EJ!ea ~~DivineWifdqm and Goodnefs. , 33 truly Divine, is never more i~vitsproper ex~rcife, cloth ne- · ver more elevate the foui--iilto conformity .unto God, than when it acts in the contemplation and admiration of t~e mofr incomprehenjible Jfyfleries which are propofed unto lt, by Divine Revelation. - . · Hence things PhilofoJhiral 7 and of a deep ratmnal Inda– gation, find great acceptance in the worlq, a~ in their proper place they do deferve. Men are furniihecl irith proper mea– furcs of them, and they find them prop6ftionate unto · the principles of their own underflandings. B)..ltas for jjiritual and hea·venl:J i"vf.Jfleries, the thoughts of fnen for the mofl: part recoil upon their firfl: propoi~tl, nor wilt5e encouraged " to engage in a diligent enquiry into them, yea commonly reject rhem as foohih, or at leafi that wherein they are not concerned. The Reafon is that given in another cafe by the Apofl:le, All men ha·ve not Faith, 2 ihef 2. 2. which makes them abfurd and unreafonable in the conftdemtion of the proper Objects ofit. But where this Faith is, the greatnefs of the Myfieries which it embraceth, heightens its efficacy in all blef1ed effects upon the foul. Such rs this Conflitution of the Perfon of Chrifl, wherein the glory of all the holy Pro– perties and Perfections of the Divine Nature are manifefied, and do .lhine forth. So fpeaks the Apofl:le, 2 Cor. j. r8. Be· holding as in a glafs the glory of the Lore!, we are changed in~ tp the .fame Im~1ge f rom glory to glory. This glory which we behold is tbe glory of the Face of God in Je1us Chrifl, chap. 4- 6. or the glorious Reprefentation which is made of him in the Perfon ofChrifl:, whereof we flJaU treat afterwards. The glafs wherein this Glory is reprefented unto us, propo– fed unto our view and contemplation, is Divine Revelation in .the Gof]Jel. Herein 1ve bei:Jold it by Faith alone. And thofe whoie view is fiedfafl:, who mofi abound in that con– templation by the exercife of Faith,. are thereby changed F ?~=~
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