Two discourses concerning the Holy Spirit, and His work the one, Of the Spirit…

THIS I confess is most astonishing, and attended with the most incomprehensible Rays of Divine Wisdom and Goodness in the Condescension of the Son. For he carried the Term of it unto the lowest and most abject Condition that a rational, intelligent Nature is capable of. So is it represented by the Apostle, Phil. 2. 6, 7, 8. For he not only took our Nature into Personal Union with himself, but became in it, in his outward Condition as a Servant, yea, as a Worm and no Man, a Reproach of Men, and despised of the People, and became subject to Death, the Ignominious, shameful Death of the Cross. Hence this Dispensation of God was filled up with Infinite Wisdom, Goodness and Grace. How this Exinanition of the Son of God was compensated with the Glory that did ensue, we shall rejoice in the Contemplation of unto all Eternity. And then shall the Character of all Divine Excellencies be more gloriously conspicuous on this Condescension of the Son of God, than ever they were on the Works of the whole Creation, when this Goodly Fabric of Heaven and Earth was brought by Divine ⟨p. 26⟩Power and Wisdom through Darkness and Confusion out of nothing.

THIS I confess is most astonishing, and attended with the most incomprehensible Rays of Divine Wisdom and Goodness in the Condescention of the Son. For he carried the Term of it unto the lowest and most abject Condition that a rational, intelligent Nature is capable of. So is it represented by the Apostle, Phil. 2. 6, 7, 8. For he not only took our Nature into Personal Union with himself, but became in it, in his outward Condition as a Servant, yea, as a Worm and no Man, a Reproach of Men, and despised of the People, and became subject to Death, the Ignominious, shameful Death of the Cross. Hence this Dispensation of God was filled up with Infinite Wisdom, Goodness and Grace. How this Exinanition of the Son of God was compensated with the Glory that did ensue, we shall rejoyce in the Contemplation of unto all Eternity. And then shall the Character of all Divine Excellencies be more gloriously conspicuous on this Condescention of the Son of God, than ever they were on the Works of the whole Creation, when this Goodly Fabrick of Heaven and Earth was brought by Divine ⟨p. 26⟩