(2.) The fulness of grace in Christ’s human
nature sets forth the amiableness and desirableness thereof.
Should I make it my business to consider his perfections, as to this part
of his excellency, — what he had from the womb, Luke i.
35, what received growth and improvement as to exercise in the
days of his flesh, Luke ii.
52, with the complement of them all in glory, — the whole would
tend to the purpose in hand. I am but taking a view of these things in transitu. These two things lie
in open sight to all at the first consideration:— all grace was in him, for
the kinds thereof; and all degrees of grace, for its
perfections; and both of them make up that fulness that was in him. It is
created grace that I intend; and therefore I speak of the kinds of it: it
is grace inherent in a created nature, not infinite; and therefore I speak
of the degrees of it.