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'Chrift
by
fuf-
ifering eaters
:into glory.
on
the
Excellency
of
Chrifl.
fuffer
as
a
particular
man
,
but wee
are
to
look
upon Jefus
Chrift
in all the
work
of
his
humiliation
as a
common Per
-
fon, and
fo
all
the
ele,;
from jhe
beginning
of
the world
to
the end
are
looked
upon
by
God
the
Father
as
suffering in
him,
as
dying
in him,
as
being made
a
curie in him
;
as
the
fir((
Adam
was
a
common perfon
,
and
God
looked upon
all mankinde
as
dead in
hint
,
in
Adam
fo
the fecond
Adam
was
a
common
Perfon, and
in his
death
all the
ele,;}
are looked upon
as
dying
,
and
fo as
fatisfying Gods wrath
for their
fins
in their
own perfon, but
vertually
in him
as in
a
head. And
in
this
Chrift
was
wonderful in
his
humilia-
tion ,
and indeed
wee
do
not underfland Chriíls
humilia-
tion aright,
except wee
underhand
it
thus.
Wee
{011ie-
times fpeak of the
great
fufferings
of
Chritl,
and
fo far
wee underfland
perhaps
that
this was
for
us
, that hee
dyed
for
us,
but
wee do not
underfland that
wee dyed in
him,and
that
hee
was
a
common
Perfon, and all the ele&were
look-
ed upon
as
in him,as
fuffering
in him and fatisfying
Gods
wrath in
him
,
why
thus wee
are
to
exercife
our
faith
upon
Chrifls humiliation
;
and indeed
this
is
the
myflery
of
the
humiliation
of
Jefus Chrift.
r
3
And
further Chrift
was
wonderful
in
his
humilia-
tion
in this
,
that
by
fuch a
way hee
enters into
his
glory;
that
tivhen
God intended
the greateft
height
of
glory
to
a
creature that
ever
was
, or
ever should
bee , that yet
bee
would
have fuch
a
way
to lead unto
it
, as
that
Chrift
fnotdd
firft bee
brought
into
fuch
a
low
condition,
to
bee
a
worm,
and
no
man,
to bee
fo
accufed,
to
bee made
a
fcorn
of
men
,
to
bee
indeed in the
lowefl eflate
that
is almoft
pollible to
conceive
a
creature
here
to
bee in , and
yet that
God should
intend
this 'to
bee
the
way
to
the
highe(t de-
gree of
glory
that
is
podìble for
a
creature
to
attain
unto,
here
was
the wonderful counfel of
God
, the
wonderful
work
of God
;
now
you
know
that
fo it was
in
Chrift,
the
Scripture faith
,
Ought
hee
not
to
fuer
thefe
things,
and
fo
to
enter into his
glory
?
God
tnanifefted
in
him
what
way
hee
would
have
to bring
us
unto
glory,
that
is
by
the
way of