Take him from his river, and nothing can make him live;
let him have water, water of life enough, and nothing can make him
die.
I know that there are some things besides fish that can make a shift
to live in the water; but the water is not their proper, their only
proper element. The frog can live in the water, but not in the water
only; the otter can live in the water, hut not in the water only.
Give some men grace and the world, grace and sin--admit them to make
use of their lusts for pleasure, and of grace to remove their guilt,
and they will make a pretty good shift, as we say; they will finely
scrabble on in a profession. But hold them to grace only, confine
their life to grace, put them into the river and let them have
nothing hut river, and they die; the word, and way, and nature of
grace, is to them as light bread, and their soul can do no other but
loathe it, for they are not suited and tempered for that element.
VII. CHRIST.
THE INCARNATION OF CHRIST.
THE first main design of the life and conversation of the Lord
Jesus, was that thereby God, the Eternal Majesty, according to his
promise, might be seen by, and dwell with, mortal men. For the
Godhead being altogether in its own nature invisible, and yet
desirous to be seen by and dwell with the children of men, therefore
was the Son, who is the self-same substance with the Father, clothed
with or tabernacled in our flesh, that in that flesh the nature and
glory of the Godhead might be seen by and dwell with us.
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