_Fourthly_, Another thing I remark, is, That this blessed Plant of Renown, he was cut down in his death, and sprung up gloriously in his resurrection; the sword of divine justice hewed down this Plant upon Mount Calvary, but within three days he sprung up again more glorious and more beautiful and amiable than ever; and “He was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by his resurrection from the dead.” _Lastly_, I would have you to remark, that all the little plants in the garden are ingrafted in this Plant of Renown: “I am the Vine, ye are the branches; he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: For without me ye can do nothing--I am a green fir tree, from me is thy fruit found.” If you be not ingrafted firs, in this Plant, you will never grow; and all the trees that are not planted in him, they are all but weeds. There is a time coming when all the weeds will be plucked up, and therefore take heed that you be ingrafted in him by a faith of God’s operation. So much for the first thing I proposed. The second thing was to shew, that he is a Renowned Plant. He is renowned in heaven, and he is renowned on earth, and will be so, _For his name shall endure for ever_, Psal. lxxii. 17. O he is renowned! For what, say you, is he renowned? I might here enter upon a very large field; I shall only tell you, 1. That he is renowned in his Person. There was never the like of him! The two natures, God and Man, are joined together in one, in him: Did you ever see that? If you have not seen that, you have not seen the Mystery of Godliness: He is the most renowned person in heaven; but he is IMMANUEL, _God manifested in the flesh_.--Then he is, 2. Renowned for his Pedigree: _Who can declare his Generation?_ Considering him as God, his eternal generation from the Father cannot be told. We can tell you he is the only begotten of the Father, but we cannot tell you the manner of his generation; it is a secret that God has drawn a vail upon, and it is dangerous to venture into a search of it; and they that have attempted it, have commonly been boged into Arian, Arminian, and Sabellian errors. Considering him as man, he is sprung of a race of ancient Kings, a famous catalogue of them you read of in first of Matthew.--And who can declare his generation even as man? For he was born of a Virgin, and conceived by the overshadowing power of the Highest. Then, 3. He is renowned for his name.--“He hath a Name above every name that can be named, whether in this world or that which is to come.” 4. He is renowned for his Wisdom.--For, “All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are in him.” 5. He is renowned for his Power.--For he is not only _the Wisdom of God_, but _the Power of God_. He is “the Man of God’s right hand, even the Son of Man, whom he hath made strong for himself.”