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TSà.19..
On the Excellency
of
Chili.
why
in times of
great afttiaion, there
were
fuch
clear
Pro.
phefies
of Jefus
Chrifl,
as
here
in my
Text,
For
unto us
.a
childe
is born, unto
us
a
Son
is
given, and
his
Name
(hall
be
Balled
Wonderful,
Counfeller,&c.
Now
in
this
latter part of
this
verfe
,
wee have
Chria fet
out unto
us
in
five
notable
and
famous
Titles of
his.
His
Name
is,
r,
Wonderful,
2. Counfeler,
3.
The
.1I%ltghty,.God,
4.
The Everlaflsng.
Fether,
.
5.
The
.Prince
of
Peace.
i'
intend
only
to
fpeak-of
the
firtl,
Plis
Namelbw:
bee
ca!ledwonderful becaufe
I
would have
force
kinde
of
proportion between
what
I
have prefented to
you
about
God
,
and
what
I fhall
about Chri(l
:.
And
as
for other
things more largely
about
God
or
Chrif},
it
may bee
after-
wards, but onely
now
I
(hall delire to prefent Chrifi unto
you
in'this,one
Title
of his,
His Name(hall
bee
called
Won-
derful. From
whence the
Point
is
this,
Jefus
Chrifi
is the
great
Wonder
of
the
world,
That
is
our
point
of Do
ìrine
::
God
himfelf,,
above
feven hundred years before
hee
was
born , gives him
this
Name
Wonderful
;
in
the 19.
of
this Prophecie
,
verf.
zo.
wee
read
of
a
Saviour
,
a
Great
one
(faith
the
Text)
furely
Jefus
Chrifl-
hee
is
a
Saviour
,
and
a
Great one,
bee
is
the
Wonder of
the
world.
Judg.
i
3.1 7,18.
The
Flory
of
the
Angels
appearing
unto Manoah, Manoah would
fain
know
his
name
,
And Manoah faid
unto
the.Angel
of
the Lord,
What
is
t
by
Name
?
verf.1 8.
the
Angel
of
the
Lord
faid
unto him,
rPhy
AO
thou
after
my
name,
Peeing
it
is
ferret
r
Now
the word
that
is
tranflated
in
your
books Secret
, it
is
a
word
that
fignifies
Wonderful
;
And
Aufln
in
his
Quef}i-
ons upon
this Book of Judges
,
bee
is
confident
that
this
Angel
was
Jefus
Chria
, and
that,
his
afcending up
in
the fa-
crifice
that
Manoah
offered ,
it
was
to
fore
-
lignifie
Jefus
ebria
to
bee
the
onely.
Sacrifice
that
fllould afcend up,
to
the