This is from an essay by Edwards on the excellency of Jesus Christ. He was writing about how Jesus is a perfect mingling of attributes. The idea being that Jesus is both lion and lamb, powerful and meek at the same time.
“Such a conjunction of infinite highness and low condescension, in the same person is admirable. We see, by manifold instances, what a tendency a high station has in men, to make them to be of a quite contrary disposition. If one worm be a little exalted above another, by having more dust, or a bigger dunghill, how much does he make of himself ! What a distance does he keep from those that are below him ! And a little condescension is what he expects should be made much of, and greatly acknowledged. Christ condescends to wash our feet; but how would great men, ( or rather bigger worms), account themselves debased by acts of far less condescension !”
Jonathan Edwards page 681 “Works of Edwards”
