The wonderful works of God commemorated praises bespoke for the God of heaven in…

Secondly, The Excellent Things done by God, in the works of REDEMPTION call for our Praises. It was the Exordium of a Psalm, in Psal. 107.1, 2. O give Thanks unto the Lord, for He is Good; Let the Redeemed of the Lord say so. Behold, a Constellation of Excellent Things here which the very Angels at this Day are with a million Praises adoring of. Could we steal a Look this Day into the Third Heaven, we should see ⟨p. 28⟩the multitude of the Heavenly Host there clapping of their Golden Wings, and hear them reiterating that Heavenly Shout, in Luke 2.14. Glory to God in the Highest, because there is on Earth Peace, and good will towards men. When the blessed Angels beheld the horrible Pit which Man by Sin was fallen down into, doubtless they were even at their Wits ends about a way for his Recovery; doubtless with pity and much Despair, they cried out, Alas, for miserable man; He is helpless and hopeless now for ever! But they have now seen a Remedy provided for undone wretched man, and therein they see, what they S•••p and Bend themselves to pry into; they see The manifold Wisdom of God; and they have ever since, even for more than five Thousand years, been Praising of the God, that has Remembered us in our Low Estate, because his Mercy Endures for ever. That there should be a Man, who was Born perhaps in September, not seventeen Hundred years ago, and who yet is the Father of Eternity; a Man who lay in a Cradle, and who yet cannot be contained by the Heaven of Heavens; a man, who is his own Mothers Father, in a word, a man, in whom dwells the Fullness of the God-head, and from whose Fullness, all we receive! behold an Excellent thing which the very Angels cover their faces at. No man ⟨p. 29⟩Living is able to comprehend the Triumphant Praises that were among the Angels of God, when our Saviour was first Born into the world. When the Sun of Righteousness first shone in our Horizon, doubtless these Morning Stars were presently making their Acclamations at it. The Tidings of it were quickly carried through all the quarters of the Heavens, and the whole City of God was moved at the Report. When it was told, The Redeemer of L•st Man is Born! it set them all on Praising the most High God, and saying, Glory, Glory to the Highest, in the Highest for ever!