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on
the Excellency
of
Chi's*
I
1
breach
certainly
were
the
Mifery
of than
no
o
:her
but
filch
as
the
power
of
Angels,as
the
power
of
any meer
crea-
ture
could
help
out of,
jefus
Chrifl
had never come into
the
world, there
had
newer
been
fuch
a
wonderful
work
of
God
to redeem
man;
But now
when
you
hear
that
the
way
of
God to redeem man
is fo-Wonderful, you
have caufe
to lay
your
hands
upon your
hearts, and
fay
,
Oh the depth
of
mifery
that
my
foul
is
fallen into
!
Oh the
defperate
difeale
of
mÿ
.foul,
that
mull have
fuch
a
wonderful cure
!
Oh
that
ever
the
great and infinite God
-
fhould
work
fo
wonderfully for the
faldation
of fuch
a
poor wretched crea-
ture
as
fitful
man
is!
My
Brethren
wee
do
not
fan&ifie
the Name
of God
in the
gréat
thing
that God
would bee
fanaified
in,
except
wee have right
apprehenfions
of
the
dreadful breach
our
fin
hath
made between
the
Lord and
our own fouls,
that
fo
wee
might
have
right apprehenfions
of
this wonderful
work
that
God hath
done for the falva-
tión.of
man-kind; this
is
the
reafon. why
God
fo
many
rimes doth
being
fitful
creatures into
fo
great
flraights
, in-
to
the very
gulfof
defpair
oftentimes
before
hee reveals the
faving
knowledge
of jefus
Chrifl
unto
them
:
It
is,
I
fay-,
becaufe the Lord
would have
his
name fan&ified
in this
wonderful
work
of redemption
by
Jefus Chrifl,
that
the
fin
-
net
might
bee prepared
to
flaiad
and admire
at
the
wonder-
ful
glory
of
God
in
Jefus
Chrift
;
And there is
nothing in
the
world
that
God
looks
fo
much
for
as
this,to be
fan&ified
in thefe
wonderful things
that
hee hath
done for man-kind
in Chritl;
and
if wee have
but
flight
thoughts
of
the
breach
that
our
fin
bath
made,
certainly wee cannot but have
flight thoughts likewife
of the
work
that God
hath
done to
deliver
us
from
our
fin:
Thou thinkefl
'thy
fin
to bee
a
light
matter,
but
know,
that
when thou haft
finned
a-
gainft
God, there
muff
bee the mofl wonderful work
of
God
to
reconcile thee
to
himfelf
, that
ever God did from
all
eternity,
or
will
do
to
all
eternity;
this
is
the greateft
wonder,
his
fending
of
Jefus
Chrifl into the
world;-
therefore
the
depth
of
thy mifery by this
;
if
God Mould
X
a
have