Christs eternal existence, and the dignity of his person asserted and proved in opposition…

would he witness from Heaven this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased? would he have raised him from the dead, and so engaged the World to believe in him and adore him, Acts 17.31.

would he witness from Heaven this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased? would he have raised him from the dead, and so ingaged the World to believe in him and adore him, Acts 17.31.

2. If Christ were before all things, let us prefer him above all things: This consideration is of great use to draw off our hearts from all created things, and to lessen our respects to worldly vanities, that they may be more earnestly fixed on what is eternal and glorious. He that was before the world was, will be when the world shall be no more: Christ is from Everlasting to Everlasting, Psal. 90.2. to him should we look, after him should we seek, he is first and last, the beginning and ending. It is for an Everlasting blessedness, for the enjoyment of an eternal God that our souls were made. He that was from the beginning, & will be when all things shall have an end; it is he that should take up our minds and thoughts: How can we have room for so many thoughts about fading glories, when we ⟨p. 90⟩have an Eternal God and Christ to think of? What light can we see in a Candle when the Sun shineth in his full strength? All things in the World serve only for a season, and then wither; and that season is but a short one. You glory in your Riches, and preeminence now, but how long will you do so? To day that House and Lands is thine, but thou canst not say it will be thine tomorrow: but a believer can say my God, my Christ, is mine to day, and will be mine to all eternity. Death taketh all from us honours and riches, and strength and life, but it cannot take God and Christ from us, they are ours and everlastingly ours.