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

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, Phil. 2 6, 7. he emptied himself to become a man, and laid himself among the lowermost ⟨p. 40⟩rank and sort of m•n, which is Rhetorically expressed by a worm, what is lower then a worm among living creatures, such was Jesus Christ in the flesh, a no body among men, the lowest of no body, therefore the Text saith a worm & no man, one of no account. But consider that this Text showeth of what esteem and account Jesus Christ was in the worlds eye only, he was not so accounted in Gods eye, nor in the Churches Eye, for see of what account Jesus Christ was in Gods Eye,