Mbuilt on the Perfon ofChrijl. 2 3 foine few things I mufl: premife ingeneral w1to what'- I do defign. As, . Cl) 1. The Infl:ances which I /hall give concerning the ufe and confideration of the Perfon ofChrifl in Chriflian Religion, or of him as he is the Foundation whereon the Church is built, are but few, and thofe perhaps not the mofl: fig,nal or eminent which the greater fpiritual Wifdom and Underfianding of others might propofe. And indeed who fhall undertake to declare w~at. are t~e chief infiance~ o~ this incomprehen~bl~ effefr ofD1vme W1fdom? · T1'hat Mh1s Name, and what 1s hM Sons Name ifthou canfl tell? Prov.- jO. 4· See lfa. 9· 6. It is ·enough for us to fiand in an holy admiration at the fhore of this unfearchable Ocean, and to gather up fome parcels of that Divine Treafure, wherewith the Scripture of Truth is. enriched. 2 • .I ·make no pretence of fearchirrg into the bottom or depths of an-y part of this great Myflery ofGodlinefi, God ma– nife}l in the fiefo. They are altogether unfearchable unto the line of the mo!l: enlightened minds in this life. What we fhall farther comprehend of them in the other world, God only knows. We cannot in thefe thing~ by our utmofi di- . ligent fearch, find ont the Almighty unto perfeClio,"!. The Prophets could not do fo of old, nor can the Angels them– felves at prefent, who de/ire to look into theft things, 1 Pet: r. I o, I I, I 2· Onty·1 fhall endeavour to reprefent unto .the Faith of them that--do believe, fomewhat of what the Scri– pture doth plaimy reveal, eviden~ing in what fenfe the·Per– fon ofChrifl is the-foie Foundation ofthe Church. . 3. 1 fhaU not herein refpecr them immediate·ly ·by whom the Divine Perfon ofChrifr is denyed and oppofed:. I have formerly treated thereof, beyon_d their cemtradifrion in way ofreply. But it is their conviClion which I fhaU refpeet here– irr, whounder .an outward· confeffion' of the 'Truth, do either notion~
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