The virgin conception (Robert Leighton)

[Reformed Covenanter]

And this singular Virgin's conception was altogether agreeable to the singular person so conceived and born, both as to the purity of his human, and the dignity of his Divine, nature; that he might be known to be not only a holy, sinless man, but more than a simple man, God-man, God with us, as his name is.

Robert Leighton, Lectures on the First Nine Chapters of St. Matthew’s Gospel in The Whole Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, Robert Leighton, D.D., Archbishop of Glasgow (2 vols, London: James Duncan, 1828), 2: 3.

 

[Reformed Covenanter]

This is the gospel, the alone good tidings to all nations and all ages; still fresh, and equally good news from one generation to another. Had not the Virgin borne this Son, we must say all of us, Good for us we had not been born.

Robert Leighton, Lectures on the First Nine Chapters of St. Matthew’s Gospel in The Whole Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, Robert Leighton, D.D., Archbishop of Glasgow (2 vols, London: James Duncan, 1828), 2: 4.