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

Jesus Christ suffered the punishment of a low, obscure, despised condition in this World.

Jesus Christ suffered the punishment of a low, obscure, dispised condition in this World.

Psalm. 22.6. I am a worm and no man, despised of the people, a no body, a nothing, a poor despicable thing, this is an effect of his poverty, and therefore in the opening of it, sundry things will be coincident, and some, the same that were expressed in his sufferings of poverty, but it should not be accounted a needless Tautology, seeing the Scripture is so plentiful in this point, both in the Prophesy and in the History, to express, amplify, and dilate upon the point of the sufferings of our Lord Jesus, as being a point very remarkable, and much to be insisted upon, and often inculcated.

PSalm. 22.6. I am a worm and no man, despised of the people, a no body, a nothing, a poor despicable thing, this is an effect of his poverty, and therefore in the opening of it, sundry things will be coincident, and some, the same that were expressed in his sufferings of poverty, but it should not be accounted a needless Tautologie, seeing the Scripture is so plentiful in this point, both in the Prophesy and in the History, to express, amplifie, and dilate upon the point of the sufferings of our Lord Jesus, as being a point very remarkeable, and much to be insisted upon, and often inculcated.

Wealth is an exercise of the dominion of man, therefore it exalts a man in the World. poverty strippeth man of his dominion, therefore it lays him low in the World. And in that condition it pleased Jesus Christ to lay himself. He who is God humbled himself by his Incarnation, lower then Angels, though he had been born the greatest of men on Earth, yet he humbled himself to become a man,