\ ofall the Counftls ofGod. 43 tion and Salvation of the Church. But it is not with God as it is with men. Let mens Counfels be never fo wife, it mull: needs abate of their fatis£1crion in them, becaufe their conjeCtures (and .more they have not) of their Effects and Events are altogether uncertain. But all the Counfels of God having their entire Accomplifhment through Revolutions lJerplexing and furpailing all created underfrandings,enclofed in them infallibly and immutably, the great L1.tisfafrion,com~ placency and delight ofthe Divine Being is in thefe Counfels themfelves. God cloth delig,ht in the Actual Accomplifhment of his works, He made ri9t this \Vorld, nor any thing in it for its own fake. Much lefs did he make this Earth to be a Theatre for men to aCt their lufrs upon, the ufe which it is now put to and groans under. But he made all thing,s for himftlf, PrO"'lJ-. 16. 4· He made them for his pleafure, Rev. 4- 11. that is,'not only·by an ACt of Soveraignty, but to his own delight and fatisfafrion. And ·a double Tefiimony did he give hereunto with refpecr unto .the works of Creation.· ( 1.) In the Approbation which he gave of the whole upon its furvey. And Godfow all that he had made, andbehold it wm good, Gen. 1. 3 I. There was that impreffion of his Di– vine Wifdom, Power and Goodnefs upon the whole, as ma– nifefred his Glory, wherein he was well pleafed . . For im– mediately thereon, al1 creatures capable of the conception and apprehen:lion of his Glory, fang, forth -his praife, Job 38. 6, 7· (2.) In that he refled from his works, or in them when they were finilhed, Gen. 2. 2. It was not a refr of wea– rinefs from the labour of his work, but a reil: of cornpla- . cency and delight in what he had wrought, tl~~t God en,. tred into. But the principal de1ight and complacency of .God is· in his Eterna/Comtj'els. For all his delight in his works,is bl!t 'G 2 m
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