The harmony of the divine attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of man's redemption…

It doth not prejudice the freeness of redeeming Mercy, that Christ's personal Glory was the reward of his Sufferings.

1. 'Tis true, that our Redeemer for the Joy that was set before him, ¹endured the Cross, despising the shame, ⟨p. 149⟩and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God: but he was not first drawn to the undertaking of that hard service by the interest of the reward. For if we consider him in his Divine Nature, he was the second Person in the Trinity, equal to the first, he possest all the Supreme Excellencies of the Deity, and by assuming our Nature the only gain he purchased to himself, was to be capable of loss for the accomplishing our Salvation. Such was the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich, ²yet for our sakes he became poor, that we through his poverty might be made rich. And although his humane Soul was encouraged by the Glorious recompense the Father promised, to make him King and Judge of the World; yet his Love to Man was not kindled from that consideration, neither is it lessened by his obtaining of it. For immediately upon the union of the humane Nature to the Eternal Son, the Highest Honour was due to him. When the first-begotten was brought into the World, 'twas said, Let all the Angels of God worship him. ³The Sovereign Power in Heaven and Earth was his inheritance, annexed to the dignity of his Primogeniture: the Name above every name was a preferment due to his Person. He voluntarily renounced his right for a time, and appeared in the form of a Servant upon our account, that by humbling himself he might accomplish our Salvation. He entered into Glory after a course of Sufferings, because the Economy of our Redemption so required, but his original title to it was by the personal union. To illustrate this by a lower instance: the Mother of Moses was called to be his Nurse by Pharaohs Daughter, with the promise of a reward, as if she had no relation to him: Now the pure love of a Mother, not the gain of a