• Effect ofDivine Wifdom and Goodnefi. 19 God purchafed his Church with his own blood, AEfs 20. 1. 8. is that wherein he will be admired unto eternity. See Phi!. 2. 6, 7, s, 9· . lfoiah the fixth there is a Reprefentation made of him as on a Throne, filling, the ]emple with the Train ofhis Glory. The Son of God it was, who was fo reprefented, and that as he was to fill the Temple of his Humane Naturewith Di– vine Glory, when the fulnefs of the Godhead dwelt in him todily. And herein the Serapbims which adminifired unto him, hadfxwing;s, _with two whereof they covered their faces, as not being able to behold or look into the glorious MyHery of his Incarnation, verje 2, 3. John 12. 4o .chap.2. 1 9· Col. 2 . g-. But .when the fame minifrring fpirits under the -rnune of Cheru/Jims attended the Throne of God in the Ad"" minifiration of his Providence as unto the Difpofal and Go· vernment of the world, they had four wings only ; and co– vered not their faces, but ftedily beheld the glory ofit, Ezek. I . 6. ~bap. 10. 2.:, 3· This is the Glory of Ch.rifiianReligion;the Bafis and Foum dation that bears the whole Superft~re, the Root where~ on it_grows. This is _its life and foul, that wherein it di£. ·fers from, and inconceivably excels whatever was in true Re~ lig-lon before; or whatever any falfe Religion pretended un.. to. Religion in itsfirfl conflitution, in the fiate of pure in ~.. corrupted Nature, was orderly, beautiful and glorious . Man being made in the Imag_e of God, was fit and able to glorifi€ him as God. But whereas whatever perfection God had ~ communicated unto our Nature-, he had, not united it unto himfelf in a Perfonal Vnion, the ·fabrick. of it quickly fell un~- to the ground; Want of this Foundation made it obnoxious. \....--– . unto Ruine. God manifefred herein, that no gracious Rela- ~ tion between him and ourNature could be fiable and permanent, unlefs.our Nature wa1 affumed in-to PeJfonal Vnion .and7 Sul;-
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