When persons are called by divine grace, they are brought to feel their need of just such a saviour as Christ is, and are led to prize the infinite value of his blood, the merit of his obedience, the power of his arm, and the love of his heart. But amidst the host of enemies to the person and dignity of Christ, we humbly and gratefully unite with the Psalmist: Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth, thy perfections, and thy gospel, wherever it has been carried. And how glorious it will be in the new heavens and earth, during the millennium, his thousand years personal reign with his people. There _he_ has set his glory above the heavens, his everlasting love, his holy humanity; and his church, as considered in himself, are exalted above the ærial or starry heavens. This is his glory, the joy of the redeemed, the wonder of elect angels, and the envy of devils. The Psalmist, having been led to adore Jehovah Jesus, as God in covenant, and as God-man, the brightness of the Father’s glory, is sweetly brought on to view him in his humiliation, final victory, and exaltation; and while considering the heavenly bodies, their glory and greatness, with his own insufficiency to celebrate his power, he yet adores him for that knowledge with which his mind was favored, and exclaims, What is man that thou art mindful of him? This passage is quoted by the apostle, and the whole of it is applied to Christ, as the mediator, as the Son of man, admiring that grace which conferred so great an honor upon him, as to choose his individual nature, his humanity, as to unite it with the Godhead, that he should prepare it in the covenant, anoint it with the oil of gladness above his fellows, delight in it, exalt it, and take such providential care of it; support it under his direful sorrows, raise it, and give it glory. Thus the sacred Messiah is represented, as filled with holy and admiring thoughts of the subject, and in extacy asks, What is man? the human nature made a little lower than God, but next unto him, and in personal union with the Son of God; a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, but crowned with glory and honor, as the whole election of grace, and as the mediator of reconciliation. Christ by delegation, hath universal dominion over all things, visible and invisible, nature, providence, grace, glory, earth, and hell; and this will ever form a subject for the admiration of God’s people. O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! for as thou hast formed thy people for thy praise, thou hast ordained the wonders of thy grace shall be celebrated by them in time and eternity. Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou hast ordained strength, because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.