Select Biographies, Ed by W K Tweedie

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: A SERMON ON SYMPATH1E. Matth. xv. 23.? Send her away, for she cryeth after us. heard a part of the entertainment this poor woman got in her address to Christ, i?he answered her not a word; a small encouragement, and certainly she might expect the less of all the company since his heart seems to be from...
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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: A SERMON ON SYMPATH1E. Matth. xv. 23.? Send her away, for she cryeth after us. heard a part of the entertainment this poor woman got in her address to Christ, i?he answered her not a word; a small encouragement, and certainly she might expect the less of all the company since his heart seems to be from her. Our Lord Jesus Christ will sometimes give cold entertainment to the importunate desires of his people, even when he intends to give them a gracious answer at length. In the words ye have the next part of the entertainment she met with at the hands of the disciples; they seemed to bear some burden with her, but they come not up in their sympathie; all their sym- pathie is this, Send her away, for she cryeth after us: they entreated him either to give her ane alms or ane answer, and let her be going; they ought to have born burden with her in her affliction, but this is all, Give her something, or let her go, for readily they thought with themselves it would be their prejudice if she should cry on, for Christ resolved to be quiet in this place, and they ran a risk and hazard if she by her crying should discover them. There was also a desire of ease in them; they dought not abide to be troubled or fashed with any thing, and it seems she, by her crying, taigled them in ' Referring to some former discourse. their march, and they did not remember that such errands as she had was the main work they should wait on. Such reasons as these, apprehension of hazard and love of ease, always militate against sympathie, and marr it exceedingly. 1. That they press Christ to send her away?observe, that the people of God are many times but cold and weak sympathizers with others in trouble, when the trouble is not at their own door. Of whom could sympathie have been expected i...