An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

First, Christ who is the Head of the Church, and the chief corner-stone, yet he was rejected ¹by those, who by their Office was builders: Yea, Christ crucified was accounted foolishness to the Gentiles. Insomuch that had not God promised Christ, To give him the Nations of the Earth; and had actually lifted him up, above all principalities and powers. We should have thought, there would not have been one City, much less one Nation, especially not so many Nations adoring him as God: We may truly say, This is the Lords doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes. Christ is called by the Apostle, The King of Kings, and Lord of Lords; which 2 Tim. 5. 16. Drusius saith, was the Title and Style of the great Kings of Persia; but who, except the Christian, would admire Christ more than the Persian King? Therefore it was a wonderful work upon those Wise men of the East, that they should come and bring such presents, and worship Christ, though an Infant, whom they ⟨p. 32⟩found in a mean place at Bethlehem, and in the meanest place there, but where God giveth spiritual eyes, there is a spiritual excellency discovered, where the world seeth nothing but contemptibleness.

First, Christ who is the Head of the Church, and the chief corner-stone, yet he was rejected ¹by those, who by their Office was builders: Yea, Christ crucified was accounted foolishness to the Gentiles. Insomuch that had not God promised Christ, To give him the Nations of the Earth; and had actually lifted him up, above all principalities and powers. We should have thought, there would not have been one City, much lesse one Nation, especially not so many Nations adoring him as God: We may truly say, This is the Lords doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes. Christ is called by the Apostle, The King of Kings, and Lord of Lords; which 2 Tim. 5. 16. Drusius saith, was the Title and Style of the great Kings of Persia; but who, except the Christian, would admire Christ more than the Persian King? Therefore it was a wonderfull work upon those Wisemen of the East, that they should come and bring such presents, and worship Christ, though an Infant, whom they ⟨p. 32⟩found in a mean place at Bethlehem, and in the meanest place there, but where God giveth spiritual eyes, there is a spiritual excellency discovered, where the world seeth nothing but contemptibleness.