in the Contrivance fJJ t7Je \XIork of ~dcmption. 2 77 n:te T1'~(dom providid for, and propofed unto· us. . 6. Di-viue Wifdom in rhe way of our recovery by Jefus Chrifi, God manifefi in the f1efh, deGgned to glorify a flate ofO/:;edience unto God, and to cajl the reproach of the mojl inex– pre.f!ible Folly on the relinCJuifhment of that jlate by fin. For as God would recover and refi:or·e us, fo he would do it ina wtry ofOhdience on our part, of that Obedience which we had forfaken. The defign ofman which was impofed on him by the craft of Satan, was tobecome wife like unto God, knowing_ Good and Evil. , The Folly of this ~ndeavourwas quickly dif· covered in its effeCts. Senfe of Nakednefs with Shame, Mi– fery and Death immediately enfued thereof!. ButVivine Tf'ifdom thought meet to aggravate the reproach of this Folly. He would let us fee wherein the true Know– ledge of Good andEvil did conjifi, and how foohfl1ly we had afpired unto it by a Relinquiiliment of that fiate of O/:;edience wherein we were created. · ' Job the 28th. from ver. 12. unto the erid of the Chapter, th,ere is an enquiry after Tf'ifdom and the place of its habitation~ All Creatures give an account that it is not in them, that it is hid from 'them, only they have heard the fame thereof. All the context is to evince , that it is e.f[ential(y and .original(} only in God himfelf. But if we cannot comprehend it in it felf, yet may we not know what is Wifdom unto ur, and what is required thereunto? yes faith he ; For unto man he fa id, behold the fear of the Lord is Wifdom, · and to depar~ ~t is Vnderflanding, ver. ·28. Man on the other h~nd by the fuggefiion of Satan thought, and now of himfelf continues to think otherwife, namely, that the wtry to be wife is to relinquiili thlefe things . The World will not be per– fwaded that the fear of the Lord is .Wifclom, and to depart from evil is Under!l:anding. Yea there is nothing that the mofi of men do more defp.ife and fcorn, than thoughts that true
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