2. Use. What an incomparable thing must the Mediator God-man be?1 There's no fair creature,2 no excellent one, but there's a piece of nothing, and creature-baseness, and creature-vanity in it, even a thing of blood to the mother-nothing of the creation of God; there is no Rose, but it hath a Brier growing out of it, except the Rose of Sharon, that flower of the field, not planted with hands, the Son without a Father (and who shall declare his generation?) A Rose that should smell, and cast out odours for a mile of earth, or for ten miles could draw to it many beholders, but if it should smell for the bounds of the half of the earth, it should be more admirable, the flower that sprang out of the root of Jesse, spreads his beauty, and the odours of his myrrh through heaven and earth; could the darkness of hell stand and look on the face of the Sun, blackness ⟨p. 93⟩of darkness should be better seen; but convene all the little pieces of the Creation summon before Christ, fair Angels, all the Troops of the sin-less, glorified spirits, the broad skies, fair heavens, lightsome stars, all the delicious Roses, Flowers, Gardens, Meadows, Forests, Seas, Mountains, Birds, all the excellent Sons of Adam, as they should have been, in the world of innocency, and let them all stand in their highest excellency before Jesus Christ; the matchless and transcendent glory of that great All, should turn the worlds all into pure Nothing; what wonder then that this same Lord Jesus be the delight & heaven of all in it? Rev. 7.17. The Lamb hath his Throne in the midst thereof, Rev. 22.4. And they shall see his face: They do nothing else, but stare, gaze, & behold his face for ages, & are never satisfied with beholding; suppose they could wear out their eyes at the eye-holes in beholding God, they should still desire to see more. To see him face to face, hath a great deal more in it, then is expressed; words are short garments to the thing it self: Your now sinful face to his holy face, your piece clay-face to his uncreated soul-delighting face is admirable. We do not praise Christ, and hold out his virtues to Men and Angels. The creatures, as the Heaven, Sun, Moon, are Gods debtors, and they owe him glory: but men who have understanding and tongues, are Gods Factors and Chamberlains to ⟨p. 94⟩gather in the rent of glory and praise to God; the heavens do indeed declare the glory of God; Ps.
2. Vse. What an incomparable thing must the Mediator God-man be?1 There's no fair creature,2 no excellent one, but there's a peece of nothing, and creature-basenesse, and creature-vanity in it, even a thing of blood to the mother-nothing of the creation of God; there is no Rose, but it hath a Brier growing out of it, except the Rose of Sharon, that flower of the field, not planted with hands, the Son without a Father (and who shall declare his generation?) A Rose that should smell, and cast out odours for a mile of earth, or for ten miles could draw to it many beholders, but if it should smell for the bounds of the half of the earth, it should be more admirable, the flower that sprang out of the root of Jesse, spreads his beauty, and the odours of his myrhe through heaven and earth; could the darknesse of hell stand and look on the face of the Sun, blacknesse ⟨p. 93⟩of darknesse should be better seen; but convene all the little pieces of the Creation summon before Christ, faire Angels, all the Troops of the sin-lesse, glorified spirits, the broad skies, fair heavens, lightsome stars, all the delicious Roses, Flowers, Gardens, Medows, Forrests, Seas, Mountains, Birds, all the excellent Sons of Adam, as they should have been, in the world of innocency, and let them all stand in their highest excellency before Jesus Christ; the matchlesse and transcendent glory of that great All, should turn the worlds all into pure Nothing; what wonder then that this same Lord Jesus be the delight & heaven of all in it? Rev. 7.17. The Lamb hath his Throne in the midst thereof, Rev. 22.4. And they shall see his face: They do nothing else, but stare, gaze, & behold his face for ages, & are never satisfied with beholding; suppose they could wear out their eyes at the eye-holes in beholding God, they should still desire to see more. To see him face to face, hath a great deal more in it, then is expressed; words are short garments to the thing it self: Your now sinfull face to his holy face, your piece clay-face to his uncreated soul-delighting face is admirable. We do not praise Christ, and hold out his vertues to Men and Angels. The creatures, as the Heaven, Sun, Moon, are Gods debtors, and they owe him glory: but men who have understanding and tongues, are Gods Factors and Chamberlains to ⟨p. 94⟩gather in the rent of glory and praise to God; the heavens do indeed declare the glory of God; Ps.
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