The saints dignity and duty· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardness. /…The saints dignitie and dutie· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardnesse. /…

Christ he might have been a man and have lived without weariness, without faintness, without hunger and thirst, he might have lived, without meat and drink, without sleep and rest, as he doth now in heaven where he is a man: but Christ as he gave himself to be a man for believers, so he gave himself to be like men in all sinless infirmities for believers. Thus he abased himself below man, below man as mans nature was in innocency, below that which was the nature of men, he even gave himself to the meanest infirmities of men, without sin.

Christ he might have been a man and have lived without weariness, without faintness, without hunger and thirst, he might have lived, without meat and drinke, without sleep and rest, as he doth now in heaven where he is a man: but Christ as he gave himself to be a man for beleevers, so he gave himself to be like men in all sinlesse infirmities for beleevers. Thus he abased himself below man, below man as mans nature was in innociencie, below that which was the nature of men, he even gave himself to the meanest infirmities of men, without sin.

Another thing in these words is, In the form of a servant; he did not only give himself to be a man, and to be subject as men are to all sinless infirmities; but he gave himself to be in the lowest rank of men, even to be a servant amongst men, He took upon him the form of a servant. The Lord Christ might have been in the likeness of men, a man subject to all humane infirmities without sin, and yet been a great man, a Commander, a Governor, a man of place: But for believers, Christ gave himself to be of the lowest rank of men, to be a servant, the Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister. Here is the First thing to which Christ gave himself for believers, even to become a man, subject to all sinless infirmities; to become of the meanest rank of men, even a servant amongst men.

Another thing in these words is, In the form of a servant; he did not only give himself to be a man, and to be subject as men are to all sinlesse infirmities; but he gave himself to be in the lowest ranke of men, even to be a servant amongst men, He took upon him the form of a servant. The Lord Christ might have been in the likeness of men, a man subject to all humane infirmities without sin, and yet been a great man, a Commander, a Governour, a man of place: But for beleevers, Christ gave himself to be of the lowest ranke of men, to be a servant, the Son of man came not to be ministred to, but to minister. Here is the First thing to which Christ gave himself for beleevers, even to become a man, subject to all sinlesse infirmities; to become of the meanest ranke of men, even a servant amongst men.