2 40 An humble Enquiry into tl:e I1~fini: e Wijdom ~(GoJ . · holy Properties of his Nature did fuffer ~ny _diminution hereby. . :· All this, and inconceivably more than we are able to ex– prefs, being contained in the fm of our Apofiafy from God; 1t mufl: needs follow that the condition of all Mankind be– came thereby inexpreJ!ibly ·evil. As we had done all the moral - evil which our Narure was capable to acr, fo it was meet ..-we fhould receive all the prEn~1i evil which our Nature was _capable to undergo. And it all illi1ed in Death temporal and eternal inflicred trom the wrath of God. This is the firfi thing .to b~ conftdered in our tracing the footfieps of Divine Wifdom in ~ur Deliverance by the In– carnation 6[ the Son of God. Without due conceptions of the nature ofthis Sin andApofiacy, ofthe provocation given unto Godther~by,of th~ inj~ry a~tempted to be ~oneu.nrothe~: Glory of all h1s Properties, of h1s ·concernment m the1r repa· ration, with the unfpeakable mifery that Mankind was fallen into, we cannot have the lealt view of the glorious acrings of Di.·vine Tl/ifdom in our Deliverance by Chriit. · And theretore the mofl of thofe who are infenfible of thefe thi~~s~~ do wholly rejecr the principal Inflances of Infinite 'Vifdom in our Redemption, as we ilmll yet fee farther aftenvards. . . .And the great Reafon why the Glory of Goq in Chrifi, cloth · fo little irracliat:: the minds of many, that it is fo much neg– lecred and defpifed, is becaufe they are not acquainted nor affecred with the nature of our firfi Sin · and Apofiacy, ,nei~ · ther in it felf, nor ift-.it~ woful effecrs and confequents. .. Ee But on the }uppoCition of thefe things' a double enquiry V arifeth with reference unto the w~(dom of God, and the other holy Properties of his Nature immediately concerned jn our Sin and Apoil:acy. · · · a. I. Whereas man by fin had defacedthefmag~ o[God,_ and lofl: 1t, whereby there was no Reprefentat10n oi: h1s Holmef~ and
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