Gospel-conversation

And it is impossible that Men or Angels, if they were left to all eternity to imagine, could think of a work that it were possible for God to express more of His power, wisdom, and glory in: but we know but little of it now, but we shall know more in Heaven. Now, Oh how hath God honoured humane Nature in this! That when He would do a work to the utmost of His Excellency, that He would pitch upon Mans Nature, to take it into Personal Union with Himself; here's the mystery of the Gospel: now this is indeed the marrow of the mystery of the Gospel, The Word made flesh: the second Person in Trinity taking Mans Nature upon Him; This is the mystery of the Gospel that Angels and Saints admire at, and shall be taken up to all eternity in admiring and praising and magnifying God for. That's the first way of Gods honouring Mans Nature. And then, there is a second thing which the Gospel reveals, and that's this, In putting honour not only upon the Nature of Man, as having soul and body, but putting a mighty honour upon the very Body of Man, the meanest and the very lowest part of Man, the very shell, outside, rind and case of Man: that you have in 1 Cor. 6. 19. What, know ye not that your body is the temple of the holy Ghost, which is in you? Your body is the Temple of the holy Ghost. You have no such thing revealed in the old Testament, this comes by the light of the Gospel, that the Lord hath made the bodies of the Saints to be Temples to the holy Ghost, that the holy Ghost dwells in their very Bodies as in a Temple; as the King in his Palace, so the holy Ghost in His Temple: Now these two are great things revealed in the Gospel, and had we but a clear understanding of these two things, Oh! it would mightily elevate our spirits. And Conversations suitable to these two particulars surely must ⟨p. 91⟩needs be a high raised Conversation. As now for instance,

And it is impossible that Men or Angels, if they were left to all eternity to imagin, could think of a work that it were possible for God to express more of His power, wisdom, and glory in: but we know but little of it now, but we shall know more in Heaven. Now, Oh how hath God honored humane Nature in this! That when He would do a work to the utmost of His Excellency, that He would pitch upon Mans Nature, to take it into Personal Union with Himself; here's the mystery of the Gospel: now this is indeed the marrow of the mysterie of the Gospel, The Word made flesh: the second Person in Trinity taking Mans Nature upon Him; This is the mystery of the Gospel that Angels and Saints admire at, and shall be taken up to all eternity in admiring and praising and magnifying God for. That's the first way of Gods honoring Mans Nature. And then, there is a second thing which the Gospel reveals, and that's this, In putting honor not only upon the Nature of Man, as having soul and body, but putting a mighty honor upon the very Body of Man, the meanest and the very lowest part of Man, the very shel, outside, rine and case of Man: that you have in