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A30928	Jesus Christ the great wonder discovered for the amazement of saints in a sermon preached before the right honorable the Lord Major of London and the honorable Court of Aldermen at Pauls / by Matthew Barker.	Barker, Matthew, 1619-1698.	1651 (1651)	Wing B776; ESTC R23640	31,549	55

upon the world Before we look upon him directly in this name of his and the reasons of it we shall present him under some of those types and shadows whereby he was represented before his actual coming into the world We find him typed forth by wonderful persons and wonderful things under the Law and yet himself more wonderful then all For Persons 1. Adam a wonderful person formed by the immediate hand of God without the concurrence of those natural causes by which men are ordinarily brought forth so was Jesus Christ Adam had all knowledge both of God and the creature by immediate illumination and infusion so had Jesus Christ Adam had mankind in his loyns a world within him so had Jesus Christ Adam had an universal Lordship and superintendency over the whole Creation so had Jesus Christ So also Noah a wonderful person a man that lived in two worlds was the term or period of the Old world as it is called 2 Pet. 2. 5. and was the beginning and foundation of the New world after the Flood which was repaired and built up again by him as you read Gen. 9. Even so Jesus Christ lived first in the old natural state of man being under the Law as the old man or Adam is and was the end or period of that and then raised up and founded the new spiritual world making the old state of things to pass away upon his Cross and bringing all things into a new state at his Resurrection The next wonderful man we shall speak of is Melchisedek whom the Apostle gives a strange description of Heb. 7. Without father without mother without beginning or end of days and abiding a Priest continually Some conceived him to be Sem the son of Noah as the Samaritans Vid. Cunaeum lib. 2. cap. 3. expressè and Hebrews Others an Angel as Origen Others the Holy Ghost or a certain divine power of God greater then Christ as the Melchisedecians Others Christ himself appearing in humane form as Cunaeus and others And some conceive him one of the Kings of Canaan as A Lapide whom you may read upon the place who ever he was he was a wonderful person Said to be without father or mother meant either because his Genealogy is not spoken of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or in reference to his Priesthood not descending upon him by Father Mother or any natural succession as it did upon the Levitical Priests which is the more probable Said also to be without beginning or end of days viz. as a Priest his Priesthood not being after the Order of Aaron which was to expire but vested in him upon such an account as was eminently to be held up established and perpetuated in the Priesthood of Jesus Christ And to this man Abraham and the Levitical Priesthood in his loyns that was to receive Tithes pays Tithes of all A wonderful person indeed and yet in all this but a shadow of him that is far more wonderful Jesus Christ who is indeed without Father and mother without beginning and end of days and abideth a Priest for ever to whom we all spiritually are to pay tithes by acknowledging that we hold all of him and by resigning all back again unto him Another wonderful man was Isaac issuing out of the dry and as it were dead bodies of Abraham and Sarah when the vigor and vertue of nature was even expired that Sarah laughed at the Promise saying How can this be So Jesus Christ springs as a root out of a dry ground as the Prophet speaks Isai 53. 2. When his Glory and Kingdom riseth in the world it is usually out of causes that seem barren and improbable and when he riseth and grows up within us it is out of a dry and barren spirit making the Wilderness to bud and blossom as the Rose Isai 35. 1. And Isaac one in whom all Nations were to be blessed which is only true of Jesus Christ in whom we are blessed with all blessings in heavenly things And so Joseph another person to be wondered at filled with heavenly wisdom to interpret secrets and declare the hidden things of darkness and therefore was called Zaphnath Paaneah Gen. 41. 45. But Christ in this respect more wonderful declaring the deep Counsels of God and opening the Treasuries of the highest wisdom to the world Again a wonderful person saving all Egypt alive in the midst of famine and his father and brethren from death by that provision which he stored up and dispensed to them so Jesus Christ hath all heavenly provisions stored up in himself whereby he doth feed and nourish the souls of men in the midst of that spiritual famine that sin hath brought upon them And yet again wonderful to whom his Brethrens sheafes and the Sun Moon and eleven Stars did obeisance Gen. 37. 7 9. in a Dream or Vision So all power in Heaven and Earth is in the hand of Christ and to him every knee shall bow To mention but one person more of many Sampson a Judg. 14 16. wonderful man who slew a Lion with his hand and tare him in pieces like a Kid So doth Jesus Christ slay and conquer Satan break his power and kingdom in pieces Again Sampson with the jawbone of an Ass a simple creature slew above a thousand men So Christ by the Word of his mouth which the world accounts foolishness slays the wicked with a destructive and his people with a wholsom and saving slaughter Again Sampson took the gates of the City Gaza and carries them away with the bars and posts thereof So our Lord Jesus carries away the gates and bars of death and sin And so the wit hs and green cords wherewith he was bound he brake them in pieces like Tow Even so Jesus Christ breaks asunder those bands of the Law and sin that were upon him delivered himself from them and his people by his presence in them We might instance in Moses Ioshua David and many others of whom such wonderful things are reported but time would fail Thus much for the wonderful persons We shall next set before you some Wonderful things that have been from the beginning of the world which were all as shadows to represent and harbingers to usher in this person in the Text whose name is Wonderful into the world To speak briefly First the Tree of life in Paradise a strange thing that the man that eat thereof should live for ever This tree of life is Jesus Christ And so Jacobs Ladder though seen but in a vision yet was wonderful to Iacob whose bottom was upon the Earth and the top reached Heaven Jesus Christ is this Ladder uniting God and Man Heaven and Earth together Also the burning bush that Moses saw a strange thing Exod. 3. 3. a great sight as Moses called it for a little bush and a devouring flame to meet together and yet the bush not consumed of it So in Jesus Christ for the brightness and glory

of the divinity to dwel and shine forth in the humanity and the humanity not to be extinguisht or overwhelmed by it is very wonderful And so Noahs Ark a strange thing That being without Rudder Anchor Ballast c. should yet preserve Noah his house and all the creatures with him upon the raging waters for an hundred and fifty dayes So Gen. 7. 24. Jesus Christ in a more wonderful manner doth preserve his people from that deluge of divine wrath wherewith others are overwhelmed Again Moses rod turned into a Serpent devoured the Serpents of the Egyptians a very strange thing So Jesus Christ that brazen Serpent in the likeness of serpentine sinful flesh doth devour the Serpent of sin and the flesh within us So also the red Sea divided a wonderful thing To see a vast raging Sea to divide it self being at the place of its division at least 36. English miles over and the waters to stand as a solid wall on each side and so to continue for several dayes together as is probable that so many thousand Israelites with their wives and children with their beasts and cattel might pass over whereas nothing is so fluid and more hardly contained within its bounds as water is And then for the waters to move and take their course upon the Egyptians that not one of them was saved and to keep still divided for the Israelites to pass over that not one of them was drowned and that at one and the same time also as may be conceived is not this wonderful Yet this great wonder is but the shadow of a far greater in our Lord Jesus He is this red Sea into whose death and grave believers spiritually enter by dying to sin and retiring from the world and by this as the Israelites they pass into life salvation victory and the Rest of God leaving the lusts of the flesh as the Egyptians behind them to be both covered and destroyed for ever And so water out of the rock a wondrous thing for a dry rock to give forth water and this water to go along 1 Cor. 10. 4. with the people as the Apostle speaks and administer refreshment to them in their march through the Wilderness This water and rock are Jesus Christ So the brazen Serpent a strange thing to heal by looking upon it and that which otherwise might seem incurable This healing Serpent is Iesus Christ And so Aarons rod a marvellous thing for a dry rod to bud blossom and bring forth Almonds is very strange This dry rod is Jesus Christ who though a root out of a dry ground yet doth daily bud blossom and bring forth as he puts forth several degrees of life holiness and glory in the spirits of Saints But I pass this And come next to look upon this wonderful person in a more direct and immediate aspect And so we shall present him as three wayes Wonderful In his Person In his Offices In his Works 1. First in his Person which is really as it was hyperbolically affirmed of Dionysius the Areopagite 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Treasury of mysteries He is wonderful as God as Man and as God-Man 1. As God And I hope I have not to deal either with Arrians or Socinians that deny it In God there is nothing but what is infinite incomprehensible and inconceivable and therefore wonderful When we turn our eys upon Divinity we are presently swallowed up As those waters of the Sanctuary we read of Ezek. 47. were first to the Ancles and then to the Knees and then to the Loyns and then became waters that could not be passed over waters to swim in So as we ascend from inferiour beings to those that are superiour we find the waters rising higher and higher upon us as we meet with perfections of a greater heighth and depth till we arrive at the being of the ever blessed God and there we are swallowed up Touching the Almighty saith Iob We cannot find him out Job 37. 23. And in ver 19. We cannot order our speech by reason of darkness And ver 20. If a man speak surely he shall be * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 swallowed up Of that which is called God saith a Learned Ancient Penitus absorbebitur Nec est sensus nec ratio nec judicium nec phantasia nec Dionys Areopa opinio Neither sence reason judgement phansie or opinion can comprehend him And the same Author in an Epistle to Caius the Monk hath this divine passage * Quo propius ad deum ascendimus eo clarius cognoscimus eum esse supra omnem cognitionem By how much the nearer we come to God the more clearly we know him to be above all knowledge Bradwardine brings in several Philosophers giving several descriptions of God One this Deus est qui solâ ignoranti● mente concipitur God is best known by ignorance for all knowledge falls infinitely short of him And therefore we best know him when we come most fully to see that he cannot be known Another this Deus est tenebrae post omnem lucem in mente relictae That darkness or ignorance that is left in the mind after all its light I conceive he meant that what a man comprehends of God that is not God but that which is yet above him hidden in the dark from him that is God And Plato speaks thus of him The maker of this Vniverse it is as hard to find out as having found out to speak worthily of him But to leave his Divinity which doth over-match all finite understanding we shall descend to his Humanity and so we shall find him wonderful 2. In the second place as Man He was indeed a man but the Phoenix of the world and None-such a wonderful man Wonderful in his Conception formed by the immediate finger of the Spirit without the concurrence of any natural Plastique power from man which David in his own person as the type speaks of Psal 139. 14. I am fearfully and wonderfully made And therefore it was said to the Virgin Mary The power of the most High shall overshadow thee to imply that Christ was to be formed in a dark hidden and mysterious way within her And so he was a man wonderful in wisdom His wisdom was wonderful both in respect of the conveighance of it and the extent and perfection of it First for the conveighance not attained by study travel and inquiry as Humane knowledge and wisdom ordinarily are but immediatly descending upon him in the light of the Divinity the Godhead opening it self upon him and pouring forth it self into him And therefore the Baptist tels us that what Christ saw and heard that he testified He saw and heard all in God Joh. 3. 32. which made the people to wonder at him saying Whence hath this man this wisdom not having known letters Mark 6. 2. Secondly For the perfection of it all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge were hid in him when he