The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

5. But, to pass by all the rest in the Old Testament, the Incarnation of Christ was such a work of Omnipotent Love, as cannot by us be comprehended. That God should be united to humanity in person! that humanity should thus be advanced into union with the Deity! and Man be set above the Angels! that a Virgin should conceive! that men from the East should be led thither to worship an Infant by the conduct of a Star (which Caesarius thinketh was one of those Angels or Spirits which are called a flame of fire, Psal. 104.4.) That Angels from Heaven should declare his nativity to the Shepherds, and celebrate it with their praises: that John Baptist ⟨p. 118⟩should be so called to be his forerunner, and Elizabeth, Zechariah, Simeon, and Anna, should so prophesy of him: That the Spirit should be seen descending on him at his Baptism, and the voice be heard from Heaven, which owned him: that he should fast forty days and nights; and that he should be transfigured before his three Disciples on the Mount, and Moses and Elijah seen with him in that glory; and the voice from Heaven again bear witness to him: These, and many such like were the attestations of Divine Omnipotency to the truth of Christ.

5. But, to pass by all the rest in the Old Testament, the Incarnation of Christ was such a work of Omnipotent Love, as ca•not by us be comprehended. That God should be united to humanity in person! that humanity should thus be advanced into union with the Deity! and Man be set above the Angels! that a Virgin should conceive! that men from the East should be led thither to worship an Infant by the conduct of a Star (which Caesarius thinketh was one of those Angels or Spirits which are called a flame of fire, Psal. 104.4.) That Angels from Heaven should declare his nativity to the Shepherds, and celebrate it with their praises: that John Baptist ⟨p. 118⟩should be so called to be his forerunner, and Elizabeth, Zachary, Simeon, and Anna, should so prophesie of him: That the Spirit should be seen descending on him at his Baptism, and the voice be heard from Heaven, which owned him: that he should fast forty daies and nights; and that he should be transfigured before his three Disciples on the Mount, and Moses and Elias seen with him in that glory; and the voice from Heaven again bear witness to him: These, and many such like were the attestations of Divine Omnipotency to the truth of Christ.