242 An J)um!Jle Enqui1y into tl)e InfiniteWifdom ofGod Natures, and the prefent Duties required of them; the .An– gels inHeaven above, ~nd M.en on Earth below. Sin firfrin~ vaded the Nature of A;tg,els, and cafl: innumerable multitudes. {)fthem out of their primitive condition. Hereby they loft their capacity of, and right unto that enjoyment ofGod,which their Nature was prepared an.d made meet for. Neither wouldGode·ver reflore them thereunto. And in the iHfi:aace .ofdealing,with them, when he[pared them- not, /;ut Jhut them up in chains of e·verlafling, darknefs unto· the Judgment of the– great Day, he manifefied how righteous it was to leave1in– mg Apoil:ate Creatures in ·everlafl:ing mifery. If any thing, of reliefbe provided for any of them, it is a meer elfefr ot; · foveraign Grace and Wifdom, whereunto God was no way obliged. Howbeit the whole Ang.elical N-ature that was cre– ated in a capacity for the eternal enjoyment ofGod, peria1ed· nor. Nordothit feem ,confifient with theWifdvm and Good– nefs ef God, that the .whole entireSpecies or kind of Crea– tures made capable ofGlory in the·eternal enjoym.~ent ofhim,, fhould at once immediately be excluded from it. That fuch a thing ihould fall out as ·it were aocident!J wirhout Divine· p-11orvifionanrldiJpo[al, '"iould argue a defect in \Vafdom, and_ a poilibilityqf a furpni.zal into the lofs cl thewhole Glory he defigned in the Creation of aU things. And to have it a mee·r -effefr of Divine Ordination and Dif}Jofal, is ,aslittleconfiftent with his Goodnefs. Wherefore thefame Nature whid11 Gnned and perifl1ed in the Angels th~t fell, abideth in tire enjoyment ·ofGod, in thofe miriads ofb~eifed Spirits 1 ~vhich Leji not tbeir jirjf-ha/;itatio'fJ. · The NatuJ<e -of man was in like rr:w.nner ~e .capable of the eternal.enjoym.ent of"God. This was the ·end for which it was Created, unt:Q the G.lory of him !by whmn it was .made. For it became the Divine \Vifdom a:nd Goodnefs, to· give tmto every thing am Dperation and End fuited unto~ its, capac1ty.
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