§. 16.
But as there is no proportion betweene his Sorrow and our Sorrow, either in Quantitie or
An epithrene: or Voice of vveeping bewailing the want of vveeping. A meditation.
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- An epithrene: or Voice of vveeping bewailing the want of vveeping. A meditation.
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- Lesly, John.
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- London :: Printed by A[ugustine] M[athewes] for Humphrey Robinson and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the three Pidgeons,
- 1631.
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- Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
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Qualitie, in the Cause or Effect, So there is no Similitude: For wee in our State of Corruption are more grieved for that which wee suffer our selues, then wee can bee grieved for any other; But Christ was more grieved for vs, that wee were separated from God, then hee was for himselfe in his most bitter passi∣on; Therefore hee charged the daughters of Hierusalem, * 1.1 not to weepe for him, but for themselues. Yet his Compassion declared in the Passion of this weeping, was no part (as I conceive) of that Obligatory Satisfaction, wherein he was bound by Obli∣gation to satisfie for vs, but a Charitable Affection, where∣by hee would voluntarily and of his accord, give evidence of those fore-mentioned Finall Causes: And thus it seemeth
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Aquinas would bee vnderstood, * 1.2 when he saith, Hae lachrymae non erant ex necessitate, sed ex pietate, vt docerent hominem propter peccatum sletihus indigere; He wept not of necessitie, but Pietie; that man might know how much he nee∣deth to weepe for Sinne. Thus Iesus wept.
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* 1.1
Luk. 23.28.
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* 1.2
Aquin. in Tex••.