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 I will tell you a few things with reference to the raising up of this blessed Plant.

1. He was raised up in the Counsel of God’s Peace from eternity. The Trinity sat in council anent the upbringing of him; "The Counsel of Peace was between them both," Zech. vi. 13. The Father and the Son agreed upon it that in the fulness of time the Son should come into the world.

2. He was raised up in the first Promise to Adam and Eve. Till this Plant was discovered to them, they were like to run distracted: And indeed, sirs, if Christless sinners saw where they were, and the wrath of God that is hanging ever their heads, they would be ready to run distracted, till a revelation of Christ was made to them. All the Promises, all the Prophecies, all the Types, and all the Doctrines of the Old Testament, they were the gradual springings of this Plant: But it was under ground until,

3. His actual manifestation in the flesh, when, in the fulness of time, he appeared: In the fulness of time, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, &c. And,

4. This Plant was raised up even in his Death and Resurrection, by which he was declared to be the Son of God with power, by the Spirit of holiness. And,

Lastly, This Plant of Renown will be raised up in the Songs of the redeemed, through