History of Presbyterianzism

that Jesus wept when he looked upon a whole city of hardened and impenitent sinners; that the great, tender, compassionate heart of the Saviour should have been filled with grief, sorrow and bitter disap- pointment at the state and doom of that highly favored city? Those tears seemed to say, how can I give thee up, 0 Jerusalem? He loved them from the first and even now, if they would turn away from their sin unto the Lord, he would “have mercy upon and abundantly pardon them.” Let us rejoice that we have not a Saviour who cannot be touched with a feeling of our infirmities, but who was in all things tempted like unto us, and who knows how to succor them that are tempted or tried—and with implicit confidence let us cast ourselves upon the mercy of God in Christ, crying, “Lord, save us or we perish.” Amen.

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