165 / 1054
on
the Excellency
of
Chrijt.
I7
any man came
to underhand
him,
the
higher
in degree
their
underftandings were,
the
more they
should
wonder, cer-
tainly
this
man had
a
great
deal
of
excellency in
him
in-
deed
:
So
it
is
in
Chrilt, that
when
the
Saints
fhall
bee
ele-
vated to the height, they
fthall fo
much
the more admire
at
him.
Further,
In
Heaven Chrift
thàll
bee
wondred
at
for
e-
ver
;
many things
are
wondred
at
for
the prefent,
I
but
the
wonder quickly ceafes; wee ufe
to
fay
of
ftrange things,
they
are
but
of nine
daies wonder,
but Jefus
Chrift
is
not
onely
a
wonder at
fiat,
when
the
foul comes firft
to em-
brace
Jefus'Chrift
:
It
is
true,
poor
fanners
at
their
firft
em-
bracing
Jefus'Chrift,
for
the
very novelty of thofe
things
they
fee
in
him:,
they do admire
at them, they
never did
un-
derhand
fuch
things before;
but the truth is,
if
that
grace
bee
true,
thou
shalt
not
only
wonder
when thou
cornea
to
Chrif}
at fiat
, at
the
excellency
in him, but
the
longer
thou continueft
a
Beleever,
the
more thou
wilt
wonder; and
when
thou cornett
to
Heaven,
after
thoufand
millions of
millions of
years, thou
wilt wonder
as
much
at him
as
thou
didfl
the fiat
moment; thofe men that have made profeil on
Of
Religion,
and
feem'd
to
come
to Chrift, they wonder at
flrtt hearing
of the
Gofpel,
like
the
Bony
-
ground,
that
,
e-
ceived the word with
joy,
Oh
how
wonderfully
are
they
af-
fec
ed at
the'firft
hearing
of
the
glorious things
of the
Gof
pel
!
but now
mark,
their wonder quickly ceafes, and their
jely
ceafes
within
a
little
while
;
they do
not
now fee
fo
great excellency
to admire
at
it,
neither
have they
fo
great
joy;
but
where
there
is
true Faith, there
the
foul
cloth
not
onely
wonder at
Ohrilt,
at
bis
firh comming to
Chrift,
but
Hill
more and
mire
tò
all eternity.
And now
my
Brethren, 'meethinks
that
all
wonders
in
the world fhould lye
by
a
while;
upon
this wonder
of
Chrifts
being
prefented
to
you;
and
as
wee
read
in
Dan,
6.
of
one
that
came in
a
vifion,
and
faid, Gabriel,
make
this
man
to
anderf
and the vifio,,; fo
fhall
I
call to
a
Gabriel?
no, to
Je-
fuq
Chritt,
tothe
Immanuel,
bee
that
is
the
great
wonder;
V
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Ob