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The Redeemer's tears wept over lost souls a treatise on Luke XIX, 41, 42
The Redeemer's tears wept over lost souls a treatise on Luke XIX, 41, 42 : with an appendix wherein somewhat is occasionally discoursed concerning the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, and how God is said to will the salvation of them that perish / by J.H.
London: printed by J. Astwood for Thomas Parkhurst, 1684
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Indeed we cannot think Heaven, a place or state of sadness, or lamentation; and must take heed of conceiving any thing there, especially on the throne of glory, unsuitable to the most perfect nature, and the most glorious state. We are not to imagine tears there; which in that happy region are wiped away from inferior ⟨p. 94⟩eyes; no grief, sorrow, or sighing, which are all fled away, and shall be no more. As there can be no other turbid passion of any kind. But when expressions that import anger, or grief, are used, even concerning God himself, we must sever in our conception, every thing of imperfection, and ascribe every thing of real perfection. We are not to think such expressions signify nothing, that they have no meaning, or that nothing at all is to be attributed to him under them.
Indeed we cannot think Heaven, a place or state of sadnes, or lamentation; and must take heed of conceiving any thing there, especially on the throne of glory, unsutable to the most perfect nature, and the most glorious state. We are not to imagine tears there; which in that happy region are wip'd away from inferiour ⟨p. 94⟩eyes; no grief, sorrow, or sighing, which are all fled away, and shall be no more. As there can be no other turbid passion of any kind. But when expressions that import anger, or grief, are used, even concerning God himself, we must sever in our conception, every thing of imperfection, and ascribe every thing of real perfection. We are not to think such expressions signifie nothing, that they have no meaning, or that nothing at all is to be attributed to him under them.
Nor are we again to think they signify the same thing with what we find in our selves, and are wont to express by those names. In the divine nature, there may be real, and yet most serene complacency, and displicency, viz. that are unaccompanied with the least commotion, and that import nothing of imperfection, but perfection rather, as it is a perfection to apprehend things suitably to what in themselves they are. The holy Scriptures frequently speak of God as angry, and grieved for the sins of men, and their miseries which ensue therefrom. And a real aversion and dislike is signified thereby, and by