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Os
the Excellency
of
Chi
fl.
to
his
ele&
ones,
all
is.
through
him
:
And the
great
de-
fign
that
God had from
all
eternity,
bee doth attain it
by
his
Son.
Laftly
,
All
the honour
that
hee
bath from all
his
ele&
ones, it
is
through
his Son.
How
wonderful
is
Chritt
then
in
regard of the glory
of the
Father
in
him
?
only
as
levee
go
along
,
remember
that
when wee
fet Chrift
thus
before you
,
wee
do
it
not
meerly
to
your understandings,
that
you
may conceive thus
of
Chrift,
but
as
an
objea
of
yourfaith,
you
mull
exercife your
faith
upon
Chrift,
as
fuch
a
Chrifl in
whom
the
glory
of the Father
doth
fomuch ap-
pear,
Cbriff Wonderful
in
hit
Humiliatims,
The
next thing is,.Chrift
is
wonderful
in
his
Humiliation;
and
indeed
this may
feetn to
bee the greatefl
Wonder
of
alt,
at
leafl.to
our fenfe
it
is,
efpecially
if
wee do
under-
hand
what
hath been faid before
of
Chrift,
what
a
Perron
Chrift is ;
now
to
hear what
wee
íháll
hear
of
his
Humi-
liation
,
will appeal
to
bee an
aniazirng,and
an ailonifhing
Wonder.
As
firft,
The wonder of
his
Humiliation
is
in
this,
That
Chrifl, God and
man,
as
you have
heard
before,
11-iou1d
have
all
the
fins
of all the ele&
ones from
the beginning
of the world,
to
the end
of the
world
laid
upon him. For
filch
a
one
as
Chrift is,
infinitely beloved
of the
Father,
and
x.6.
equal with
the
Father,
accounted
it
no
robber)
to bee
equal
with
God,yet
that
he fhould (land before
God
the Father
with
all
the
fins
of
the.
Elea
charged upon
him
,
fo
the
Scripture
tells
us,
2
Cor.
5.2t.
For
bee
bath
made him
to
bee
fin
for
trà,
yob, knew no
fin : Hee hath made him
to
bee
fin for us
;
for
Chrift
to bee
made
a
worm was
a
wonderful
Humiliation,
but
for
Chrift to
bee
made
fm
was
a
greater
Humiliation
than
to bee made
a worm
;
furely this must needs
bee
a
wonder
:to all
the
Angels
in
heaven
fa
r
thern to
fee
fuch
a
one ,
whom
they
knew
to
bee
the
eternal
Son
of
God,
equal with
the
Father
,
to
Rand
before the Father
cloathed
as