The beatitudes

2. Jesus Christ undertook this healing work, because of that need we were in of a Physician. Christ came to be our Physician, not because we deserved him, but because we needed him; not our merit, but our misery drew Christ from heaven; had not he come, we must of necessity have perished, and dyed of our wounds; our disease was not ordinary; it had seized on every part; it made us not only sick, but dead; and such Receipts were requisite as none but Christ could give.

2. Jesus Christ undertook this healing work, because of that need we were in of a Physitian. Christ came to be our Physitian, not because we deserved him, but because we needed him; not our merit, but our misery drew Christ from heaven; had not he come, we must of necessity have perished, and dyed of our wounds; our disease was not ordinary; it had seized on every part; it made us not only sick, but dead; and such Receits were requisite as none but Christ could give.

3. Christ came as a Physician out of the sweetness of his Nature; he is like the good Samaritan, who had compassion on the wounded man, Luke 10.33. A Physician may come to the Patient only for gain; not so much to help the Patient, as to help himself; but Christ came purely out of sympathy; there was nothing in us to tempt Christ to heal us; for we had no desire of a Physician, nor had we any thing to give our Physician; as sin made us sick, so it made us poor; so that Christ came as a Physician, not out of hope to receive any thing from us, but was prompted to it out of his own goodness. Hos. 14.4. I will heal their back-slidings, I will love them. Love set Christ awork; not only his Fathers Commission, but his own Compassion moved him to his spiritual Physic and Chirurgery. King David banished the blind and lame out of the City, 2 Sam. 5.8. Christ comes to the blind and lame, and cures them; it is the sounding of his bowels that causeth the healing under his wings.