1;s Oe pa1`iliotiv et* 2Ettríuuteg, C-`h Vlli Salvation. Such was the Grace of our Lord Yefso V Chrifl, that being rich, yet for our fakes he becamepoor, cons. q,. that we through his poverty might be made rich. And a although hishumane Soul was encouraged by the Glo- rious recompence the Father promifed, to make him King and Judge ofthe World; yet his Love to Man was not kindled from that confideration, neither is it leffened by his obtaining ofit. For immediately up- on the union of thehumane Nature to theEternal Son, the Higheft Honour was due to him. When the firff- 1-leb, s, 6. begotten was brought into the World, 'twas laid, Let all the Angels of God worflrip him. The Sovereign Power in heaven and Earth was his inheritance, an- next to the dignity of his Primogeniture: The Name above every name was a preferment due to his Perron. He voluntarily renounc'd his right for a time, and ap- pear'd in the form ofa Servant upon our account, that by humbling himfelfhe might accomplifh our Salvati- on. He entred into glory after a courfe of Sufferings, becaufe the Oeconomy ofour Redemption fo requir'd, but his original title to it was by the perfonal union. To illuffrate this by a lower inffance: the Mother of 114ofs was call'd to be his. Nurfe by Pharaohs Daugh- ter, with the promife of a reward, as if the had no re- lation to him : Now the pure love of a Mother, not clariffns e- the gain ofa Nurfe, was the motive that inclin'd her nimper na- tonourifh himwithher Milk,. Thus the Love ofChrifc main bonus was the primary a&ive caufe that made him liberal to non propter P y pramiicupidi- us of his blood : neither did the juft expe&ation of ratem; ideo the reward take offfrom it. beneface re bonus e The Sum is this : The eflenceof Love con.fiffs indeli deleaavir, ring the good of another without refpe& to our (elves 5 anon quia incre- mentumGio- and Love is fo much the more free, as the benefit we aia ex flu par- give toanother, is lel,profitable, or moredamageable `' one quære- to us. Nowamong Men 'tis impoflible that to a ver tuom kat. Ambro,
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