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ai
on
the
Excellency
of
Chri
fi.
chriiwonderful
in
his working towards
his
Saints, and
in the
high
eyleem
that
the
Shirts
have
of
him.
Great and
marvellous are
thy
work!, O Lord
God
Almighty,
-who
would
net
fear
thee,
O
thou
King
of Saints
1
The great
things
that
Chrift
Both
in
the world towards
his
Churches,
are
wonderful, and
the
great
efleer
his
Saints have
of him,
they account
all
things
as
dung and
drofs
for
the
excel
-.
lency
of the knowledge
of
Jefus Chrift.
And
hee (hall bee wonderful erernally hereafter
in the
.
highe(l,Heavens,
and
there
hee
will bee the
matter
of the
wonder of all
the
Angels
and
Saints
;
and
the matter
of
the
admiration, and the
praifes
that
God
(hall
have to all e-
ternity,
it
(hall
bee
from what
the Angels and
Saints do
fee
in Jefus Chriff;
therefore
furely
hee
will bee wonder-
ful in
Heaven.
And
then
wonderful,
when
the
underilandings of
the
Saints {hall bee
elevated w
the
higheft
pitch
that
they
are
capable of
:
fomerimes wee
do
wonder
at
things,
becaufe
of our ignorance
4
ignorant people will
wonder
altroft
at
any
thing,
at
the
works
of Arts and Sciences, they
wonder,
becaufe
they. know
but. litrFe
but
now
that, that
the
molt
undertlanding'roan in the world
(hail
wonder
ar, certainly
it
bath
force
great excellency
in,
it
:
Now
ChriLl
(hall
not
bee the
wonder
of
the.
Saints
onely while
they
are here
in
in
this world,
but
when they
(hall
bee
in Heaven,
and
have
their
underUa-ndings
enlightened
and
enlarged
to
the
height
that
poiltbly
theyean
bee
ertlargedto,
and
yet,
even
then
Chri(}
Lball
bee their
wonder
,;
and they
(ball
wonder at
Chrift more
than theydo
now
abundantly Certainly
that
h-ath
real
excellency
in
it
indeed,
.
and
great` excellency
,
that
the more
underftanding
a
man
is,
the
more hee
(hall
admire
at
iti
:
perhaps
poor people
they
may wonder
at
force
men for their parts, yet
if
they
had any
great
under-
(landing themfelves,
they
would
fee fuch
a
mans
parts
had
little
in
them;
but
if
a
man had
fuck
pacts, that
the
more
any