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2. What is there that you can desire should be in a Saviour, that is not in Christ? Or, Wherein should you desire a Saviour should be otherwise than Christ is? What Excellency is there wanting? What is there that is great or good? What is there that is venerable or winning? What is there that is adorable or endearing? Or, what can you think of that would be encouraging, that is not to be found in the Person of Christ? Would you have your Saviour to be great and honourable, because you are not willing to be beholden to a mean Person? And, is not Christ a Person honourable enough to be worthy that you should be dependant on him? Is he not a Person high enough to be worthy to be appointed to so honourable a Work as your Salvation? Would you not only have a Saviour that is of high Degree, but would you have him notwithstanding his Exaltation and Dignity, to be made also of low Degree, that he might have Experience of Afflictions and Trials, that he might learn by the Things that he has suffered, to pity them that suffer and are tempted? And has not Christ been made low enough for you? And has he not suffered enough? Would you not only have him have Experience of the Afflictions you now suffer, but also of that amazing Wrath that you fear hereafter, that he may know how to pity those that are in Danger of it and afraid of it? This Christ has had Experience of, which Experience gave him a greater Sense of it, a thousand Times, than you have, or any Man living has. Would you have your Saviour to be one that is near to God, that so his Mediation might be prevalent with him? And can you desire him to be nearer to God than Christ is, who is his only begotten Son, of the same Essence with the Father? And would you not only have him near to God, but also near to you, that you may have free Access to him? And would you have him nearer to you than to be in the same Nature, and not only so, but united to ⟨p. 275⟩you by a spiritual Union, so close as to be fitly represented […] the Union of the Wife to the Husband, of the Branch to the Vine, of the Member to the Head yea, so as to be looked upon as one, and called one Spirit? For so he will be united to you, if you accept of him. Would you have a Saviour that has given some great and extraordinary Testimony of Mercy and Love to Sinners, by some Thing that he has done, as well as by what he says?

2. What is there that you can desire should be in a Saviour, that is not in Christ? Or, Wherein should you desire a Saviour should be otherwise than Christ is? What Excellency is there wanting? What is there that is great or good? What is there that is venerable or winning? What is there that is adorable or endearing? Or, what can you think of that would be encouraging, that is not to be found in the Person of Christ? Would you have your Saviour to be great and honourable, because you are not willing to be beholden to a mean Person? And, is not Christ a Person honourable enough to be worthy that you should be dependant on him? Is he not a Person high enough to be worthy to be appointed to so honourable a Work as your Salvation? Would you not only have a Saviour that is of high Degree, but would you have him notwithstanding his Exaltation and Dignity, to be made also of low Degree, that he might have Experience of Afflictions and Trials, that he might learn by the Things that he has suffered, to pity them that suffer and are tempted? And has not Christ been made low enough for you? And has he not suffered enough? Would you not only have him have Experience of the Afflictions you now suffer, but also of that amazing Wrath that you fear hereafter, that he may know how to pity those that are in Danger of it and afraid of it? This Christ has had Experience of, which Experience gave him a greater Sense of it, a thousand Times, than you have, or any Man living has. Would you have your Saviour to be one that is near to God, that so his Mediation might be prevalent with him? And can you desire him to be nearer to God than Christ is, who is his only begotten Son, of the same Essence with the Father? And would you not only have him near to God, but also near to you, that you may have free Acces to him? And would you have him nearer to you than to be in the same Nature, and not only so, but united to