r C:or.2,9, * Mar.tz.as. Yt COL i3.rs, C K A P.a. An Expofition vpon thefecond V E And to be admired. The mea/ureo 'theirglory fogr at as lima fill the enioyers with wonder at the Grace,beholders with no le fe then .4dmiration,at the power of the beflower. Truly Paid `Paul,Thirgs U prepared for Gods Children,are fuc i as neither eye bath feene, nor care heard, nor can it enter into the heart ofman to conceiue. See the wicked ra. uifhed at the fight, and exprelïing their wondering at fuch change of Eflate Wifed. S 5 And is it not matter of wonder,to fee man made of the dull of the earth, his metal' ofthe bafefl, now made ' li%e and equall vnto Angels? His rninde, now fo more ti en fand -blind in the things of God, then fo x hare-faced to contemplate the glorious God -head. His will,in nature fo oppofite to goodnes, In grace fo wauing and wauering in Refolution,then fo immutably faíined, and by Bernardi happie necefficy,fo linked to holineffe, &c. who among Saints feeling this bleflèd change, (hall not bee rauifhed with admiration at the power of the Author ? But if we. farther confider our no deferuings of fo emi- nent Glory; onr deferuings of the contrarie, together with the preterition fo many millions of men ou5 Equalls, ifuot betters , many , in naturall condition ; and their refurretaion onely to fhatne and con- tempt : How fhall wee bee able to fatisfie our felues, in extolling and admiring the rich grace of our God and Sauiour Iefus Chrill? Whither there fhall be in heauen Remembrance of things pall on earth, is not alto- gether impertinently queflioned. Of fkules feparated the inquirie is vfuall,and thus refolued from cr gorie : That Remembrance íutelleó'tuall there is both of fins and penal- ties pail, as matter to occafion continuall lauding ofGods mercy in deliverance. Niceties pertaining thereto,w hither it be with pleafure or difliking,whither A ith rationall for - row or without, I omit. This I doubt root, but the com- paring of the miferies they are freed from, with the Beati- tude they then enioy, augments their ioy.The meditation oftheir demerits before,and after calling, enlargeth their hearts to magnifieand extoll the grace of their Redeemer. Their ..111111011111
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