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ANDREW GRAY
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The Mystery of Faith
(1633-1656)
"We know not whether the infiniteness of His love, the eternity of His love,
or the freedom of it, maketh up the greatest wonder; but sure, these three joined
together make up a matchless and everlasting wonder. Would any of you
ask the question, what is Christ worth? We could give no answer so suitable
as this; it is above all the arithmetic of all the angels in heaven, and all
the men on earth, to calculate His worth; all men here must be put to a divine
nonplus: This was Job's divinity, ( Job 28:13), and must not Jesus Christ, who
is the precious Object of faith, and wisdom of the Father, be a supereminent
and excellent One, who hath that name of King of kings, and Lord of lords, not
only engraven on His vesture, (which pointeth out the conspicuousness of His
majesty) but even also upon His thigh, to point out, that in all His goings
and motions, He proveth Himself to be higher than the kings of the earth? And
howbeit the naked proposing of the Object doth not convert; yet if once our
souls were admitted to behold such a sight as Christ in His beauty and majesty,
and to be satisfied with the divine rays of His transcendent glory, then certainly
we should find a blessed necessity laid upon us of closing with Him: for Christ
hath a sword proceeding out of His precious mouth, by which He doth subject
and subjugate His own to Himself, as well as He hath a sword girded upon His
thigh, by which He judgeth and maketh war with His enemies. We confess
it is not only hard, but simply impossible, to commit a hyperbole in commending
of Him; His worth being always so far above our expressions and our expressions
always far beneath His worth; therefore we may be put to propose that desire
unto Him-Exalt Thyself, O Lord, above the heavens."
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