Christ Set Forth

Hence 2. these affections of pity and sympathy so stirred up by himself, though they move his bowels, and affect his bodily heart as they did here; yet they do not afflict and perturb him in the least, nor become they a burden & a load unto his spirit, so as to make him sorrowful, or heavy, (as in this life here his pity unto Lazarus made ⟨p. 127⟩him, and as his distresses at last, that made him sorrowful unto death.) So that, as in their rise, so in their effect, they utterly differ from what they were here below. And the reason of this is, because his Body, and the blood and spirits thereof, (the instruments of affecting him) are now altogether impassible; namely, in this sense, that they are not capable of the least alteration tending to any hurt what ever: And so, his body is not subject to any grief, nor his spirits to any wast, decay or expense. They may, and do subserve the soul in its affections, as they did whilst he was here; but this, merely by a local motion, moving to and fro in the veins and arteries, to affect the heart and bowels, without the least diminution or impair to themselves, or detriment to him: And thus it comes to pass, that though this Blood and spirits do stir up the same affections in his heart and bowels, which here they did, yet not (as then) with the least perturbation in himself, or inconvenience unto himself: But as in this life he was troubled and grieved [without sin,] or inordinancie; so now when he is in heaven he pities and compassionates without the least mixture or tang of disquietement and perturbation (which yet necessarily accompanied his affections whilst he was here, because of the frailty in which his body and spirits were framed:) His perfection destroys not his affections, but only corrects and amends the imperfection of them. Passions perfectivas to be now in him, the best of Schoolmen do acknowledge.

Hence 2. these affections of pity and sympathie so stirred up by himselfe, though they move his bowels, and affect his bodily heart as they did here; yet they doe not afflict and perturbe him in the least, nor become they a burthen & a load unto his spirit, so as to make him sorrowfull, or heavy, (as in this life here his pity unto Lazarus made ⟨p. 127⟩him, and as his distresses at last, that made him sorrowfull unto death.) So that, as in their rise, so in their effect, they utterly differ from what they were here below. And the reason of this is, because his Body, and the blood and spirits thereof, (the instruments of affecting him) are now altogether impassible; namely, in this sense, that they are not capable of the least alteration tending to any hurt what ever: And so, his body is not subject to any griefe, nor his spirits to any wast, decay or expence. They may, and doe subserve the soule in its affections, as they did whilst he was here; but this, meerly by a locall motion, moving to and fro in the veynes and arteries, to affect the heart and bowels, without the least diminution or impaire to themselves, or detriment to him: And thus it comes to passe, that though this Blood and spirits doe stir up the same affections in his heart and bowels, which here they did, yet not (as then) with the least perturbation in himselfe, or inconvenience unto himselfe: But as in this life he was troubled and grieved [without sinne,] or inordinancie; so now when he is in heaven he pitties and compassionates without the least mixture or tang of disquietement and perturbation (which yet necessarily accompanied his affections whilst he was here, because of the frailty in which his body and spirits were framed:) His perfection destroyes not his affections, but onely corrects and amends the imperfection of them. Passiones perfectivas to bee now in him, the best of Schoolemen doe acknowledge.