APHORISM XIV.

LEIGHTON

As in great maps or pictures you will see the border decorated with meadows, fountains, flowers, and the like, represented in it, but in middle you have the main design I so amongst the works of God is it with the foreordained redemption of man. All his other works in the world, all the beauty of the creatures, the succession of ages, and the things that come to pass in them, are but as the border to this as the mainpiece. But as a foolish unskilful beholder, not discerning the excellency of the principal piece in such maps or pictures, gazes only on the fair border, and goes no farther--thus do the greatest part of us as to this great work of God, the redemption of our personal being, and the re-union of the human with the divine, by and through the divine humanity of the Incarnate Word.