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

3. The connection between the impenitency and infidelity that prove to be final; and eternal misery, is known to us all. Of his knowledge of it therefore (whose Law hath made the connection, besides what there is in the nature of the things themselves) there can be no doubt.

4. That the miseries of the Soul, especially such as prove incurable and eternal, are in themselves far the greatest, we all acknowledge. Nor can make a difficulty to believe, that our Lord apprehended and considered things according as they were in themselves, so as to allow every thing its own proper weight and import in his estimating of them. These things seem all very evident to any eye.

Now though it be confessed not impossible, that of things so distinct from one another as outward and temporal evils, and those that are spiritual and eternal, even befalling the same persons, one may for the present consider the one without attending to the other, or making distinct reflection thereon at the same time; Yet how ⟨p. 11⟩unlikely is it, these things bordering so closely upon one another as they did, in the present case; that so comprehensive a mind as our Saviours was, sufficiently able to enclose them both; and so spiritual a mind, apt no doubt to consider most what was in it self most considerable, should in a solemn Lamentation of so sad a case, wholly overlook the saddest part! and stay his thoughts only upon the surface and outside of it!

Now thô it be confessed not impossible, that of things so distinct from one another as outward and temporal evils, and those that are spiritual and eternal, even befalling the same persons, one may for the present consider the one without attending to the other, or making distinct reflection thereon at the same time; Yet how