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loo
êphefians,Chap.I.
V
E
R.8.
which Grace he
did
abundantly give us all wifedome,
but
this
is
not
the
meaning
:
For
abundance is
not to be adjoyned
to
the
grace be.
The
Scripture
flowed, but to Gods Grace bellowing
:
the
abundant
meafure
of
placeth
wife-
thegifts
is
fuffciently (hewed
by the
note
of
quantity,
all
wifedome;
dome, not in
knowin
and
the
phrafe Both
not
lignifie
by
which,
but
in, or
with
which;
g
one
-'
ty,bnt in do-
1
for
here
is no
particle
to intimate any
fuch
thing.
The
fecond
cafe
ing,L,t
him
noting
the matter
, fubject wherein
God
is
here
faid
to
have
mho
is
mile,
(hem
it
in
ten
abounded,
the truth
is,
as
when we
fay, fuch an
one
is
abundant
tome
,,,At
: him
in his
love, our meaning
is,
the
love
of
fuck
a
one was
abundant toward
teat
btmetb
my'
me
fo
when he
faith
God
bath
abounded towards
us
in
Grace or
with
mordsand
do:b
o
>
,
likenhim
Grace,hismeaningis,the Grace
of
God
had beeneabundant towards
us;
re
a
mil
b,aldrr.
'
who
have
in
him
the
remiffion
of
fumes.
in
wifedome
and under!
landing.]
Thefe muftfurther be
opened
:
Wife-
dame is
put
fometime generally
;
thus
S.
lames,
chap
.3. ufeth
it for
a
gift
of
the minde, given
us
from above ; which teacheth
us
to
know,
and
inclineth
us
to doe that which
is
good,
and ferving
to fome good pur-
pofe.
It
is
taken more
firi
fly,
and
then fometime it
fignifieth
the
doctrine
of
wifedome, the doctrine
of
Chrift
crucified
;
fometime the
Grace by which we know
and
believe on
Chrift to
falvation, even
as
faith
is
put fometime
for the Do&rine
of
faith ; fometime
for the
grace
and exercife
of
it,
as
now it actuallybelieveth,
r
Cor.a.
The
Dodrine
of
Chrift
crucified,
it is called
the
wifedome
of
God
;
predeflinated to
our
glory;
fo in
the
firfl it
is
called
the
wifedome
ofGod;now
if
the
doc-
trine
of
knowing and believing on
Chrift
be wifedome,
needs muft
the
Grace bywhich
we
know
and reft on
him,
be wifedome,making wife to
falvation:Itakethis to
be principally
intended,if not foly.Vnderftanding
i?;
light fupernaturall
of
the mind,whereby
it
conceiveth the meaning
of
God,in
his
word and works,and pierceth
into
the nature
of
the things
of
God,
of
things fpirituall. As wifedome
is
oppofed
to
foolifhnefí'e,
fo
underftanding to dulneffe, and
to
the
fuperficiall
overture or
childifh
fhallowtiefs
of
knowledge:
Be
not children
in
underflanding,but
in
ma-
licioufnes.
The Docìors which boafled themfelves
of
knowledg
in
the
Law,becaufe
they
did abide in
the Letter,andnot
go
tothe
inward
mea-
ning
of
it, the Apoftle faith they did
not
underfiand the things
they
did
fpeake of. Ifrael
knew
what God
had
done, yet not perceiving
the
end
to which
his
great works tended,
fo
as
to follow and
to
cleave
to
ir,
they are
Paid
not to
have an underftanding
heart. Knowledge
is a
gift
of
the minde, which perceiveth
the
truth
and falfhood
which
is in
things;
it
is
oppofed to ignorance
:
Thefe two formerwords
anfwer to
chockmah and Binah,
or
Tebunah,
which
in
the Hebrew
are
of
like im-
portance
;
for that note
of
quantity
(all)
wifdome, it doth
lignifie
a
rich
meafure
in
thefe
things, not
abfolnte perfection
:
Who
enriched
you
with
all
leech,
all
knowledge,
r
Co.!.
The
fumme briefly.
We
have found
redemption
in
Chrift,
through
his
rich
grace,
which he had abundantly
fhewed us,
in as
much
as
he
hath
given
us
wifedome, whereby
we know and refl on
Chrifis
falvation;
and
underftanding, which maketh
us fee
into
the
things