afflicted, pity should be shewed to his friend. Put on therefore, saith the Apostle, Col. 3. 12. as the Elect of God, holy, and beloved, bowels of mercy. Which is a Metonymical form of speech, often used in holy Scripture, whereby is meant pity, and compassion towards them that are in any misery, or affliction; yea such a measure of pity and compassion, as affecteth the heart and bowels; and that with as true a touch and feeling, as if we our selves were in the same case with them.

If we consider the nearness of conjunction, and communion that one Christian hath with another, we may well be convinced of the equity of this duty. For we are all Sons of one Father, all Members of one Body: In respect thereof there should, nay there ought to be such a sympathy and compassion in the Members of the Mystical body, I mean among Christians, as there is in the ⟨p. 147⟩Members of the Natural Body. Now we know that in the Natural Body, if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; as the Apostle expresseth,