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

3. God hath took on him our Nature as a vast pipe to his Godhead, that it may flow out in all manner of sweetness upon our hearts; if God had come down in flesh, only to have been seen of us,¹ it had been a wonderful condescension, and a great mercy: if I have found favour in thy eyes (said Moses) show me thy way that I may know thee; but to come down in flesh, and to come down in flesh, not only to be seen, but to dispatch the great business of our souls Salvation, here's comfort indeed: with what joy should we draw water out of this well of salvation? Surely the great reason of the shallowness of our Comforts, shortness of our Hopes, the faintness of our spirits, the lowness of our Graces, is from the not knowing, or the not heeding of this particular; Christ in flesh stands not for a Cypher, but it is an Organ of life and grace unto us; it is a fountain of comfort that can never run dry. In this flesh there is laid in on purpose such a fullness of the Godhead, that of his fullness we might receive in our measure grace for grace. O my soul, thou art daily busy in eying this and that; but above all, know that all the fullness God lies in Christ incarnate, to be emptied upon thee: this was the meaning of Christ taking on him flesh, that through his flesh he might convey to thee whatsoever is in himself as God. As for instance, God in himself is Good, and Gracious, and Powerful, and All-sufficient, and Merciful, and what not? Now by his being in flesh, he suites all this, and conveys all this to thee; observe this for thy eternal comfort, God in and through the flesh makes all his Attributes and Glory serviceable to thy soul.

3. God hath took on him our Nature as a vast pipe to his Godhead, that it may flow out in all manner of sweetness upon our hearts; if God had come down in flesh, only to have been seen of us,¹ it had been a wonderful condescention, and a great mercy: if I have found favour in thy eyes (said Moses) shew me thy way that I may know thee; but to come down in flesh, and to come down in flesh, not only to be seen, but to dispatch the great business of our souls Salvation, here's comfort indeed: with what joy should we draw water out of this well of salvation? Surely the great reason of the shallowness of our Comforts, shortness of our Hopes, the faintness of our spirits, the lowness of our Graces, is from the not knowing, or the not heeding of this particular; Christ in flesh stands not for a Cypher, but it is an Organ of life and grace unto us; it is a fountain of comfort that can never run dry. In this flesh there is laid in on purpose such a fulness of the Godhead, that of his fulness we might receive in our measure grace for grace. O my soul, thou art daily busy in eying this and that; but above all, know that all the fulness God lies in Christ incarnate, to be emptied upon thee: this was the meaning of Christ taking on him flesh, that through his flesh he might convey to thee whatsoever is in himself as God. As for instance, God in himself is Good, and Gracious, and Powerful, and All-sufficient, and Merciful, and what not? Now by his being in flesh, he suites all this, and conveyes all this to thee; observe this for thy eternal comfort, God in and through the flesh makes all his Attributes and Glory serviceable to thy soul.