The Redeemer's tears wept over lost souls a treatise on Luke XIX, 41, 42

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 ⟨p. 95⟩many other expressions, which in us, would signify vehement agitations of affection, that we are sure can have no place in him. We ought therefore in our own thoughts to ascribe to him that calm aversion of will, in reference to the sins, and miseries of men in general; and, in our own apprehensions, to remove to the utmost distance from him, all such agitations of passion or affection, even though some expressions that occur, carry a great appearance thereof, should they be understood according to humane measures, as they are humane forms of speech. As (to instance in what is said by the glorious God himself, and very near in sense to what we have in the Text) what can be more pathetic, than that lamenting wish, Psal. 81.13. O that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

Nor are we again to think they signifie the same thing with what we find in our selves, and are wont to expresse by those names. In the divine nature, there may be real, and yet most serene complacency, and displicency, viz. that are unaccompany'd with the least commotion, and that import nothing of imperfection, but perfection rather, as it is a perfection to apprehend things sutably to what in themselves they are. The holy Scriptures frequently speak of God as angry, and griev'd for the sins of men, and their miseries which ensue therefrom. And a real aversion and dislike is signify'd thereby, and by ⟨p. 95⟩many other expressions, which in us, would signify vehement agitations of affection, that we are sure can have no place in him. We ought therefore in our own thoughts to ascribe to him that calm aversion of will, in reference to the sins, and miseries of men in general; and, in our own apprehensions, to remove to the utmost distance from him, all such agitations of passion or affection, even thô some expressions that occur, carry a great appearance thereof, should they be understood according to humane measures, as they are humane forms of speech. As (to instance in what is said by the glorious God himself, and very near in sense to what we have in the Text) what can be more pathetick, than that lamenting wish,