44 The Perfon 'ofChrifl tlJe Foundation _ in the effecrs of thofe Divine Properties whofe primitive and principal exercife is in the Counfels themfelves trom whence they proceed. Efpecially is it fo as unto thefe Counfels of the .Father and the Son, as to the Redemption and Salvation of the Church, wherein they delight, and mutually rejoyce in each other on their account. 1 hey are all Eternal Acrs of Go~'s Infinite Wifdom, Goodnefs and Love, a delight ahd , complacency wherein is no fmall part of the Divine Bleffed– .pefs. Thefe things are abfolutely unconceivable unto us, and ineffable by us ; we cannot find the Almighty out unto perfection. However certain it is from the notions we have of the Divine Being and Excellencies, and from the Reve– lation he hath made ofhimfelf, that there is an infinite de· light in Geti, in the Eternal Aetings of his Wifdom, Good– nefs an~ Love, wherein according to our weak and dark ap– prehenfions of things, we may fately place no fmall portion of Divine Bleifednefs. Selfexifience in its own Immenfe Being, thence felf-fufficiency unt9 it felf in . all tqings, and thereon felf.fatisfafrion is the principal no~ion we have of Divine Bleffednefs. r. Godde~ighteth in thefe his eternal Counfel~ in Chri1l, as they are fo.as of lnfnit~ VVifdom, as they are the highefi Inftance .wherein it -will exert it fel£ · Hence in the Accom plifhment of themChrift is emphatically faid to be ·the Wif dom ofGot!, I Cor. r. 24. He in whom the Counfels of his V/ifdom were to be fulfilled. And in him is the manifold PVifdom ofGodmade known, Ephef. 3· ro. Infinite Wifdom being that Property of the Divine Nature, whereby all the acrings of it are difpofed and rtgulated fuitably unto his own Glory in all his Divine Excellencies, he cannot but delight in all the aCts of it. Even among£1: men, whofe Wifdom com– pared with that ofGod is Fol!J it felf, yet is there nothing wherein they have a real rational complacency, fuitable unto · the
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