The Christians great interest

Object. I am so base, worthless and faithless of my self, that I think it were high presumption for me to meddle with Christ Jesus, or the salvation purchased at the rate of his blood.

Answ. It is true, all the Children of Adam are base and vile before him who chargeth his Angels with folly, Job. 4. 18. All Nations are less than nothing and vanity before him, Isa. 40. 17. There is such a disproportion between God and men, that unless he himself had devised that Covenant▪ and of his own free will had offered so to transact with men, it had been high treason for men or Angels to have imagined, that God should have humbled himself, and become a servant, and have taken on our nature, and have united it by a personal union to •e the blessed God-head: and that he should have subjected himself to the shameful death of the Cross; and ••del this, that men, who were rebels, should be reconciled unto God, and be made eternally happy, by being in his holy company for ever. But I say, all that was his ⟨p. 96⟩own device and free choice: Yea, moreover, if God had not sovereignly commanded men so to close with him in and through Christ, Isa. 55. 1, 2, 3. Mat. 11. 28. 1 Joh. 3. 23. 2 Cor. 5. 10. no man durst have made use of that device of his. So then, although with Abigail • may say, let me be but a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my Lord,