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

THE REDEEMERS TEARS Wept over LOST SOULS.

LUKE XIX. 41, 42. And when he was come near, he beheld the City, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy Peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

WE have here a compassionate Lamentation in the midst of a solemn Triumph. Our Lords approach unto Jerusalem at this time, and his entrance into it (as the foregoing History shows) carried with ⟨p. 2⟩them some face of regal and triumphal pomp, but with such allays, as discovered a mind most remote from Ostentation; and led by Judgment, (not Vain-glory) to transmit thorough a dark umbrage, some glimmerings only of that excellent Majesty which both his Sonship and his Mediatorship entitled him unto: A very modest and mean specimen of his true indubious Royalty and Kingly-state. Such as might rather intimate than plainly declare it, and rather afford an after Instruction to teachable minds, than beget a present Conviction and dread in the stupidly obstinate and unteachable. And this effect we find it had, as is observed by another Evangelical Historian, who relating the same matter, how in his passage to Jerusalem the People met him with Branches of Palm-trees, and joyful Hosanna's, he riding upon an Asses Colt (as Princes or Judges, to signify Meekness as much as State, were wont to do, Judg. 5.10.) tells us, These things his Disciples understood not at the first, but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things ⟨p. 3⟩