If none else
could do it, He would do it Himself. He would bring salvation with
His own arm. He would fulfil His Father's will, which is that none
should perish; He would be made flesh, and dwell among men, that man
might behold the likeness of God the Father, full of grace and truth,
and see what they were meant to be. Then, in Him, in Jesus who wept
over Jerusalem, was fully revealed and shown the likeness and glory
of the Lord; the Lord in whose image man was made; who walked and
spoke with Adam in the garden; who was not ashamed to say that it
repented Him that He had made man; whom Ezekiel saw upon His throne,
and as it were upon the throne the appearance of the likeness of a
man; whom Daniel saw, and knew him to be the Son of Man. Not a man,
then, of flesh and blood; but the Eternal Word of God, in whose image
man was made, who could be loving and merciful, long-suffering and
repenting Him of the evil, but never of the good. He came, and He
swept away, as He had told the Apostles that He would do, by such
afflictions as man had never seen since the beginning of the world
until then, that Roman world with all its devilish systems and
maxims, whereby the nations were kept down in slavery and sin; and He
founded a new heaven and a new earth, wherein dwell righteousness,
even this Holy Catholic Church, to which we all belong this day.
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