DISCOURSE II. 527 now made manifest, to the intent that now unto principalities and powers of heaven, as well as men on earth, might be made knownby the church, the manifold, the amazing wisdomof God; Rom. xvi. 25. Ephes. iii. 9. There is enough in this gospel to raise the wonder even of the sinners that refuse it : " Hear, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish ;" Acts xiii. 41. Much more will it seize and employ the admiringpowers of every holy soul, that has tasted of the love of God, and been partaker of this salvation .There isa divine and ten-fold pleasure attends this ex- ercise of sacred admiration, while the soul, in the language of faith and love, can say, " Thou art the God who alone doest wonders," and thou art my God for ever and ever. Imight add after all, there is yet still another worldof won- ders to employ the lover of God, and that is, the person of his Son Jesus Christ, our Saviour. There God discovers himself in his fullest grace and wisdom, in his highest power and perfec- tion. The attributes of the Father shine transcendently glorious inhis Son, andbecome the object of love and wonder to men and angels. He is the fairest " image of the invisible God, the first- born of every creature ;" Col. i. 16. " He is the brightness of the Father's glory, and the express image of his person ;" Heb. i. 3. All the marvellons things that God the Father evèr wrought, it was in and by his Son. Did he create all things Out of nothing ? It was byJesus Christ ; Eph. iii. 9. Does he go- vern the world with amazing wisdom ? It is by making his Son Jesus the governor and Lord of all things. Does he redeem and save guilty sinners from everlasting misery ? These wonders of mercyare transacted by the cradle and the cross of Jesus, by the death and the life of Christ, by the sorrows, the sufferings, and the victories of the Son of God. " His name is called won- derful ;" Is. ix. 6. For he who is the child born, is also the mighty God : The infant of days is the everlasting Father, the first and the last, the beginning and the end of all things. What . sublime and sacred raptures of love and wonder join together, 'when a devout christian contemplateshis God in hisnature, in his . providences, in all hisworks, in the pages of his holy book, and in the face of his Son the blessed Jesus ? ButI have dwelt too long, amidst these divine wonders, the following particulars must be more briefly handled. II. Divine love will command the affection of holy desire. A sense of the favour of God, and the influences of his grace will be the matter of our most intense wishes and importunate requests. We shall long for the presence of God above all things, both here and hereafter. This was the fixed desire, this. the passionate aspiration of the holy Psalmist ; Ps, cxix. 58. " I entreated thy favour with my whole heart." What warm and pathetic language.breaks from the lips of this great saint,
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