W I S D O M. 297 Things is created and preferved. The Ordination of any Purpofe with Him, is the Accomplifhment of it. Thus, at the Creation of this World, GOD faid, Let there be Light; and, without any Interval or Intermif fion, there was Light. Speaking and Doing with the LORD is one and the fame thing. His Will is his Command ; and his Command is Energy itfelf. In this laft Senfe of the Word Wifdom, it is not and cannot be applicable to a Creature. The first Arch- angel in Heaven has Wifdom ; but the Wifdom is none of his own he derives it immediately from that Source, from whence fprang, his Exiftence, and by which that Exiftence is maintained. He is not a Being indepen- dent, but receives all his Wifdom, Happinefs, and whatever he has and is, from his divine Creator. And if the Lord Jnsys CHRIST was only an exalted Crea- ture, and let the Meafure ofhis Exaltation be what it may ; it would be a bounded Exaltation at the molt, and confequently it would be Blafphemy to afcribe ins finite and abftraded Wifdom to Him. It would be a Robbery of GOD, and would merit the Vengeance of his infulted Majefty. Yet we find, that the great Re- deemer is treated of under this very Appellation in the Holy Scriptures, and by the HOLY GHOST (peaking in them ; and therefore, by the Application of this glorious Title to Him, we have another irrefragable Proof of his effential Glory and Divinity. If CHRIST be the Wifdom of GOD, He is GOD himfelf; unlefs we can feparate GOD from his Wifdom, and fet his Perfeaions at a Diftance from Himfelf. I'he LORD poffeffed me (fays this glorious WISDOM) in the Beginning of his Way, before his Works of old: Iwas fet up from everlafling, from the Beginning, or ever the .earth was. * Accordingly, the Prophet Micah fpeaks of his Almighty Saviour, as the Ruler in Ifrael, whofe goingsforth have been from of old, from everlafling, or (as It is in the emphatic Original) from the Days of Prov. Viii. 22. 23. Eternity.
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