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Doti.
The things
of
the Gofpel
not
tobe
compre-
hended
by the
reach
ofNa-
ture.
Y.
Ili
z.
objely.
DO.
TheCreation
ateflimony
of
the
Divinity
of
the
Father
and the Sonne.
I.
2.
Ephefana,Chap.3.,
V
fi
R.
9,
4.
To
teach us
to
reft
in
Chrift
our head.
Hid
in
God.]
Obferve hence
, That
thefe
things of
the
Gofpell
are
fuch
as
no
man
by
nature
can conceive
of for God,
no
man
hath
feene
him
at anytime
, he
is
a
light
to
which there
is
no
acceffe;
So
that the
things
which are
hid in
him are fuch
as
flefh
and
blood
cannot reach till
they be revealed.
Look
as
if
my fpirit conceive this or that, no
man
betide my
felfe can tell
it:
fo
God,
the things
in
him none
can tell
but
himfelfe,
and
thole
to
whom
he will reveale it.
This
is
one principall difference
betwixt
the Gofpell
and
the Law,
that there
is a
God,
that
he fhould
be
ferved,
that
a
man fhould not
be
a
murtherer.This
is
not above
natures reach: But
that
mankind
is
loft,
or that there
fhouldbe
a
Redeemer
of
the loft,
&c. no reach
of
nature
can
comprehend.
So that
we have
caufe to
acknowledge Gods goodneffe
in revealing
thefe hidden myfteries
of
grace and falvation to
us
who
were
altoge-
ther ftrangers
to Chrift;
blinded by the God
of
this
world
in our un-
derftandings , and
of
our
felves
could never have come to the
leaft
glimpfe
of
thefe glorious myfteries
which
in
Chrift
by the
Gofpell
are now
made cleare to our eyes.
We
muft leek
his
Spirit,
the
Spirit
farcheth
the
deep
things
of
God.
Why,may
one
fay, what needeth now they
are revealed, now they
are fulfilled, and
therefore more
eafie.
None
can conceive
of
the work
of
God
,
but
he
whole
underftan-
ding
the Lord hath
opened
,
therefore the Princes of this world that
heard the heavenlywifdome
of
God
from the mouth
of
Chrift
that
did accomplifh
the
counfell
of
God,they
did
not
know it,
for
then
they
would
not
have
crucified
the
Lord
of
glory: even
as
if
I
fhould thinke this
or
that
,
and fhould write
it, or doe this or
that
before one
that
was
blind,hee
could neither
read, not
behold
me:
foitiswith
God
in
his
counfell,
until! hegive his
Spirit.
Who
created.]
Here
is
a
teflirnony
of
the
Divinity
ofthe
Fat
her,eind
the
Sonne.
For
as
there
are many
formes
of
arguments: fo this
is
one
principal!, tl
is
worke
of
Creation.
Firft we may learne that
God
is
equall
in
(hewing mercy tothe Gentile
as
well
as
to the
Iew
:for this
is
laid
downe
as
to
Phew
how
equall
his counfell
within himfelfe
was.
But
this
muff
rightly
be
underftood, for
we
muff
not
conceive
as
if
grace
of
Redemption extended
as
farre
as
Creation; but therefore
it
is
fet
downe
becaufe
that
it
doth ftoppe the
mouth
of
the Iew
envying
at
that God
did
to the
Gentiles, and this
is
moft equall to deale
alike
with
chofe
that
are
equall, God
is
juft.
By
Chrifl
]
we
were made,
not
as
by
an
inftrument
;
it doth doth
teach
us
three
things;
That
comely
proportion
in
Gods
difpofiLion, when we
Thew
rea-
fons
why not the Father nor
the
Spirit, but the
Sonne
fhould worke
the works of our Redemption, this
is
one that it wasmeet
as
we
were
made by
Chrift,that
fo we
all()
fhould be
redeemed
by
him.
It
doth
ftrengthen our Faith touching
the
all -fuficiency
of
our
Sa-
viour,