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

1. The essential condition of the humane nature assumed by our Redeemer discovers his transcendent Love to us. For what proportion is there between God and Man? Infinite and Finite are not terms that admit comparison, as Greater and Less, but are distant, as All and Nothing. The whole World before him,¹ is but as the drop of the Bucket that hath scarce weight to fall; and the small dust of the Balance, that is not of such moment as to turn the scales; 'tis as nothing, and counted less then nothing and vanity. The Deity in its own nature includes Independence and Sovereignty. To be a Creature implies dependence, and subjection. The Angelical Nature is infinitely inferior to the Divine, and Man is lower then the Angels; yet the Word was made Flesh. Add to this, he was not made as Adam in the perfection of his nature, and beginning the first step of his life in the full exercise of Reason, and Dominion over the Creatures, but he came into the World by the way of a natural birth, and dependence upon a mortal Creature. The Eternal Wisdom of the Father stooped to a state of infancy, which is most distant from that of Wisdom, wherein though the Life yet the Light of the reasonable Soul is not visible, & the mighty God to a condition of indigence and infirmity. The Lord ⟨p. 168⟩of Nature submitted to the Laws of it. Admirable Love, wherein God seemed to forget his own Greatness, and the meanness of the Creature! This is more endeared to us by considering,

1. The essential condition of the humane nature assum'd by our Redeemer discovers his transcendent Love to us. For what proportion is there between God and Man? Infinite and Finite are not terms that admit comparison, as Greater and Less, but are distant, as All and Nothing. The whole World before him,¹ is but as the drop of the Bucket that hath scarce weight to fall; and the small dust of the Ballance, that is not of such moment as to turn the scales; 'tis as nothing, and counted less then nothing and vanity. The Deity in its own nature includes Independence and Sovereignty. To be a Creature implys dependence, and subjection. The Angelical Nature is infinitely inferior to the Divine, and Man is lower then the Angels; yet the Word was made Flesh. Add to this, he was not made as Adam in the perfection of his nature, and beginning the first step of his life in the full exercise of Reason, and Dominion over the Creatures, but he came into the World by the way of a natural birth, and dependance upon a mortal Creature. The Eternal Wisdom of the Father stoopt to a state of infancy, which is most distant from that of Wisdom, wherein though the Life yet the Light of the reasonable Soul is not visible, & the mighty God to a condition of indigence and infirmity. The Lord