56 3:0e atmonY of Me Zfbíne litttibuta;, Chap. IX. vaut, that is, took the humane nature without honour, attended with its infirmities ; So that by the vifible condition ofhis life, he was judged to be an ordinary perfon, and not that under that meannefs the Lord of Angels had been concealed. This will more diftin&ly be underfrood, if we confider the lownefs ofhis ex- tra&iou, the povertyofhis birth, and the tenourofhis life whilft he converft with Men. What Nation was more defpicable in the efteem of the World than the The'ews are Yezvt ? yet oftheir frock Chrift difdained not todefcend. called by iaci- And among the yews none were more vilified than the tus, Viliffima pars fervien- Galileanr, á and in Galilee Nazareth was a contemptible village, and in Nazareth the Family of o e h was ve- Lib. 5 Hift, y fp joh. 7.5o. ry obfcure, and to him our Saviour was nearly allied. joh. ,. 46. His reputed Father was a Carpenter, and his Mother I'°k' 2' 14' Levir. t t. a poor Virgin, that offered two Pigeons for her purifi- cation. He firft breathed in a Stable, and was covered with poor fwadling-cloaths, who was Mafter of Hea- ven and Earth, and adorns all creatures with their glo- ry. But Love made him who is Heir of all things, re- nounce the priviledge ofhis fupernatural Sonthip. In- conceivable condefcenfion ! Therefore an Angel was dif patcht from Heaven, whoappeared with a furprizing miraculous light, the vifible chara&er of his dignity , to prevent the fcandal which might arife from the meannefs of his condition, and to affure the Shep- Luke2.12. herds that the Babe which lay in the Manger, was the Redeemer of the World. The courfe ofhis Life was a preface, and preparative for the Death of the Crofs. He had a juff right to all that Glory, whicha created Nature perfonally united to the Deity could receive. An eminent inftance ofit there was in his Transfigurati- on, when Glory defcended from Heaven to encompáfs him ; that which was fo Ihort fhouldhave beencontinu- al, but he prefently returned to the lownefs ofhis for- , mer
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