in t!Je ConStitution of the Perfon of C!Jrifl. . z3 I' Light which feems to be the Beauty and Glory of the whole Creation, he only faid, Let there /Je Lig,ht, and there was Light, Gen. 1. ~ ~ So w~s it with all other things. Bu~when he comes unto the CreatiOn ofMan, another Procefs ts pro· pofed unto our Faith. . Thefe feveral words are difiinfr, not in time, but in Nature. Godfaid, Let us make man in our Image and Likenefs ; and thereon it is added difhnfrly, as the exe~ cution of that antecedent Counfel; So God made man i11 };is own lmag~. This puts a fignal eminency on this Work of God. 'l 2. A difiin& peculiar concernment of all the Perfons of the Holy irinity in their Confultatiori and Operation is in like manner propofed unto us. AndGodfaid, Let us make man. The truth hereof I have fufficiently evinced elfewhere, and , difcovered the vanity of all other Gloffes and Expofitions. The Properties of the Divine Nature Principally and Origi-. nally confiderable in all externrtl operations, (as \Ve have newly obferved) are Goodnefs, T47ifdom and Power. In this great - workDivineGoodnefs exerted it felf eminently and eff~£t ually -- in the Petjon of the Father; the eternal Fountain and Spring,as · of the Divine Nature, fo ofall Divine Operations. Divine TVi.fdom acted it fel f peculiarly in the Perjon of t.he Son, this --. being the principle Notion thereof, the eternal Wifdom ofthe - Father. Divine Power wrought effectualy in the Perfon of the Holy Spirit; who is the tmmediate Afrer of all Divine Operations. 4 ~· The Propofition ofthe effecting this work beingby way ofConfultation, reprefents ita'fignal effeCt oflnfinite Wifdom. Thefe expreffions are ufed to lead us unto the contemplation of that Wifdom. Thus God made man in his own lmat:.e, that is, in fuch a Reditude of Nature as reprefented h is Righteoufi1efs , and · Holinefs, in fuch a fhte and condition as had a reflecrwn on it
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