Where will you set Christ? Where will you get a seat, a throne, a chair for Him? He cannot be set too high. Nay, if there were ten thousand times ten thousand heavens, and each to be above another, and Christ to be set in the highest of them all, yet He would be too low.

“He had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.” What nameless king is this? What? Is Christ unbaptised, that He lacks a name? Is there no one who knows His name? “What is His name, and what is His son’s name, if thou canst tell?” (Prov. 30:4). “He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare His generation?” (Isa. 53:8). Here is a strange thing! The angel says, “Thou shalt call His name Jesus Christ.” Nay, but His name is Himself, and His nature, and so He is an infinite God. None knows infinite Christ but Himself. Aye, surely Christ is an unknown person; though each one has “Christ Jesus” in their mouth, yet they know not what they are saying.

There are three mysteries in Christ that we cannot perfectly ken in this life, nor understand.

One Mystery

The infinite wisdom, mercy, goodness, love, and grace in Christ. This the angels delight to look into and wonder at. Come near Christ here, and you will never see the bottom of Him. You have seen mercy, much mercy — there is yet more behind. One has seen much of Him, another more; the angels, who are sharp in sight, have yet seen more. Nay, but there is infinite more behind. You will as soon take the sea in the hollow of your hand, and bind the wind in your cloak, as take Him up. You must even stand still here and wonder, and cry out, “O! great Jesus, who will or can fathom Thee out?”

Another Mystery

The work of Christ’s incarnation. O! what a depth is in it! God and dust married together! How blood remains in a personal union with God! How the finite manhood subsists in His infinite personality! And how the Godhead in the Second person, and not in the First or Third, assumed our nature, and yet but one Godhead in all the Three! How the Godhead stood under the manhood that was stricken, and the Godhead as a back-friend [supporter] held Him up, and yet the Godhead did not suffer! How Jesus man died, and Jesus God lived, and remained in death God and man!

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