Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

2. The nature assumed was the seed of Abraham: for verily he took not on him the nature of Angels, but he took on him the seed of Abraham:¹ elsewhere the Apostle calls it the seed of David: He is made the seed of David according to the Flesh: and elsewhere he is called the seed of the Woman: I will put enmity between thee and the Woman, and between thy seed and her seed: and when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his son made of a woman: no question she was the passive and material principle of which that precious flesh was made, and the Holy Ghost the agent and efficient: that blessed womb of her was the Bride-Chamber, wherein the holy Ghost did knit that indissoluble knot betwixt our humane Nature and his Deity: the Son of God assuming into the unity of his person that which before he was not, even our humane Nature. O with what astonishment may we behold our dust and ashes assumed into the unity of Gods own Person!

2. The nature assumed was the seed of Abraham: for verily he took not on him the nature of Angels, but he took on him the seed of Abraham:¹ elsewhere the Apostle calls it the seed of David: He is made the seed of David according to the Flesh: and elsewhere he is called the seed of the Woman: I will put enmity between thee and the Woman, and between thy seed and her seed: and when the fulness of time was come, God sent forth his son made of a woman: no question she was the passive and material principle of which that precious flesh was made, and the Holy Ghost the agent and efficient: that blessed womb of her was the Bride-Chamber, wherein the holy Ghost did knit that indissoluble knot betwixt our humane Nature and his Deity: the Son of God assuming into the unity of his person that which before he was not, even our humane Nature. O with what astonishment may we behold our dust and ashes assumed into the unity of Gods own Person!

1. 1Rom. 1.3. Gen. 3.15. Gal. 4.4.