Sermons . lief,^ as- the. j^ize7idid. They, bymiftaking the Seriptures^ and applying themin the literal fenfe, crucified the Lord of life jand killed the Holy fefus, whom Mofes andall the Prophets (who had been since theworld began) had exprefly wrote and^o-ke?t of. Let us therefore, my brethren, inreading the books of the Old Teftament, ufeGur utmoft endeavours to find out what partswere wrote ofChrifi and our Redemption, that a Luke i. 70. •BEFORE HIS INCARNATION. 155 by feeing Him delineated there, we may havethe firm fatisfadtion andunfpeakable comfort,that the religion, which we now profe
Sermons . lief,^ as- the. j^ize7idid. They, bymiftaking the Seriptures^ and applying themin the literal fenfe, crucified the Lord of life jand killed the Holy fefus, whom Mofes andall the Prophets (who had been since theworld began) had exprefly wrote and^o-ke?t of. Let us therefore, my brethren, inreading the books of the Old Teftament, ufeGur utmoft endeavours to find out what partswere wrote ofChrifi and our Redemption, that a Luke i. 70. •BEFORE HIS INCARNATION. 155 by feeing Him delineated there, we may havethe firm fatisfadtion andunfpeakable comfort,that the religion, which we now profefs, isthe very fame, by which all the antient Fa-thers hoped to be favedj whom, and all theother fervants of Chrijl^ that we may meetin heaven, when Faith ihall be fwallowed•up in certainty, and death in vidtory, mayGOD of his infinite mercy grant. To whomy three Perfons in one undivid-ed Efi!ence, be afcribcd^ as is 7noJldue^ all honour, praife, might, viajejly4ind dominion, now and for SERMON VII. The manner in which the Second Per- Jon in the Trinity was converfant amo7tg meny after his Incarnation, IN TWO SERMONS. Philip, ii. 6. —thought it not robbery to be equal with God:But made himfelf of no reputation^ and tookupon him the form of a fervant^ and wasmade in the likenefs of men-, and beingfound in fafdion as a man, he humbled him-felf and became obedient unto death, eventhe death of the crofs. )<^^^)^HESE words are a compendious^ T v£{ defcriptlon of the part, which they^^^ Second Perfon, when incarnate,was to perform on earth, in order to effed:the Redemption of mankind. He, who had 358 THE CONVERSATION OF ChRIST, teen in the form of God, (the Apoflle ac-quaints us) who had fhone forth in all thefplendor of the Deity, in days of old, heforeand under the Mofaic oeconomy,—did notnow arrogate^ or eagerly covet to be (as theGreek thought it not robbery means) equalin his appearances with the Godhead^ but atthis his fecond coming into the world, w
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