There are three mysteries in Christ we cannot perfectly ken [know] in this life, nor understand. (1.) The infinite wisdom, mercy, goodness, love, and grace in Christ; which the angels delight to look into and wonder. Come near Christ here, and ye will never see the bottom of Him. Ye have seen mercy, mickle [much] mercy; there is yet more behind. One has seen much of Him, another more; the angels that 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 ye will take Him up. Ye must even stand still here and wonder, and cry out, O! great Jesus, who will or can fathom Thee out? (2.) 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 Man-hood subsists in His infinite personality! And how the God-head in the Second person, and not in the First or Third, assumed our nature, and yet but one God-head in all the Three! How the God-head stood under the Man-hood that was stricken, and the God-head as a back-friend [helping friend] held Him up, and yet the God-head suffered not! How Jesus man died, and Jesus God lived, and remained in death God and man! (3.) And the third mystery is, What a name Jesus has gotten by His rising from the dead, and how the Man-hood is advanced. Christ kens [knows] all these full well; He can read His own name. Ye will speak of learning to measure the earth, number the stars, and to learn their motion; that is deep knowledge; but God help you to come hither, and see this unknown name, Jesus, and find it out if you can. I trow [trust] ye cannot.
