The Lord Jesus is not like us. We may be kind, but we are not patient in our kindness, not long-suffering. We seek to do others good, but after a little, when they continue obstinate and perverse, we give them up. There is no helping them, we say, they must take their own course: and we can say this even of a brother or a child. But not so Christ. He acts towards sinners as though he were most unwilling to leave them, as though he could do or bear any thing rather than abandon them; nay, he speaks as though he could not abandon them. "How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, or surrender thee up, Israel?" "I cannot do it," he seems to say. Every feeling of his soul is agitated and pained at the thought.

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