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the Excellency
of chrifl,
I0T
cellencies
in another manner
than
any
other creature
can
potlìbly
have.
Thirdly
,
Chrift
is
wonderful, take
hide
God and man,in
this
,
That
all
his
perfonal
excellencies that hee
hath,
de-
pend
upon himfelf;
hee
is
Independent, the
excellency
that
Chritts humane
nature
bath
,
it
is,
I
fay,
Independent
in.
this,
that
is, it depends
upon
his
perfon
;
there
is no
de-
pendence
of
the
excellency
that
Chrift
bath,
but upon
the
very
perfon of Chrift
himfelf,
all depends upon him,
for
hee faith
of himfelf
,
That
hee
bath
life in
hamfelf
fo
you have
it in
Joh.
5.
it
is
fpoken
concerning Chrills ex-
Toi,,
cellency
there,
For
as
the
Father bath
life in
hamfelf,
fo bath
hee
given
to
the
Son to
have
life in
himfelf.
Indeed
the
Son
is
from
the
Father
by
an
eternal generation;but
now
though
hee
bee
firftly from
the
Father
,
yet now the
Son
hash life
in himfelf, yea
and
eternally
hee
had life in himfelf
,
and
fo
what excellency the humane
nature bath,
it
doch
depend
upon its own perfon ,
which
is a
higher
and
a
more glorious
Way
of
having
excellency,
than
it
is poilible
for any thing
elfe to
have.
4
And
then
in the fourth
place,
hence
Chrift,
even
God
man
,
hee comes
to
bee
worthy
of Divine
honour ,
Divine
honour
is
due to
Jefus Chrift
that
is God
-man
;
there
is
no
creature can partake
of
Divine
honour by coming
never
fo
near
to
God,
but onely the humane
nature of
Chrift being
perfonally
united
Let
a
childe
of God,
a
Saint, bee
ne-
ver
fo
holy
,
becaufe hee comes
to partake
of
fo much
ex-
cellency
of
Wines,
bee
is
not therefore
to
partake
of
Di-
vine
honour3
nor an
Angel; but now Chrift, God and
man,
the
very humane
nature
joyned
with the Divine in one
per-
fonal
union
,
comes
to
finare
in the
Divine
honour
that
is
due
to
him
both
God
and
man
,
and
it
is
a
wonderful
Work
of
God to
bring
that that
is
in
its
felf
but
a
creature,
to
come
to
have
a
there
in Divine
honour.
3'
Md
then
Chrift
is
wonderful
in
this
,
that
hence
ilea
is an
infinite object
of the Delight
of
his
Father,
not
onely
as
bee
is
eternally
begotten
of
the
Father,
but
as
bee is
F
t
both