Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…

HERE lies the Foundation of the Church. The Foundation of the whole Old Creation was laid in an Act of absolute Sovereign Power. Hereby God hanged the Earth upon nothing. But the Foundation of the Church is on ⟨p. 41⟩this Mysterious immovable Rock; Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God; on the most intimate Conjunction of the two Natures, the Divine and Humane, in themselves infinitely distant, in the same Person.

HERE lies the Foundation of the Church. The Foundation of the whole Old Creation was laid in an Act of absolute Soveraign Power. Hereby God hanged the Earth upon nothing. But the Foundation of the Church is on ⟨p. 41⟩this Mysterious immoveable Rock; Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God; on the most intimate Conjunction of the two Natures, the Divine and Humane, in themselves infinitely distant, in the same Person.

WE may name one place wherein it is gloriously represented unto us, Isa. 9. 6. For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the Government shall be on his Shoulders; and his Name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Here must the whole Church fall down and worship the Author of this wonderful Contrivance, and captivating their Understandings unto the Obedience of Faith, humbly adore what they cannot comprehend.

THIS was obscurely represented unto the Church of old, Exo. 3. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6