Man naturally is earth-like, a heavy and lumpish piece, being taken out of the Earth, and the offspring of red Earth.
The Lord Jesus elegantly expresseth his own excellency, by comparing himself unto a Rose, the Rose of Sharon.
Christ in his humiliation was abased so low, as to be in subjection to the Father.
If a man would come to God, which is happiness, his chief end, the Way if Jesus Christ: “no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Here man is the subject, God or happiness the end, Christ the Way.
By Milk here, we must understand the doctrine of the Gospel, which is easily taught unto the capacities of such as are children in understanding.
