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The divine life in three treatises
The divine life in three treatises ... by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Francis Tyton, 1664
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1. God is now wonderfully admired and magnified in the person of the Redeemer. Angels themselves desire to pry into this mystery, 1 Pet. 1. 12. As the frame of Nature is set us to see God in, where we daily as in a glass behold him and admire him; so the person of the Redeemer, and work of Incarnation and Redemption, is set the Angels for their contemplation and admiration, as well as us: Eph. 3. 10. [To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the Church the manifold wisdom of God.] And in the glorious perfection and dignity of the Redeemer will God be everlastingly glorified; For his greatest works do greatliest honour him: And as the sun doth now to us more honour him then a star, so the glorified person of the Redeemer, doth more honour God then man or Angels. 1 Pet. 3. 23. [He is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God, Angels, and Authorities, and Powers being made subject to him.] Eph. 1. 20, 21, 22. Being raised from the dead, God hath set him at his own right hand in heavenly places, far above all principalities, and powers, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come; and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the Head over all things to the Church, which is his Body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all.] Heb. 1. 3. [Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sate down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; being made so much better then the Angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name then they▪ ]
1. God is now wonderfully admired and magnified in the person of the Redeemer. Angels themselves desire to pry into this mysterie, 1 Pet. 1. 12. As the frame of Nature is set us to see God in, where we daily as in a glass behold him and admire him; so the person of the Redeemer, and work of Incarnation and Redemption, is set the Angels for their contemplation and admiration, as well as us: