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

The Sufferings of Jesus Christ in the form of a Servant. Phil. 2.7. and took upon Him the form of a Servant.

The Sufferings of Iesus Christ in the form of a Servant. Phil. 2.7. and took upon Him the form of a Servant.

This is an eminent part or branch of the Humiliation and sufferings of Jesus Christ, a servant is the lowest order of mankind, a servant is beneath a Son, Luk 15.14. I am not worthy to be called thy Son, make me as one of thy hired Servants, it was a word of humiliation in the penitent prodigal, but an unexpressible act of humiliation in Jesus Christ, he came to be a Servant to his Father & that •e might have been, if he had been an Earthly King. King David counts it his honour to be a Servant of God, Psal. 116.16. O Lord truly I am thy Servant, I am thy Servant. But Jesus Christ took the form of a Servant among men. There be degrees of a Servant beneath that condition which Jesus Christ condescended unto, which he could not submit unto; but as low as it was possible, he condescended, and that was, to take the form of a Servant. Sin hath stripped Adam of his dominion, and brought him into bondage, Jesus Christ condescended as low as it was possible without sin, to bear as much of the punishment of sin, as he could with Innocency, and therefore took upon himself the form of a Servant, to redeem man from his servitude; and to bring us into the adoption of Sons, a freedom of the Gospel, Math. 20.28. the Son of came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, Gal. • 4, 5. God sent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the Law, to redeem them that were under the Law, that they might receive the Adoption of Sons.