X / ' 96 Pol!Jer communicated unto tl;e Office of C!Jrifi"for him alone ·were hid a!l th~ ireafures of Wifdom and J{~ow!edge, Col. 2. 3· Becaufe m lum alone dwelt the fulflejs of the God~ heacl Bodily. v. 9· _ · , · I do not hereby afcribe an Tnfu!ion of Omnifcience, oflnfi– ·nite Underflanding, Wifdom and Knowledge into the .Hu– mane Nature ofC11rifi. It was and is a Creature finite and li~ited, ~or is a cap~ble fu~jeCt of Pr?pert~es abfolut~ly in– fimte and unmenfe. F1lled 1t was With L1ght and Wlidom to _the utmofi c~pacity ~f ~ Creatm;e. But it was fo, not by .bemg changed mto a DIVme Nature or Eifence, but by the Communication of the Spirit unto it without meafure. The Spirit of the Lord did reil: upon him, the ·Spirit of Wifdom and?Jnclerjlanding, the Spirit ofCourage and Mig,ht,the Spirit of f{nowleclge, and of the Fear of the Lord, and made him of quick underjlancling, in the Fear of the Lord, lfa. I I. 2). 3. The Spirit of God dwelling in him in all the fulnefs of his Graces and Gifts, gave him _an underfranding peculiar .unto himfelf; as above that of all Creatures, fo beneath the Eifential Omnifcience ()f the~Divine Nature. E ence fome .things as he was a man he knew not, Mark I 3· 32. but as they were given him by Revelation, Rev. r. r. But he is the Prophet. of the Church in his whole entire Perfon, and re– vealed the Counfel of God, as he was in Heaven in the bo– fom of theFather. Curfed be he that trufieth in man, that .maketh flefh his _arm, as to the Revelations of the Counrels -of God. Here )ies the Safety, the Security, the Glory of the Church. How deplorable is the darknefs ofmankind in their Ignorance of God and Heavenly things? In what waies of vanity and mifery have the .generality of them w~rtdred ev-er !ince our firil: Apofiacy from God ? Nothtng but Hell is more full of horrour and confu1ion, than the minds and wai€s of men defiitue of heavenly Light. How mifexably d_id thofe among them who boail:-ed t_hemfdves to be
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