...They doubted whether he, who had multiplied the bread, could walk upon the water. O thou, that canst have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way, who art touched with the feeling of human infirmities, have pity on us, and help us. Thou seest how...

...infirmity ; this served to give him to feel for those he represented : his office required this of him, to have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way. Our Christ, the essential Word and Son of God, took our nature, with all its sinless infirmities, into...

...by their Collects, %c. as above, from p. 77 to 84 inclusively. EPISTLE. Heb. v. 1. 0. — Brethren: Every high priest taken from among men, is ordained for men in the things that appertain to God, that he may offer up gifts and sacrifices for sins : who can have...

...for (the good of) men, over things pertaining to God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins; 2. Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are led astray, because he himself also is compassed with infirmity; 3. And for this reason he ought, as...

...kindly to the humble and afflicted ; and to afford such assistance as contrite sinners require. He " can have compassion on the ignorant, •and on them...that are out of the way ; for that he himself also was compassed with infirmities." " The Lord is gracious and full of compassion." Will he, then, expose...

...office, so we have a very just account of the priest's office by the Apostle to the HeHeb. vi brews: For every high priest, taken from among men, is ordained for men in things pertaining unto God, that he may both offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. Offerings and sacrifices were in fact...

...xxiY. 47. J Matt, xxviri. 20. :•• .l«r. xxxi. 31. ana Heb. viii. 6. must speak as those that " have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way, remembering, that we ourselves, also, are compassed about with infirmity,'' while at the same time,...

...Christ's stead, be ye " reconciled to God."J The latter is evinced in the epistle to the Hebrews : " For every high priest " taken from among men is ordained for men in tf things pertaining to God, that he may offer both " gifts and sacrifices for sins."§ Here, to be...

...cause he has undertaken. The High Priest under the law was taken from among men, that thus he might " have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way, for that he himself also was compassed with infirmity." \ In this respect also CHRIST is fitted for. his important office. Though...

...offering of sacrifices and other oblations. Every high Priest, taken from among men, says St. Paul, is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sin. Intercession seems to be a duty of natural religion, and may be easily supposed to be a service,...