.. 2 78 Evidences of 1Ji1Jine TVijdo m true Wifdom cloth con!ifi in Faith, Love, Fear and Ohclience u:1to·God, fee Pjal. 14- 6. Whatever elfe may be pleaded to be in it, yet fure eriough they are, that thoie who count it l1li}clom, are but Fools. To cafi an everlafiing reproach offolly dn this contrivan~e ofthe Divel and Man, and urJ.controulably to evince wherein alone true lflifdom cloth conftfl:, ~od vvoul~ gkrijj aflate of Olxclience. He would render 1t mcomparably.rnore amiable, de!ireable and excellent, than ever it could have appeared to have been in the Obedience ofall the Angels in Heaven, and men on Earth, had they continued therem. This he did in this way of our reeovery; in that his own eternal ...'on entred into aflate of O/;edience, and took upon him theform or con– dition ofa Ser·vant unto God. · What mor~-evide~t conviCtion could there be of the folly of l\1ankind in hearkning unto the fuggefl:ion of Satan, to feek after TJ!ijdom in another condition ? 11ow could that great Maxim, which is ~aid down in oppofition unto all yain thoughts of man, be more eminently exemplified; that the Fear of the Lord that is Wifdom, and to departfrom e'Vil that is Vnclerftanding,? What greater evidence could be given, that the Nature of man is not capable of a better condition than that ofjer#'Vice anduniverfal O/;eclience unto God? How co-uld any fiate be reprefented more amiable, de!ireabie and ble1Ted? In the Obedience of Chrifi, of the Son of God in our Nature, Apojlate./inners are upbraided with theirfolly, in re– linquifhipg that fiate, which by his fufception of it, is ren– dred fo glorious. What have we attained by leaving that con– dition, which the eternal Son ofGod delighted in? I delight, faidi he, to clo th_y Will, 0 my Gorl, )'ea thy Law is in the mi.dfl ofmy !Jowels, PJal. 40. 8. It is the higheft demoBfira– tion, that our Nature is not capable of more order, more Beauty, more Glory, than confifie in Obedience unto God. , And
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