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On
the Excellency
of
thrift.
159
there
is
fuch
a
wonderful
Redeem% come into the Earth
;
But
Oh
you
Beleevers
I
do
you
in
a
fpecial
.,manner
raife
up
your
hearts , and expe& glorious
things
?
and
though
you
have
:butlittle
from God
for
the prefent,. yet
con-
elude, that
God
bath
wonderful thoughts about
you
that
are the
members of Jefus Ghriíl
;
and
there mull
corne
a
time,
that there muff
bee wonderful
things
bellowed
up-
on
you
, or otherwife
God
should lofe
the
honour
of
all
the wonderful things
bee
huh
done,
in
thrift,
and
that
bee
will
never do
c:
Gad
will
at
-
length
bring every
bow
leever
to
fuch
a
height
of
glory,
as-
before
Men
and
sn-
gels
it
(hail bee
declared
by
the
:glory'of.your
fouls,
that
Jefus Chrifl was
a
wonderful
Redeemer.;
fuch
glory thou
mayea.have,,
wee
cannot
tell
the
particulars_;
'
Ifi
we
íhóuld go
to
open
the happinefs:of' the
Saints.;
what
it
fhould
bee
in Heaven
.,
wee
t
ould quickly
bee
fwal-
lowed
up;
but
one would
think
that
this one thing
it
ould
bee
enough
to
611
the
heart of
the
Beleever with joy,
-
I
lliall have
fo
much,happin
s
fromGod;one
day, as
Imo
declare before
Men
and
,Angels,
that
Jefus Çhrrll
was
a
wpndcrfad
Saviour, fuch glory
as
God nitnfelf will
glory
in.
Oh
look
here
!
look
upon this poor wretch,
that
a
while
was
fuch
a
vile
wicked,
creature , and
a
childe;of
~wrath,,
and
of
perdition
in
its
fell,
and
look-
now
what
a
'height
of glory
this
foul is.raifed up
to, ans,nowOve
your
:teili-
mony
whether my Son
bee not
a
wonderful
.Redeemer
this
will bee
the
condition
of
every
poor beleever
that
lives,;
and comfort
your
felves..in exercifing
yotir..:Faith
in
this,
Wbat
ever
I
alai
now
for the
prefenr,
though but
a
lump
of
clay and filth,
yet I
being
a
Beleever, Ch
rift be..
ling
mine,
my condition muff
bee.:
fuch one day
as
God
the Father
..wi
l
fay
k°,-..fort
:
men
and
Angels,
behold the
wonderfuluefs.
of
rttiy
Son;
in what
I
leave
done for
this
foul
;
and-that
may bee
enough
to
fatisie:the
foul
for
the
prefent
ä
tbar,
God
'1wìll,
Çue
lainafelf
wonderful in thy
good