of all the Counfels ofGod. him. But -l.lp<>U a profpect of the Ruine of all by iiu,. God would in and byhim, a~ he. was fore-ordained to be incarnate, reil:ore all things. Thewhole Counfel ofGod unto this -End centred in him alone. Hence their Foundation is rightly faid to he /~Jid i-1'4 him, and is declared fo to be by the Apoftle,. Ephef. r. 4· Fpr the Spriog of the Sanctification and Salva· tion of the Church lies in Eldlian, the decree whereofcorn· prifeth the Cqunfds fJj Gad concerning them. Herein God :trom the beginning chufdh UJ u_nto folvation through thefan~ [fijcation_ofthe Spirit, 2 ihtf,2. I~· The one being the Encl he defigneth, the other the Means and Way thereot But this_ he did in Cbrifi; He chuftth us in him before the foundation of the world, that we jhould he ho!J and unUamca6/t before him in lo'V.e; that is,, unto Jalvation through the fanflijfcation ·ofthe Spirit. In him we were not actually, nor by Faith, · before the foundation of the world; yet were we then cho. - fen in him; as the only Foundation of the execution of all the Counfels of God, .concernit.1g our Sanctification and.Salvation. - · Thus as all things were originally made and created by him, as hewas.theeffential !¥iJJqm o{~od, fo all things are renewedand recovered by bun, as he Is thepro·vifional fflij– dom ofGod in and byhis Incarnation: Therefore are thefe things put together a~d compared unto his Glory, Col. 1. I;; I6,I7,I8,r9.. He ts the Image of the Invifi/;!e God, the ftrft· horn of every Creature. For by him were all things Created that are in Heaven and that are in the Earth, 'Vijible and in– vifible, all things wereCreatedbJ him and for him; and he is before all things, and6y him all things conjifl; and he iJ the . Headof the Body the Church, the beginning, the jir/1 born from tht dead, that i11 .all things he might bave the Prehemine:nce. \.. Two things as the Foundation ofwhat is afcribed unto the H 2 Lord
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