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On
the Excellency
of
Chrijí.
íi:ruments, and they
look
upon him,
that
the God of
A6ra-
hYim,
lfaac,
and
Jacob
hath
glorified, even
Jefus
Chrilt;
and
bee
is
the matter of
their
wonder,
But
doff
thou wonder
at
jells
Chrilt
now
?
know, Chrift
will
come ere
long
in
ano-
ther
manner
to
bee admired
at
by his
Saints in
all
his
glo-
ry; Chri,it
was
wonderful when bee came with
fin,
and
when bee
comes
without
fin
bee
fhall bee
more wonderful;
bee
íhall
come
in
all
his
glory with
his
holyAngels;
to
make
good
all
that
hee
hash
promifed,
and
to
bring
with
him
all
that
bee bath purchafed,
and
then
wee
fk
ill
fee
him
as
hee
is.
-- Now
wee fee
Jefus Chrilt
but
thorow
aglafs
and
yet
our
hearts are
taken
with.him;and wee wonder at him now,
but
oh how
(hall wee
wonder when
wee come
to
fee
him
as
hee is
!
when
wee shall
behold
his
face
in glory; wee
fee
now
the
Lord Chrilt in
his
Ordinances,
$ut
as
in
a
piólure;
As
at
the
firfi, when
there
are
treaties between
one Prince
and
another about
a
match,
the
firíf fight
that
they have
of
one
another,
it
is
but
by
a
piaure,
and if they
bee
de-
lighted
with
but feting
the
picture one
of
another,
much
more
will
they
bee
delighted
and inamoured with
the
per-
fon,
when
they come to
fee
it
its
felf
:
fo
it is with
the
Saints,
here
all that the
Saints
can
fee
of
Jefus Chrifi,
that
makes
them
fo
yonder
at him, and to account him
to
bee
the chiefef of
ten
thonfand,
all
is
but
by
feeing'of
him
by
a
picture; Jefus Chrilt
is
in Heaven, and
bee fends
us
his
pivlure
in
his
Ordinances;
fo St.
Paul
faith, in
Gal.
3. con-
cerning
the Miniltry
of the
Word, that
Jefas
rhrif
had
been
evidently
fet
forth
crucified
among
them.
Now
are
yóur
he
arts
taken
with
the
fight
of
Chrif}, when you
fee
him
as
it
were in
a pió ure?
know,
as
Chrilt
faid
to
,Nathaniel,
Be-
caufe
!
laid
unto
thee,
"'far,
thee
under
the
Frgg
tree,
be-
leevef
thou? thou
'halt-fee
greater
things than
thefe. So
thou
shalt ere
long fee
Jefus Chrilt
as
hee
is ;
Wee
are
now
the
Sons
of
God,
but
it
appears not
what
wee
(hall
bee,
for
when
hee
(hall appear,
wee
fl'all
he
like
him, for
wee
¡hall
fee
him
as
hee
ii..
And