Sympathy draws forth his helping grace

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Robert Traill (The Throne of Grace), Works 1:180:

Our blessed Lord Jesus himself was tempted, that he might succour them that are tempted, Heb. 2:18... But, ye may say, if Christ had never been tempted, had he not been able to succour them that are tempted? Yes, no doubt; for no bounds can be set to his divine power as God. What then doth his experience of temptation signify to the succour of the tempted believer? It is the ground of his sympathy with them; and sympathy draws forth his helping grace. It is a ground for the faith of the tempted to act upon. How sweet is this thought to a Christian thus exercised: “I am indeed a tempted believer; but I have a Saviour that was tempted himself, and remembers it still, and pities them, and will help them that are in that case, that was once so grievous to himself.”
 
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