Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 8:9

9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ , that though he was rich , yet for your sakes he became poor , that ye through his poverty might be rich .

Call to mind the free love of your Lord and Master Jesus Christ, which you know, believing the Gospel, which gives you a true account of it, and having in your own souls experienced the blessed effects of it.

He was rich, being the Heir of all things, the Lord of the whole Creation, Heb. 1.2. all things were put under his feet.

Yet that he might accomplish the work of your Redemption, and purchase his Fathers love for you, he took upon him the form of a Servant, stripped himself of his Robes of Glory, and clothed himself with the Rags of Flesh, denied himself in the use of his Creatures, had not where to lay down his head, was maintained from Alms, people ministring to him of their Substance.

And all this that you might be made rich; with the Riches of Grace and Glory, rich in the love of God, and in the habits of Divine Grace; which was all effected by his poverty, by his making himself of no reputation, and humbling himself. If after your knowledge of this, by receiving and believing the Gospel, and experiencing this, in those Riches of Spiritual Gifts and Graces, and hopes of Glory which you have, you shall yet be found strait-hearted in compassionating the poverty and afflicted state of his poor Members, or strait-handed in ministring unto them, how will you in any measure answer this great love, or conform to this great Example?

Marginal references: Luke 9.58.