Eighteen sermons preached in Oxford 1640 of conversion, unto God. Of redemption, & justification,…

when you were his enemies he loved you, insomuch that he humbled himself; and suffered death, even the death of the Cross for you. And he hath the self-same bowels in heaven that he had on earth; he wept over Jerusalem, and the self-same weeping heart carried he to heaven with him, the self-same weeping eyes: Believe not then the ⟨p. 369⟩Papists, that he is so hard-hearted or so stately, and that his mother is more ready to speak for us than he; fie on it. This is to pervert the Gospel, and make Christ no Christ. We have not an High Priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, Heb. 2.17. In all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful High Priest, &c. Alas poor soul, saith Christ, what the malice of the Devil is, I know by mine own experience in the flesh; for Christ was tempted in all things according to us, sin only excepted. I know what the temptations of the world are; but whereas we have three enemies, the Devil, the world, and the flesh, only the two former were his. Christ had the temptations of the world and the Devil, not of the corrupt flesh; for he had no corrupt flesh: A man that hath been himself in terrible Tempests on the Sea, when he sees a storm, out of his own experience he pities those that are in it; when as others are not a jot moved: for he hath seen that consternation of mind, which on every side appeared. That — plurima mortis imago; whereas others having not been there, lay not their miseries to heart. Christ having suffered himself, and being tempted as we were, is sensible of our miseries; and therefore never count it boldness to come boldly to him that gives thee this encouragement: Come boldly to the Throne of grace. We must understand that all this is before faith, we must

when you were his enemies he loved you, insomuch that he humbled himself; and suffered death, even the death of the Crosse for you. And he hath the self-same bowels in heaven that he had on earth; he wept over Jerusalem, and the self-same weeping heart carried he to heaven with him, the self-same weeping eyes: Believe not then the ⟨p. 369⟩Papists, that he is so hard-hearted or so stately, and that his mother is more ready to speak for us than he; fie on it. This is to pervert the Gospel, and make Christ no Christ. We have not an High Priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities,