Heb. 5:7. Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

The mostly-in-outline sermon of August 1741 on this text states: it is "My design from these words at this time is to contemplate these two things that Christ shed for sinners, viz. tears and blood."

In the sermon our preacher at the height of Northampton's great awakening first considers the compassionate, grieving, supplicating tears of Christ. There follows an even more moving description of Christ's shedding his blood as well. The sermon ends, after instruction, with a passionate invitation to come to Jesus.

Heb. 5:8

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