ofGod and !JisWill. 75 profefs that they know God, /Jut in works .they deny him, /Jeing abominable and difo/Jedieut, and to e·very good work reprobate, Iltus r. r6. So is it among many that are called Chrifrians at this day in the world. Great pretence there is unto the Knowledge of God; yet did flagitious fins and wickednefs fcarce ever more abound among the Heathens themfelves. It is the Knowledge ofGod in Chrifr alone that is effechial– ly powerful to work the fouls of men unto a conformity un– to him. Thofe alone who behold the Glory of God in the face of Jefus Chrift, are changed into the fame Image from Glory to Glory. cHAP. VI. The Per.fon of Chrifl the great ~pojitory ofSacred Truth. Its ~lation thereunto. ·Divine Supernatural Truth is called by the Apofrle, the iruth which is according to. Godlinefs, litus I. r. Whereas therefore the Perfon ofChrift is the great My./lery of Godlinefs, we mufl:in the next place en uire what is the Re– lationoffpiritual fupernatural Truth thereunto. And this I fl1all do in purfuit of what was propofed in the foregoing Chapter, namely, that he · is the great Reprefentative unto the Church, of God, his holy Properties, and the Counfels of his Will. , All Divine Truth may be referred ugto two Heads. Firfl:, that which is e.ffentially fo, and thert that which is fo ·declar.1tively. The firfl: is God himfelf, the other are the . Counfels of his Will. God himfelfis the fidl: and only ~[[entia!'iruth, inwh0fe L 2 Being
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