' 1 '8,6_ E1Jidences- of 'Di1Ji11e VPrjdom chains loofed, his darknefs that he had brought on the Crea– tion difpelkd, his \yhole Plot and Deiign defeated; where– on he faw himfelf"and was expofed unto all the holy Angels of Heaven, in all the counfels, craft and power he had boafl:– ed of, to 'be nothing but a cOJrgeries,.a majs of darknefs, malice,· fol()', impotency and rage. · - . Hereon did Satan make an entrance into one of the prin- . cipal parts of his eternal Torments, in that furious felfma. ceration which he is ·given up unto on the confideration of his defeat and difappmntment. Abfolute Power he alwaies feared, and what it would produce; for he /;elieves that,an4 trembles. But againfi any other way he thought he had fe– cured himfelf. It lyeth -plain to every underfianding, what fhame, confufion, and [elf-revenge, the proud Apo}tate was cafi into upon this holy righteous difappointment of his de– fign; whereas he had alwaies promifed himfelf to carry his caufe, or at leafi to put God to aB: in the defiruB:ion of his Dominion, by meer Omnipotent Power, without regard uri– to any other froperties of his Nature. To find that which he contrived for the defirufrion of the Glory ofGod, the dif. appointment of his ends in the Creation of all things, and the eternal Ruine of Mankind, to iffue in a moreg,loriats Exal· tation of the holy Properties of the Divine Nature, and an unfpeakable Augmentation of BleiTednefs unto Mankind it felf~ is the higheft aggravation of · his eternal torments. This was a work every way becoming the Infinite Wifdom of God. "' 9· Whereas there are three rliflinEl Perfons itithe HolyTri~ nity, it became the Wifdom of God, that the Son, thefecund Perfon, ihould undertake this work, and be incarnate. I lhall but fparingly touch on thisglorious Myflery . For as unto .the reafon of ii:, it is abfoh1tely refolved into the Infinite Wif– dom and ioveraign Gounfel of the Divine Will. And all fuch ' things
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