The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

1. AND first, observe the three parts of Gods Image, or impress upon the Christian Religion in it self as containing the whole work of mans Redemption, as it is found in the works and doctrine of Christ.

1. The WISDOM of it appeareth in these particular observations (which yet show it to us but very defectively, for want of the clearness, and the integrality, and the order of our knowledge: For to see but here and there a parcel of one entire frame or work, and to see those few parcels as dislocated, and not in their proper places and order; and all this but with a dark imperfect sight, is far from that full and open view of the manifold Wisdom of God in Christ, which Angels and superior intellects have.)

1. The WISDOM of it appeareth in these particular observations (which yet shew it to us but very defectively, for want of the clearness, and the integrality, and the order of our knowledge: For to see but here and there a parcel of one entire frame or work, and to see those few parcels as dislocated, and not in their proper places and order; and all this but with a dark imperfect sight, is far from that full and open view of the manifold Wisdom of God in Christ, which Angels and superiour intellects have.)

1. Mark how wisely God hath ordered it, that the three Essentialitie• in the Divine Nature, Power, Intellection and Will, ⟨p. 100⟩Omnipotency, Wisdom and Goodness, and the three persons in the Trinity, the Father, the Word and the Spirit; and the three Causalities of God, as the Efficient, Directive and final Cause, (of whom, and through whom, and to whom are all things) should have three most eminent specimina or impressions in the world, or three most conspicuous works to declare and glorify them; viz. Nature, Grace and Glory. And that God should accordingly stand related to man in three answerable Relations, viz. as our Creator, our Redeemer, and our Perfecter (by Holiness initially, and Glory finally.)