Experience – Thomas Manton

“For it became him [the Father]…. in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings” (Heb. 2:10).

Christ hath had experience of all trials whereinto any of his servants can fall, poverty, forsaking of friends, exile, imprisonment, hunger, nakedness, watching, weariness, pain of body, heaviness of heart, desertion as to sense, wrath and curse of God. Christ hath carried his feeling with him into heaven; he knew what poverty meaneth, what trouble of conscience, what heaviness of spirit meaneth. Christ could not so experimentally pity us, so feelingly pity us, if he were not like us in all things; his heart was entendered by experience, as a man that hath felt the gout and felt the stone. Israel knew the heart of a stranger; Christ knew the heart of a man that is left to the world’s frowns and snares. He took a communion of our nature and miseries, as a pawn and pledge that he will pity us and help us.

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