The works of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, now preacher…The vvorks of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now preacher…

Well (says he) yet, Woe is me, for I am undone, I am a man of unclean lips. Why? what's the matter? (At the latter end of the verse) for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. And if ye look into the former verses of that chapter, ye shall find, That it was a sight of Christ in his glory, as will more fully appear, by comparing of that, and the 4. chapter of the Revelation together at your leisure. But where can a man see the Glory of God, but in the Gospel? The Gospel is called, The Glorious Gospel: there the Glory of ⟨p. 60⟩God is to be seen. With open face there, as in a glass, we behold the Glory of the Lord.

Well (saies he) yet, Wo is me, for I am undone, I am a man of unclean lips. Why? what's the matter? (At the latter end of the verse) for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. And if ye look into the former verses of that chapter, ye shall find, That it was a sight of Christ in his glory, as will more fully appear, by comparing of that, and the 4. chapter of the Revelation together at your leisure. But where can a man see the Glory of God, but in the Gospel? The Gospel is called, The Glorious Gospel: there the Glory of ⟨p. 60⟩God is to be seen. With open face there, as in a glass, we behold the Glory of the Lord.

Secondly, The more I see Christ as an Eminent, Transcendent Example of Humility, and Self-Denial; the more I learn to Deny my self, even in Spiritual things. Now the Gospel holds forth Christ as the most Eminent Example of Humility, and Self-Denial: such an Example as the Sun never saw before,¹ from first to last. At the first; He thought it no robbery (says the Apostle) to be equal with God: and yet he humbled himself, and took upon him the form of a servant. And at the last: Says he unto his father, Yet not my will, but thy will be done. And if ye look into the 13. chapter of John, ye shall find there, that our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, takes a towel, and water, and falls down at the feet of his Disciples, and washes their feet, verse the 4. He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments, and took a towel, and girded himself: and after he had poured water into a basin, he began to wash his Disciples feet, and to wipe them with a towel. When the Pharisee saw the woman come unto Christ, and wash his feet, and wipe them with the hair of her head; he wondered, and said, Surely, if this had been a Prophet, he would not have suffered a sinner to come so near to him. Did the Pharisee wonder at this condescension, That Christ should humble himself so far, as to suffer a poor woman to come so near him, as to wash his feet with her tears? Oh! what condescension is here! for ever to be wondered at, That the Lord Christ himself, should down upon his knees, and wash the Disciples feet: that the great God of heaven and earth, the second person incarnate, should now come, fall down at the feet of sinners. (Judas among them too) and wash his Disciples feet; When all power in heaven and earth was in his hands, that with those hands he should wash the feet of sinners!