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On
the Excellency
of
Chilli.
deration,
that
thefe things are
not
revealed to the
wifeh
and the
great
ones
of
the
world , but
to
fuch
men and
wo-
men
that
ordinarily
have
the leap underhanding
in
the
things
of
the world ,
thofe
men that
have the
dulleft
ca-
pacity
to underhand the
reàfon of things in
the
world,
thofe
that
are
the moil
ignorant people in the
world,
why
Jefus Cltrifl
chufes
out them, and
makes
them to
bee ap-
prehenfive
of the
myfleries of
the Gofpel
,
fuch things
wr
Angels
themfelves
deîre
to
pry into.
Here
is
a
wonder, that
a PLt.r.
i
z.
fuch
poor,weak,
dull,
ignorant
creatures,
fometimes
that can
fcarce
be
able
CO
fpeak
two
or
three
fentences
in
good
fenfe
together to
a
man , yet
that
they
fhould have the clear
un--
derhanding
of
the chief myheries in the Gofpel, and
fuch
things
as
Angels
delire
to
pry
into
,
here
is
a
wonderful
work,
and therefore wee read
in
Matth.21. i
5.
when
the
poor
children came
to
underhand
fomewhatof Chril
},
when the
chief Priefts and
Scribes
fan,
the wondeful things
that
hee
did,
and the
children crying
in the
Temple,
and
faying,
Hofanna
to
the
Son
of
David,
they were
fore
di
fpleafed. Mark
how
this
is
joyned to
the
wonderful
things
,
they
faw
the
wonderful things
that Chrih
did , and the children
crying
in the Temple
,,
Hofanna
to
the
Son
of David
,
they
were
difpleafed.
It
is
one
of the
moll
wonderful
things
in
the
world
to
fee
that
fometimes
poor young
children, and
fuch
as
underhand
but
very
little
in the
matters
of the world,
and yet
that
thefe fhall
come
to underhand
the
deepefl
in fleries
of
godlinefs
,
thofe things
that
exercife the
un-
derflanding of Angels, and (hall
exercife
them
toall
eter-
nity ,
yet
poor children and
youths
fhall
come
to
under-
hand
thofe things
further than
the
great Rabbies
and
Do-
dors
of
the
world,
is
not
this
a
wonderful thing
in the
dif-
penfation of
t!.ie
Prophetical
Office
of Chrih
?
You
make
this
ufe
when
you
fee
poor youths
come
to have under
-
(landing in the great things
of
the
Gofpel
,
you
think flatly
it
is
but
a
conceit
:
Oh, but rather
make this ufe,
let
your
thoughts
hee
carried to
admire at
the
wonderful
difpenfa-
tion of the
Prophetical
Office
of Jefus
Chrih;
and
fo
rt
in