each PERSON diftincily. 265 (3.) There remaineth only then, that thefe attributes of God, fo manifefted, and exercifed, are powerful and able to bring us to the everlafting fruition of him. To evince this, the Lord wraps up the whole covenant of grace in one promife fignifying no lefs than, I will be your . God. In the covenant God becomes our God, and we are his people, and thereby all his attributes are ours alfo; and Ieft that we should doubt, when once our eyes are opened, to fee in any meafure the inconceivable difficulty that is in this thing, what imaginable obftacles on all hands there lie againft us, that all is not enough to deliver and fave us, God bath I fay wrapt it up in this expreillon, Gen. xvii. a. I am, faith he (a), God Almighty all-- figffici- ent l I amwholly able to perform all my undertakings, and to be thy ex- ceeding ,great reward. I can remove all difficulties, anfwer all objec- tions, pardon all fins, conquer all oppofition, . I ans God all-fufficient. Now you know in whom this covenant and all the promifes there- of are ratified, and in whofe blood it is confirmed, to wit in the Lord Chrift alone; in him only, is God an all-fufficient God to any, and an exceeding great reward. And hence Chrift himfelf is faid to fave to the utino/1 them that come to God by bim, Heb. 7. And thefe three things I fay are required to be known, that we may have a Paving acquaintance, and fuch, as is attended with confolation, with any of the properties of God; and all thefe being hid only in Chrift, from him alone it is to be obtained. This then is the firft part of our firft demonftration, that all true, and found wifdom and knowledge, is laid up in the Lord Chrift, and from him alone to be obtained, becaufe our wifdoin confifting in a main part of it, in the, knowledge of God, his nature and his pro- perties, this lies wholly hid in Chrift, nor can poffibly be obtained but by him. For the knowledge of our felves, which is the fecond part of our (b) wifdom, this confifts in thefe three things which our faviour fends his fpirit to convince the world of, even fin, righteoufnefs, and judg- ment, job. vi. 8. to know our felves in reference unto theft three, is a main part of true and found wifdom, for they all refpelt the fu- pernatural and immortal end whereunto we are appointed, and there is tone of theft, that we can attain unto, but only in Chrift. [r.} In refpeft of fin there is a fenfe and knowledge of fin left in the confciences of all men by nature. To tell them what is good and evil, in many things to approve and difapprove of what they do in reference to a judgment to come, they need not go farther than themfelves, Rom. ii. 54, 15. But this is obfcure and relates mofily to greater fins, and is in fome, that which the apoftle gives us, Rom. i. 32. They know the judgment of God, that they which do filch things are worthy of death. This he placeth among the common prefumpti- ons and notions that are received by mankind, namely, that it is (c) righteous with God, that they who do fuck thins are worthy of death. And if that be true, which is commonly received, that no nation is fo barbarous or rude, but it retaineth force fenfe of a deity, then this (au) 3addai, Aquila inrerpremmr ¿sugsov, quod nos robuSen & ad omnia perparanda futñcienrem p ns diari, Xieroa. Ep'j5. a ;6. ti) n asilo tH smv sruiásnr, Ar5. (e) Ti Ceda,sios sd .Ar 6a,yrilk, ill if snasa nlirvorrra ,i)n, ,9uváse ach, Nom. a. sz. Paura demo fniere, magritadr tins ,i,&iia eR taci,. () 'Oyiat TAnOav, T(e á ä.atahUTar sera; Earr . s) it i m vs le, o radk srrr ds oc r 'p' Xxx alfo
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