BOOK II: Of the Son of God, the second person in the Trinity
first? 'I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever; with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations,' &c. When a soul is at the lowest, if the Spirit of praise come in upon that soul, he will cry out to God aloud in praising him. There is another eminent instance in Ps. 22. Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ hung upon the cross; there he hung, and all the pharisees, the bulls came about him; and says he, 'I cried to thee.' What doth he comfort himself with?
Verse 3, 'But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.' The praises given to God are so delightful to God the Father, that they are called an habitation to him; and the breadth of them, says Christ, this is that which supports me, 'Thou art holy, and inhabitest the praises of Israel;' verse 6, 'I am a worm and no man, a reproach of men, and despised of the people;' but no matter, so thou art praised. When the world was overwhelmed with a deluge of misery, yet says the prophet, 'Wherefore glorify you the Lord in the fires,' Is. 24:15. In the midst of all the fires round about their ears, they glorified God; some read it 'in the valley,' in the lowest condition they could be in. This soul yet rejoices that it shall live to praise him.
My brethren, let us pray for such a heart as this, that the saints of the Old Testament may not shame us that are Christians of the New.
BOOK II:
Of the Son of God, the second person in the Trinity What his person is, considered in himself.—He is the eternal Son of the Father, one God in essence with him.—The Son, the second person took the man Jesus into personal union with himself; and so Christ is God-man joined into one person.