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On
the
ExceKenty
of
Cbrift.
II
the world
,
without
which
hee
would
never
have
made
it.
And
God,
as
I
may
fo fay
, is
well
enough fatisfied
in
the
midil
of
all the
dishonour that
is _done
to
him
in
rhis
wick-
ed corrupt
world,
with this confederation ,
Well,but
my
Son
dots
drive on iny defign, and
this
pleafeth mee
;
no
matter
though
I
bee
difhonoured
,
though my
Name
bee
never
fo
much
blafphemed
in the world
,
yet
my
Son
carries on
my
.great
defign,
and
the
glory
I
forefee
I
(hall have
in
the ac-
complifinnent of that great
defign
of
mine,it
doth
fo
pleafe
mee,
that
it
is
no
great
matter to
mee
what
wicked
.
men
that
belong
not to
mine Election do. Chrift
is
wonderful
in this
,
that
hee carries
on the
great
defign
that
God
had
from all eternjey in making the world.
And
then
hilly
,
The glory
of God
is
great
in Chrift
,
and
therefore
wonderful,
becaufe
it
is
through him
that
all
the
Cervices
and praifes
that
God bath from
his
eleel ones,
do
all
come through him
:
As
there
is
a
reflection
of
the
glory
of
God in the defcending
of
it,
when
it doth defcend
upon the
ele& through Chritl
,
fo
in the afcending
of
it
again
from beleevers
it
dorh
afcend
through
Chrift,
there
is as
great
a
nece(lìty
that
when we
tender
up
any
ho=
hour
to God
that
it
fhould
come through Chrift,
as
when
God
lets
down any beams
of
his
glory,
that that should
come through Chrift; Chrift
is as
Jacobs
Ladder,
for God
to
come
down
as
it
were from heaven
to
us
, and for
us
to
af-
cend
up
to
heaven through him ,
Eph. 3.
l
all
vnto
him
bee
glory
:n
the
Church
by
Chrift
Jefted
thoughout
all
Ages world
withont end.
Unto
him
bee
glory
in
the
'
hterch
(but how)
by
Chrift
3efru;
except
the glory
that
you
tender
up
to
God goes
through
Chrill,God accounts
not
himfelf
glorified
in
it;
For
wvhatfoever comes
from
God
to
you,except
it
comes through
Chrift,
it
will
bee
to
little
purpofe
;
fo
whatfoever, comes
from you
unto God
,
,except
it
comes
through
his
Son;
it
is
not
accepted
of
God;therefore
oh how
wonderful
isChrift
in
this,That
fuch
glory of theAttributes
of
God
do
íhine in
him?
the greatCounfels,andWorks of God about
mans
eternal
e-
1}ate
are
all
_ita
h
n;And
all the good that
God
communicates
R.
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