...the dignity of hie human defcent, great аз it was, vanifhes trom cosfidcration when compared with the glory which he had with hi.s Father before the world was. The Jewilh «"iiper.fation was given by the miDiltry о* Mofes, and illudrated by fubfequent revelations...

...attempt to trace. In order to convey even a feeble image of the truth we fhould be able to compare the glory which he had with his father before the world was, with the degraded and fullering condition to which he fubmiued for our fakes. " He, who thought it...

...but eco* nomically considered, and from it he conducts the affairs ot his kingdom. Then he entered on the glory which he had with his Father before the world was. As the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world he * will occupy that throne for ever, feed his...

...But the dignity of his human descent, great as it was, vanishes from consideration when compared with the glory which he had with his Father before the world was. The Jewish dispensation was given by the ministry of Moses, and illustrated by subsequent revelations...

...yet was content, in obedience to his Father's will, to humble and debase himself so far as to leave the glory which he had with his Father before the world was, to come into a world of sin and misery, to work out the redemption of mankind, and mediate a reconciliation...

...given unto him in heaven and 27 en earth." And "when he ascended on high," he was " glorified with the glory which he had with his Father, before the world was." And it is God's will, that to this name Jesus, " every knee shall bow in heaven and on earth." How...

...peculiar regard, and brought them up into a high mountain apart, and manifested to them his glory: the glory which he had with his Father, before the world was. His face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. St. Mark adds, " so as no fuller...

...ever-living Mediator and Intercessor. He ascended up, truly, " whither He was before," and to enjoy " the " glory which He had with His Father before the " world was ;" (John vi. 62. xvii. 5.) but His sojourn here below, as Son of man, had eminently qualified Him to...

...do too little for the salvation of men ? Follow him from the time when he first disrobed himself of the glory which he had with his Father before the world was, down through all his debasement, labor, strenuousness, endurance, conflict, sacrifice, death, until...

...animated, in that deep sense of triumphant joy with which he loved to dwell on the thoughts of heaven, and "the glory which he had with his father before the world was."* And it was probably the same ardent and longing anticipation of his return to his home in the regions...