298 W I S D O M. Eternity.* So likewife the Angels round about the Throne, and the living Ones, and the Elders, whole Number was ten thoufand times ten thoufand, and thou - fands of thoufands, are reprefented as faying with a loud Voice, that all I-leaven might hear, Worthy is the LAMB that was Hain, to receive Power, andRiches, and WIS- DOM, and Strength, and Honor, andGlory, and Blefng.-{- Nor can thefe bleffed Spirits be accufed of Blafphemy, or defiled with Idolatry ; and certainly they would not offer all this, as an Incenfe of Prailc before the Throne, if the LAMB who fits upon it, in Charafter of the Re- deemer, was not allo their Maker and their GOD. They certainly would not worfhip him, that livethfor ever and ever ; I if they were unacquainted with the Dignity of his Nature, or with their own Dependence upon him. If 7efus Chrift were not the WISDOM of GOD ; how could he have foreknown his People, or how attend to all their various and innumerable Concerns? Any thing Short of an inherent Foreknowledge both of them and the ablolute Determinations of Redemption, would not only degrade that Redemption to a Nothing, but the Redeemer himfelf to an Impoftor. He would be a double Cheat ; fince he would not only rob GOD of his elfential Glory, but delude Myriads of poor Souls into an idle Confidence, to their own Deftruftion. If Chrift were not the WISDOM of GOD, elîentially and properly, he could not impart Wifdom to his re- deemed Creatures, fo as to make them wife unto Sal- vation. He himfelf would ('rand in Need of Teaching, in fuch a Cafe ; becaufe there would be a Wifdom Rill above him, and an Infinitude of Knowledge which he could never explore. Dependent in his own Being, he could not fupply his Followers with unremitted Inftruc- tions, nor give them heavenly Counfels in the various Exigencies which might befall them. If Chrifl were not the WISDOM of GOD; his At- tempt to redeem Man, by Means fo contrary to every Micah v. 2. t Rev. v. I t. Io. I Rev. v. 14. Idea
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