, .. 34 The Perfon of ChriSt the mojl Ineffable t:i.on of the Church, he rejoycet~ with joy, and joyeth with Jinging,, the highefi exprdlion of Divine Complacency, i~ becauie he refleth in /:Jis Love, and fo is pleafed in the exercife of its effeCts. . But we mufi retutn to manifefi in particular how all thefe Counfels of Godwere laid in the Perfon ofChrifl, to which End the things enfuing may be difiincHy Confi· dered. . 1. God made all . things in the BeginningGood, exceeding , Good. The whole of his work was difpofed into a perfeCt Harmony, Beauty and Order, fuited unto that manifeflation of his own' Glory which he defigned therein. And as all things had thel.r own individual Exifience, and Operations-. fuited unto their Being, and capable of an End, a Reil:, or a. Bleffedne[s,congruous unto their Natures and Operations; fo in the various refpecl-s which they had each to other in their mutual fupplys, ailifrances and Cooperation,they all tended unto that ultimate End,ofhis eternal Glory. For as in their Be– ings and exiflence they were effeCts of Infinite Power,fowere their mutual refpefrs and Ends difpofed in Infinite Wifdom. . · Thereof\were the eternal Power and Wifdom of God glori– fied in them ; the one in their Production, the other in their difpofalinto their order and Harmony. Man was aCreature tbat God made, that by him he might receive the.Glory that he aimed at in and by the whole inanimate Creation, both that below which was for his ufe, and that above which was for his Contemplation. This was the End of our Nature ·in its O riginal Confiit ution. Thereunto are we again reflored in Chnfi,Jam. I.I8. Pfal·104.24. q6. 5· Rom. r.zo. - 2. God w~s pleafed topermit the entrance of Sin, bo:h in Heaven above and in Earth beneath, whereby this whole O rder and H armonywas difiurbed. There are yet Chara!lers . of Divine ·PowerJ, Wifdom and Goodnefs remaining on ' the
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