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THE HIDDEN
LIFE
OF
A
CHRISTIAN.
[SERM.
X.
The
divine wisdom
is
another part
of
bis
all-
suffici-
ence.
There are
in
God
infinite
varieties
of
thought
and
counsel, riches
of
knowledge,
and
wisdom
unsearch
able
;
and
he
bath made
these
abound
in his new
crea-
tion,
as
well
as in
the
old
;
in
the
supernatural,
as well
as in
the
natural
world.
Ep.
i.
8.
He bath abounded
towards
us,
sinners,
in
this work
of
salvation, in
all wis-
dom
and prudence.
What
surprising
wisdom
appears
in the
vital powers
of
an animal, even
in
the
life
of
brutes that
perish?
What
glorious contrivance,
and
divine
skill,
to
animate
clay,
and make
a
fly,
a
dog,
or
a
lion
of
it? What
sublime advances
of
wisdom
to
create
a
living man,
and
join
these
two
distinct
extremes,
flesh
and spirit,
in such
a.vital
union,
that
has puzzled
the
philosophers
of
all ages,
and constrained
some
of
them
to confess
and adore
a
God
?
And what a superior
work
of
divinity,
is
it,
to
turn
a dead sinner into a
living saint,
here
on
earth?
and then
to
adorn
a
heaven, with
all its
proper
furniture,
for the
eternal
life
and habitation
of
his
sons
and
his
daughters?
What
divine
skill
is
required
,here
?
What
immense
profusion
of
wisdom, to
form bo-
dies
of
immortality and
glory,
for
every saint,
out
of
the
dust
of
the
grave,
and
the ashes
of
martyred christians?
Our
spiritual and our eternal
life
are
hid
in
the
wisdom
of
God.
The
power
of
God
is
his all
-
sufficience too.
The
power
that
quickens and raises a
soul to this divine
life,
must
be
almighty;
Eph.
i. 19,
20.
It
is
the
same
exceeding
greatness
of
his
power
that
works
in
us who believe,
which
wrought
in
our Lord Jesus
Christ, when
he
raised
him
from
the dead,
and
set
him
at
his own
right-hand
in heavenly
places.
It
is
the same powerful word
that
commanded the
light to shine
out
of
darkness,
that
shone into
our
hearts,
when he
wrought the
knowledge
of
Christ
there;
2
Cor.
iv.
6.
and
when he
commanded
us, who lay
among the dead, to awake,
and
arise, and
.live.
Was it
not a
noble instance
of
power,
to
spread
abroad
these heavens
of
unknown circumference,
with
all
the rolling worlds
of light
in them,
the planets
and
the stars
?
And the same
hand
is
mighty enough,
if
these
were
not
sufficient, to
build
a
brighter
heaven, fit for
the saints
to live in
during
all
their
immortality, and
to