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On

the

,>çxcellency

ef

ChriJt.

><o3

Wife

man

did

arife,

which

they

did

call

by

the

Name of

Jr.

fus,

that

did

work

a

great

many Miracles

;

and

faith

he,

If

fofephuAnticl;

it

be

lawful to cali him

a

Man.

Fie

was

afraid

to

call him

a

B.

s.

e,

4

man,

becaufe

of

the

wondrous things

that

he

did.

But

if

any

of

you

fay,

How

.fhall wee

bee

able

to

know

certainly

the

truth of all

thole Miracles

that

hee

did

?

we

read

in-

the

.Gofpel how

great

things Chrift

did

;

how he

cafe

out Devils,

and cured

the

Blinde

and

Lame,

and raifed

up

the

Dead,

and

the like,;

but

how

can

we know

the.

truth

of

them

?

For

the

anfwer

of

that,

Aufline

hath

this,

Either

all

thofe

things are

true,

or

they are

not true

;

if

they,

be,

then

hee

is

confirmed

to be.the

.Mefias

;

but

if

they be not

true, then

faith

he,

this

is

the

greaxefl.

Miracle

of

all,

that

fuch

a

fuper-

naturalDoStrin

as

that

is,

to beleeve

in

him

that

was

cruci-

fied,

to fave

the

World,

and

for

men to

venture their

fouls

and eternal

elates

upon

this,

without having

this

to bee

.

confirmed

by

Miracles

at

firt,

:.

this

is

the

greatePc

Miracle

of

all

.;

but

we will

pa%

bythat,only

note

it

as

we

goe,thar

Chrill

was

wonderful in

all

the

Wonders

that

hee

wrought

while

he

lived.

Chris

wonderful

In

his

Glorious indowments:

an4

excellency

of

his

Perfora.

Brit

further, Chrift

he

is

the

Wonder of

the

World,

in

regard

of

thofe

glorious

endowments

and

excellencie

of his-r

Perfon,

thofe

Perfonal endowments and excellencies

that

he

had;

and herein he

is

theWonder of

the

World.

Now

the endowments

and excellencies ofJefus Chrift they

are

great and

glorious,

T

hou

art fairer

than the

children

of

men.

It

is

he

that

received

the

Spirit without

meafure,

it

is

he

that

had

the

Treafures.of wifdome.and

knowledge :dwel-

fling

in

him

bodily,

and

he

mut

needs bee

the Wonder

of

theWorld;

that

Scripture in

the

fecond

of

the

Coda

ans,:

doth

thew unto

us

what

a

wonderful Saviour

we

have,

it

is

filch

an

expreffion

that

had

wee

not had

it

from

the

Holy