The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…

Math. 8.20. the Foxes have holes, and the Fowls of the Air have nests, but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head, Luk. 2.7. she brought forth her first born Son, and wrapped him in swaddling Clouts, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the Inn; in so poor a condition he was born, and it appeareth that he had not advanced or increased his estate all the time of his life, for now he was in his public Ministry, and yet he had no place of his own where to lay his head, and take a nights rest, nor any house to entertain his followers and auditors, but often went out unto Mountains and wildernesses to preach unto them, or upon the Sea shore. He was the Son of a Carpenter. Mat. 13.55. and wrought with his Father for his living, Mark. 6.3. yet had not the means or opportunity to raise any worldly estate, nor to build for himself an house, nor any shelter where to lay his head, Isai. 33.2. he grew as a Root out of a dry ground, and men know that such Roots grow but poorly, Psal. 40.17. but I am poor and needy, and this is manifestly spoken of Christ, as appeareth, ver, 6, 7, 8, &c. the same is said, Psal. 70.5. Psal. 69.29. I am poor and sorrowful, and this Psalm speaketh ⟨p. 36⟩abundantly of the sufferings of Jesus Christ, and this of poverty is one of his sufferings, Psal. 109.22. I am poor and needy, and this Psalm is a Prophesy of Jesus Christ, his Parents were poor which appeareth by their lodging in a Stable, and at his mothers purification, they offered the poor woman's offering, Luk. 2.2•. This part of the sufferings of Christ is abundantly declared both in the Prophesy and also in the History. Poverty is not a sin, but an affliction a punishment of sin, sin hath brought poverty upon man, as the desert of our sin, man was a rich Lord, but sin hath made him a poor beggar. The reason why poverty is a punishment, is, because it cutteth us off, and depriveth us, and taketh away much of our dominion over the Creatures of God. Adam was made Lord over Gods Creatures, in this low world he had dominion over them, but sin hath stripped us in a great measure of our dominion. God will permit us to have a little, a few of his creatures to rule over and employ. Though some dominion over, and use of the creatures God doth allow to every one, even to the poorest Lazarus, viz.