262 Of CiOMMüNION with Paul tells us, Great is the wy(lery ofgodlinefs, r Tim. iii. rd. and that without controverfy. We receive grace for grace (a), for that grace loft in Adam, better grace in 'Chrift. Confeffedly . this is a depth of wif- dom indeed¡ And of the love of Chrift to his church, and his union with it, to carry on this bufinefs, This is a great my/lery, Eph: v. 32. fays the apoftle, great wifdom lies herein. So then; this alto is hid in Chrift, the great and unfpeakable riches of the wifdom of God, in pardoning fin, faving tanners, fatisfying juftice, fulfilling the law, repairing his own honour, and providing for us a more exceeding weight of glory', and all this out of fuch a condition as wherein it was impollible that it lhould enter into the hearts of angels or men, how ever the glory of God should be re- paired, and one finning creature delivered from everlafting ruin. Hence it is Paid, that at the lafi day, God fhall be glorified in his faints, and admired in all therm that believe, a Theft i. so. it !hall be an admira- ble thing, and God (hall be for ever glorious in it, even in the bringing of believers to himfelf. To fave linnets through believing (hall be found to be a far more admirable work, than to create the world of nothing. 4.) His all-fuf iciency is the Taft of this fort that I (hall name. God's all-fuffìciency in himfelf, is his abfolnte arid uuiverfal Per- feltion; whereby nothing is wanting in him, nothing to him, no ac- oeflion can be made to his fulnefs, no decreafe or wafting can happen thereunto. There is alfo in him an all- fufliciency for others, which is his power to impart and communicate his goodnefs, and himfelf, fo to theta, as to fatisfie and fill them in their utmoft capacity, with whatever is good. and defirable to them. For the firft of thefe, his all-fufficiency for the communication of his goodnefs, that is in the itward Effeft of it, God abundantly manifefted in the creation; in that he made all things good, all things perfeft, that is, to whom no- thing was wanting in their own kind; he put a Ramp of his own goodnefs upon them all. But now for the latter, his giving himfelf as an all-fufficient God, to be enjoyed by the Creatures, to hold out all that is in him for the fatiating and making them bleffed, that is a- lone difcover'd by and in Chrift. In him he is a father, a God in covenant, wherein he hath promifed to lay out himfelf for them, in him hath he promifed to give himfelf into their everlafting fruition as their exceeding great reward. And fo I have infifted on the fecond fort of properties in God, whereof, though we have fome obfcure glimpfe in other things, yet the clear knowledge of them, and acquaintance with them, is only to be had in the Lord 'Chrift. That which remaineth is briefly to declare, that not any of the pro- perties of God whatever, can be known favingly and to confolation, but only in him, and fo confequently all the wifdom of the know ledge of God is hid in him, alone; and from him to be obtained. 3. There is no faving knowledge of any property of God, nor loch as brings confolation, but what alone is to be liad in Chrift.Jefas, being laid up in him, and manifefted by him. Some eye the juftice of God, and know that this is his righteoufnefs, that they which do fuch things, as tan, are worthy of Death, Rom. i. 3a. But this is to no other end but to make them cry, Who amongft us Shall dwell (.))oh. i 16. with
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