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On
the excellency
ef
Ghrift.
117
fulfilling
Promifes
,
any promife
that
is
fulfilled
manifeffs
The
glory
of
the
glory
of.
Gods
truth
and faithfulnefs, but
now the.ful>
Gods
Truck
filling
that great Promife
of
God in fending
his
Son
into
appears
in
the
world,
here
the truth
and faithfulnefs
of
God appears
khrr4ì'.
more glorioufly
than
inall
other;
for
there,
was
never.
a
promife
fo
difficult
as
this
promife; many
men can bee
con=
tent
to
fulfil
promifes
of
finaller
moment,
when
there
is
no
great
difficulty
in the fulfilling
of
them, I
but here
is
the
greateft
Promife
that ever
was
, and
there
was
the
greateff
difficulty
for
God
to
fulfil
this
.promife
of
any thing
that
ever God
did promife
;
and
indeed
whereas
wee
hear
that'
Chrift wasproinifed
fome
four thoufand
years
before
hee
came into
the world,.
and yet
at length
bee
came into
the
world
, it
is
a
good Argument
to,teach
us
never
to doubt
of
the
fulfilling
of
Gods
promifes
;
And indeed
the..
right
ap-
prehenfion
of Gods
faithfulnefs
in
this (treat
Promife
of
his
Son,
will
mightily ffrengchen
the
faith
of
the people
of
God
to
beleeve
any
fmaller
promifes
,
and not to
ftagger
in.
them
;
and
the reafon
why
people are
fo
ready
to
Wagger
in
their
beleef
about fmaller promifes,
it
is
becaufe
they
have not
been acquainted with the
work
of
faith
in be-
.leeving
that
great promife
that
God made
with his
people
_in,fending his
Son
into the world
;-
fo
that
there
.Attributes
with
all
other,
do fhine
glorioufly
in
Chrift.
No
marveL
then though the Angels
upon
the
birth
of
Chrift
,
they
cry
out,
G1ory,bee to
God
on
high
;
as
if
they
lnould
fay, Oh
.Lord,
Here
is
one come
into the
world , wherein thy
glory
doth
appear
,
and
by
whom thou
shalt
have
glory to
all
eternity
:
Though
Chrift
.
was but
a
.Babe
in the Manger,
yet
the
Angels
did
fee
more
.
glory
in
him,
than
in
the
highefl
heavens; they
did not
fee fo
muchcaufe
to
cry,
Glorj
bee
to God
on
high
, from any
objet
that
ever
they faw,
as
when
they fawthe.Babe in the Manger
,
them
Ohglory
bee
to
God
onhigh,
wee behold
thy.
glory
fnining
here,
and
bleífed
ace
chofe
that
fhall.bee inabled to
behold
the glory
of
God in
the face
of ]efus
Chriff
;
who
would
not but
-have
bekaeid
the
glory
óf
God
in
his
great
wezks
?
what
man
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