Tbe cbiefeftoften thou(and. . SEJ..XVI. Feet good; butalllovely,GrAcefor-Gr4ce,anfwe-– rable ro the variety of Graces in Iefus Chrift, in whom all things joyndy, andeverything feverally are lovely. - 3· . Then fhe fbeweth her particular care and lluBe~rzuftfbehatl dy tobe exaCt in this knowledge of Chrift ro Jerroufll and ' • . • ' exaary fludied rip htm 11p and anatomtz:e hun thus fromHead I . cbri/J to pur,. toFoot,it argueth {he had fiudied Chrifi well ere poJe. .fhe could attaine this excellency: fo ir fhoul d be \ the fiudy and care of every Chrifiian to fiudy, the excellencies of Chrifi,not only in the groffe, I to fay as much as you have in the- (reed ; he was. borne for us oft_herit·ginuHAry, was crucified, dead and burie~; ·&c. 'which every chilc:ie can fay ; butto be able to particularize the high per. feetions and excellencies of Chrifi ; as the Churchhere, to fiudy his Nature, Offices,. the State he was in, and how he carried himfelfe in his humiliation and.exaltation : what good we have byboth{htes;RedemptionbyhisAhafemmt; ttfplication ofit hy huadvAncement. What he did for us on Earth~ what he dorh in Heaven; what in lufti.fic-atim,\../'1doption,SanEii.fictt!iiJn)rmd in the glory to come. Srudy every thing :md warme the heartwithrhe meditadc;mofrhem. That au hu~ I This particular fpreading and laying-open the nw1e eloquence exc~Hencies of Chrifi is a thing worthy of a comes jbort o·I Ch ·n.· W · k fl · h k fR 1· · the ex(e/JeTlciei 1 nu tan. e ma e etg t wor eo e1g10n, ofChrijl. we can be particular and eloquent enougll in other tliings, but In that wherein all eloqttence is too little, how barren are we, how ffiarndaced ·to fpeake of Chdfi and his excellencies fn oafe r ~ ro~ ;
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