[ 1885] The excellency of Christ Jesus.
IT is observeable, that when some great King or Potentate draweth near unto his Royall City, the Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Lords, and others of the No∣bility and Gentry ride before him; Now if a stranger standing by should ask, Who is this Man? and who is that? What power hath that Man at Court? What place hath this? What means hath a third? It would be answered; This is my Lord Duke,* 1.1 that, such an Earl, the other, such a great Lord, such a one is the Lord Treasurer, that, the Lord Admirall, and that other the Lord Chan∣cellour, &c. but when the King comes, he saith no more but onely, That's the King; And why so? And why no more but so? because in that one slender word,* 1.2 all the greatness of the rest is included, the King being the Fountain of Honour from whence all their glory is derived: Thus it is that if all the crea∣ted goodnesse, all the Priviledges of Gods children, all the Kingdomes of the Earth and the glory of them, were to be presented at one view, they would all appear as nothing and emptiness in comparison of the excellency and fullness that is to be found in Christ Iesus.