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On
the Excellency
©f
cbrift.
or
woman
that bath
any
knowledge
of God at
all , would
for
a
world
but
have beheld fo much of
the
glory
of God
as
doth
appear
in the
great
Works of Creation
and Pro-
vidence; Oh what
comfort have
the
Saints
in
beholding
the
glory
of the great God , when
they look up
unto
heaven,
and upon the earth , and
in the
feas
1
Oh but then
tote
fweetnefs , and foul-
fatisfaaion that
there mull needs
bee
in the
beholding
the
glory
of
God
in the face of Jefus
Chrift!
And
this
by the
way
would
bee
a
good
evidence
Of
your
faith
;
have
you
beheld more of Gods glory in
the
face
of
Chrift
than
ever
you
did
in
all
the
world betides
?
Yea
and
hath the
glory
of God
in
the face
of Chrill,
darkned
all the
glory
of the world
betides unto
you
?
Have your hearts
been
taken
with
that
glory
more
,
than with
all
the
glory
that
there
is
in
the
world
?
Why here would bee a
good
evidence of faith indeed , that
you
have had
a
true and
real
fight
of Jefus Chrift
;
wee cannot have
a
real
fight
of
Jefus
Chrift
,
but
wee muff
certainly
fee more
of
God in
him,
than in all things
elfe.
The
for
of
And then fecondly
,
As
the
glory
of
Gods Attributes,
fo
God
ggré
r
the
glory of
the great Counfels
and Works
of
God,
efpe-
works in
cially
in the
governing
of
man
unto
his
eternal
ef?ate, that
bringing
man
appears in
Chrift
above
all.
to
his
eternal
As
the great Counfels
of God
in
Elation,
wee
are
dojo
in
in
`hrifi
the great Counfels and Works
of
God in
Voca-
Chrift.
Eph.1.4.
Lion,
Juftification,Adoption, Reconciliation,Sanotification,
and Glorification
,
thefe are
the
great Works that
God
doth glorifie himfelf
in,
thefe are
the great
things
that
'the
thoughts
and counfels
of God hath been from all
eternity
exercifed
about
,
whatfoever
your thoughts are
exercifed
a-
bout ,
yet I fay ,
the
thoughts and counfels
of
God
have
been
exercifed from
all eternity
about thefe
great
Works
of
his,
Elecrlion,
Vocation,
Juftification,
Adoption,
Recon-
ciliation ,
San6ification
, Glorification
,
all
thefe
Works
whereby hee
loth
order and guide mankinde
unto
an
eter-
nal eftate. Now the
glory
of God
in
all
thefe
Works
they
are