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

The practice ⟨image 5⟩therefore, of our Saviour, in speaking so positively ▪ concerning the approaching fail and ruin of Jerusalem, is no pattern unto us. He spake not only with the Knowledge of a Prophet, but with the Authority of a Judge: and his words may be considered both as a Prediction, and a Sentence. We can pretend to speak in neither capacity, touching things of this nature.

The practice ⟨image 5⟩therefore, of our Saviour, in speaking so positively ▪ concerning the approaching fail and ruine of Jerusalem, is no patern unto us. He spake not only with the Knowledge of a Prophet, but with the Authority of a Judge: and his words may be considered both as a Prediction, and a Sentence. We can pretend to speak in neither capacity, touching things of this nature.

But for the everlasting Punishments in another World, that belong to unreconciled sinners, who refuse to know the things of their peace, the Gospel-constitution hath made the connection firm, and unalterable, between their continuing, unrepented wickedness, and those punishments. When therefore we behold the impudent, provoking sins of the age wherein we live, against the natural, eternal law of our Creator, persisted in with all the marks of infidelity, and obduration, against the truth, and grace that so gloriously shine forth in the Gospel of our Redeemer, we may (after him) speak positively, He that believeth not shall be damned, ⟨image 6⟩— Is condemned already; — shall not see Life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. If ye believe not that I am HE, ye shall die in your sins. Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. And here, how doth it become us too, in conformity to his great example, to speak compassionately, and as those that, in some measure, know the terror of the Lord! O how doleful is the case, when we consider the inconsistent notions of many, with, not this or that particular doctrine, or article of the Christian Faith, but with the whole sum of Christianity, the Atheism of some, the avowed mere Theism of others! The former sort far outdoing the Jewish infidelity. Which people; besides the rational means of demonstrating a Deity, common to them with the rest of mankind, could, upon the account of many things peculiar to themselves, be in no suspense concerning this matter. How great was their reverence of the books of the Old Testament, especially those of Moses! their knowledge most certain of plain, and most