Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

But in this Conception of Christ are so many Wonders, that ere we begin to speak them,¹ we may stand amazed: Without Controversy, great is the Mystery of Godliness; God manifested in the Flesh. Say, Is it not a Wonder, a Mystery, a great Mystery, a great Mystery without all Controversy, that the Son of God should be made of a Woman, even made of that Woman which was made by Himself? Is it not a Wonder, that her Womb then, and that the Heavens now, should contain Him, whom the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain? Concerning this Conception of Christ, I shall speak a little, and but a little: What Man can conceive much of this Conception, which was a Conception without Help of Man?² Our greatest Light we borrow from the Angel, who describes it thus; The Holy-Ghost shall come upon thee, and the Power of the Highest shall over-shadow thee.

But in this Conception of Christ are so many Wonders, that e're we begin to speak them,¹ we may stand amazed: Without Controversie, great is the Mystery of Godliness; God manifested in the Flesh. Say, Is it not a Wonder, a Mystery, a great Mystery, a great Mystery without all Controversie, that the Son of God should be made of a Woman, even made of that Woman which was made by Himself? Is it not a Wonder, that her Womb then, and that the Heavens now, should contain Him, whom the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain? Concerning this Conception of Christ, I shall speak a little, and but a little: What Man can conceive much of this Conception, which was a Conception without Help of Man?² Our greatest Light we borrow from the Angel, who describes it thus; The Holy-Ghost shall come upon thee, and the Power of the Highest shall over-shadow thee.

1. 11 Tim. 3.16.
2. 2Luke 1.35.