Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

In all his communications of his Goodness to man in ways of blessing them, he stands upon the preservation of the rights of his sovereignty, and manifests his graciousness in favour of his Authority. I am the Lord your God, your God in all my perfections for your advantage, but yet your sovereign for your obedience. In all his condescensions he will have the rights of this untouched and unviolated by us. When Christ would give the most pregnant instance of his condescending, and humble kindness, he urgeth his Authority, to ballast their Spirits from any presumptuous eruptions because of his humility. John 13.13. You call me Master and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. He asserts his Authority, and presseth them to their duty, when he had seemed to lay it by for the demeanour of a Servant, and had below the dignity of a Master put on the humility of a mean underling, to wash the Disciples feet; all which was to oblige them to perform the command he then gave them. ver. 14. in Obedience to his Authority, and imitation of his Example.

In all his communications of his Goodness to man in ways of blessing them, he stands upon the preservation of the rights of his soveraignty, and manifests his graciousness in favour of his Authority. I am the Lord your God, your God in all my perfections for your advantage, but yet your soveraign for your obedience. In all his condescensions he will have the rights of this untoucht and unviolated by us. When Christ would give the most pregnant instance of his condescending, and humble kindness, he urgeth his Authority, to ballast their Spirits from any presumptuous eruptions because of his humility. John 13.13. You call me Master and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. He asserts his Authority, and presseth them to their duty, when he had seem'd to lay it by for the demeanour of a Servant, and had below the dignity of a Master put on the humility of a mean underling, to wash the Disciples feet; all which was to oblige them to perform the command he then gave them. ver. 14. in Obedience to his Authority, and imitation of his Example.