eàch P E R s a N diftint1ly: 275 grace, ways, wor(hip, fervants reviled, defpifed, contemned, by the menof the world, which holds out unfpeakable confolation on the one hand, and terror on the other, fo that the wifdomof this alfo is hid inChris: And this is the fecond part of our firft demonftration. Thus theknow- ledge of our felves in reference to our fupernatural end, is no fmall portion of our wifdom. The things of the greareft concernment hereunto; arefin, righteoufnefs, and judgment, the wifdom of all which, is alone hid in the Lord Jefus, which was to be proved. 3, The third part of our wifdoin is to walk with God. Now, (a.) That One may walk with another, five things are required. [i.] Agreement, [2.] Acquaintance, [3.] A way, [4.] Strength, [i.]'Boldnefs, [6:] An aim- ing at the fame end. And all thefe, with thewifdom of them, are hid in the Lord Jefus. [r.] Agreements The prophet tellsus, that two cannot walk together unlefs they be agreed, Amos ilia 3. until agreement be made there is no communion, no walking together. God and man, by nature, or whilst man is in the (late of nature, are at the greateft enmity, (a) he declares no- thing to us but wrath, whence we are faid to be children of it, that is, born obnoxious to it, Ephef. ü. 3. and whilft ave remain in that condition, the e6raih or God abideth on us, Job. iii. 36. All the difcovery that God Makes of himfelf unto ust is, that he is unexprefíibly provoked, and there- fore preparing wrath againft the day of wrath, and the revelation of his, righteous judgments; theday of lais and finners meeting, is called the day of wrath, Rom. ii. S, 6. Neither do we come ]fort in our enmity againft hijn, yea we firft began it, (b) and we continue longeft in ir. To exprefs this enmity, the apoftle tells us, that our very minds, the bell part of us, are eñmitÿ againfi God, Rom: viii. 7, 8. and that.we neither are, nor will, nor canbe fubjeft to him, our enmity manifefting it felf by univerfal re- bellion againft him, whatever we do that Teems otherwife, is but hypo - crify or flattery, yea it is apart of this enmity to lean it. In this flate the wifdoin ofwalking withGod muff needs be molt remote from the foul he is (e) light, and in him is no darknefs at all, we are darknefs, and in us there is rio light at all. He is life, a living God, we are dead, dead (inners, dead in trefpaffes and fin, he is holinefs and glorious in it ; wewholly de- filed, an abominable thing ; he is love, we full of hatred, hating and being hated. Surely this is no foundation for agreement, or upon that, of walk = ing together, nothing can be More remote than this frame from fuch á, con- dition. The foundation then of this, f fay, is laid in Chriff, hid in Chrift; he, faith the apoftle, is our peace, he bath made peace for us, Ephef. ü: a4, 15, he flew the enmity, inhis own body on the crofs, V. .16. t] He takes out of the way the carafe of the enmity that was be- tween God and us ; fan and the cúrfe of the law, Dan. ix. 24. He makes an end of fin; and that by making attonement for iniquity; and he blotteth out the hand writing of ordinances, Col. îi. 24: redeeming ut from thecurie by be-i1ng ,made a cúrfe for us, Gal. iii. a3. a.]. He delfroys him who would continue the enmity, and make the breachWider, Heb.ii. i4. Thro' death he deffroyed him that. bad the poorer of death, that is, the devil, and Col. ii. r4. fpoiled principalities andpowers, 3.3 He made reconciliation for the fins of the people, Heb. it. i7. he madeby his blood an attonement withGod, to turn away that wrath which (4 Rom. i. 18. (6) tphet di. 25. (e) John i. 5 exilic â un8 be. kwi,a5ds. John i. k Ephef. 0. S. Ephef, n. 3. Exod. xr, 55. a John n. 8. Tie. iii. 3. was
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