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laft enemy that fhall be deftroyed, is death." For when the Soul is in Heaven, free from Sin, the Devil, and the World, the Body lies in the Grave under Death. But our King will fully rescue us from Death too, by the glorious Refurrection at the last Day: 1 Theff. iv. 16. The Lord himfelf fhall defcend from heaven with a fhout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Chrift fhall rife firft.' 1 Cor. xv. 52. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the laft trump, (for the trumpet fhall found), and the dead fhall be raised incorruptible, and we fhall be changed.'"

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We are to receive Chrift as our King, renouncing the Dominion of Sin, Death, the Devil, and the World, and wholly giving up ourselves to him, to be ruled by him as our Head: I. xxvi. 13. O Lord our God, other lords befides thee have had dominion over us but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.' Pfal. ii. ult. Kifs the Son left he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little': bleffed are all they that put their trust in him.' We are to make ufe of him as our King, daily applying and trusting to him, for Life, Strength, and Defence, and Victory over our Enemies: 2 Tim. ii. 1. Thou therefore, my fon, be ftrong in the grace that is in Chrift Jefus.' 2 Cor. i. 10. God delivered us from fo great a death, and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet ⚫ deliver us.'

Queft. 27. Wherein did Chrift's Humiliation confift?

Anf. Chrift's Humiliation confifted in

his being born, and that in a low Condition, made under the Law, undergoing the Miseries of this Life, the Wrath of God, and the curfed Death of the Crofs; in being buried, and continuing under the Power of Death for a Time.

EXPLICATION.

Chrifts Humiliation belonged to the Condition of the Covenant of Grace, performed by himself: And it was then a voluntary Thing in him: Phil. ii. 7. 8. Chrift Jefus made himself of no reputa'tion, and took upon him the form of a fervant, ' and was made in the likeness of men: and be'ing found in fashion as a man, he humbled himfelf, and became obedient unto death, even the 'death of the crofs.'. He humbled himfelf, that he might execute his Offices, especially his priestly Office: Luke xxiv. 26. Ought not Chrift to have fuffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And he humbled himself, putting himfelf in a State of Humiliation, and humbling himfelf in that State.

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Christ God-man put himself in a State of Humiliation, emptying himself of his Glory, and taking upon him the Form of a Servant: Phil. ii. 7. forecited. The Form of a Servant he took. upon him, was the Form of a Bond-fervant : Pfal. xl. 6. 'Sa'crifice and offering thou didst not defire, mine ears haft thou opened; Marg. digged. Compared with Exod. xxi. 6. Then his mafter shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-posts:

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and his master fhall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall ferve him for ever.' He took upon him the Form of a Bond-fervant, being made under the Law: Gal. iv. 4. 5. 'But when the fulnefs of the time was come, God fent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we 'might receive the adoption of fons.' He was made under the Law as a Bond-fervant, to redeem us that were under the Law as Bond-fervants : Gal. iv. 4. 5. forecited. verf. 7. Wherefore thou art no more a fervant, but a fon; and if a fon, then an ' heir of God through Chrift.' He did then tranf fer our State of Servitude under the Law upon himfelf: I. xlix. 3. Thou art my fervant, O

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Ifrael, in whom I will be glorified.' And what lay upon him as fo made under the Law, was, to give it that perfect Obedience in Holinefs of Nature and Life, that it required of us for Life, and under the Curfe of it to bear our Punishment: Matth. iii. 15. Thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteoufnefs. Gal. ii. 13. Chrift hath re⚫ deemed us from the curfe of the law, being made curfe for us.' His Obedience then, as well as his Suffering, was a Part of his Humiliation, Phil. ii. 8. forecited; forafmuch as he gave it in the Form of a Bond-fervant. But his State of Humiliation is now over, and at an End: And it ended at his Resurrection, Rom. xiv. 9. To this end Chrift both died, and rofe, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.'

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Chrift humbled himself in that State, performing the Obedience, and bearing the Punishment that it required. He humbled himself, performing the Obedience which that State required, ipafmuch as,

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in the Form of a Bond-fervant, he was conceived and born of a Woman, perfectly holy, and lived perfectly righteous: Pfal. xl. 6. Marg. forecited Compared with Heb. x. 5. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he faith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not, but a body haft thou prepared me. Gal. iv. 4. Phil. ii. 7. 8. both forecited. His very being conceived and born of a Woman, was a notable Piece of Humiliation in him; and that because he was the Son of God, Gal. iv. 4. Phil. ii. 7. He humbled himself, bearing the Punishment which that State required, inafmuch as, all along from his Conception to the Grave, he fubmitted to the Effects of the Curfe transferred from us on him, Gal. iii. 13. fore cited.

He fo humbled himself in his Conception, being conceived of a Woman of a mean and low State Luke i. 48. He hath regarded the low eftate of 'his handmaiden.' An Evidence of the mean and low State of the Mother of our Lord, is her being espoused to a Carpenter: Matth. i. 18. Mary efpoufed to Jofeph. Compared with Chap. xii. 55. Is not this the carpenter's fon? Is not 'his mother called Mary?'

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He fo humbled himself in his Birth, being born in a low Condition. The low Condition he was born in, was, that he was born in the fmall Town of Bethlehem, in the Stable of an Inn, and laid in a Manger instead of a Cradle, because there was no Room for them in the Inn: Mic. v. 2. But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee fhall he come forth unto me, that is to be ruler 'in Ifrael. Luke ii. 7. And the brought forth

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He fo humbled himself in the Courfe of his Life, undergoing the Miferies of this Life. The Kind of Life that Chrift had in the World, was a poor, forrowful, despised, tempted, and toiled Life, in which he felt Wearinefs, Hunger, and Thirst: 2 Cor. viii. 9.' For ye know the grace of our Lord $ Jefus Chrift, that though he was rich, yet for your fakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. Compared with Matth. viii. 20. The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nefts; but the Son of man hath not "where to lay his head.' . liii. 3. He is despised and rejected of men, a man of forrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was defpifed, and we esteemed him not.' Pfal. xxii. 6. I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.' Luke iv. 13. ' And when the devil had ' ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a feafon.' Acts x. 38. Jefus of Nazareth went about doing good, and healing all that were oppreffed of the devil: for God was with him.' Compared with Mark iii. 20. And the multitude cometh together again, fo that they could not fo much as eat bread.' John iv. 6. Jefus therefore · being wearied with his journey, fat thus on the well. Matth. iv. 2. And when Jefus had fast⚫ed forty days and forty nights, he was afterwards · an hungred.' Compared with Chap. xxi. 18. Now in the morning as he returned into the ci6 ty, he hungred.'

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