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On
the Excellency
of
Ch
r
i
f
l
,
i
when did God dart light
into
your
fpirits,
to
caufe
you
to
fee
fo
much of
Jefus
Chrih,
as
made
him
to
bee the
great wonder
of
alt
his works
?certainly that
foul
knows
not God
nor Chrifl
favingly,
that
knows him
not
as
the
wonder
of the world;
it
is
impotlible
that
fuch
a
poor
crea-
ture
as
man
is
should come
to underhand
fuch
great
my-
ileries
of godlinefs
as
are in
Chrih in
any meafure ,
but
mull needs admire at
the
glory of
that great
work, and
fay
with acclamation,
Oh
the
height, and depth, and
breadth,
and length of the glory
of God,
his
Wìfdome,
and
Mer-
cy,
and
Truth,
and
Power
!
Many
Notes of Trial there
may bee
of
Faith
,
but
I
know
not
any one more
familiar than
this
is
(at
leaf
ne-
gatively,
it
muff
needs
bee
a
true
Note)
that is,
that
there
cannot
bee
Faith without
it,
namely, if
the
heart
bath
not
been
taken,
up with
the
wonder
of Chrih,
fo as
all
the
wonders
in the world
have
been darkened in
the
foul in
comparifon of Jefus
Chrih.
Secondly
,
If
Chrìll
bee
fo
great .a,wonder,
then
O
how
vile
a
thing
is
it
for the hearts of men to
prefer
any
bate
filthy lulls before
Jefus
Chrih
?
when
God bath
mini--
felled
him
in that
wonderful way
unto
the
children
of
men,
and
fo
much
of
his
glory
in
hhn,
yet that
their hearts
fh
Duld
bee taken off from him,
and
every .bate
iva
to
bee
prefer-
red
before
him,
Oh
how
jufl
mull the condemnation
of
fuch
bee for ever
!
wee
may
take
up
that complaint
that
there
was
in
Pfal.
rob.
7.
Our Fathers
underflood
not
thy
won.
Phl. ioe,
dens,
faith the
Pfaltnih
:
So
the
truth
is,
as
our
Fathers did
not,
fo.few
there are
that
underhand
the wonders
of the
Lord
in
.Jefus
Chrifl;
and
therefore: every
thing
is
prefer-
red before
him;
with
what
infinite indignation
mush
God
needs
look
upon
that wretched foul,
that (hall
prefer every
bale
lull
before Jefus
Chrih? I
remember
a
fpeech
of
Chryfo/
o
ne,
fpeaking
of
that Text
,
That
our
vile
bodies
('tall
bee
made
like
unto
the
glariot
s
body
of Chrij't,
faith
hee, were all
the world turned
into
tears, yet they were
not
fufficient
to lament
the
mifery
of that louCthat.forfakes
Jefus