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On

the Excellency of

Chrift.

t

Pet.X.tz.

The Angels are

Paid

to

defre

tolook,into the

think(' of

the

Goy

pel.

7

opry into

them.

They

(loop

down to

pry

into

thofe things of the

Cofpel.

Great

is

the myffery

of

godiinefs

in

Chriff

Jefus

:

Oh

there

are many glorious

myfteries of godlinefs

in

Jefus

Chrift,

AnGi

fuch things

ccs

eye

hash

not

feen,

ear

bath

or

heard

,

neither can enter into

the

heart

of man

to

conceive, as

the Scripture

faith

in

r

Cor.2.9.

yea, they are

revealed onely

by

the

Spirit

of

God

that

fearches all things ,

yea

the

deep

things

of

God

;

the Spirit

that

fearches

the deep

things

of

Cod

,

inuft reveal

the

things

of

the

Gofpel unto

that

foul

that

ever comes

to the

knowledge

of

them.

It

was

a

work of

the

Spirit

of God

to

inftrua

Bez,aleel

and

A3holiab

in thofe

Arts of

Work

-

manfuip

,

to

work

in

Brafs

,

and the like ,

iris

a

work of

Cods

Spirit

to

Phew

a

man

the reafon

of

the

things

of na-

ture

but

now

when Gods Spirit comes

to

reveal

Chrift

to

the

foul, for it

is

the Spirit of

God

that

fearches

the

deep

things

of God;

this

puts an

emphafxs

upon

it,

íhewingthat

the

things

of

the Gofpel

are

deep

things,

they are

things

that

onely are

revealed

by

Gods

Spirit

,

and not

by

an ordi-

nary

work of

Gods Spirit, but

by

an

extraordinary

work of

the

Spirit of

Cod

,

that

Spirit

that

fearches the deep

'things-

-of

God mull declare

there things to

any foul

that

comes

to

the underttanding of

them.

,His

Ndme

is

Wonderful.

Now

furely

hee

that

God

fpake fomuch of

before hee

carne

into the world,

hee

that

-fo

many

wife

men

and Prophets

did

fo

long

to

fee,

hee

that

was

the

expeJation

and

or

of the

whole

Church

of God

frbintthe beginning

of

the

world,

before

lace

came; hee

that

was fo typified our by

all the

Sacrifices

and

Types

of

the

Old

Teftament,

by the

Temple,'

that

Was

the

wonder

of

the world

at

that time

;

Flee -that

when hee

came

into

the

world,

had

his

birth

fotemnized

by

the

Angels

,

a

heavenly

_Quire tinging Doxologies

;

Hee that had

upon

his firft

coin-

ing the

wife

men

from

the

Eafl coming

to

worfnip him,

furely hee

muff bee

"fome

wonderful one

,

forne

great

one;

and therefore

as

wee:

read of the

people

in

Laski

r.

66.

when