Christ is there called Emmanuel, God with us, and here his name is Ithiel, God with me, that is the difference between those two Names of Christ, Ithiel and Emmanuel, Immanuel is to signify Christ being God and Man in general for the good of mankind, God with us, but Ithiel, is that name of Christ whereby a Believer applies Christ to himself particularly, not only is the Saviour of the Elect, the Saviour of all Believers, is God with all Believers, but Ithiel, he is God with me, my Soul, I apply him particularly to my own Soul, he is God with me, I look upon Christ as God to all Believers, and to all Believers for their good, but looking upon Christ as applying him to my own Soul, So I look upon Christ as Ithiel, God with me, and therefore he repeats this twice, The man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel, Oh! he loves to look upon Jesus Christ as God with him, particularly with him. And then Ucal, Ucal signifies, I shall be able to prevail, and so it is the name of Christ, noting that the confidence of a Gracious heart is, to prevail in the strength of Christ against temptation, against sin, against corruption, against all trouble whatsoever, though I look upon my self as weak, vile, yet I ⟨p. 524⟩look upon Christ as one in whom I shall prevail, and so I call him Ucal, I shall be able in him, I shall prevail in him, that is the meaning of these two words, Ithiel and Ucal, The man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal, that is, spake to Jesus Christ, God in me, and God in whom I shall prevail, though I be weak in my self, and now mark how he came to be low in his own eyes upon this, Surely, I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man in me, I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the Holy; and so he goes on, he is hereupon very vile in his own eyes, and yet mark, before he doth express himself so vile, he can look upon Christ as his Christ, and he in whom he hath confidence to prevail, so that Faith and Humility may go both together, and the truth is, one furthers the other, the more faith and confidence we have in God, the more we come to be vile in our own Eyes, that is the first thing.
Christ is there called Emmanuel, God with us, and here his name is Ithiel, God with me, that is the difference between those two Names of Christ, Ithiel and Emmanuel, Immanuel is to signifie Christ being God and Man in generall for the good of mankind, God with us, but Ithiel, is that name of Christ whereby a Beleever applies Christ to himself particularly, not only is the Savior of the Elect, the Savior of all Beleevers, is God with all Beleevers, but Ithiel, he is God with me, my Soul, I apply him particularly to my own Soul, he is God with me, I look upon Christ as God to all Beleevers, and to all Beleevers for their good, but looking upon Christ as applying him to my own Soul, So I look upon Christ as Ithiel, God with me, and therefore he repeats this twice, The man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel, Oh! he loves to look upon Jesus Christ as God with him, particularly with him. And then Ʋcal, Ʋcal signifies, I shall be able to prevail, and so it is the name of Christ, noting that the confidence of a Gracious heart is, to prevail in the strength of Christ against temptation, against sin, against corruption, against all trouble whatsoever, though I look upon my self as weak, vile, yet I ⟨p. 524⟩look upon Christ as one in whom I shall prevail, and so I call him Ʋcal, I shall be able in him, I shal prevail in him, that is the meaning of these two words, Ithiel and Ʋcal, The man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ʋcal, that is, spake to Jesus Christ, God in me, and God in whom I shall prevail, though I be weak in my self, and now mark how he came to be low in his own eyes upon this, Surely, I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man in me, I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledg of the Holy; and so he goes on, he is hereupon very vile in his own eyes, and yet mark, before he doth express himself so vile, he can look upon Christ as his Christ, and he in whom he hath confidence to prevail, so that Faith and Humility may go both together, and the truth is, one furthers the other, the more faith and confidence we have in God, the more we come to be vile in our own Eyes, that is the first thing.
