How pleasing is the Contemplation of the lowly Steps our Almighty Leader
in conducting us to his heavenly Mansions! In plain and apt Parable
, Similitude, and Allegory, our great Master enforced the Doctrine of our Salvation; but
of his Acquaintance, instead of receiving what they could not oppose, were offended at the Presumption of being wiser than they
: They could not raise their little Ideas above the Consideration of him, in those Circumstances familiar to them, or conceive that he who appear'd not more Terrible or Pompous, should have any thing more Exalted than themselves; he in that Place therefore would not longer ineffectually exert a Power which was incapable of conquering the Prepossession of their narrow and mean Conceptions. Multitudes follow'd him, and brought him the Dumb, the Blind, the Sick, and Maim'd; whom when their Creator had Touch'd, with a second Life they Saw, Spoke, Leap'd, and Ran. In Affection to him, and admiration of his Actions, the Crowd could not leave him, but waited near him till they were almost as faint and helpless as others they brought for Succour.