God, in the second Person, the Son, hath fully and exactly answered that decree, as our surety, in the work of Redemption. God, in the third Person, the Holy Spirit, effectually reveals and applies the love of the Father, and the grace of the Son unto the Elect, in time, and fits them for communion with the Father and the Son, from both whom he proceeds. 3. That Christ, the Mediator, is Immanuel, in whom God was reconciling the World unto himself, 2 Cor. 5. 19. who united the two natures of God and man, in his Person, and was thereby fit to bring God and man together, having made man amiable to God, and God amiable to man, who were enemies before, by the sin ⟨p. 97⟩of man. 4. That God, in Christ, is fatherly towards believers, in all his Attributes, whereby he is described, in Exod. 34. 6, 7. and other Texts of Scripture, all which are in God essential; and therefore eternal, and infinite. 5. That God acteth all these his excellencies, by his fatherly providence, governing and ordering all things for the good of his people, so powerfully, that Satan and his instruments, in seeking to cross his revealed will, shall and do fulfil his secret will, to their own confusion. This providence extends as far as the creation, all things, even the most casual, and most disordered things, sins, and the most free actings of men are ordered by it, so that God doth sometimes great things by weak means, disabling more likely means, Eccles. 9. 11. Sometimes without means, and sometimes crossing the course of means. And, when evil is intended, God either wholly averts it, or limits and bounds it, in regard of measure, Psal. 129. 3. 4. or of continuance, Psal. 125. 3. Hereby also he causeth ⟨p. 98⟩and ordereth a cessation of actions, that some shall not favour us, and others shall want wisdom and ability to help us, from Gods with-drawing his concurrence, who hath sufficient reason, as well, not to do what he doth not, as to do what he doth. The right knowledge of God in his Being, is necessary to the well-laying the ground-work of this hope, as conducing unto the preparatory purposes and uses. 1. To silence all disputes and murmurings: This made Aaron hold his peace, Lev. 10. 2, 3. And David not to open his mouth, Psal. 39. 9. 2. To cause the soul to resign up a mans self to the will of God, who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will, Eph. 1. 11.
God, in the second Person, the Son, hath fully and exactly answered that decree, as our surety, in the work of Redemption. God, in the third Person, the Holy Spirit, effectually reveales and applies the love of the Father, and the grace of the Son unto the Elect, in time, and fits them for communion with the Father and the Son, from both whom he proceeds. 3. That Christ, the Mediator, is Immanuel, in whom God was reconciling the World unto himself, 2 Cor. 5. 19. who united the two natures of God and man, in his Person, and was thereby fit to bring God and man together, having made man amiable to God, and God amiable to man, who were enemies before, by the sin ⟨p. 97⟩of man. 4. That God, in Christ, is fatherly towards believers, in all his Attributes, whereby he is described, in Exod. 34. 6, 7. and other Texts of Scripture, all which are in God essential; and therefore eternal, and infinite. 5. That God acteth all these his excellencies, by his fatherly providence, governing and ordering all things for the good of his people, so powerfully, that Satan and his instruments, in seeking to crosse his revealed will, shall and do fulfil his secret will, to their own confusion. This providence extends as far as the creation, all things, even the most casual, and most disordered things, sins, and the most free actings of men are ordered by it, so that God doth sometimes great things by weak means, disabling more likely means, Eccles. 9. 11. Sometimes without means, and sometimes crossing the course of means. And, when evil is intended, God either wholly averts it, or limits and bounds it, in regard of measure, Psal. 129. 3. 4. or of continuance, Psal. 125. 3. Hereby also he causeth ⟨p. 98⟩and ordereth a cessation of actions, that some shall not favour us, and others shall want wisdom and ability to help us, from Gods with-drawing his concurrence, who hath sufficient reason, as well, not to do what he doth not, as to do what he doth. The right knowledge of God in his Being, is necessary to the well-laying the ground-work of this hope, as conducing unto the preparatory purposes and uses. 1. To silence all disputes and murmurrings: This made Aaron hold his peace,
