The Fountain of Life Opened

Use 7.

Vse 7.

¹Seventhly, Hence we see, To what an height God intends to build up the happiness of man, in that he hath laid the Foundation thereof so deep, in the incarnating of his own Son.

¹Seventhly, Hence we see, To what an height God intends to build up the happiness of man, in that he hath layed the Foundation thereof so deep, in the incarnating of his own Son.

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They that intend to build high, use to lay the Foundation ⟨p. 63⟩low. The happiness and glory of our Bodies, as well as Souls, is founded in Christs taking our flesh upon him. For therein as in a Model, or Pattern, God intended to show, what in time he resolves to make of our Bodies. For he will [Greek or Hebrew] transform our vile Bodies, and make them one day conformable to the glorious Body of Jesus Christ, Phil. 3.21. This flesh was therefore assumed by Christ, that in it might be shown, as in a Pattern, how God intends to honour and exalt it. And indeed a greater honour cannot be done to the nature of man, than what is already done it by this grace of union. Nor are our persons capable of an higher glory, than what consists in their conformity to this glorious head. Indeed the flesh of Christ will ever have a distinct glory from ours in Heaven, by reason of this Union. For being the the Body which the word assumed, it is two ways advanced singularly above the Flesh and Blood of all other men, viz. Subjectively and Objectively, Subjectively, it is the Flesh and Blood of God,