...may be able to " love our enemies, to bless those that curse us, to do good to them that hate us ; to rejoice with them that do rejoice, and to weep with them that weep." Compose our spirits to a quiet and steady dependence on thy good providence, that we may " take no...

...mankind as foreign to himself. Thus, " to rejoice with them that do rejoice, and to " weep with thtm that weep;" to love and to respect piety and benevolence...and yet have in some respects a kind of affinity or connection.* The pathetic includes the passions * As our author is here treating of that species of...

...happiness, he finds his own. Agreeably to the principles and the practice of his divine Master, he is ready to rejoice with them that do rejoice, and to weep with them that weep ; far and happily different from the temper of envy, which weeps with them that rejoice, and rejoiceth...

...fruits. SH when when compared with the miseries of others ; but principally from the moral sense4. Nature has endued man with a certain social and generous...becoming, is pleasant. The sublime and the pathetic are jntrinsecally very different ; and yet have in some respects a kind of affinity or connexion s. The...

...spirit, serving the Lord — to distribute to the necessity of saints — to be given to hospftality — to rejoice with them that do rejoice, and to weep with them that weep — not to mind high things, but to condescend to men of low estate — to recompense to no man evil...

...calamity, like one who is a stranger to this expectation, and to this spirit. He that is most disposed to " rejoice with them that do rejoice," and " to weep with them that weep," is best able to say, with honest generosity, to the mourners of his own misfortunes, what He that wept...

...little flock, because that Humble Mind was come: for their shepherd had taught his young disciples to rejoice with them that do rejoice, and to weep with them that weep. (Rom. xii. 15.) The shepherd Sincerity also rejoiced with his flock, thanking God for the lamb that...

...the enemies of the Gospel have advanced herein against it. For if, as Christians, we are commanded to " rejoice with them that do rejoice, and to weep with them that weep," (this description including all who are in sorrow, and all who are not in sorrow, that is, all our...

..._, own felicity, when compared with the miseries of others; but principally from the moral sense.* Nature has endued man with a certain social and generous...and yet have in some respects a kind of affinity or connexion.f The pathetic includes the passions which we feel, • See Lord Kames* Ekmentt of Criticism,...

...sorrows. Love to our neighbour will dispose us to bear a sensible part in his joys and afflictions ; " to rejoice with them that do rejoice, and to weep with them that weep." And we might carry on the same comparison through all the graces and virtues incumbent on us towards...