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Jesus wept & at first sighting appears
minute investigation [text crossed out] of it will I trust afford suffic-
ient matter for our contemplation & improvement for
[this day crossed out] the present occasion the with which the words
are connected is familiar to [us all crossed out] most of you Never
perhaps was there a more interesting narration
published, it exhibits the character of Jesus in
lovely & endearing [word crossed out] lights insomuch
that it must constrain all who attentively
consider the subject to admire & esteem him
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In enquiring into the cause of the Sorrows
which vented themselves in tears it will
be well to consider him in two points of view
I. As the friend of Lazarus & his Sisters &
II. As the Redeemer of mankind -

I. As the friend - Our Lord certainly wept -
from comparison to the sorrowing mourners
around him - He never was hard hearted