, 1727 Emphasizing Christ as the Son of man and as suffering servant, Edwards here dwells on the “meanness,” or the humble nature, of Jesus’ life on earth and the humiliations he endured for the sake of sinners. He explores a number of the “particulars” of Christ’s incarnate life—his low birth and family, his poverty, his subjection, persecution and violent death—and the “wonderful” aspects of it, particularly that the great, holy