This most precious and suitable Saviour!''

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"For we do not have a high priest who is unable to
 sympathize with our weaknesses." Hebrews 4:15

What a mercy it is to have a faithful and gracious 
compassionate High Priest who can sympathize with 
His poor, tried, tempted family--so that however 
low they may sink . . .
  His pitiful eye can see them in their low estate,
  His gracious ear hear their cries,
  His loving heart melt over them, and
  His strong arm pluck them from their destructions!

Oh what would we do without such a gracious and 
most suitable Saviour as the blessed Jesus! How He 
seems to rise more and more . . .
  in our estimation,
  in our thoughts,
  in our desires,
  in our affections, 
as we see and feel what a wreck and ruin we are,
what dreadful havoc sin has made with both body 
and soul, what miserable outcasts we are by nature.

But oh how needful it is, dear friend, to be brought 
down in our soul to be the chief of sinners, viler than 
the vilest, and worse than the worst--that we may 
really and truly believe in, and cleave unto, this 
most precious and suitable Saviour!