_·.tl;e Sal~ation of tlJe_Cflurc!J from !Jis Perfon~ 9 r, ledge unto it. Hence is his Name Wondeful, Counfeller, as, he who was participant of all the Eternal Counfels of God ; whereon in him as incarnate all the Treafures of Divine Wifdom and Knowledge were :hid, Col. 2 •. ~- ln him this, could be alone, inWhom WaS Jife, and the life W{[J the .fight of men, John I ~ 4- God did reveal his Mind and Will by Art– gels and Men. But as he did,it at fundry times,. fo he did i,t by feveral Parts, or various Parcels., not ·only 'as the Church was fit to receive it, but as they were able to com– municate it. . The whole of the Divine Counfels could not be comprehended, and fo- not declared by any of them~ Hence the Angels themfelves notwithfianding their Refr– dence in the Prefence of God beholding his face, and all the glorious Me!fag~s wherein they were employed, learned more of his Mind after the Perfonal Minif/ry of Chrift, and, the Revelation of the Myfieries of his Counfel therein, than ever they ki:1ewbefore,, Ephr:J. 3· 8, 9, I I •. I Pet. r•. I 3· And on the account of their imperfeCtion in the Comprehenfion of his Counfels, it is faid-that he chargeth his Angels with. follj, Job 4 I)· And the befi of the Prophets not only re~ ceived.Divine Truth by Parcels, but comprehended not the depths of the Revelations made unto- them, I Pet.. I. u; r2~ . To this purpofe is that Divine Tefiimony, John r. I8. No man bath jeen God at Cl'!)' time, the on[y hgotten Son who i.Y in the /mfom o( the Father he bath declared him. It is of all the Prophets concerni11g whom it is affi :med that no man. hath feen God at any time. So is it evidtmt in the Anti– thefts between Mojes the Principal of them, and the Lord, Chriil in the verfe foregoing. For the· Law was given by Mofes, but Grace and Truth came ry Jefur Chrifl. Wherefore', - no man, no other man or Prophet whatever, hath feen God· ., - at any time ; that is, had a perfeCt coinprehenfion of his– Counfcls, his Mind and Will as they .wer.e to.be declared:' unto)
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