A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

To ascribe to each glorious Person in the Trinity the glory of his proper work and operation, whereby he challengeth a title to, and interest in the Sabbath. ex. gra.

1. When we ascribe to God the Father the glory of the stupendous work of Creation: and that is done by a due contemplation of all his glorious Attributes, shining forth in this beautiful structure of heaven and earth, celebrated by the Royal Psalmist in Psal. 19. v. 1. The heavens declare the glory of the Lord, and the firmament showeth his handy work; the transcendent excellencies of the glorious Jehovah are conspicuous and illustrious in this admirable Theatre of the world, that is to say, 1. His Power. 1. In creating all things out of nothing. 2. And that by a word of his mouth.

1. When we ascribe to God the Father the glory of the stupendious work of Creation: and that is done by a due contemplation of all his glorious Attributes, shining forth in this beautiful structure of heaven and earth, celebrated by the Royal Psalmist in Psal. 19. v. 1. The heavens declare the glory of the Lord, and the firmament sheweth his handy work; the transcendent excellencies of the glorious Jehovah are conspicuous and illustrious in this admirable Theatre of the world, that is to say, 1. His Power. 1. In creating all things out of nothing. 2. And that by a word of his mouth.

2. His Wisdom, In making all things in such a beautiful and exact manner and order. ¹As the great Physician said of the body of man, no man can come after God and say, this might have been better: so in the Fabric of Heaven and Earth, neither man nor Angels can say, here is a Defect, and there is a redundancy: it had been better there had been more Suns, and fewer stars, more land and less Sea, &c. No, when the divine prophet had stood, and in his most serious contemplation looked through the Creation, he could spy out nothing that could have been otherwise, but breaks out in admiration,