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peace_n	able_a	destroy_v	zion_n	13	3	9.8406	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

we prayed for and therefore when God hath been giving in these things to us though not according to our apprehensions of them the same zeal hath been improved against them as was before for them And so we now pray for the conversion of the Jews but happy is that man that shall be able to stand to his own prayers when God shall come to effect this for it will be such a time of trouble as hath never been since there was a Nation as Daniel speaks Dan. 12. 1. And the work may be done in such a way as that those men that have prayed for it may then oppose it I know many men who now pray for the conversion of the Jews and yet would be ready to oppose their coming to live amongst us which may yet seem to be the most probable way of effecting it Vse 3. If Jesus Christ be wonderful let us learn to have high expectations of him let this give life to our hopes and wings to our faith thou hast great works to be done within thee great corruptions to be subdued great temptations conquered great wants to be supplied and so there are yet great works to be done in the world the peace of Sion to be established the throne of the Beast to be demolished the Nations to be called and gathered the Gospel to be propagated Gog and Magog to be destroyed judgement and righteousness to be setled in the Earth that nothing but wonderful power and wisdom is able to accomplish these things yet let our expectations be kept up to the heighth for here is One whose name is Wonderful is ingaged in them And we shall see this name of his written upon the instruments whereby he works and upon the method wherein he walks and upon the glory and perfection of the works themselves when they are brought to pass His works all along shall savor of this name of his Our expectation of a person is usually according to his abilities as the man is so is his strength and as his strength is so are his actings what manner of salvation may Saints then expect from such a wonderful person as Jesus Christ and who will ingrave this Name of his in visible Characters all along upon it Vse 4. If Jesus Christ be thus wonderful then sure it is both his expectation and our duty to wonder at him Let us learn then silently to sit down and wonder at what we cannot comprehend Sure this is the great end of God in all those wonderful appearances of his in the Lord Jesus to put the hearts of his poor people for ever into a sweet astonishment It is said of Christ at his glorious appearance that he shal come to be admired in all that believe 2 Thes 1 10. He shall appear every way wonderful and the proper and genuine entertainment of wonderful things is to wonder at them We never better find Christ then when we do most lose our selves in him This divine admiration is that sacred mount which the soul ascending there enjoys the clearest vision of God and sweetest communion with him Therefore let us set apart some time every day to go up into this mount of vision retiring our selves from our selves and all things visible and secular and divinely gaze upon these wonderful things of Jesus Christ till we find a sweet amazement seizing upon all the powers of the soul and carrying them forth into a divine extasie And First Look upon his person and wonder there look upon him first in the glory of his Divinity and lose thy self in it as in a sea of sweetness and pleasures pursue thy thoughts till thou arrivest at infinity and there delight to lose thy self for the more thou knowest of God the more shalt thou be better able to see that he is above all knowledge The mind of man hath three degrees of the knowledge of God as a Learned man hath observed In the first degree it useth many words of God in the second fewer in the third none at all but is stricken dumb with silence as seeing all words falling infinitely short of him As Job he was at his first discourse with God full of words whiles he knew him only by the hearing of the Ear but after a more clear sight and knowledge words fail him and he lies down dumb at the feet of God saying Once have I spoken but I will no more yea twise but I will proceed no further Job 40. 5. That you may be upon some advantage for this heavenly Work we shall briefly set some of the divine perfections of Christ before you and then forbear wondring if you can First Look upon his Knowledge and wonder his knowing all things past present and to come open and secret certain and contingent that which shall be that which shall never be and all this not by species or information from others but immediately by himself not by succession but all at once not by discourse or reason but in one simple intuitive act what wonderful knowledge is this Then look upon his Immensity and wonder being one who containeth all things and yet is contained of nothing comprehendeth all things and yet is himself incomprehensible whom the heavens yea the heaven of heavens cannot contain whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere as an Heathen speaks of God so that his presence is as much with one creature as with all and with all as with one is as much in one place as all in all places as one what a wonderful person is this And so look upon his Eternity and wonder Eternity as the Schools define it is Interminabilis tota simul vitae possessio The possession of an endless life all at once Time it is Nunc fluens but Eternity is Nunc stans an everlasting moment whereby Christ considered as God possesseth his own endless life in one moment so that there is nothing past to him nothing future but both parts of Eternity as Divines speak and all things that have been are or shall be betwixt these two parts are actually present and that continually before his face Then turn your eyes and look upon him in his Simplicity and wonder In the Divinity which we are now speaking to there is no manner of division composition or alterity at all though we are ready both to divide it and compound it through the weakness of our understanding here Wisdom is the same thing with Power and Power with Justice and Justice with Mercy nay there is not matter and form actus potentia essence and operation in him the power by which he acts and the act it self are all one in God As God loving himself the loving the loved and the love that is the band of both is all but one and the same thing And lastly to go no further here look upon him in his Eminency and wonder as having all the perfections of every creature from the highest to the lowest Eminently in himself they