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Fifteen Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasions
Fifteen Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasions Author:Richard Duke Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the Son of Man was able to perform them? 3///, It behov'd Chrift to be made like unto Us, for our great Comfort and Encouragement. In all things like unto Us:... more » For he did not only take Our Nature, but all the Infirmities of it, and having been Subjec t to all the Evils and Temptations of Our frail Mortality, cannot but have a fellow-feeling of all Our Sufferings, remem- bring his Own ; and be ready, in all Our Afflictions and Temptations, to fupport and deliver us, to fupply Our Wants, and affift Our Weaknefs, and to fhevv Mercy, and to afford Grace to help in time of need. And this is the particular Ufe, that the Apoftle here makes, of this Gracious Difpenfation in the words immediately following the Text: Wherefore in Al l things it behov'd him to be made like unto his Brethren, thai he might be a MercifuB And Faithfull High-Prieft in things pertaining to God: For in that He himfdf fuf- feridt being Tempted, he is Able tofuccour them that are Tempted. Laftly, We have hence a comfortable af- furance of an Equal and Mercifull Judgment at that great Day, when God fbull Judge the world, by the Man whom he hath Ordaind : For,for thisReafon.Gtuf hath given himAutho- rity to execute Judgment, becaufe he is the Son ofMajt. Had it been allow'd to Us, to have chofen Ourfelves a Judge, who could wehave rather wifh'd for, from whom could we expect a more favourable Sentence, than from a Man like Ourfelves ? one, who has (be wn the greateft kindnefs, that can be pof- fibly conceiv'd, for Human Nature; who is fenfible of the Follies and Infirmities, and Temptations of it; who will not require in Us the Purity of the Angels, or Unbody'd Spirits, for He experimentally knows, whereof we are made, And remembers that we are but duft. And furely we may conclude, God has not defign'd, that Sent...« less