Go fpel-Converfation. But this is not fuch a glorious work as I am able to do : I could make ten thoufand worlds, and when I have made them I could make as many more, and more glorious : But I would do fome work wherein I might manifeft even the attermoft of my glory : What work is that ? that is, The work that God pitcht upon, He would do one work fromwithout to manifeft the uttermoft of his glory, and the Lord rather pitches upon, this, To take the nature ofMan into a perfonal unionwith His Son, that's the uttermoft : And it is impotfible that Menor An- gels, if they were left to all eternity to imagin, could think of a work that it were poffible for God to exprefs moreofHis power, wifdom, and glory in : but we know but little of it now, but we fhall know more in Heaven. Now,. Oh how bath God honored humane Nature in this ! That when He would do a work to the utmoft of His Excellency,that He would pitch upon Mans Nature, to rake it into Perfonal Union with Himfelf; here's the myfteryof the Gofpel : now this is indeed the marrowof the myfterie ofthe Gofpel, The Wordmadefefb: the fecond Perlon in Trinity taking Mans Nature uponHim ; This is the myftery of the Gofpel that Angels and Saints ad- mire at, and fhall be taken up to all eternity in admiring and prayfing and magnifying . God for. That's the firft way of Gods honoring Mans Nature. And then, there is a fecond thing which the Gofpel rçveáls, and that's this, Inpottinghonor not only upon the NatureofMan, ashaviugfoul andBody, butput- ting a mighty honor upon the very Body ofMan, the meaneít and the very loweft part of Man, the very fhel, outfide,rine and cafe of Man, that you have in I Cor. 6. 19. What, knowye not that your bodie is the temple of the holy Gho#, Which is inyou ? Your Body is the Temple ofthe holyGhoft. You have no fuch thing revealed in the old Teftament, this comes by the light ofthe Gape!. that the Lordhath made the bodies ofthe Saints to be Temples to the holy Ghoft, that the holyGhoft dwels in their very Bodies as in aTemple as the King in his Pallace, fo theho-' lyGhoft in His Temple: Now thefe two are greatthings revealed in the Gofpel, and had we but a deer underftandtngof thefe two things, Oh ! it wouldmightily elevate our fpirits. And Cbnverffations fumble to there two particulars furely muff _..__ _ .. _ -. need
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