nances of God. 5. The ministers of God. 6. The people of God.

Oh! let these be precious to you: the people of God are very precious to you: a saint is as glorious in his greatest misery, as a sinner is miserable in his greatest glory. The Lord give a blessing to what hath been delivered.

WONDERFUL.

HE IS ALTOGETHER LOVELY.-Cant. 5 16.

DOCTRINE:----That Jesus Christ is infinitely and superlatively lovely.

To be in a state of grace, is to be miserable no more, is to be happy forever. Faith, which unites Christ and sanctified souls together on earth; and love that unites God and glorified souls together in heaven. Oh! believers, you are those worthies of whom the world is not worthy; Jesus Christ from one saint hath more glory given to him than he receiveth from all the world besides. We owe not on- ̧ ly our service to Christ, but we owe ourselves to Christ.

I shall now make some entrance upou our Lord Jesus Christ's seventh famous title, which is Wonderful. This is one of Jesus Christ's lovely titles; in Isa. ix. 6: He shall be called Wonderful. The point that we shall lay down, and speak to from hence, is this.

Doct. That a believers' Saviour is a wonderful Saviour.

He is wonderful in the eyes of all angels and saints for love. The world and devils for fear won,

der at him.

For the opening of this excellent point, take these particulars: 1. Christ is wonderful in his nature. 2. He is wonderful in his person. 3. He is wonderful in his carnation 4. He is wonderful in his saints. 5. He is wonderful in his offices. 6. He is wonderful in his miracles that he wrought. 7. He is wonderful in his humiliation. 8. He is wonderful in his conquest. 9. He is wonderful in his ascension. 10. He is wonderful in his exhortation. 11. He is wonderful in his working towards his saints. Lastly, He is wonderful in his coming to judgement.

Some have more time than matter, but I have now more matter than time; therefore I must omit much precious matter, for want of precious time. Beloved, I will handle but one of these particulars, and that is the seventh.

That Jesus Christ is wonderful in his humiliation. This is the head we shall now insist upon, and indeed this is one of the greatest wonders of all, that he that was so high should be brought so low; that

he that was so rich should become so poor: that the Lord of life should die, and the great God to be come a babe, and the eternal Word not able to speak a word, and he that made the law should be made under the law; he that was more excellent than all the angels should become less and lower than the angels, Oh! ve angels, how stand ye amazed at this, that the lord of heaven and earth should become a servant to his own servants!. Phil ii. 7. He took upon him the form of a servant. This must needs be wonderful to all the angels in heaven.

But to proceed. First, Jesus Christ took upon him our nature, Heb ii. 16. God could stoop no lower than to become man, and man could be advanced no higher than to be united to God. He that before made man a soul after the image of God now' made himself a body after the image of man: for man to be like God is a wonder, but for God to be like man is a greater onder: but when was it that Jesus Christ took upon him our nature? When it was innocency, free from all misery and calamity? No, but when it was at the lowest after the fall, when it was most beggarly, most wretched, most bloody, most accursed, most sinful, most feeble. When we were without strength, Christ died for the ungodly, saith the apostle, Rom. v. 6.

Now, my brethren, that Jesus Christ should take upon him our condition, our frailty, our curse, our nature when it was thus low,thus poor,thus wretched; On! this is a wonder of wonders, and yet thus you see did Jesus Christ. Oh wonderful repentance!

must God take upon him our frailty? Had we so far run upon the score of vengeance, that none could justify but God himself? Could he not send his angels or saints, but must come himself in person? No, no, angels or saints could not do it: but if Christ will save us, he himself must come and die for us. .....

Secondly, Our Saviour's humility descended very How; he was bore of a poor maid, of no account or reputation. Was there never a great lady or gentlewoman in Jerusalem for this great Prince of heaven and earth to be born of, but that he must be born of a poor despised virgin? Yea, certainly, there were gentlewomen in Jerusalem, but our Lord Jesus Christ regarded not the rich more than the poor.

Second, he was revealed to poor shepherds, not emperors and kings, not to rulers and great men, not to doctors and learned men, not to Cesar at Rome. I say the angels did not go and declare these joyful tidings to Cesar at Rome, but to poor shepherds in the fields, Luke. ii. 8.

Thirdly, He was born in a stable: Luke ii. 12. Not in a fair house or palace,not in a parlor or chamber; no, but in a stable where horses and beasts are fed.

Fourthly, He was wrapt up in clothes and laid in a manger, they were no clothes of fine linen, or silks, no clothes of silver and gold, nor precious robes, but poor and mean like beggar's rags. Now beloved put all these together, and tell me what is more wonderful than this? Oh! humility, humility, how great is thy riches that are thus commended to

us? Thou pleasest men, delighteth angels, confoundeth devils, and bringeth the creator to a manger. Oh sweet Jesus, thou conquerest death by dy ing.

Thirdly. The third wonder in Christs humiliation is this, he became poor. He that was so rich and possessed all things, became so poor that le had nothing; he that made Heaven and earth had no habitation; he that gives crowns of victory, of life to others, had no crowns himself here, but a crown of thorns: The foxes and fowls had more than Jesus Christ. Mat. viii. 20; The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of mai hath not where to lay his head. The foxes had holes to lay their heads in, but Christ had not a place to lay his head on. As he was born in another man's house, so he was buried in another man's tomb. You know saith the apostle, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, though he was rich yet he became poor: 2 Cor vi. 9. Yet he became poor, ay, poor indeed, and so poor that he had not a penny. You will say that a man is very poor who hath not a penny; truly such a one was Christ; he had not a penny to pay tribute till he got it of a fish; Mat xvii. 27. And when he was to ride in pomp to Jerusalem, he had no coach, no chariot, no horse, no beast of his own; he was fain to ride upon another man's ass; Mat xxi. 2. Oh! ye blessed saints, admire and wonder at this, is not he the brightness of God, the paradise of angels, the beau ty of heaven, the redeemer of man, the destroyer of H