and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?" Neither the Father
nor the Son can by us at all be seen, as they are simply and
entirely in their own essence. Therefore the person of the Father
must be seen by us through the Son, as consisting of God and man;
the Godhead, by working effectually in the manhood, showing clearly
there through the infinite perfection and glory of the Father. "The
word was made flesh, and" then "we beheld his glory, the glory of
the only begotten of his Father"--he being in his personal
excellencies, infinitely and perfectly, what is recorded of his
Father, "full of grace and truth."

When Jesus Christ came down from glory, it was that he might bring
us to glory; and that he might be sure not to fail, he clothed
himself with our nature--as if we should take a piece out of the
whole lump instead of the whole, Heb. 11:l4--and invested it with
that glory which he was in before he came down from heaven. Eph.
2:6.

THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST.

We perceive love, in that the human nature, the nature of man, not
of angels, is taken into union with God. Whoso could consider this
as it is possible for it to be considered, would stand amazed till
he died with wonder. By this very act of the heavenly Wisdom we have
an inconceivable pledge of the love of Christ to man; for in that he
hath taken into union with himself our nature, what doth it signify
but that he intends to take into union with himself our persons? For
this very purpose did he assume our nature. Wherefore we read that
in the flesh he took upon him, in that flesh he died for us, "the
just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God."