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 through endless eternity. Thus you see, Christ is a plant of Renown, and what way he is raised up.

The next Thing I proposed was, For whom is it that this Plant is raised up? O! may some poor thing say, Was he ever raised up for me? I tell you, sirs, he was never raised up for the fallen Angels; "For he took not on him the nature of Angels, but he took on him the seed of Abraham." Our nature was highly honoured at first, but it soon sunk below the beast that perisheth; but the second Adam took our nature upon him, and raised it to a higher dignity than the very Angels; for to which of the Angels did this this honour appertain, to be united to the eternal Son of God? So that, I say, this Plant of Renown is raised up for mankind-sinners, not for angel kind sinners; and every mankind sinner that hears tell of him, they should lay claim to him, as in Isaiah ix. 6. "To us a Son is given, to us this Child is born; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, "The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." To us he is given, unto us he is born.—I thought to have gone through what I designed on this subject, but time will not allow. The Lord bless his Word.