...muft be co-heirs with Chrift; if fbns, we rnuft be brethren to the only-begotten: but being he came not to do his own will, but the will of him that fent him, he acknowledged no fraternity but with fiich as do the fame; as he hath faid, c Who/bever * Matt.n..$Q....

...AEtions, which the Father that fent him doth ; and therefore cannot be truly and properly faid to come down from Heaven, not to do his own Will, but the Will of another. Fourthly, This may be farther argued from - thefe Words, Joh. vii. 16. Jcfus anfwered them,...

...him, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. He declares he was fet up from everlafting ; and came down from heaven, not to do his own will, but the will of him that fent him. Forafmuch as the children were partakers of flem and blood, he alfo himfelf likewife took part of the...

...blefled Jefus fought the honour and glory of God* and not his own : for " he came down from hea" ven not to do his own will, but the will of him *' that fent him ; therefore the fame is tiue, John vi. 38. ** and no unrighteoufnefs is in him," John vii. 18.. "When...

...furmount the generous and ardent zeal, with which he laboured to promote their everlafting welfare. * ' He ' came down from heaven, not to do his own ' will, but the will of him that fent him.' Had Jefus done his own will, and followed the natural propenfion of the human heart, he would have...

...be fubfervient to that infinite and fovereign being; herein imitating his blefled Saviour, who lived not to do his own will, but the will of him that fent him, John — • *i. 36. and again, to feek the glory of him that fent hini} Johnvu. 18. In a word, he...

...perfect ao v quiefccnce in it. Thus we find him alw.ays profefling, that he came not into the world to do his own will, but the will of him that fent him. Nor did he e-> ever fc^k his own glory, but his heavenly Father's ; and to this great end the whole...

...them fuppofe, that they embarrafs our caufe exceedingly when they remind us ; " That Chrift " came not to do his own will, but the will of " him that fent him — That the do&rine ha " taught was not his own, but the Father's — " And that he who believes,...

...this almighty power, Jefus never employed it, but in fubferviency to the ivill and the glory of God. " He came " down from heaven, not to do his own will, " but the will of the Father that fent him. " And he fought not his own will ;" but zealoufly did, and patiently fuffered...

...Abhor-; rence avoid every Thing that may bring Difgrace upon it. Chrift himfelf telleth, us, that he came from Heaven, not to do his own Will, but the Will of him that fent him. Ought not we then to follow, as near as we can, that perfect Pattern which he hath fet us ? and make...