Self-denial opened and applied in a sermon before the Reverend Assembly of Divines on…Self-deniall opened and applyed in a sermon before the Reverend Assembly of Divines on…

WE may observe of CHRIST, that usually when there appeared in him any evidences of humane frailty, lest his servants should thereat be offended and stumble, he was pleased at the same time to give some notable demonstration of his divine Power: he was born weak and poor, as other Infants, but attended on by^* a multitude of glorious Angels, proclaiming him to the Shepherds, and by a special ^*Star, leading the wise men to worship him. ⟨p. 2⟩He was hungry, and Tempted by Satan as other men; but by his divine power^a he vanquished the enemy, and was ministered unto by Angels. He was deceived in the fig-tree, which he went to for fruit, and found none, and so showed the infirmity of an humane ignorance; but withal immediately did^b manifest his divine power in drying it up from the roots.^c He was crucified (as the Apostle telleth us) in weakness; and yet withal he did even then manifest himself The Lord of glory, by^d rending the rocks, opening the graves, darkening the Sun, converting the thief and the Centurion, and^e so triumphing over principalities and powers.

WE may observe of CHRIST, that usually when there appeared in him any evidences of humane frailtie, lest his servants should thereat bee offended and stumble, hee was pleased at the same time to give some notable demonstration of his divine Power: hee was born weak and poor, as other Infants, but attended on by^* a multitude of glorious Angels, proclaiming him to the Shepherds, and by a speciall ^*