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m·lght abide him, In this, 0 LoItD, thou haft fhewed thy'­
goodnefs to man: in ,this our fathers Ahraham, '/(a(Jc, .and
Jacob, had a proof of thy loving kindnefs; and in'this all,
thy children may fee what great account thou make!b of them,
who love and fear thy holy na'!l~'
But what is all this, if it be comparedwith.that which
after followed? I do mean, with that great love w.lic!-t now'
in this Lfr age of the world, according to the truth of his
promifes, he hath fhewed unto his church, in that he oath
kept the. precife,,_ promifed and: appointed period -of tim,e,
wherein he hath appeared to his church, not in,fhape of mallpniy,;
as' he did to our fathers, b,ut in the very nature of.man
A mah indeed, albeit not made man, aft,er the m~nner of·
'other men; for he is the frone cut out of the.mouQ.tain w.ith-·
~ut hands; he was not made man by the qperatjon. of man:
'Ha is a flower ot the field, o'ot of the garden; h~ grew up
~ik? a brapc.n.of tbe root of 71fe., but not by the ordinary
labour 'Of:a gardiner; he ,is the fecond' 4dam, very man, but
not begottel1 by man; ~'h.e being- the GOD. of ,gIQFy, made
f' himfelf of no reputa~io~, he took. upon him th~ iqape, oJ a'
.~, [ervant, and was m':lde J,ke ~ntQ ,IJlen:" and all ·this he
did, that in our naturl': he might w~rk the work of our
redemptiol}: He came down from the"bq[om of his Fat~'er,
as die great Angel of his ~ot1nfel, ,to r~veal to us hrs Father's'
will. concerning o~r fa.lvatio/1. It is not c;.u!J:oglary· that
ponourable perfonages. fi}ou)d cOJ11e,~o the·po.orer, but his
compaffion.o(.6ur n~ce~ti~s~oflftraincd him:' for ":c lying
ftck ot the palf.y in,our couch, we.re not. able' tP... r~ach' u,nto
that divi~c'and high Majefry ;' th~ref~r~;he ~uipbje?: llimfelf,
to come unto' u~, becaufe ~~ were not ~1Jle to go. unto'
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.' And herein bath he uttered t~~~rd mar:J. his wonderful
. 'iove. .Man bt:i~g' ~an OI1Jy, afpired ..~o be like' unto G~D,
. and Co loft h;mfelf; [6 thaJ n~w -he is be~pm~' worfe th~n a­
companion to beafr's: But J~sus being very GOD, was con­
-tent to be,ome' man, that he might (a.ye' man, '. who wa,
l,dt.
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