O melting consideration! that the glorious Son of God, Joh, 1. 14. The Lord of glory, Jam. 2. I. The brightness of his fathers glory. Heb. 1. 3. Who was rich, 2 Cor. 8. 9. And ⟨p. 246⟩it no robbery to be equal with God. Phil. 2. 8. who from all eternity was infinitely and ineffably delighting and rejoicing in the bosom of his father, Prov. 8. 30. That he, I say, should manifest himself in flesh, 2 Tim. 3. 16. yea, in the likeness of sinful flesh, Rom. 8. 3. that is in flesh, that had the marks and effects of sin upon it, as hunger, thirst, pain, weariness and mortality; and not only so, but to choose such a state of outward meanness and poverty, never being possessed of a house in this world; but living as a stranger in other mens houses, and stooping in this respect to a lower condition than the very birds of the Air,1 and all this for enemies. O let it work, both admiration and thankfulness in my soul! my body is better accommodated than the body of my Lord. Deal Jesus! by how much the viler thou madest thy self for me, by so much the dearer shalt thou be to me.
O melting consideration! that the glorious Son of God, Ioh, 1. 14. The Lord of glory, Iam. 2. I. The brightness of his fathers glory. Heb. 1. 3. Who was rich, 2 Cor. 8. 9. And ⟨p. 246⟩it no robbery to be equal with God. Phil. 2. 8. who from all eternity was infinitely and ineff•bly delighting and rejoycing in the bosome of his father, Prov. 8. 30. That he, I say, should manifest himself in flesh, 2 Tim. 3. 16. yea, in the likeness of sinful flesh, Rom. 8. 3. that is in flesh, that had the marks and effects of sin upon it, as hunger, thirst, pain, weariness and mortality; and not only so, but to chuse such a state of outward meanness and poverty, never being poss•ssed of a house in this world; but living as a stranger in other mens houses, and stooping in this respect to a lower condition than the very birds of the Air,1 and all this for enemies. O let it work, both admiration and thankfulness in my soul! my body is better accommodated than the body of my Lord. Deal Iesus! by how much the viler thou madest thy self for me, by so much the dearer shalt thou be to me.
- 1Quanto pro me velior, tanto mihi Charior. Bern.
