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E.
R.
10.
Epheflans,
Chap,;.
377
they
profited
by beholding the Church
, even
Gods wifdome,
-
which
principally
is
to be conceived of that wifdome
of
God,
the fountaine
of
the moft wife work
of
our Redemption.
Obi.
then
hence,
Where the
manifold
wife work
and
wifdome
ofGodis
to
be
Peen,
its
his
not'.
dealing
but
his Church.
The
Lord doth thew great wifdome
in
the
Gods
manifold
creation and fuflentation
of
all
things,
Pf41. r
24.
I
Ctr.I. 3I.
The Lord
w;rd?
do
d,
pccially ap
doth
(hew
great wifdome
in his
adminifiring
of
chefe
earthly
eftates,
-
peace ;n
h
letting
the
wicked douri;h,
tAing
them
in a
fnare,
humbling the god-
dca1
mg
to-
ly, &c.
Such
a
wifdome
which not the fowle
of
the heaven,
the molt
Wards
his
winged and mounting conceipt
,
cannot comprehend.
lob.
28. when
Church.
we thinke we attaine, we
arefarce
from it; none
can
underítand this
work from the beginning
to the
end
:
but
his
worke
of
Redemption
and
trayning the 9°:urch ofall times
thereto,
is
full
of
fnare
more
ad-
mira%le
wifdome:
More particularlythere
arc foute
things which may
:
Dore
things
open it unto
us.
Wherein
his
That
God
fhould raife
his
Church to
fuch
glory,
having let them
pearec
a'P-
fall
to
hell: and
that by
Chrilt.
If
one have
a
piece
of
curious
work-
t,
manfhip,
if
one
break
.c
afuoder,we
fay ,
it
were
a
great cunning
to
make all
whole
againe:
now God, when
he had
let
us
the workman
-
fhip
of hispwne
hand, be utterly defaced; hath not only reftored
us as
we
were, but bettered our
eftate,
for
his
mending
is
better then
his
making, when
hehealeth
,
he
Ieaveth no
ícarre.
Now
that through
death,through
fhamefull
death,
he fhould raife
us
to
fuch a
glorious
life,
this
is
more admirable.
The
Lords wifdome
in
the
Church
gathered did the
more
appeare
a
bythis,thac
he
by
fo diverfe comics did compaffe
the
end he propoun-
dcd,his
end was
the glory
of
mercy
and
jullice, this
firlt
for thoufands
of
yeares he attained, by taking one nation, leaving
the world to their
owne wayes; but from the
Church
of
the
Gentiles
fine
it was gathe-
red, hedid
fe
ch
the
fame purpofe
by
a
farre diverfe courfe, by taking
in
the world which
he
had not
fo
refp
éted,
and
caning
off that Nati-
on,
for
the body
of
it, which
he had
formerly loved.
Wherefore
the
Apoftle,Rom.
r
I.33.dothexclaim
when he confiders this,
oh
thedepth
ofthe
knowledge
and
wifdome
of
God!
The Church
now gathered
of
Icwes
and Gentiles did
bbferve
God
in
tpirit and
truth
,
in
a
more fpirituall kind
of
worfhip
,
whereas
the
Church
before
time
had
ufed
a
more carnali
and externals fervice;
which
did
Phew
forth the great wifdome
of
God:for
as
it
is
wifdorneitt
a
houiholder tocarry
one kind
of
hand over
his
children in nonage,
a,
nother when
they
are
atyeeres
of
difcretion:
fo in
God
this was mani-
fold wifdome
to
prefcribe divers and convenient
worfltips
to his
Church,
in infant-
.one
kind,
in
the riper
age
öf
it
another.
The
divers graces confpiring
together
in
this
end ,
the
edifying
of
the whole:
for
look as it
was
in
man
a
wife
invention that could
de-
vife many
founds
fo
according,
as
to
make one juft
melody:
fo
to
give
fo divers gifts,
t
Cor.
12.
all which fhould
have fo fwect agreement
and
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