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Who, may be either, what church? Or, what particular Christian in any church? Is weak, asyenei, through outward afflictions, or in respect of inward spiritual troubles, and I am not weak, and I do not sympathize with that church, or with that person? Who is offended, or scandalized, under temptations to be seduced and fall into sin, and I burn not, and I am not on fire with a holy zeal for the glory of God, and the good of his soul, if possible to keep him upright? By which the apostle doth not only show us what was his own holy temper, but what should be the temper of every faithful minister, as to his province, or that part of the church over which he is concerned to watch; viz. to have a true compassion to every member of it, to watch over his flock, inquiring diligently into the state of it; to have a quick sense of any evils under which they, or any of them, labour. This is indeed the duty of ever private member, but more especially of him whose office is to feed any part of the flock of Christ, Romans 12:15. In this the members of the spiritual, mystical body of Christ should answer to the members of the body natural, to which our apostle before resembled it.