36. Let them hear Thee, and
let them come to Thee, and let them learn of Thee to be meek and
lowly, who seek Thy Mercy and Truth, by living unto Thee, unto
Thee, not unto themselves. Let him hear this, laboring and laden,
who is weighed down by his burthen, so as not to dare to lift up
his eyes to heaven, that sinner beating his breast, and drawing
near from afar.2123
Let him
hear, the
centurion, not worthy that Thou shouldest enter under his
roof.
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Let him
hear,
Zaccheus,
chief of
publicans, restoring fourfold the
gains of
damnable sins.
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Let her
hear, the
woman in the city a
sinner, by so much the more full of
tears at Thy
feet, the more
alien she had been from Thy steps.
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Let them
hear, the
harlots and
publicans, who enter into the
kingdom of
heaven before the
Scribes and
Pharisees.
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Let them hear, every
kind of such
ones, feastings with whom were cast in Thy teeth as a charge,
forsooth, as though by whole persons who sought not a
physician,
whereas Thou camest not to call the
righteous, but
sinners to
repentance.
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All these,
when they are
converted unto Thee, easily grow
meek, and are
humbled before Thee, mindful of their own most
unrighteous life,
and of Thy most
indulgent mercy, in that, “where sin hath
abounded, grace hath abounded more.”
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