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S
on
the Excellency
of chrift.
d
e,
;
t_
hut
'haft
thou
fandiifed
the
Name of
Chrif},
as
wo
rdarfu1
hail
thou
beleeved in
jefusChriif,
as
in him
whofe
Name
by
God himfelf
is
called
wonderful
?.
Thou
haft,
thou
thinkeff,
beleeved
in'limas
a
Saviour,
as .a
Redeemer
,
but
hail
thou
beleeved
in
him
as
thus wonderful in
his
Natures,
in
his
Perfon in
his
Offices,
in
his
indowmenrs , and
in
all the
great
things
that
bee
hath done,
in
the glory of the
Father
that
fhines
in
him?
hall, thou
fandified
his
Name
in all
thole
particulars.
Wherein
Chris}
bath
been
made
known to bee wonderful.
?
-
certainly Beleevers
-do
nor
fan-
C
}ifie this
Name
ofChrift, except there bee
fome kinde
of
proportion between their Faith
,
and all thefe
glorious
things
that
are
revelled
of jefus
Chrift
It
is
bee
that
is a
full
obi
,:a
for thy foul to.
rett
upon-in
all ftraights
.
whatfoe
ver,
when
the men
of
the
world
íhall bee
at
their
wits
end
,
they having
their ordinary help fail
them,
.yet thou
that
art
a
Beleever, and
knowefi what
Jefus Chrift
is,
and the
glo-
ry
of
God
that
appears
in
him,
thou needeft
not
bee
at
thy
wits end , for thou haft
him
whole
1V-ame
is
wonderful,
to
be
the
objèa
of thy Faith.
Thirdly , The
confolationto
Beleevers from this
title
of
Chrift,
is
in
this; That certainly, if there
bee
fuch
a
wonder-
ful
Redeemer, that
God himfelf
Both
glory
fo
much
in
,
and account him
fo
wonderful,
then it
muff
needs follow
,
that
God
loth
intend
wonderful
things for
the
Saints
;
no
wife
man
that hath
abilities, will in
a wonderful manner
bufie
himfelf about
a
trine:
certainly
if
the Lord doth
thus
work for
man-
-kind
irr
his
Son,
if the
Lord
provide
fuch
a
wonderful Saviour
for the children of men, wee
may
fully
conclude,
that God hath
wonderful
thoughts to
do
treat
things for
man
kind;
the thoughts
of
God for the
good
of
man
-kind are
very
great, and very glorious,
they
are
fome
high
things,
fome glorious
things
that
God doth
aim
at
for
man-kind. Oh
raife up
therefore
your
thoughts
!
let
all
that
are
but men raife up their
thoughts, and think,
furely
.
there
is fome
great
lsappinefs
for
the children
of
men;
God
bath
revealed
it
from Heaven, when
bee
hath
told
us that
there