The harmony of the divine attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of man's redemption…

1. Because the Heathen world did not find and own God in the way of Nature. For after That in the Wisdom of God the World by Wisdom knew not God, ¹it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. The frame of the World is called ⟨p. 99⟩the Wisdom of God; the name of the Cause is given to the Effect, in regard the Divine Wisdom is so clearly discovered there, as if it had taken a visible form, and had presented it self to the view of Men. But those who professed themselves wise, did not acknowledge the Creator:² For some conceited the World to be eternal, others that it was the product of chance, and became guilty of the most absolute contradiction to Reason. For who can believe that one who is blind from his birth, and by consequence perfectly ignorant of all Colours, and of the Art of Painting, should take a bundle of Pencils into his Hand, and dipping them in Colours mixed and corrupted, paint a great Battle with that perfection in the design, propriety in the colours, distinction in the habits and countenances, as if it were not represented but present to the Spectators. Who ever saw a Temple, or Palace, or any regular Building, spring from the stony bowels of a Mountain?

1. Because the Heathen world did not find and own God in the way of Nature. For after That in the Wisdome of God the World by Wisdome knew not God, ¹it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. The frame of the World is called ⟨p. 99⟩the Wisdom of God; the name of the Cause is given to the Effect, in regard the Divine Wisdom is so clearly discovered there, as if it had taken a visible form, and had presented it self to the view of Men. But those who professed themselves wise, did not acknowledg the Creator:² For some conceited the World to be eternal, others that it was the product of chance, and became guilty of the most absolute contradiction to Reason. For who can believe that one who is blind from his birth, and by consequence perfectly ignorant of all Colours, and of the Art of Painting, should take a bundle of Pencils into his Hand, and dipping them in Colours mixt and corrupted, paint a great Battel with that perfection in the design, propriety in the colours, distinction in the habits and countenances, as if it were not represented but present to the Spectators. Who ever saw a Temple, or Pallace, or any regular Building, spring from the stony bowels of a Mountain?