3. Partly because the Blessings and Privileges we have in Christ are so great, and the Persons which enjoy them so unworthy, as being nothing, and deserving nothing, that they exceed all Thought and Belief; 1 Cor. 2.9. Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, neither have entered into the Heart of Man, the things that God hath prepared for them that love him. Mark, all the ways by which we can gain any Knowledge of a thing, they come short; Sense, Fancy, Reason; Eye, Ear, Heart of Man cannot conceive, and cannot tell what to make of these excellent Privileges we have in Christ: they cannot furnish him with fit Notions and Apprehensions of such excellent Glory as is revealed to us in him. To illustrate it by the Creatures; If a Man had been by when God made the World, as the Angels were; if he had seen God laying the Foundations of all things, he would have wondered what God was about to do, for what rare Creature the Lord was about to frame this stupendous and wonderful Fabric, arched with Heaven, floored with Earth, interlaced with Waters, decked with Fruits and Plants, stored with Creatures, and glazed (if I may so speak) with Stars; who would ever have thought that all this Furniture and Provision was for Man, a handful of Dust, a poor Worm not six Foot long, that he might be Lord of all things, Vice-king and Deputy under God? Now if a Man would wonder at the Honour and Glory God put upon Man at his Creation, much more at the Privileges of our Redemption by Christ; they are Matters to be wondered at indeed; 2 Thess. 1.10. Christ shall be glorified in his Saints, and admired in all them that believe. This Place chiefly concerns the Angels, when God puts such Clarity and Splendour upon the Body, that they shall wonder what Christ is about to do with such a contemptible Creature as Man, that newly came out of the Grave of Rottenness and Dust. This Text I am upon, speaks of a Hope set before us. If this were but a little opened, (as our Ear hath received a little thereof) if we should tell you what Preparation Christ hath made to bring the Saints to Glory, with what a glorious Train of Angels he will come from Heaven, what Mansions he hath prepared for us in his Father's House, and all this for those that have nothing, and deserve nothing, unless it be Extremity of Misery:
3. Partly because the Blessings and Privileges we have in Christ are so great, and the Persons which enjoy them so unworthy, as being nothing, and deserving nothing, that they exceed all Thought and Belief; 1 Cor. 2.9. Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, neither have entred into the Heart of Man, the things that God hath prepared for them that love him. Mark, all the ways by which we can gain any Knowledg of a thing, they come short; Sense, Fancy, Reason; Eye, Ear, Heart of Man cannot conceive, and cannot tell what to make of these excellent Privileges we have in Christ: they cannot furnish him with fit Notions and Apprehensions of such excellent Glory as is revealed to us in him. To illustrate it by the Creatures; If a Man had been by when God made the World, as the Angels were; if he had seen God laying the Foundations of all things, he would have wondred what God was about to do, for what rare Creature the Lord was about to frame this stupendious and wonderful Fabrick, arched with Heaven, floor'd with Earth, interlac'd with Waters, deck'd with Fruits and Plants, stored with Creatures, and glazed (if I may so speak) with Stars; who would ever have thought that all this Furniture and Provision was for Man, a handful of Dust, a poor Worm not six Foot long, that he might be Lord of all things, Vice-king and Deputy under God? Now if a Man would wonder at the Honour and Glory God put upon Man at his Creation, much more at the Privileges of our Redemption by Christ; they are Matters to be wondred at indeed; 2 Thess. 1.10. Christ shall be glorified in his Saints, and admired in all them that believe. This Place chiefly concerns the Angels, when God puts such Clarity and Splendour upon the Body, that they shall wonder what Christ is about to do with such a contemptible Creature as Man, that newly came out of the Grave of Rottenness and Dust. This Text I am upon, speaks of a Hope set before us. If this were but a little opened, (as our Ear hath received a little thereof) if we should tell you what Preparation Christ hath made to bring the Saints to Glory, with what a glorious Train of Angels he will come from Heaven, what Mansions he hath prepared for us in his Father's House, and all this for those that have nothing, and deserve nothing, unless it be Extremity of Misery:
