The Fountain of Life Opened

Fifthly, He engaged to reward him highly for his work, by exalting him to singular and supereminent glory and honour; when he should have dispatched and finished it. So you read, Psal. 2.7. I will declare the decree the Lord hath said unto me, thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. It's spoken of the day of his resurrection, when he had just finished his suffering. And so the Apostle expounds and applies it, Acts 13.32, 33. For then did the Lord wipe away the reproach of his Cross, and invested him with such glory that he looked like himself again. As if the Father had said, now thou hast again recovered thy glory, and this day is to thee as a new birth-day.

These are the encouragements and rewards proposed and promised to him, by the Father. This was the joy set before him, (as the Apostle phraseth it) in Heb. 12.2. which made him so patiently to endure the Cross and despise the Shame.

These are the incouragements and rewards proposed and promised to him, by the Father. This was the joy set before him, (as the Apostle phraseth it) in Heb. 12.2. which made him so patiently to endure the Cross and despise the Shame.

And in like manner, Jesus Christ restipulates, and gives his engagement to the Father; that upon these terms he is content to be made flesh; to devest (as it were) himself of his glory; to come under the obedience and malediction of the Law; and not to refuse any, the hardest sufferings it should