r 28 11;ePerfon of Cllrift t1Je mo.ft Ineffibl~ _ the firfi place Tf'onderful, and that defervedly, Prov. 30. 4· That the Migh0' God fhould be a Child !Jorn,. and the Ever– lafting Father a Son gi'Ven unto us, may well entitle him unto. the name of Wonderful. Some amongfr us fay, that if there were no other way for the redemption and falvation of the Church, but this only of the Incarnation and Mediation of the Son ofGod, that there was rio wifdom in the contrivance of it. Vain man indeed,, would be wife, but is like the wild Aifes Colt. \Vas there no wifdom in the contrivance of that, which when it is ef· feCl:ed; leaves nothing but Admiration unto the utmofl: of all created wifdom ?Wh'o hath known the mind of the Lord in rhis thing? or who hath been his Counfeller in this .work, wherein the Mighty God became a Child. born to us, a Son given unto us ? L_et ali vain imaginations ceafe ; there is . nothing left unto the Sons of men, but either to reject the Tlivine Perfon of Chrifl, as m-any do unto their own defl:ru– Cl:ion, or humbly to adore the Myftery oflnfinite Wifdom· and Grace therein. And it will require a condefcending Cha– rity to judge that thofe do really believe the Incarnation of . the Son of God, who live not in the admiration of it as the moft adorable Effect of Divine Wifdom. The Glory ofthe fame Myftery is elfewhere te_fi:ified unto: H eb. I. I, 2, 3· God hath fPok.en unto·us hy his Son, hy whom alfo he rrJade the wo.rlds; who being, the Brightnefs of hiJ Glo– r-y, and·the exprefs lmag,e of his Perfon, upholding, all things By the word of his Power, hy himfelf purged our fins. That he purged our fms by his Death and the oblation of himfelf t~erein unto God·, is acknowledged. That this fhould be done by him, by whom the worlds were made, who is the Efl'ential' Erightnefs of the · Divine Glory, and the exprefs lmage of the Perfon of the Father therein, who upholds, !1Jle~., fufiains all things by the word of his Power,whereby God.
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