“He was poor, that He might make us rich. He was born of a virgin that we might be born of God. He took our flesh that He might give us His Spirit. He lay in the manger that we might lie in paradise. He came down from heaven that He might bring us to heaven.

“That the Ancient of Days should be born or that He who thunders in the heavens should cry in the cradle. He who rules the stars should suck the breast and that a virgin should conceive.

“Christ taking flesh is a mystery we shall never fully understand until we come to heaven. If our hearts not be rocks, this love of Christ should affect us. Behold love that passes knowledge (Eph 3:19).”

Taken from Thomas Watson’s (1620-1686), “A Body of Divinity”