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His own most holy Life, in the strictest obedience to God the Father. This A∣barbinell, in his discourse upon xi. Isa. which I have so often mentioned, makes one of the marks of the Messiah; the perfect temper of his desires and affecti∣ons, and the direction of them according to the measures of the Divine Law. Which he thinks is the meaning of those words, ver. 3. He shall be of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord. This was so re∣markable in Jesus, who was so truly, so compleatly and constantly pious, that there never was any person so qualified to lay claim to this Dignity as he was. His Life was so free from all blame, such a perfect abstinence from all the pleasures of this world, such a contempt of all that which we think most worthy of our in∣defatigable labours; that it hath a strong force in it to perswade us, that he indeed sought Eternall Glory, and was fully as∣sured he should be possessed of it for Him∣self and for all His.
Who but a man so perswaded of his Doctrine would have lived in poverty,