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 was said on that Head. I likewise entered upon the second, and shewed that Christ is A Plant of Renown in several respects: I mentioned eleven or twelve Particulars wherein Christ is renowned, but I shall not resume these neither: I shall only tell you a few things wherein this blessed Plant is renowned.

1. In the first place, This blessed Plant, he is renowned for his Antiquity. There are many other plants in God’s garden, as angels, seraphims, cherubims, saints militant and triumphant, they are all plants of God’s garden; but they are all but upstarts in comparison of him; for he was set up before ever the earth was. You will see that one Name of this Plant of Renown is, The Everlasting Father, or, "The Father of Eternity," as it may be rendered.

2. As he is renowned for his Antiquity, so for his Beauty: He is the most beautiful Plant ihin [sic] all the garden of God; "I am the Rose of Sharon, and the Lilie of the valleys.—He is as the apple-tree among the trees of the wood." He is renowned, I say, for his Beauty and his Glory; for the glory ot a God is in him. Is there any glory in his eternal Father? Why, that glory shines in our, in the very brightness of it, Heb. i. 3. "He is the brightness of the Father’s glory, and the express image of his Person." Now. firsfirst [sic], if