Remains of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection…Remaines of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection…

Now lay these two together, what God hath laid out upon man, and what he hath laid up for him, and will it not appear that the great God makes a great account of man? How can you choose but cry out in the words of the Psalmist, What is man, &c. But,

Now lay these two together, what God hath laid out upon man, and what he hath laid up for him, and will it not appear that the great God makes a great account of man? How can you chuse but cry out in the words of the Psalmist, What is man, &c. But,

Thirdly. This will appear by that near union that he hath taken him up into, with himself. Oh how wonderfully hath God dignified man in this? By uniting his Nature to the nature of man, as 'tis in the second person of the Trinity, Joh. 1. 14. And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us, or, in us. That God should take up the nature of man into personal union with himself, what an unspeakable dignity is this! So the Apostle, he took not upon him the nature of Angels, but the seed of Abraham, Heb. 2. 16. Herein is man dignified above the Angels of glory, in the near union between God and man in the Godhead. This is that which the Angels do desire to pry into: well may the Apostle say, ⟨p. 290⟩great is the mystery of godliness: and this is the top of it, God manifest in the flesh. Greatly hath God dignified man in these two things, that Man should be partaker of the Divine Nature; and that God should partake of the Humane Nature.

1. That Man should partake of the Divine Nature,