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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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2. To whom Christ came. Was it to his Friends? no; he came to sinful Man. Man that had defaced his Image, abused his Love; Man, who was turned Rebel. Yet he came to Man, resolving to conquer Obstinacy with Kindness. If he would come to any, why not to the Angels that fell? Hebr. 2.16. He in no wise took upon him the Nature of Angels. The Angels are of a more noble Extract, more intelligible Creatures, more able for Service; I, but behold the Love of Christ, he came not to the fallen Angels, but to Mankind. Among the several Wonders of the Lodestone, this is not the least, That it will not draw Gold or Pearl, but despising these, it draws the Iron to it, one of the most inferior Metals. Thus Christ leaves the Angels, those Noble Spirits, the Gold and the Pearl, and he comes to poor sinful Man, and draws him into his Embraces.
2. To whom Christ came. Was it to his Friends? no; he came to sinful Man. Man that had defaced his Image, abused his Love; Man, who was turned Rebel. Yet he came to Man, resolving to conquer Obstinacy with Kindness. If he would come to any, why not to the Angels that fell? Hebr. 2.16. He in no wise took upon him the Nature of Angels. The Angels are of a more noble Extract, more intelligible Creatures, more able for Service; I, but behold the Love of Christ, he came not to the fallen Angels, but to Mankind. Among the several Wonders of the Loadstone, this is not the least, That it will not draw Gold or Pearl, but despising these, it draws the Iron to it, one of the most inferiour Mettals. Thus Christ leaves the Angels, those Noble Spirits, the Gold and the Pearl, and he comes to poor sinful Man, and draws him into his Embraces.
3. In what manner he came. He came not in the Majesty of a King, attended with his Lifeguard▪ but he came poor. Not like the Heir of Heaven, but like one of an inferior Descent. The Place he was born in was poor, not the Royal City Jerusalem, but Bethlehem, a poor obscure place. He was born in an Inn, and a Manger was his Cradle, the Cobwebs his Curtains, the Beasts his Companions; he descended of poor Parents. One would have thought, if Christ would have come into the World, he would have made choice of some Queen or Personage of Honour to have descended from; but he comes of mean obscure Parents. That they were poor appears, by their Offering,