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On

the Excellency

of

Chrif#.

57

have

a

Saviour

above the

Angels

above-

all the ftrength

that

there

is

in all

the

Angels in

heaven, and

creatures in all

the,

world, hee

is

that God that

you

have

heard of, whole Name.

is alone

excellent

,

whole

glory

it

above

the

heavens

and

earth,,

but

that

wee

fhould

bee

faved

onely

by

God,

may

feemto

Tome

to

bee

no

fuch

great wonder,who can

lave

us

but God

?,

I

but know,that here

it

is

not

God putting

forth

an

Attribute

to

fave

us

, but

it

is

God undertaking

this

relation

of

a

Sa-

viour, and God

putting

hi

mfelf

in

another condition

(as

it

were)

ánd taking upon

him

our nature

,

therefore that

is

that indeed

that

makes

the

wonder, God-

Man,Theanthropos,

i

Tim.3

.

i

6.

Great

is

the

myflery

of godlinefs

, God was

ma-

nifefled

in the

fief

h,

This

is a

wonderful niyfiery;

that there

thould

be

fuch

a

word,.7heanthropos,God-

Man,is

the

greatefl

wonder that ever

there

was

in

the

world

,

that there fhould

bee

fuch a

thing

as

fhould

bee

called God-Man

,

and is re

-.

ally and verily

God and

man together in

one

;

I

fay ,

this

is

the greatefi wonder

that

ever

was

in

the

world-, that the

Divine

and humane

Nature

thould

bee

joyned together,

.

that wee fhould have

a

Saviour

that

is

as

verily

man

as

God,

and

as

verily God

as

man, that

thofe

two

Natures,

the

Nature

of

God, and

the

nature of man fhould

come

toge-

ther in one,

that

were

fo

difiant before

o:ie

from another

,

this

is a

wonder beyond

all fenfe and

reafon

,

and

wee had

need

have

a

Profpe

&ive

-glafs

of

God

to

bee

able.

to

.fee

indeed any thing into

it

;

wee can ealily beleeve

(

wee

think)

that

Chrifi

was

God and

man,

every childe can

do

fo

;

when you

ask

your

children what Chrifi

was , you

teach them

that

hee

was

both

God

and man

,

I,

but

I

ap-

peal to you,

when

were

your

hearts

taken

with

this

as

the

geateli

wonder in

the

world ,

that

there fhould bee ever

fuch

a

thing

as

God and than in one,and

that

to

be

the

Savior

of

mankinde? That

man,that

is

miferable,fhould

look

up

to

God

to

fave

him,

look up

to the

mercy

of

God

,

this

were

not

fo

wonderful,but

that miferable

man; mitts

bee faved

by

one

that

is

God-Man, Man

and

God,

this

is

that

that

exept;

the

Spirit

of

God that

fearches

the deep

things

of God

(as

I

you