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You will see from the context, all that is said of Christ has a respect to him as a Mediator, that he was to be God’s servant to do his work, in that consideration he is here called a Plant, and a Plant of renown. Hence Zachiarias, when speaking of him, has a phrase much to the same purpose, He has raised tip a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David. Again,
2. Another thing I would have you to remark, is, That this Plant is but small and little is the eyes of a blind world. He was little looked upon, when he sprung in his incarnation, and when he was here in a state of humiliation, men
looked upon him, “as a Root sprung up out of a dry ground, they saw no comeliness in him, why he should be desired!” and to this day though he be in a state of exaltation at the right hand of God, yet he is little thought of, and looked upon by the generality of mankind, and the hearers of the gospel; He is despised and
rejected of men. But then,
3. Another thing I would have you to remark, is, That however contemptible this Plant of renown is, in the eyes of a blind world, yet he is, the tallest in all God’s Labanon, there is not the like of him in it; “Me is fairer than the children of men,” and, “He is as the apple-tree among the trees of the wood.” If ever you see him, ye will be ready to say so too: “When
