Verf. 2 7. the Epifile to the Romans. o:01. God) that is, according to the eternal! counfell and difpohtion of God, who by his moll high liberty and wifedome might (hew this fecret when and to whom, and how far he himfelfwould. The whole difpenfation of the Gofpell depends together upon the good plea - lure of God, who as he (heddeth his rain upon one City and not upon another, and in what meafure, & with what fruit he thinkes good : fo the do &rive offal -. vation is ablòlutely ordered by the ap- pointment and commandement of God: mans wifedomeand will here hath no ffroke. Fourthly, by thefinaI! caufe or end ! of the Gofpell, which is, to call not a few but many, even JewsandGentiles,' at one time or other, fuch as were gi -', ven to Chriff amongthem, unto the o- ¡ bedience of faith, ( that is) that they might beleeve the promifes of grace re -1 (ling in them by faith,which is the mot}; excellent obedience, and caufe of all i praEtick obedience. See Dial. on Chap. r. v. 5. and Ch. so. V.16. And thus far of the defcription of the Gofpell by the caosles of it. The third and laf} praife of God is,for his wifedome, [To God only wife, verfe 27.1 as he is intituled, r Tim. 1.07. be caufe wifdome is effentiall to God, and he is infinitely wife, knowing him -I Pelf and all other things mofi exa&lyI and with all perfe &ion: allo in wonder -' full wifedome both making and mode- rating the world, being the very foun- tain of all underfianding and prudence which fhineth in any creature, Angels, or men : hence he is glorified by the ti- tle [onely wife Godd but efpecially for that admirable wifedome revealed in the Gofpell from himfèlf in marvailous and moll divine difcretion. Forthe bet- ter explication of thistitle,that fcntence cited by Farms and Peter Martyr out of Origen, deferveth often to be read and thought on : Do not (faith he) fo un- derhand God to be wile, as if wifedome had made him wife, as it happeneth amongfl men (for men are wife acciden- tally by a feparable quality, and by par- ticipation of wifedome:)God is not,but as author and well - fpring of all wife- dome. For God is not wife by commu- nication of anothers wifedome, but of himfelfheis fo, and of him the only Ì wife God, all others derive their wife- Í dome: worthily therefore is it written, to the only wife God, for he alone fo ingendreth wifdome, as he is not by wifedome made wife. This claufe [For ever] in verfe 27. no- teth eternity to the end of the world, .and everlaflingly without ceafing of the bleffed Angels and Saints in hea- ven, bluffe, and honour, and glory, will be afcribed to him that fitted, upon the Throne, and to the Lambe. To whom as for all other mercies ( which arc innumerable) for the accomplifh- ment of this our conference to' the illu- flration and clearing of this darke Epifile in fouie meafitre for the inflru- &ion of the Church, be all praife and glory. Amen. FINIS. Hhh 3 l 1
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