. ' 0/: tbe Nativity. . the heavens !hould bow at his prefence~ and the .earth tren:tble at the approach of his n1ajdry, and that a-ll the clouds {hould dap together in an u~1ivcrfal thut1der, to wd- .con,1c his appearance. · But, inftead of all this pomp and · granc cur, h _flips into the '\lvorld (a~ they fay) tncog·J::·to. is born in a · village, difcovered by C)nle poor Jhcpherds, and fc)Ul1d by tbem in ;I ft~bk and fuch an homdy cradle as th{lt afforded, on.ly attend– ed by his poor n1other; who, tho' ofroy– al blood, hadnothing but goodnefs to make · her eminent. And his education was anf– werablc to his obfcure bi rd:., and his whole life a courfe of hu-mility and felf-deniat Now, certainly, this far bdl: agrees with the dd1gn of his appearance, who .came not . on fo a1can an errand as to dazzle the eyes of mankind with the 1ppearance .of his glo– ry, nor to amaze thetn with the terrible– nefs of his majefiy, .n1uch lcfs to n1ake a fhewofriches and gallantry an1ongfi them~ but to bring life. and immortaldy to light, apd lead m,en tC?. eterpal happincfs. Inor– der to which, it was necdiary, that, by his example, asif well as his dochinej he fhould difparage the vanities of the world, and bring them out of that credit and efieem they had gotten a111ong fooli.ih tne;n. t
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