what is said about our JOord^s human nature. We read that Jesus was " weaned with his journey."
We learn from this, as well as many other expressions in the Gospels, that our Lord had a body exactly like our own. When " the Word became flesh," He took on Him a nature like our own in all things, sin only excepted. Like ourselves. He grew from infancy to youth, and from youth to man's estate. Like ourselves. He hungered, thirsted, felt pain, and needed sleep. He was liable to every sinless infirmity to which we are liable. In all things His body was framed like our own.
The truth before us is full of comtort for all who are true Christians. He to whom sinners are bid to come for pardon and peace, is one who is man as well as God. He had a real human nature when He was upon earth. He took a real human nature with Him, when He ascended up into heaven. We have at tbe right hand of God a High Priest who can be touched with the feeling of our infirmi- ties, because He has suffered Himself being tempted. When we cry to Him in the hour of bodily pain and weak- ness. He knows well what we mean. When our prayers and praises are feeble through bodily weariness. He can understand our condition. He knows our frame. He has learned by experience what it is to be a man. To say that the Virgin Mary, or any one else, can feel more sympathy for us than Christ, is ignorance no less than blasphemy. The man Christ Jesus can enter fully into everything that belongs to man's condition. The poor, the sick, and the suffering, have in heaven One who is not only an almighty Saviour, but a most feeling Friend.
The servant of Christ should grasp firmly this great truth, that there are two perfect and complete natures in the one Person whom he serves. The Lord Jesus, in whom the Gospel bids us believe, is, without doubt, almighty God, --equal to the Father in all things, and able to save