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HAT ſpeak we, men and angels of the limits of divine power; What talk we of his manifeſting his excellency in one or many, or innumerable worlds? Is it not manifeſted to the uttermoſt: The protection of ever ſo many armies of creatures can add nothing thereto? Since the manifeſtation of God in the fleſh is the principal deſign of eternity: And all other manifeſtations are in order to this. There ſtands one among us all, who is the firſt born of every creature exiſtant, or poſſible: Here is that man, in whom is viſibly to be ſeen ſuch glory, majeſty, lovelineſs, ſweetness compaſſion mercy, juſtice, wiſdom, and all creatures of overflowing fulneſs of excellency in ſuch an incomprehenſible, tranſcendant, eminent and ſuperboundant manner, as all the beholders are overwhelmed in a ſea of delightſome raviſhment for evermore.

Couldſt thou O my God, manifeſt thy ſelf more clearly, familiarity, ſweetly condeſcending? Away with other worlds, tho’ they were: this is the only one since my all lovely, Well Beloved dwells here. Thy beauty my fair one, darts round about thee, and fills this world with paſſing glory: yea, were this world myriads of myriads of ſtages and over ſo many times greater than it is one ray of thy countenence, one glance of thine eye would enlighten and adorn it all: What tho’ we could view and