57I0 THE GLORY OR CHRIST AS GOD -MAN. united to this divinemind or wisdom : May it not by this means, by divine appointment become capable of receiving so many of those ideas, and so much knowledge as are necessaryfor the go- vernment and the judgment of all nations ? And this may be done two ways, viz. either by the immediate applicationof itself, as it were by enquiry, to the divine mind, to which it is thus united, or by the immediate actual influences and impresions which the divine mind may make of these ideas on the human soul, as fast as ever it can stand in need of them for these glori- ous purposes. Since a human brain, which is mere matter, and which con- tains only some strokes and traces and corporeal signatures of ideas, can convey to a human soul united to it, many millions of . ideas, as fast as it needs them for any purposes i,f human life ; how much more may the infinite God or divinemind or wisdom, which hath actually all real and possible ideas in it, in the most perfect manner, communicate to a human soul united to this di- vine wisdom, a far greater number of ideas than a human brain can receive ; even as many as the affairs of governing and judg- ing this world may require. This may be represented and illustrated by another simili- tude thus : Suppose there were a spherical looking-glass or mir- ror vast as this earth is ; on which millions of corporeal objects appeared in miniature on all sides of it impressed or represented there, by a thousand planetary and starry worlds surrounding this vast mirror ; suppose a capacious human spirit united to this mirror, as the soul is to the body: What an unknown multi- tude of ideas would this mirror convey to the human spirit in successive seasons ? Or perhaps this spirit might receive all these ideas at once, and be conscious of the millions of things represented all round the mirror. This mirror may represent the deity : The human spirit taking in these ideas successively, or conscious of them all at once, may represent to us the soul of Christ receiving, either in a simultaneous view, or in a successive way, unknown myriads of ideas by its union to godhead ; though it must be owned it can Weyer reçeiye all the ideas which are in the divine mind. II. Having shewn how the human soul of Christ, by virtue of its union with the divine nature, may be furnished with most amazing treasures of knowledge, I proceed now to enquire how the human nature of Christ may attain vast effective powers, and may be said to have a hand in bringing about the various revo- lotions of providence,. in managing the affisirs of the government of the world, and forming the wonderous scenes of the last judgment ; and all this byvirtue of its union to the divine nature. Let us consider what power or influence the human nature of Çhrist might have upon the miracles which he wrought whilst
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