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have I loved you. And #.13. he proceeds 



to fay. Greater love hath no man than 

 that a man lay down his life for his Friends. 

 Te are my Friends^ &c. By which Words 

 he intimates, that he was about to make 

 the greateft demonllration of his Love to 

 his Apoftles, and to all true Believers, by 

 laying down his Life for them. The Apo- 

 Itle Taul carries this yet higher, Rom. 5. 7,8. 

 For fcarce for a righteous man will one die ; 

 yet) fer adventure for a good man fome would 

 even dare to die. But God commendeth his 

 love towards us, in that while we were yet 

 Jlnners^ Chrifl died for m. This exceeds 

 the higheit degree of love Man ever at- 

 tained to, Ephef. 5*. i. As Chrifl alfo hath 

 loved us? and given himfelffor us, an offering 

 and a facrifice to God for a fweet fmelling 

 favour. Phil. ^. 6, 7, 8. Who being in the 

 form of God, thought it not robbery to be 

 equal with God ; but made himfelf of no 

 reputation^ and took upon him the form of 

 a Servant^ and was made in the likenefs of 

 man. And being found in fafliion as a man, 

 he humbled himfelf, and became obedient un- 

 to death, even the death of the Crofs. That 

 the Eternal Son of God, equal with his 

 Father, fliould fo highly advance our Na- 

 ture, as to unite it to the Divine in one 



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