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on
the
Excellency
ofChrift,
;Matth.3,17.
both
God and
rxian,
This
is
my.
beloved
Sew
in
whom
lam
well
'leafed I
am'pleafed fully in
him
, Jefus Chrifl
is an
objet
even adequate to
the
very heart
of
God the Father;
Oh
how
fhould
wee take
content
in him
!
certainly
if
hee
bee
fo
excellent
as
hee
is,
as
to
give
full
.fatisfa&}ion
to
God
the.
Father, then
hee
may very
well
give
full
fatisfa
ti.
on
to
your fouls.
Yea,
and
God
the
Father
manifells
his
fatisfa&ion fo
fully
in
him, that
hee
bath
made. him 'to:
bee heir
of
all,
things,
Heb.i.2.
and therefore
bee
is
Paid,.
to
bee
the be-
ginning
of
all
things,
all dofubfia
by
him.
Yea,and further,there
is,
that
fatisfaeiion
that
the
Father
hath
in
him,
that God
the
Father
did
make all things for
his
fake;
I
fay, all things
in 'the
world
are
made'
for
the
fake
of
Jefus
Chrií}
,
Angels are
made
for
his
fake , and this
world, and feas, all the
work
that
everGod did,
or will
do
to
all eternity ,
:
it
was
for
the
fake
of Jefus
Chrifl
that
God
the
Father
might
honour
himfelf in' Jefus Chrill
;
that
Text
is
very
full
for
that
, and wee need no
more
in
Col.
1.16.
All
things
were
created
by
him
,
and for him.
So
that
God
bath
a
higher
end
in creating theworld than
you
think
for
,
God
did
nor
onely
create
that hee
might
manifett that
hee
was
a
mighty
God,
and
merciful; and
and
the
like,
but
God
had
a
higher
end when hee made
the.
world,,
it
was
to
advance
his Son ,
when
hee
made the
An-
gels,
God
would never
have made
them,butfor
thehonour
of
his
Son
Qh what infinite caufe havewee
-to honotir
Jefus'Chrift;
Oh
how
happy
are they that
}live
to 'the
honour
of
Jefus
Chrift ,
by whom
God
may
have
glory beyond
a
natural
way
!
did
you
confider this
that
you
were
made for
the ha-'
nour
of.
Jefus
Chrii
+,
and
the
honour
that
God the
Father
would have from
you
is
this, that
you
thould'
live
to
the
honour
of
his
Son,
and all other
honour
that
you give
un
to
God,
except
it
bee in
order to
his
Son,ic
is
not'acéepted,
I
fay,
whatfoever honour
any
man
or
woman doth
endea-
vour to give
to,Gòd,
is
not
accepted of
.him, but
in rel
a-.
tion