Eighteen sermons preached in Oxford 1640 of conversion, unto God. Of redemption, & justification,…

1. He made himself of no Reputation, [Greek or Hebrew], he emptied himself: It was the second person in the Trinity that thus humbled and emptied himself, (not in his divine nature, but his assumed,) of all his transcendent endowments.

1. He made himself of no Reputation, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, he emptied himself: It was the second person in the Trinity that thus humbled and emptied himself, (not in his divine nature, but his assumed,) of all his transcendent endowments.

Consider the particulars of it, he took on him the form of a servant; Was not this a great humiliation? That the second person in the Trinity should stoop so low as to take on him the nature of one who is not worth the looking on? that he should take dust and ashes upon him. Psalm 113.5, 6. Gods greatness is thus expressed, Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high, who humbleth himself to behold the things in heaven, and in the earth: What Humiliation is that? compare these two humiliations together. It is but an humiliation to cast but his eye upon the heavens, to look upon the most glorious of all his works, to look upon the Angels but what is man that thou so regardest him? that thou shouldst not only look upon him, but take him up, & make him an inmate under thine own roof? this is a greater abasement, but here's a further degree, Christ during the time of his pilgrimage was content to deprive himself of his Glory, that he now enjoys, by reason of his Hypostatical Union with the God-head, he deserves all honour and glory, When he brought his first begotten into the world, he saith, And let all the Angels worship him. Heb. 1.6. Every knee bows to him that is thus highly exalted. We see Christ crowned with glory and honour, all Dominion and Power being made subject unto him, yet he for thirty three years and an half was content to be exiled from his Fathers court.