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C}HRIS2`IAN
MORALITY, VIZ,
(SEAM.
XXVIII,
Göd
?
And
how
can
we
otherwise
hope
to
be
the
sub
jects
and
favourites
of
the,
Prince of
peace
?
Is
humility
another part
of
an amiable character
?
Who
(
was
ever humble
as
the
'Son
of
God
?
The
brightness of.his.
father's
glory,
and
the
express
image
of
jis
,person,
who
emptied
himself,
and took upon
him
the
form
of
servant,
and
was
made
in
the likeness
of
meni
and
humbled
:
hitnself
yet
low.er,"
even
to the
deathof
the
cross," and
to the
dust of the grave,
Phil.
ii.
6
-9,
t['herefore,
the,Father,, loved
him,.
and the
Father exalted
him.
This
is
the
man,.
;he
God
man,
who calls us
to
the
practice of
this
virtue;
"
Learn
.of
me,
says he,
for
I
am
peek
and
lowly,
:and
ye
shall
find
rest
for
your
souls."
Nat.
xi.
29.
Whät_folly and. madness
is
it
for dust
and
ashes
to be
proud, when God's
own Son was
humble
?
1:nd,liq
-
gives' us
anobleinstance
to
assure us
that humi-
lity
is
a lovely
quality
:
When
the rich young man
in
the
:gospel
;came,
.and,
kneeled
before
him
to ask his advice,
Jesus
lookd
upon. him,
and
loved him
;
and
would have
left it upon
_
record
in
his
word,
that
there
was
something
lovely
in
a
modest and
humble carriage,
even
where
the
saving grace
of
God
was
wanting.
Mark
x
21.
Meekness and patience are the next things
I
menti-
pned,
that
go
to make up
the character
of a
lovely
per
-
hon.
Bat
who
was
meek
as
the
Son
of God
is
?
What
4Tronts
did:
he
endure
even
while
he was inviting sinners
14:tthe
'niost
affecting,
language
to their
own
eternal hap-
piness
?
What
shameful mockery did
he
sustain
?
What
leads.of
maliciou.s:arrd
infamous blasphemy?
.But
"when
be
was
reviled, he reviled
not
again:
1
Peter
ii.
23. as
A
sleep
before
her shearer
is
dumb,
so
opened
he
not
his
roqutb,"
Isa,
liii..7.
0
when shall
we
learn
to imitate
p!.trblessed.
Lord, and forbear
and
forgive as he
did.?
19w
was his
patience tried
to
the
utmost
!
And
that
pat
only in
the fruitless and thankless labours of
his
life
among
a
cruel and insolent race
of
men,
but
in the
ap.
proacles
:of
his
bloody:
death.
When the
blessed
Re.
ieet
er,
lay
agonizing
in
the
garden, or hung bleeding
on
the
:cross,.-to 'see him
oppressed with the weight
of
the
wrath
of
God
due
to
our
sins,
conflicting with
the
rage
of
devils,
forsalie,ri:
by his
friends,
and surrounded
with
the
profane
insults
of barbarous
men
:
What a
mournful and
moving,
spectacle
!
And
.yet
there
is
something divinely
amiable
in
it,
to behold
him all over calm
and patient,