A sermon, occasioned

USE. 1. And now Praises, Millions of Praises, an Eternity of High-praises be given unto our Lord Jesus Christ who speaks such things to the rebellious. O the Admiration, O the Adoration which the never-enough praised Grace of Jesus Christ should beget in us! At the preaching of this Doctrine we have unutterable cause to do as the Jews did at the building of the Temple in Zech. 4. 7. even to shout Grace, Grace, concerning it, until our Acclamations reach unto the very Heavens. It is recorded of the poor slaves among the Brick-kilns in Egypt, Exod. 4. 31. That when they heard the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and had looked on their Affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped: behold, you have this morning heard, that the Lord Jesus Christ hath visited the children of men, and bid them in their Afflictions to Look unto Himself. O where are the good words, where are the kind thoughts that we ought to magnify this Redeemer and His Grace withal? David once in an holy Ecstasy of soul, 1. Chron. 29. 10,—14. Blessed the Lord, and said, O who am I! Verily now, all of us have cause to abound with such notes as those, Lord who are we, that He who sits on the lofty Throne of Eternity should send away unto us that lie starving like odious Beggars ⟨p. 56⟩among the Ditches and under the Hedges of Hell▪ inviting us to LOOK unto Him and be SAVED! The Pharisees of old aspersed Him with this as His Disgrace, but let us cry it up in Him as his Honour, This man receiveth sinners. The virtuous Elizabeth in Luc. 1. 43. Wondered that the Mother of her Lord should come unto her: but what a thing is this, that our Lord Himself should Invite us to Look, yea, to come unto himself! That he who sits as King for ever upon the lofty Battlements of Heaven, & charges the very Angels with Folly, should so far smile upon us a company of born-fools wandering about the earth; upon us who dwell in houses of Clay, whose Foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth; did I say so? Nay this is not the worst of our Character: we are not only undeserving creatures, but also Hell-deserving s•inners.