...and executor of the testament, to the proper heirs, according to the will of God ; for the Saviour came not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him, John vi. 38. This seed is called the blessed of the Lord; and he sent his Son to bless them, Acts Hi. 26\ This seed...

...He did not come of himself, but was sent of his Father. John vii. 28, 29. And that he did not come to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him. John vi. 38. And his Father acknowledges him as such by a voice from heaven, Mat. xvii. 5. This is my beloved Son...

...of God, ' is a proof that God is well pleased for his righteousness sake.' He came into the world, not to do his own will, but the will of Him that sent him ; and he spake of the decease he was to accomplish, as an act of obedience unto God : 'This commandment...

...though in a higher and nobler sense. In this our blessed Redeemer has shewn us n most perfect example : he came not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him, and to finish his work ; and when his last suffering scene drew near, before he was received up, he...

...every creature, and the beginning of the creation of God ; when he is said to be sent by his Father, not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him, that he had a body prepared him by the Father, that the Son can do nothing of himself: And many expressions...

...and for the fulfilling of the word of God. For ' God sent him into the world,' John iii. 17. And ' he came, not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him.' 2. His doing the will of God, is not confined unto any one single act or duty, but extends itself unto...

...atonement For sin, Christ acted the part of a servant: Being the" Messiah, the Anointed of the Father, he came not to do his own will, but the will of him who sent him. Jesus speaks abundantly of hihiself as being sent of God. And on his mission, he grounded...

...direction, as the ground and reason of their conduct. It ought also to be remarked, that as Christ declared he ' came not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him ;•'* so the apostles declared, that they followed not their own will and inventions, but the directions...

...hunger, he had at this time occasion to make use of this -pother. But our Saviour came into the world not to do his. own will, but the will of him that sent him. And one object of his temptation in the wildernessj was, that as man, by restraining irregular appetite,...

...sent him gave him a commandment, what he should say, and what he should speak (John xii. 49). That he came not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him (John vi. 38). Neither of which could have happened in respect to the supreme1 God. Seventhly, because Christ while...