The excellency of a public spirit discoursedThe excellency of a publick spirit discoursed

For APPLICATION.

1. We should Admire the Glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. The most glorious Creatures do but a little set forth his glory: the Stars of Heaven, yea the bright Morning Star has no brightness in it compared with him. The Sun in the Firmament is darkness it self compared with the Lord Jesus Christ, Job 25:5. Behold even to the Moon and it shineth not, yea the Stars are not pure in his ⟨p. 78⟩sight. As for the Morning Star, our mortal eyes may behold the glory of it without any detriment, but the glory of Christ is such as no mortal eye can behold it, He dwells in glorious and unapproachable light whom never man saw nor indeed can see. When Christ appeared to Paul going to Damascus, there was a light above the brightness of the Sun, in its Meridian glory; it was then mid-day, but the glory of Christ was greater than the light of the Sun, Act 26.13. Ten thousand Suns would not shine so gloriously as the Lord Jesus Christ now does When Christ was in his Estate of Humiliation, the Apostle John could lay his head in his Bosom: but since in his Glorified Estate, that Apostle had an Apparition of Christ: And (said he) I fell down as dead at his […] Rev. 1.17. We cannot admire the Lord Jesus Christ too much We may be more taken than we should be with the glory of Creatures, but we never can with the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, though our Admiration should be to Adoration; that is no more than what is out indispensable duty. To worship the Morning Star as the Gentiles of old were wont to do, under the name of Venus, and as some Arabians do (at this day) is idolatry, and a horrible sin: but to worship the Lord Jesus Christ is our duty. When he first appeared in the world there was a Miraculous Star seen: it was not a Comet, or such a Star, as is now blazing over our heads, for it directed to a particular ⟨p. 79⟩