Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

This is that which the Psalmist designs to declare, Psal. 8. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy Name in all the earth! Who hast set thy Glory above the heavens. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy Fingers, the Moon and the Stars which thou hast ordained; what is Man that thou are mindful of him, and the Son of man that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the Angels, and hast ⟨p. 45⟩crowned him with glory and honour; thou hast made him to have Dominion over the work of thy hands, thou hast put all things under his feet.

This is that which the Psalmist designs to declare, Psal. 8. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy Name in all the earth! Who hast set thy Glory above the heavens. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy Fingers, the Moon and the Stars which thou hast ordained; what is Man that thou are mindful of him, and the Son of man that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the Angels, and hast ⟨p. 45⟩crowned him with glory and honor; thou hast made him to have Dominion over the work of thy hands, thou hast put all things under his feet.

HE is engaged in a Contemplation of the Glory of God in his Works; and he concludes that the Fabric of Heaven, with the Moon and Stars therein (for it was his Meditation by Night, when he beheld them) was exceeding glorious, and greatly to be admired. This casts his Thoughts on the poor, weak, infirm Nature of Man, which seems as nothing in comparison of those Glories above: But immediately hereon falls into an Admiration of the Wisdom, Goodness, and Love of God, exalting that Nature incomparably above all the Works of Creation in the Person of Jesus Christ, as the Apostle expounds this place,