Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament

³ He then who could do so great things, was hungry, and thirsty, was wearied, slept, was apprehended, beaten, crucified, slain. This is the way; walk by humility, that you may come to eternity. Christ-God is the Country whither we go; Christ-Man is the Way whereby we go. To Him we go, by Him we go; why fear we lest we go astray? He departed not from the Father; and came to us. He sucked the breasts, and He contained the world. He lay in the manger, and He fed the Angels.

God and Man, the same God who is Man, the same Man who is God. But not God in that wherein He is Man, God, in that He is the Word; Man, in that the Word was made Flesh; by at once continuing to be God, and by assuming man's Flesh; by adding what He was not, not losing what He was. Therefore henceforward, having now suffered in this His humiliation, dead, and buried, He has now risen again, and ascended into heaven, there He is, and sits at the right Hand of the Father: and here He is needy in His poor.

Yesterday too I set this forth to your Affection by occasion of what He said to Nathanael, “You shall see a greater thing than this. For I say unto you, You shall see Heaven open, and the Angels of God ascending and descending unto the Son of Man.” We searched out what this meant, and spoke at some length; must we recapitulate the same today? Let those who were present remember; yet I will briefly run over it.