2 3o .)in humbleEnquiry into tl;e liifiniteWifdom of God. lufire of whofe full Light we are not able in this world to behold. · When there was a vifible Pledge ofthe Prefence of God in in theBufo that hu,rnedand was not confumed,Mifes faid, he would turn afide to fee that great fight, Exod ) . ) . And this great Reprefentation of the Glory of God being made and propofed unto us, it is certainly our Duty to divert from all other occajions unto the contemplation of it. Bu~ as Mofes was then commanded to put off his foooes, the place whereon he flood hei;tg, ho!J Ground; fo it will be the Wifdom of him that writes, and of them that read, to divefl: themfelves of all carnal Affe[fions and Imaginations, that they may draw nigh unto this great Object ofFaith, with due reverence and fear. · The firfl: thing we are to confider in order unto the end propofed, is, the Nature ofour Sin and Apoflacy from God. For from thence we mufl: learn the concernment ofthe Divine Ex– cellencies of God in this work. And there are three things that were eminent therein. . c/1 r. A Rejleflion on the Honour of the Holinefs and Wif– dom of God, in the Rejeflion of his Image. He had newly . made man in his own Image. And this work he fo expreffeth as to intimate a peculiar effeCt of 'Divine Wifdom in it,where– by it was difiinguifhed from all other external works of Creation whatever, Gen. I. 26, 27. And God faid, Let us make man in our own Image aft~r our likenefs ; fo God created man in his own Image, in the Image ofGod createdhe him. No where is there fuch anEmphajis ofexpreilion concerning any work of God. And fundry things are reprefented as peculiar therein. ~ I. That the Word ofConfultation and that ofExecution are difrincr. In all other works of Creation, the word of deter– _mination and execution, was the fame. When he created Light
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