Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

Wherefore the Lord goes further; and by the Works of §. 6 his Providence in preserving and ruling the World which he made, discovers and reveals these Properties also. For whereas by cursing the earth, and filling all the Elements oftentimes with signs of his anger and indignation, he hath as the Apostle tells us. Rom. 1. 18. revealed from Heaven his wrath against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, yet not proceeding immediately ⟨p. 90⟩to destroy all things, he hath manifested his Patience & Forbearance to all: this Paul Act. 14 16, 17. tells us He suffered all Nations to walk in their own ways, yet he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave rain from Heaven and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness. A large account of his Goodness and Wisdom herein, the Psalmist gives us, Psal. 104. throughout. By these ways he bare witness to his own Goodness and Patience: and so it is said, he endures with much long suffering &c Rom. 9. 22. But now here all the world is at a stand: By all this they have but an obscure glimpse of God, and see not so much as his back parts. Moses saw not that until he was put into ^bthe Rock, and that Rock was Christ. There are some of the most eminent and glorious Properties of God, (I mean in the manifestation whereof he will be most glorious, otherwise his Properties are not to be compared) that there is not the least glimpse to be attained of, out of the Lord Christ, but only by, and in him; and some that comparatively we have no light of, but in him, and of all the rest no true light, but by him.

Wherefore the Lord goes further; and by the Workes of §. 6 his Providence in preserving and ruling the World which he made, discovers and reveales these Properties also. For whereas by cursing the earth, and filling all the Elements oftentimes with signes of his anger and indignation, he hath as the Apostle tells us.