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R
, i
o.
Sphefianf,
Chap.?.
viour
,
for
in
many things we
Muff
Tooke
to the Almighty power
of
God,
We
looke
for
the
great
God.
Col.'.
13, 54.
2
Cor.4.
6.
That
we reft in
him
only
as
an all-
fufficient
Saviour,
Col.z. 8,
9.
Be_
ware left
there
be any
that
fpoyle you,
&c.for
in
him
dwelletb
a&
the
fill-
3'
neffe
ofthe
God
-head bodily.
V
E R S.
I
O.
7o the
intent
that
now
unto
the
Principalities
and
p
ow-
V
ER. 10.
ers
in
heavenly
places,might
be
known
by
the
Chuith
the
manifoldwif
dome
of
God.
Now
followeth the
fecond
effcet
wrought by the Gofpel,
inaf-
much
as
the Gofpell wrought the gathering
of
theChurch,it wrought
mediately this
further
inftru
&ion
of
the Angels; forfrom that which
they
did
behold done by the Gofpell
,
they proceeded to
a
further
un-
derfianding and
acknowledgement
of
Gods wifdome.
This
effeét
is
fet
downe by three circumfiances.
r.
The perfons,in
thefe
words,
to
Principalities and
Powers.
2.
The
mean
of
their further knowledge,
in
thefe
words
,
by
the
Church.
3.
The
ground
of
it,
and all
from the
I
r.
verfe, Gods
eternal!
purpofe.
For the
clearing
of
the words
foure things mu(t
be
confidered.
1.
What
is
meant
by
Principalities
and
Powers.
Anfw.
The
Angels
to whom God
giveth
a
Prince
-like
power
in
Why;Angéis
the
adminiftration
of
thefe kingdomes, for
their miniftery
God
ufeth
i,es
ánd
ew,l
in
executing his fovcraignty on
the
face
of the earth.
ers.
p
2.
What
is
meant
by the Church.
Anfre.
It
noteth not the
preaching
of
the Apoftles
or other
Mini-
The
Angels
fiers
in
the
Church,
but the
Church
really now colleéted
by the
mi-
éecd
by
h
`°
fiery
of
the Gofpell,
forthefe
three
reafons:
preaching
of
r.
The
preaching
of
the Gofpell
is
to
teach and build
us
3
a
word
bUt
¿;
n
°j
of
faith
for
us
and our
children, not forthe Angels to
learn
by.
Church
it
felfe
2.
It
inverteth
Gods order through the Scripture,
who
is
read
to
as
it
is
thereby
have
taught
men
by Angels,not thecontrary.
collated.
3.
It
doth not
agree
with the Context, for
Paul was
fens
to preach
Chrift
to
the Gentiles,
thus
to bring them to
fellowfhip
in
the
Word,
to make
them
one fheep.fold under one
fhepheard, that
thus
by
the
Church now gathered,the Angels might
be
further informed
in
that
whichthey did
behold,
further conceiving the
wife
work
of
our Re-
demption, and unfearcheablewifdome of
God
which contrived
it all.
3.
What
is
here meant
by wifdome.
Anfw.
The
wifdome
ofGod
is
two-fold:
Either that wifdome which
is in
God, or
that
wifdome of
his
with-
out him,
an
effrlt
of
the former,
and
this
is
two
-fold:
the wifdome
of
his
word, or
his
works, which
as
the former
are done
in
wifdome,and
called
wifdome
,
even
the
work
of
Creation
,
which
is
leffe
then
his
worke
of
Redemption. Here
is
meant partly
the
wife difpofition
of
our
falvati
-rn
by
Chrift,
but
principally
the
wifdome
of
God
which
is
himfelfe, the authour
of
the other.
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K k
3
Manifal
Of
Gods
wif-
dome.