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On
the Excellency
of
Chrifl,
fruit of
the
death
of
Chri(l,
that
thofe
things which con-
cern
the
Saints
come to bee opened
and made known unto
them,
and
thrift
cannot plead,to
his
Father,
and-fay,
that
thou gaveft me
the
charge
of
fuch
and
fuch, but
they were
dull and could not
learn,
and
therefore
that
is
the
fecond
thing.
z
That
the dulneffe
cannot hinder,
whether
they
have
thong
parts,
or weak
parts,
it
is
all one
to
the teaching of
Jefus Chrift,
,
it
may
[?e
a
hinderance
to
a
Minifters
teach-
ing, but
if
they
corne
under
the
teaching
of
Jefus
Chria, it
is
all'one,whether ftrong.parted,.or.
weak
parted, it
makes
no
difference at
all
;
and
there
is
one Scripture
that doth
declare
the.
faithfulneffe
of
Chriff,
in
his Office,
and an-in-
finite
treafury of comfort
it
is
to
the
Saints
;
in
the
fif-
teenthof
John, verf.
r
ç.
there
is;
an
exprefion
of
,the
Pro-
phetical
Office
of
'thrill,
faith Chrift
there,
Henceforth
I
call
you
not
fervents, for
the
fervent
knoweth
not
what his
Lord
doth.; but
I
have
called
you
friends,
for
all
things
that
1
have
heardof
my
Father
I
have
made
known
unto you.
Jefus Chri(I
knows
the counfels
of
his
Father perfeedy,
and
all
his
will
and mind
;
now
faith.,
he,
all things
that I
have known of
the
Father, that
is;
thát-
concerns
you
to
know,
there is
nothing
that
I
have known
-of-
my,
father
from
eternity,
that
any
way
.
concerns
you
to
know;
but I
have
revealed it to
you
:
;.
Chrill
he.
is
the Prophet
of
his
Church;
to
reveal
to
thy.
foul,
if
thou
been
a
beleever, whatfoever he
knowes
of
his
Father,
allthofe
treafures
of
wifdome, and counfels
of
his
Father
concrning
thy
:eternal eftate, Chrift
is-de-
figned
by
his
Father
to make thefe things known
unta
thee;
firft
o: laft
thou
muff;
come
to
know
what
thou
art
capable
to
know. Oh
how
wonderful
is Chrift in
this
Prophetical
Office
of
his,
to;undertake,to
teach-
all the
cleft
from
the
beginning
of
the world
to
the
end;
this
indeed
is
the rea-
fon
why
Many
poor
weak
people
dáe
urtderftand more
of
ChriP
-than
many learned,men:
(Tee
;
you
will,
fay,.
Wee
never can beleeve
it, that
fuch poor
ignorant people fhould
underiand
things_
of religion better than Learned
men and
great
Rabbies,
Thou