Serle - BT590 N2 S47 1776

ióo WON DERFuL: after a little more Faith and Patience, and when that: haft accomplifhed his Will in thy Generation. ; he will exalt thee, from a vile Body and a State of Corruption below, to an Inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, referved for ever in Heaven above. The High* (hall fet thee up on high, and will ftablifh thee as the Rock for ever. W®NDERF'ULr AL L theNames andTitles of GOD, in the Bible; illuftrate the Dignity and Charafter of the great Redeemer. They Thine in every Page; becaufe every Page is, more or lefs, treating of 7efits. But, in the Text where this divide Name of WONDERFUL occurs, there is (as it were) a Conftèllation of Titles ; and fuch a Conftellation, as, were it not for the Blindnefs of the human Mind, and the Obftinacy of the human Heart, one fhould think, would be fuf lcient to confound all the Arianifrn in the World. The Wifdom of GOD feems to labour for Defcription, when it fpeaks of the Glories of the incarnate Saviour, and therefore employs a great Variety ofEpithets and Names, which cannot with any Propriety, in the Senfe and for the Purpofe to which they are applied, relate to any one lefs than Him, who is GOD over all, and blefhed for ever. All his Names, excepting his name of Effence, Jehovah, re- late to the Operations of his Love upon his Redeemed. His Love is (hewn by them, in various Points of View, becaufe

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