Far higher yet,—immeasurably higher,—in the divine Messiah, the Obedience is the grace, the glory, and the happiness of his Being!
TALBOYS.
God is the Creator and Upholder—Satan, the Destroyer. God is the rightful Monarch of the Universe, unassailably seated on his everlasting Throne. Satan ever attempts Usurpation, and is ever baffled.
Pride is the inward Self-exaltation of a Creature. Observe that Exaltation is proper raising from a lower degree held to a higher degree, not before held. God is eternally the Highest;—a state which precludes the idea, strictly spoken, of Exaltation.
NORTH.
Therefore, to Satan, as proud, is opposed the Self-humiliation of the Son—whom God thereupon exalts.
Pride, in Satan, considered as undue Self-exaltation, stands (when we follow out the opposition in which he stands to God) opposed to due, legitimate, rightful height, or Supremacy, Sovereignty. Satanic Pride is undue self-exaltation, at the height, in the Creature.
But this, in the Creature, is a self-enthroning, a self-idolising, a self-deifying.
SEWARD.
The Creature depends upon the Creator. The Creature is bound to the Creator by a million of distinct relations.