. ·- ·""f . ~ 28 The Life of GOD of God, in taking our nature upon hin1 ; but only reflect on our Saviour's lowly and humble deportment while he was in the world. He had none of thofe fins and imperfections which may jufily hun1ble the beft of men; but he was fo entirely fwallow.ed up with a deep fenfe of the in– finite perf etlions of God, that he appeared as nothing in his own eyes, I mean, fo far as he' was a · creature. He confidered thofe eminent perfecrions which fhined in l1is bleffed foul, not as his own, but the gifts of God ; and therefore affumed no– thing to himfdf for them, but with the profound~it humility renounced all pre– tences to them. Hence did he refufe that ordinary com.Pcllation ofgood majler, when addrdfcd to his human nature by one who ir feems was ignorant of his divinity: .Why calte(l thou me good? thtre is none goad, /Jut God on!y : As if he had faid, The goodnefs of any creature (and fuch only thou takeft me to be) is n'ot worthy to be na.med or taken noti<;e of; ir is God alone who is originally and ctfentially good. He never h1:1de ufc of his miraculous power for vanity or ofl:entation. He would f'Ot gr~ ri y ti1c curiofity of the Je·ws with a fign from heaven, fon1e prodigious appea– rance in the air: nor would he follow the advice
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