* last enemy that shall be destroyed, 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 Resurrection at the last Day: 1 Theff. iv. 16. 'The Lord himself • shall defcend from heaven with a shout, with the * voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first.' 1 Cor. xv. 52. In a moment, in the twinkling of an * eye, at the last trump, (for the trumpet shall ' found), and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, < and we shall be changed." We are to receive Christ 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: If. xxvi. 13. • O Lord our God, other lords besides thee have * had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. Pfal. ii. ult. Kils • the Son left he be angry, and ye perish from the • way, when his wrath is kindled but a little : ✔ blessed are all they that put their trust in him.' We are to make use 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 strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.' 2 Cor. i. 10. • God delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet * deliver us.' Quest. 27. Wherein did Christ's Humiliation confift? Anf. Chrift's Humiliation confifted in 1 1 } his being born, and that in a low Condi-... EXPLICATION. Christos 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. 'Christ Jesus made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a fervant, ' and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled him'self, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.' He humbled himself, that he might execute his Offices, especially his priestly Office: Luke xxiv. 26. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And he humbled himself, putting himfelf in a State of Humiliation, and humbling himself in that State. Chrift 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. 'Sacrifice and offering thou didst not defire, mine ears haft thou opened; Marg, digged. Compared with Exod. xxi. 6. Then his master shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-posts: ' and 6 and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve 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 ful* ness of the time was come, God sent 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-servant, 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 Christ. He did then tranf fer our State of Servitude under the Law upon himself: If. xlix. 3. 'Thou art my fervant, O * Ifrael, in whom I will be glorified. And what lay upon him as so made under the Law, was, to give it that perfect Obedience in Holiness of Nature and Life, that it required of us for Life, and under the Curse of it to bear our Punishment: Matth. iii. 15. 'Thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Gal. ii. 13. Christ hath re deemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.' His Obedience then, as well as his Suffering, was a Part of his Humiliation, Phil. ii. 8. forecited; forasmuch 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 Refurrection, Rom. xiv. 9. To this end Chrift both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.' 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, inasmuch as, in the Form of a Bond-servant, 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 thout '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, in afmuch as, all along from his Conception to the Grave, he fubmitted to the Effects of the Curse transferred from us on him, Gal. iii. 13. fore cited. He so 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. 1. 18. Mary was efpoused to Jofeph. Compared with Chap xiii. 55. Is not this the carpenter's fon? Is not 'his mother called Mary?' in of He so humbled himself in his Birth, being born a low Condition. The low Condition he was born in, was, that he was born in the small Town 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 GA her 1 * her first-born son, and wrapped him in swaddling cloaths, and laid him in a manger, because there • was no room for them in the inn.' He so humbled himself in the Course of his Life, undergoing the Miseries 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 Weariness, Hunger, and Thirst: 2 Cor. viii. 9. For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus 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 nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.' If. liii. 3. 'He is despised ' and rejected of men, a man of forrows, and ac' quainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, 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 season.' Acis x. 38. Jesus 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, so that they could not fo much as eat bread. John iv. 6. 'Jesus therefore • being wearied with his journey, fat thus on the • well. Matth. iv. 2. And when Jesus 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 ci⚫ ty, he hungred.' 6 He so humbled himself to an Extremity, in respect |