If. 3 5 2 The Living Temple. Part H. turai, unintelligent Agents do : But fo far as is fuitable to the proper Ends of' his Undertaking, and the Office which he bears. 3. It ought tobe deeply confidered, as a Truth both of clearefi Evidence, and great Importance (though, perhaps, it may have efcaped the thoughts of many) that the principal End of our Lord's Undertaking, and Office, was not the Salvation of Men, but the Glo- ry ofGod. This is that whereupon his Design did ultimately terminate. The other he could only intend fecondariy, and as a means to this; otherrrife, he íhouldmake the Creature hisCh ofEnd, andplace upon it a moft appropriate Divine Prerogative, to be the lafl, as he is thefirfi, to all things. Which is Paidof the Great God, in reference to this very Cafe, the faving offume, and retelling of others : In Contemplation whereof, the Apofile, crying out, 0 the Depth! afferts God's abfolute Liber- ty, as Debtor tono Man, Rom. i a. 33, 34, 35 and fubjoins the true reafon hereof, That ofhim, and by hint, and to him, are all things, that to him might be Gloat', &c. This is the avow'd De- ign
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