As in great maps or pictures you will see the border decorated with
meadows, fountains, flowers, and the like, represented in it, but in
the middle you have the main design: 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.