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

4. And can you pretend you have no means to know it? That book that goes up and down under the name of his Word, can you disprove it to be his Word? If such writings should now first come into the world, so sincere, so awful, so holy, so heavenly, bearing so expressly the divine ⟨p. 114⟩Image, avowing themselves to be from God, and the most wonderful works are wrought to prove them his Word, the deaf made to hear, the blind to see, the dumb to speak, the sick healed, the dead raised, by a word only commanding it to be so, would you not confess this to be sufficient evidence that this revelation came from heaven. And are you not sufficiently assured they are so confirmed? Do you find in your selves any inclination to cheat your children, in any thing that concerns their well being? Why should you more suspect your forefathers design, to cheat you in the mere reporting falsely, a matter of fact? was not humane nature the same, so many hundred years ago? Did ever the enemies of the Christian name, in the earlier days of Christianity, when it was but a novelty in the world, and as much hated, and endeavoured to be rooted out, as ever any Profession was, deny such matters of fact? Have not some of the most spiteful of them confessed it? Did not Christians then willingly sacrifice their lives by multitudes, upon the assured truth of these ⟨p. 115⟩things? Have they not been ever since most strictly careful to preserve these writings, and transmit them, as wherein the all of themselves, and their Posterity was contained? And where is now your new light? where are your later discoveries, upon which, so many ages after, you are able to evict these writings of falsehood, or dare venture to disbelieve them?

4. And can you pretend you have no means to know it? That book that goes up and down under the name of his Word, can you disprove it to be his Word? If such writings should now first come into the world, so sincere, so awful, so holy, so heavenly, bearing so expresly the divine ⟨p. 114⟩Image, avowing themselves to be from God, and the most wonderful works are wrought to prove them his Word, the deaf made to hear, the blind to see, the dumb to speak, the sick healed, the dead raised, by a word only commanding it to be so, would you not confesse this to be sufficient evidence that this revelation came from heaven. And are you not sufficiently assured they are so confirm'd? Do you find in your selves any inclination to cheat your children, in any thing that concerns their well being? Why should you more suspect your forefathers design, to cheat you in the meer reporting falsly, a matter of fact? was not humane nature the same, so many hundred years ago? Did ever the enemies of the Christian name, in the earlier dayes of Christianity, when it was but a novelty in the world, and as much hated, and endeavoured to be rooted out, as ever any Profession was, deny such matters of fact? Have not some of the most spiteful of them confest it? Did not Christians then willingly sacrifice their lives by multitudes, upon the assured truth of these