Ate and drank like other men, but with great piety, and with great temperance and sobriety, ii. 95 j conversed with the meanest, the poorest, and the worst, as was needful for their cure, 96; reasons why he chose this kind of life, ib. ; he would not place religion in outward austerities and observance, ib. ; he would not countenance an inclosing spirit, ib. ; he followed that course of life which is fit for all, 97; his form of life must be suitable with the nature of his kingdom, ib. ; he would not gratify human wisdom, 98 ; he would. show the true nature of mortification, ib.
His great poverty, ii. 120 ; increases the value and merit of his satis- faction, ib. ; shows that he came to draw minds and hearts to the other world, ib. ; to season and sanctify a mean estate, ib.
Given for us, and given to us, ii. 344.
Without, there is no recovery of what we lost, ii. 346 ; no removal of the misery we incurred, 347 ; no obtaining what we should, desire and pursue as our proper happiness, ib.
Invoked together with the Father as an author of grace ; thereby his godhead proved, iii. 138; lordship of, belongeth to him as creator, and is common to him with the Father and Spirit, 141 ; as redeemer, by donation of God, and by his own purchase, ib. ; requires submis- sion, obedience, dependence, 142.
Jewish prejudices against, iii. 196 ; from erroneous opinions of the Messiah, ib. ; fond reverence for Moses and the prophets, ib. ; offence at his outward meanness, 197 ; Gentile prejudices, ib. ; from pride in the understanding, ib. ; the meanness of the apostles, ib. ; the hard conditions on which they were to entertain Christ, ib.
Having no form nor comeliness, and fairer than the sons of men, recon- ciled, iii. 222.
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-Christ was not esteemed among men, iii. 249 ; everything else acknowledged him, angels, fish, wild beasts, devils, but not man, ib. ; was des])ised, and became an object of scorn and contempt, 250 ; in their thoughts, ib. : words, ib. ; general carriage towards him, 251 • was a man of sorrows, ib. ; acquainted with grief, 252 ; why so miserable, ib. ; that God's promises might be fulfilled, ib. ; that he might declare his obedience to God's decrees and appointment, 253 ; that he might set oflf his love to man, ib. ; that he might be a perfect mediator for us, ib. ; that he might be able to comfort his people in like dis- tresses, ib.
An abject to the carnal, a jewel to the people of God, iii. 258.
Suffered for sin, iii. 263 ; not for his own, but ours, ib. ; bore the guilt of them, 265.
The physician of the soul, iii. 292 ; cureth us not by doctrine and ex- ample only, but by merit and suffering, ib. ; his merits and sufferings do effect our cure, as they purchased the Spirit for us, who reneweth and healeth our sick souls, 293.
^cted altogether by the Father's power, iii. 317; and by the Father's appointment, 318.
His readiness to accomplish the office of the mediatorship, iii. 339 ; shown by exjiress assertions of scripture, ib. ; by several passages in the history of his life, ib. ; his longhig for it before it came, ib. ; his not preventing it when he knew it, ib. ; his cheerful casting himself upon it, ib.; his submitting to his Father's will in his highest agonies and conflicts, 340 ; his silence, ib. ; his forbidding all violence for his rescue, ib. ; his prayers that the cup might pass from him not incon- sistent with this, 341.
His life a praxis of divinity and the rules of religion exemplified, iii. 343.
Eose as a resurrection, and liveth as a life, iii. 357 ; being risen, liveth a numberless term of years, even for ever, with God in glory, ib. ; not as God, but as Mediator, as God-man, ib. ; at his resurrection cleared from sin, and so no more liable to death, ib. ; that he might become a principle and fountain of life to ns, 358 ; that he might be doing something continually in heaven for the elect of God, ib. ; intercedes for them, ib. ; administers his kingdom to the destruction of his adversaries, 359 ; dispenses aU necessary supplies to the needs of his servants, ib.
Honoured as soon as he died, iii. 365.
His love, care and mercy, and kingdom, are eternal, iii. 396 ; all the will and pleasure of God shall prosper and be effectual in his hands, 397 ; because he is the choice instrument of God, the special servant of his decrees, ib. ; because he is so qualified that he must succeed in what he undertakes, 398 ; willing and ready to comply with the will of the Father, ib. ; able and mighty, so that he must needs effectuate that will, ib.
"Will infallibly, and without miscarrying, obtain the end of his death, iii. 406.
Taketh an infinite contentment and satisfaction in the salvation of shuiers, iii. 408. See Salvation.
Innocent, and accounted a transgressor ; men of the world transgressors, would fain be accounted innocent, iii. 478 ; cause of his sufferings was his bearing our sins, 479 ; merit of his death not extended to iiU, 482.