Those taught by God the Father, to know God the Son

2. There is seeming improbability in it. If it be granted that 'tis not impossible, yet it seems improbable.

1. It seems improbable that God would so condescend. It is condescension for God to have any Communion with Men. It was condescension for God to appear to Abraham, and to be familiar with Moses. Man is but a worm, Job 25 6. And it must needs be great condescension for God to be made flesh; to be manifested in flesh. It would be matter of admiration, if a Prince should Marry a Poor Woman: but this is more, God must stoop very low to do this: this was too much to expect, before it was revealed: It would have been impudence to have asked it of God. The Angels of Heaven did not imagine such a thing, if it had been proposed to them, they would have thought, that it had been too much. God has showed a great deal of kindness to the holy Angels, but there is nothing parallel to this. It seems as if it would be an undervaluing, and forgetting his own Superiority. It seems very unlikely that He would ⟨p. 8⟩take upon him a Nature made out of the dust, that is exalted but one degree above the beasts. A Nature compassed about with Infirmities, a Nature inferior to the Angels, a Nature liable to hunger and thirst, and weariness, and pain, and death. It seems as if it were too much for love to do: That He would disdain to appear on earth in a mean outward appearance: That it should be said when He appeared in the form of a Servant, That this is God, This is He that you are to Worship and Adore.

1. It seems improbable that God would so condescend. It is condescention for God to have any Communion with Men. It was condescention for God to appear to Abraham, and to be familiar with Moses. Man is but a worm, Job 25 6. And it must needs be great condescention for God to be made flesh; to be manifested in flesh. It would be matter of admiration, if a Prince should Marry a Poor Woman: but this is more, God must stoop very low to do this: this was too much to expect, before it was revealed: It would have been impudence to have asked it of God. The Angels of Heaven did not imagine such a thing, if it had been proposed to them, they would have thought, that it had been too much. God has shewed a great deal of kindness to the holy Angels, but there is nothing parallel to this. It seems as if it would be an undervaluing, and forgetting his own Superiority. It seems very unlikely that He would