Excerpt from The Love of Jesus Our Law: A Sermon Preached in the Church of "Our Ladye Star of the Sea," on Sunday, July 18th, 1852, in Behalf of the Greenwich Catholic Poor Schools Creator of all, in creation He had, as it were, imparted all that a creature could receive. He had called us out of nothing He had stamped upon us His own image; He had filled us with His own love; He had enriched us with the gifts of His super natural grace - all that the capacities of a creature could receive He had already poured forth. But there was more yet to do. Because man sinned, man must be redeemed; and therefore, to redeem mankind, He gave Himself. But how could God give Himself? Saint Paul says, Being in the form of God, He thought it not robbery to be equal with God; but He emptied Himself, and took upon Him the form of a servant. He emptied Himself! What mean these words? How could He, the Eternal, the Unchangeable, the Uncreated, empty Himself? Could He lay aside His glory? It is in separable. Could' He lay aside His life? It is eternal. In God all things are necessary. In God there are no accidents; there are no endowments which may'be, or may not be, but He is I AM that I am. His glory, His bliss, His eternity, His life, are Himself. What, then, could He lay aside for us? The Eternal Son, who, as God, is Eternal, took to Himself our manhood, wherein to suffer. Because He had no created life that He could give, He took a human life, which He might lay down. God was made man, continuing still God, blessed for ever, in glory, in bliss, lin might, in majesty, in eternity. He came down to be made man, in weakness, in infirmity, in time; that the Glorious might bear shame, and the Blissful be the Man of Sorrows; that the Creator might take His lot among crea tures that the Immortal might die; that He who could part with nothing which is Himself, might have that which He could give for us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.