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Ix.]
FAITH
BUILT
ON
KNOWLEDGE.
Q.
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that
brought
him
down from heaven
to an
incarnation,
and
veiled
the
dignity
of
his
divine glory in the lowly
and
debased figure
of
a
man, in
the likeness
of
sinful
flesh.
A
believer
reads
his willingness
in the very
features
of
his
manhood
;
and
every poor
and painful circumstance
of
his
life
writes
his
love still in
fairer characters.
What
mean
all
his
labours, and wearisome travels
?
His
preachings and pleadings
with
obstinate
men all
the
day,
in towns
and
villages? And
his
midnight
wrestlings with
God
upon
the
cold
mountains
?
What
mean
his
kind
invitations, and
his
melting language,
oh
every
one
that
thirsteth,
let
him
come
unto
me,
and drink
Q
Come
unto
me
all
ye
that
are
weary,
and
I
will give you
rest,
Mat.
xi.
8.
Come to the
physician,
ye
that
are
sick,
and
I
will
heal you.
Come
ye
that
are
heavy
laden,
and
I
will
release
you.
"
He
that
cometh
unto
me
shall in
no
wise be
cast out
;"
John
vi.
37.
What
can
be
the
design
of
all these
tender
expressions,
but
to
acquaint
us
with
his willingness
to
take
care
of
those sinners
that
commit
their
souls to
him?
What
means
his
submission to
cruel
sufferings,
and to
bitter
reproaches
?
his
agonies
in
the
garden
;
The
convul-
sions
of
his
nature, and
the
tortures of
his
soul
?
Tor-
tures
that
drew cries
and tears from the
Son
of
God
?
And
his
soul
was
exceeding sorrowful, even to
astonish-
ment
and death.
What
do all those speak,
if
not
love
and
willingness to save
?
What
is
the language
of
his
arms, when
spread naked
on
the
cross,
but
come
unto
me,
sinners,
and
I
will
embrace
you
?
This
is
the voice
of
every
wound
of
his
body, while
his
breath expired
amidst
blood
and groans.
Nor
can
we
understand any
thing
by
all these
scenes
of
woe,
if
we
cannot read
love
in them,
and a
hearty willingness
to
secure
believing
sinners
from
the wrath
to come.
4.
He
bath perfect righteousness, and
atoning blood.
So
that
the most guilty soul
may
trust
him
safely
;
for
he
has
obeyed, and he has suffered
:
He
has
procured
par-
don
for
sin,
and
justification unto eternal
life
:
He
has
made satisfaction for the vilest
of
crimes,
and
for the
chief
of
sinners.
He
had a
human
nature that
could
die,
and
the in-dwelling divinity,
that
could
put
infinite dignity
into
his
death, and
render
it
a
full
atonement
for the
heaviest
guilt:
He
has
paid our
immense debts,
and
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