THE ARGUMENT. Our Saviour's Humanity next considered, as this virtue must naturally spring from true piety. Without it piety is rain, or an insult to God.-Our Saviour's curing the dumb, lame, maniac, leper, lunatic, paralytic, and the blind-Reflections upon the various miseries of blindness—It is the duty of Christians to relieve, wherever they can, the necessities of the blind-Our Saviour cures the man who is deaf and dumb―The unhappiness of such a condition— He feeds thousands with a few fishes and a little bread -He weeps from sympathy when he hears of the death of Lazarus from his friends-Great souls are liable to be melted-Little and contracted minds are obdurate-Praise of a feeling mind—It is a moral security of Innocence-When however compassion is swayed by reason, and exerted from approbation and from choice, as it was by our Saviour, it is a virtue of the highest nature-Compassion was implanted into the breast of man, that he might become by its display the proxy of Heaven. THE CHRISTIA N. BOOK THE THIRD. FROM reas'ning of our Saviour's piety, Insults the God of mercy by his pray'rs. 5 ΤΟ His life's employ, the labour of his mind, Where'er he went, affliction and disease Fled, and to them succeeded joy and ease. The furious maniac soften'd into sense. Th' unhappy leper, that was whiten'd o'er, The lunatic, poor wretch was in the way, The jest of brutal fools, the villain's prey; 20 The restless heavings of whose tortur'd heart, 25 The greatest things by those of trivial worth) A harp, egregious source of joy, has scann'd; 30 |