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."
The psalmist saith of Christ, that "he was fairer than the children
of men;" and that, as I believe in his outward man as well as in his
inward part, he was the exactest, purest, completest, and
beautifulest creature that ever God made, till his visage was so
marred by his persecutions; for in all things he had, and shall have
the preeminence.