An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…

Again (Phil. 2.6, 7.) Who being in the form of God, thought it no robbery to be equal with God; but made himself of no reputation. and took upon him the form of a Servant: He emptied himself, ⟨p. 287⟩to fill us, and to raise our reputation with his Father, laid down his own.

Againe (Phil. 2.6, 7.) Who being in the forme of God, thought it no robbery to be equall wioh God; but made himselfe of no reputation. and tooke upon him the forme of a Servant: He emptyed himselfe, ⟨p. 287⟩to fill us, and to raise our reputation vvith his Father, layd downe his owne.

Now seeing Jesus Christ suffered such a wondrous change, from the form of God to the form of a Servant, from the fullness of God, to the emptiness of the meanest man; this is the highest testimony of his love. The course which Christ did run to save us, declares that there went as much of his love, as of his worthiness to save us: For as no creature had worth enough to save us any way, so no creature had love enough to save us in such a way. If one had come out of poverty and misery to dye for us, it had showed wonderful love, but to leave riches and become poor, to leave glory and become base, to leave fullness and become empty, to leave (in regard of visible manifestations) his God-head, and become Man: How unchangeable was his heart to us, who yielded himself up to such changes for us? He being at ease was broken asunder that we might not be broken, or rath r that we might be made whole for ever.

Now seeing Jesus Christ suffered such a vvondrous change, from the forme of God to the forme of a Servant, from the fulnesse of God, to the emptinesse of the meanest man; this is the highest testimony of his love. The course vvhich Christ did run to save us, declares that there went as much of his love, as of his worthinesse to save us: For as no creature had worth enough to save us any way, so no creature had love enough to save us in such a vvay. If one had come out of poverty and misery to dye for us, it had shewed vvonderfull love, but to leave riches and become poore, to leave glory and become base, to leave fulnesse and become empty, to leave (in regard of visible manifestations) his God-head, and become Man: How unchangeable was his heart to us, who yeelded himselfe up to such changes for us? He being at ease was broken asunder that we might not be broken, or rath r that vve might be made vvhole for ever.